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National Conference on Precaution June 9-11, 2006 in Baltimore
Save the date! The First National Conference on Precaution
will convene in Baltimore June 9-11, 2006 -- to build a stronger
movement to prevent harm, not merely "manage" it. We'll see
you there!
Act on Early Warnings: Louisville Charter Background Paper #4
The final draft of the Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals has now
been published, along with six supporting "background papers." This
is paper #4. Hats off to Kathy Curtis of Citizens' Environmental
Coalition (Albany, N.Y.) and Gregg Small of the Washington Toxics
Coalition (Seattle) who rode herd as dozens of participants spent
more than a year devising, honing and polishing these important
policy ideas.
Update: New Mexico InterAgency Precautionary Principle Task Force
New Mexico state government has created a Precautionary Principle
Task Force, which will issue a report with recommendations in May,
2006. Precaution marches on...
Recycle Batteries -- or Else
Precautionary action doesn't always come wrapped in a "precautionary"
label. The concept of "extended producer responsibility" requires
manufacturers to "own" their products forever, which gives them a big
incentive to make products as harmless as possible.
French President Chirac: Biodiversity Requires Precaution
"The current rate of extinction is estimated to be up to a thousand
times higher than normal... Our generation is probably the last with
the power to stop this destruction before we reach a point of no
return...."
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Rachel's Precaution Reporter offers news, views and practical
examples of the Precautionary Principle, or Foresight Principle, in
action. The Precautionary Principle is a modern way of making
decisions, to minimize harm. Rachel's Precaution Reporter tries to
answer such questions as, Why do we need the precautionary
principle? Who is using precaution? Who is opposing precaution?
We often include attacks on the precautionary principle because we
believe it is essential for advocates of precaution to know what
their adversaries are saying, just as abolitionists in 1830 needed
to know the arguments used by slaveholders.
Rachel's Precaution Reporter is published as often as necessary to
provide readers with up-to-date coverage of the subject.
As you come across stories that illustrate the precautionary
principle -- or the need for the precautionary principle --
please Email them to us at rpr@rachel.org.
Editors:
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Tim Montague - tim@rachel.org
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