[PCA] Sign Petition asking President Bush to save endangered plants!

[Emily B. Roberson]

Tell President Bush to save endangered plants! 

 

Sign Aveda's endangered plant petition during April. 

Sign online at
https://www.aveda.com/templates/petitions/usa.tmpl?ngextredir=1

 

Background:

April is Earth Month at Aveda. The Aveda network of Salons and Spas selects
an environmental issues each April as the focus of Earth Month. Through the
Earth Month program Aveda educates spa and salon customers, solicits
donations for scientific and environmental groups, and gathers signatures in
support of protecting our environment. 

 

This years Earth Month focuses on protection of Imperiled Plants. 

Aveda hopes to raise $1 million for plant science and conservation groups
worldwide. 

 

They also are circulating a petition that will be sent to President Bush and
to the United Nations. 

The petition to President Bush (language pasted below and in attachment)
demands a strong and fully funded Endangered Species Act so that our
imperiled plants can be saved from extinction. 

 

They hope to collect as many as 1 million signatures for the U.S. and U.N.
petitions! We can help. 

 

ACTION: 

Go to the Aveda website and sign the petition to President Bush
electronically. 

Gather signatures from your organizations, friends, family, coworkers - and
anyone else you can think of.

 

The petition can be signed online during April at
https://www.aveda.com/templates/petitions/usa.tmpl?ngextredir=1 

 

A PDF of the petition is also available at the Aveda website so that it can
be printed out. If you gather signatures in writing, they can be sent to the
following address. 

 

Aveda

4000 Pheasant Ridge Dr. 

Blaine, MN 55449

Attn: Earth Month

 

General information about Aveda and the Earth Month Program can be found at

http://www.aveda.com/whatsnew/whatsnew.tmpl?ngextredir=1 

 

Petition Text: 

save our power plants-

empower endangered species.

The Endangered Species Act is a safety net for all species-plants and
wildlife-on the brink of extinction. The law successfully protected and

restored American Bald Eagle populations-the symbol of our nation. But the
Act itself is endangered: weakened by insufficient funding,

it is unable to fully protect the more than 1,200 species currently listed.

Plants and animals depend on one another-and we depend on them-for food,
habitat and survival. The extinction of a single plant species

may result in the disappearance of up to 30 other species.* We owe it to our
children and grandchildren to be good stewards of the

environment and leave behind a legacy that protects endangered species and
the special places they call home.

Extinction is forever, Mr. President. We, the undersigned, call on you to
commit to a strong, fully funded Endangered Species Act.

We must protect all of the species that comprise the web of life.

*Source: U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Your name is for petition purposes only and will not be used for any other
purpose by Aveda.

 

 

Thank you,

_____________________

Emily B. Roberson, Ph.D.

Director

Native Plant Conservation Campaign

 

PMB 151 (not p.o.b) 

1459 18th St. 

San Francisco, CA 94107

Phone: 415 970 0394 

 

Email:  emilyr at plantsocieties.org

Web:    www.plantsocieties.org  

 

The NPCC is a project of the Center for Biological Diversity and the
California Native Plant Society.

 

The mission of the NPCC is to promote appreciation and conservation of
native plant species and communities through collaboration, education, law,
policy, land use and management.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Emily

 

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