Gina-Marie Cheeseman

The main goal of the Yasuni ITT Initiative is to stop the exploitation of the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador, 722 square miles of Amazonian rainforest. The initiative met its first goal to raise $100 million by December 30, 2011. In 2007, Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, agreed to stop extracting oil from Yasuni if half of the $7.6 billion in revenue the oil would have generated could be raised. There are 846 million barrels of oil beneath Yasuni.

Dupont Building Innovations, Dupont’s building unit, achieved zero landfill status, the company announced on January 11, 2012. The company managed to send nothing to landfills by reducing, reusing and recycling manufacturing byproducts and waste at its manufacturing sites globally.

The days when a writer could just hand an article off to an editor and be finished with it are gone. With the internet comes social media. Now an article must “perform.” In other words, an article…

Did you know that you can use Twitter for promotional purposes? You can use Twitter to promote your business or yourself if are a creative (writer, artist or musician).

Fossil fuel subsidies totaled $558 billion worldwide in 2008, according to America.gov. Everyday the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurs in the Gulf of Mexico thanks to BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well. Perhaps that is the reason President Obama managed to get the G20 to agree to take out the word ‘voluntary’ in the agreement to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. In addition, the G20 leaders agreed to include ongoing reviews in the agreement that would check on how countries are living up to their commitment.

TGIF Devotional
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1
Are you condemning yourself for mistakes you have made? Consider for a moment how much God loves…

The trade deficit grew in March to its highest level in over a year, 15 months to be exact. The combined imports and goods and services increased 3.1 percent to $188.3 billion. The deficit with China…

After reading a recently released report by the President’s Cancer Panel released a report titled, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, I am concerned about the environmental cancer risks. The report…

Toyota has a massive public relations problem. Consumers just do not trust what used to be the most popular automaker in the U.S. anymore. An April survey of 1,704 adults by Consumer Reports showed…

President Obama was the largest receivers of BP’s campaign contributions during the last election cycle, but he is not in the back pocket of the infamous oil company. On May 14, Obama condemned the…