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Plastic Twice The Size of Texas Floating in The Pacific

September 27, 2007 – 11:28 am

Today bloggers unite in a “Blog Against Abuse” campaign to STOP ABUSE. To me this is ABUSE!!

I read a story a while back that continues to haunt me; one you don’t hear much about. It is the story of a patch of plastic twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific found by [...]

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Daydreaming Student’s Discovering Sustainable Community Design

July 5, 2007 – 5:36 am

From: TreeHugger
We’re not sure what led them to do it, but for kids from Robin Hood Primary and Nursery School in Mansfield Woodhouse, England, staring out the window finally paid off. It all started as they were fascinated by a new development of affordable homes being built next to their school, and now they’re [...]

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Another City Against Global Warming

July 4, 2007 – 12:59 pm

GreenPeace Blog: Engel
Another City Against Global Warming
From the summer of 2005 to the fall of 2007, I had the priviledge of working with some remarkable people to convince the city council of Hillsboro, Oregon to adopt a resolution on sustainability which ensures that the city will sign onto the US Mayors Climate Protection [...]

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Coal Industry Executive Terms Green US Corporations “Un-American”

July 3, 2007 – 5:32 am

TreeHugger
When we were kids there was this playground taunt…when one kid called another a “name,” the response was he who says it, is it…that came to mind on reading of the name calling that surfaced at a recent coal industry conference. But the future of the earth is no school yard game. And infighting based [...]

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House Passes Bill Affirming Global Warming Exists.

June 29, 2007 – 10:13 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
House Passes Bill Affirming Global Warming Exists.
By Richard Cowen, Reuters, June 27, 2007
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, aiming to put an end to the debate over whether global warming is actually occurring, passed legislation recognizing the ‘reality’ of climate change and providing money to work on the problem. By a vote [...]