Industrial environmental standards have grown in importance and national focus in recent years, providing an opportunity to improve standards to yield both health and environmental benefits. James O’Shea from the maacenter outlines the impact and health consequences of inadequate industrial standards.

There’s a petition going on at Care2 right now to stop Iceland’s whale hunting.  As The Green Rocket recently released a strongly opinionated blog on this topic, I was pretty excited to see the online community taking action.  As I was signing the petition, my co-worker made a provocative comment:  “In the context of the world, is 50,000 signatures really going to matter to Iceland’s minister?”
Indeed, 50,000 signatures–the petition’s goal–does seem small in that context.  Perhaps it will mean nothing.
But consider it in another context: It’s 50,000 people who are …