Green Options » force http://greenoptions.com/tag/force Posts tagged 'force' Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Hunger Increases in San Francisco http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/05/hunger-increases-in-san-francisco/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/05/hunger-increases-in-san-francisco/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:47:30 +0000 Rhonda Winter http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/05/hunger-increases-in-san-francisco/
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In San Francisco, more than 150,000 people live at or far below the the poverty line and are in desperate need of food aid; in 2008 the SF Food Bank alone distributed 33 million pounds of food to local hungry residents, many of whom are seniors and children.

San Francisco’s Food Security Task Force has just released information showing the huge increase in numbers of people needing food assistance, and the growing strain that is being put on food relief agencies. Hunger is soaring and donations have been dropping. Local food pantries have seen a 13.5% increase in need from the year before. During the first federal fiscal quarter (July-Sep.) of 2008 Glide Memorial Church saw an 18.9% increase in the number of individual meals served from the previous year. And our economy is continuing to decline; unemployment in the Bay Area is nearly in double digits, which puts more and more people at risk of going hungry every single day.

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]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/05/hunger-increases-in-san-francisco/feed/ Peru to Create Environment Police Force to Protect Amazon Biodiversity http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:13:06 +0000 Andrew Williams http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/ The environment and interior ministries in Peru have announced plans to set up a special task force to safeguard forests and monitor the rivers in the Amazon basin. The special force will be made up of around 3,000 officers to be known as the Environment Police.

The force will oversee 373,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest and patrol rivers to combat illegal logging and the unauthorised clearing of forest. Peru’s Environment Minister Antonio Brack said that until now the issue, “a problem of organized crime, morality and oversight,” has not been adequately addressed due to a severely understaffed police force running to just 240 men.

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