JET Info Centre

Communities

Our Links

JET Poll

Do you compost?

	Yes
	No

NEW! ITS BEACH CLEAN UP TIME AGAIN!

International Coastal Clean Up Day 2010 (Beach Clean Up) will be celebrated on September 25th, 2010. Check the list of sites and join in cleaning Jamaica's beaches:

Beach Clean Up 2010 Site List

EARTH FACTS ON SEA TURTLES

Want to know more about sea turtles? Check out our latest Earth Facts publication: Sea Turtles

Save Font Hill

Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.115!

NEWS FLASH
David Kirby on "The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment" We speak with David Kirby about his book, Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment. "We need more regulations and we need enforcement of the regulations," Kirby says. "These [food] companies are self policing and they are operating on the honor system and consumers are obviously paying the price." For more of the story click here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/david_kirby_on_the_looming_threat		Report: Global Food Security and Sovereignty Threatened by Corporate and Government "Land Grabs" in Poor Countries Since the food crisis of 2008, food justice activists have warned that governments in concert with multi-national corporations have accelerated a worldwide "land grab" to buy up vast swaths of arable land in poor countries. According to the Economist magazine, between 37 to 49 million acres of farmland were put up for sale in deals involving foreign nationals between 2006 and mid-2009. For more of the story click here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/report_global_food_security_and_sovereignty