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All life forms do not hang on the judgement of one
species. Sign US Animal Bill of Rights
(international signatures welcome)
http://www.aldf.org/billofrights/
Go Vegan - http://www.veganoutreach.org
http://www.vegan.org http://www.lobsa.org
From Animal Defense Legal Fund -
The struggle to end cruelty to animals is not an
easy one. But there is something easy you can do
right now to make a difference in the lives of
abused animals. It's as quick and simple as typing
in your name.
Through the Animal Bill of Rights, we (ADLF) are
working to show Congress a groundswell of support
for legislation that protects animals and
recognizes their rights. Ultimately, we hope the
petition will be a bill. In the meantime, the
thousands of signatures on this petition send a
clear message to our legislators that Americans
strongly support legal protection for animals.
When animal-related legislation is proposed,
Congress will remember the huge number of
signatures on the Animal Bill of Rights. With that
in mind, they will cast a vote for the animals.
A Petition to the United States Congress
I, the undersigned American citizen, believe that
animals, like all sentient beings, are entitled to
basic legal rights in our society. Deprived of
legal protection, animals are defenseless against
exploitation and abuse by humans. As no such
rights now exist, I urge you to pass legislation
in support of the following basic rights for
animals:
THE RIGHT of animals to be free from exploitation,
cruelty, neglect and abuse.
THE RIGHT of laboratory animals not to be used in
cruel or unnecessary experiments.
THE RIGHT of farm animals to an environment that
satisfies their basic physical and psychological
needs.
THE RIGHT of companion animals to a healthy diet,
protective shelter, and adequate medical care.
THE RIGHT of wildlife to a natural habitat,
ecologically sufficient to a normal existence and
self-sustaining species population.
THE RIGHT of animals to have their interests
represented in court and safeguarded by the law of
the land.
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Life as a phenomenon to be treasured, revered and
respected. We, as vegans, do not see animals as
either "The Enemy" to be subdued, or the Materials
for Food, Fabric or Fun that were put on Earth for
human use.
www.veganvalues.org
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| Helping Consumers Buy Products that Reflect their Values; How Google's Mobile... |
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Google Tech Talks
February, 8 2008
ABSTRACT
Internet searching and advertising increasingly
plays a role in consumer decisions and purchases,
yet pertinent information for making
value-judgments is currently awkward to ferret out
and certainly not universally accessible or
useful. There is rarely a feedback loop aligning
vendor or manufacturer's environmental, social or
governance policies with a shopper's values, so
shoppers, over time, rarely cause industries to
change their behavior.
There needs to be a way for shoppers to aim their
purchasing power at achieving social values of
highest regional priority. There needs to be a way
to accumulate and redeem "social values
rewards". What's missing is timely and
impactful analysis of a candidate purchases'
impact on the Shopper's family, region and planet
(expressed according to their values), so that the
purchaser can more easily make informed purchasing
decisions.
With some modifications to Google ads and Google
product search, Google could solidify the feedback
loop and help consumers, by their actions, build a
greener and better world.
Speaker: Bruce Cahan
Bruce B. Cahan, President Urban Logic, Inc. (a
nonprofit organization)
Email: bcahan@urbanlogic.org
Bruce Cahan is an Ashoka Fellow, a social
entrepreneur, a non-residential fellow of Stanford
Law School's Center for Internet and Society, a
lawyer, and a banker.
In 1989, a steam pipe exploded outside his
apartment building, spraying the neighborhood with
220 pounds of asbestos wrapping in an 18-story
geyser of steam for several hours. After that,
Bruce foresaw New York City's need for geospatial
preparedness, and founded Urban Logic, a New York
nonprofit, to make America's cities safer and
sustainable. Bruce convinced New York to fund and
build a multi-agency GIS basemap.
As a bond lawyer, he found $20+ million in the
City's capital budget to pay for its GIS utility.
NYC's basemap was completed just 6 months before
the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, and
aided in coordinated response and recovery. In the
months after September 11th, Bruce joined others
at the City's Command Center to organize and staff
its Emergency Mapping and Data Center. His team
supplied the Mayor's Office, Fire, Police, EMS,
military, public health, environment, news and
other groups with up-to-date maps of rapidly
changing conditions at Ground Zero and throughout
Manhattan. Bruce was the catalyst for deploying
OpenGIS'
SensorWeb project to monitor environmental
conditions citywide, and other innovations.
Taking 9/11's lessons, Bruce designed the
federal OMB's I-Team Initiative to strategically
plan and implement spatial readiness across 49
states. Bruce's knowledge of finance, law and
organizational barriers to spatial awareness and
urban innovation comes from researching and
writing major studies for the federal government,
including . Financing the National Spatial Data
Infrastructure (FGDC 2000) . Aligning Investments
in Environmental Monitoring and Management
Information Systems (EPA 2002) . The Value
Proposition for GeoSpatial One Stop (OMB 2004) . A
Regional Portfolio Investor's Toolkit (USGS 2006)
In 2005, Bruce moved to Silicon Valley to organize
two market-driven mechanisms that support urban
sustainability. The first he calls the Means
MeterTM, a tool for socially-purposeful consumers
to buy products that reflect their values. The
second is a bank that amplifies the sustainable
impacts of Means MeterTM consumers and their
vendors. The bank will reward choices that grow
Sustainable ResiliencyTM. Bruce's bank would serve
consumers, businesses, NGOs and governments. The
bank would offer credit, insurance, investment and
merchant banking services, and scale pricing and
interest rates based on each customer's impact on
Sustainable ResiliencyTM.
Bruce graduated from The Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania and Temple Law School.
Bruce practiced law for 10 years with Weil,
Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he specialized
in structuring and negotiating complex corporate,
bond, creditor's rights and real estate finance
and ot...
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