Hi all, Rory Cox with Pacific Environment (an activist and group which have done some really good work) has just written a piece for the Bay Citizen which praises the U.S. military for its supposed great strides for the environment (based on nonsense which he apparently read in some bogus New York Times piece). Please take a quick look at Rory's op ed, and then take a minute to send him an email to set him straight on his unacceptable use of praise of the military to promote environmental action. AND PLEASE FORWARD THIS WIDELY so that Rory gets a -LOT- of reality checks in his email box. The op ed is at http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/citizen/what-california-can-learn-military-1... Rory's email is: rcox@pacificenvironment.org More Info For more military/environment background information, check out this nice concise report on Redeye radio from Canada which gives a good 14 minute portrait of the massive environmental impact of the military, just from its fuel use and resulting emissions, and from the impacts of the use of depleted uranium plated munitions (which is not even to speak of the devastation of the attacks and bombings themselves). http://www.radio4all.net/files/redeye@coopradio.org/91-1-Military_and_enviro... Please take a second to act on this all. We must send a strong message of deep entroubledness to environmentalists who praise the military to promote environmental causes. thanks Eric Brooks