Baby goes Green

Given the current assault on our public lands Blog Baby is taking up the environment as a cause.  Hopefully, she will find her voice and her desire to make some positive impact on the destruction she sees happening around her.  See the new Category called Baby Goes Green for a permanent repository of these articles.

To that end, this will be a set of links to articles of interest, organizations, etc. of people who wish to band together to reverse the Bush Co. plan to privatize our national heritage.

Please note:  The following articles are listed oldest at the top.  New ones are added at the bottom.

• The most critical article is one that lays out the neocon plan to privatize our public lands and national parks.
• Here is an important article on the issue of logging on our public forests.
• The first article is from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle entitled – What Would Teddy Think.
• Here is an article written by one of my Blog Sisters Kate S. about what is going on with ANWR.
• Earth Justice has this article about Bush Co. current Public Lands Policies.
• Republicons has an article about Bush Co. lowering pollution standards and its general attacks on the environment.
• More on the Bush Co. pollution record.
• Wild Wilderness has a lot of info about the move to privatize.
• Here is more important information about the history of the commons and how it pertains to the issue of privatization of our environmental heritage.
• Bush supports the privatization of our water.
• The CATO Institute time line for full divestiture of Public Lands is 20 – 30 years.
• Here is a direct link to PERC.  PERC stands for Political Economy Research Center.  These folk believe that private interests make better stewards of our commonly held property.
• Link to the Review The Free Market Al-Qaeda.  This is a review of Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of our Common Wealth.
• Link to the webpage of Richard Behan who has another book called Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands.
• A link to the government site where the test case called Recreational Fee Demonstration Program.  And here is a critique of the program.

• The Heritage Forests Campaign is a good place to get action alerts on public lands, conservation, pollution, etc.