Everyone called her Ginny, in her roles as staff member and volunteer with the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club. In the late 1980s, Ginny was manager of the Chapter bookstore on College Avenue in Oakland, and also, as a volunteer, ran many New Member Open Houses every other month to welcome new members to the Sierra Club and orient them on how to get involved in
GRAPHIC WARNING
Ali Tabrizi s hit Netflix environmental documentary Seaspiracy premiered in March after five years of filming
The filmmaker planned to make a film about the wonders of the ocean sparked by his passion for marine life
But he changed tact after discovering whales being washed up on beaches with their guts filled with plastic
Instead he focused on the root of the problem - the global fishing and says he was
shocked to learn just how far its long shadow stretched.
The stomach-churning 90-minute documentary takes viewers into what really goes into our food, when seafood is concerned
(Office of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) together with Sen. Merkley (D-Ore.), Sen. Markey (D- Mass.) and Rep. Barragan (D-Calif.) introduced legislation to close tax loopholes and eliminate other federal subsidies for the oil, gas, and coal industries.
Right now, American taxpayers are on the hook for about $15 billion in direct federal subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. In 2019 alone, the oil, gas, and coal companies that receive these handouts spent $190 million lobbying Congress – for an over 11,000 percent return on investment. At a time when climate change is already causing devastating harm around the world, it makes no sense for Congress to continue giving away taxpayer money to the hugely profitable and highly polluting fossil fuel industry.
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British director Ali Tabrizi’s documentary Seaspiracy – currently available on Netflix – investigates the harm that we humans do to marine species in our oceans around the world.
Already causing a stir on social media, the movie has Tabrizi voyaging from Asia to Europe, initially to study debris in the ocean. His investigation becomes more about marine destruction and bad practices, however, as he discovers whales and dolphins killed when they are accidentally caught with fish, illegal fishing, and human rights abuses in the Thai fishing industry.
Many people who have viewed the documentary say it has put them off eating fish for life, and you’ll never look at a nice pink piece of salmon in the supermarket the same way, either, after Tabrizi goes undercover at a Scottish salmon farm and discovers the fish have lice and other infestations, including chlamydia.