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Childrens Health Month Tips – Protect Children from Environmental Risks

October 2, 2009

October is Children’s Health Month and the EPA is providing parents simple tips they can use to help protect children.

Americans at Bottom of the List for Wanting Environmental Change

July 30, 2009

What do the U.S., Iraq and Pakistan have in common? They don’t care about the Environment as much as the rest of the world.

Message from Al Gore – Clean Energy Bill (Video)

June 25, 2009

Al Gore just put out this announcement in reference to the Passage of the upcoming Clean Energy Bill.

White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts

June 19, 2009

Dr. Anne Waple, with the US Global Change Research Program, offers a follow up to the Global Climate Change Impact Report.

Gleaning the Green 5.28.09

May 28, 2009

Grist: King Corn, meet Big Oil

If I were the National Corn Growers Association, I think I might start getting nervous. They’re already in the fight of their lives with the EPA and Congress over corn ethanol’s place in the Renewable Fuel Standard and cap-and-trade legislation. Now they have to deal with Big Oil as a [...]

D.N.C. finds it’s not easy being green.

August 27, 2008

Below is an interesting Article on the goal of the Democratic Party to make the D.N.C., into the Greenest such convention to date.
From EnviroWonk.

Written by Dave Loos

Friday, 27 June 2008

The Democrats have been saying for months now that they plan to turn this summer’s national convention in Denver into the greenest such event to [...]

“The Wal-Mart life cycle” or “How Branding Works”

August 14, 2008

Written by Adam Shake
Just like this blog, we are all “branded.” We associate things with ourselves that are bigger than we are and we are judged by these associations.
We are Race, Political Affiliation, Sexual Orientation, Economic Standing, Geographical, Conservers, Consumers… and each one of these “Tags” carries it’s own philosophy.
What am I getting at? [...]

There is an ocean of oil under our feet!

August 12, 2008

Apparently there is a vein of Oil Shale that extends from Canada to Minnesota. Oil proponents (those who would stand to profit from extracting the shale) contend that we are standing on an oil deposit larger than all the oil fields in the combined world. There is quite a debate going on with the conservative [...]

Jimmy cracked Corn Ethanol, and I don’t care!

August 5, 2008

Written by Adam Shake
Corn Ethanol: Hero or Hype? From Mother Earth News.

In current engines, E85 provides about 30 percent less fuel economy than gasoline
Ethanol cannot be transported through existing pipelines because it is corrosive and easily absorbs water. It must be delivered by trucks, barges and rail cars, which produces more pollution.
Converting remaining prairie, forests [...]

Does Driving A Hybrid Save You Money?

July 30, 2008

Hybrid or Gas fueled vehicle? Before buying a new hybrid, you have to ask the question, “What purpose will this vehicle serve to me?”
In other words, “Am I buying this car to save money?”, or “Am I buying this car because I am taking an environmental stand?” Unfortunately the answer to both of these [...]

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