Archive for the 'Quick Links' Category
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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"In industrial-tomato country, workers suffer squalid living conditions and even slavery"
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"The struggle to feed America's nouveau needy."
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"Featured Park: Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts"
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Is "well-designed green architecture" an oxymoron?
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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Endangered Earth: Wolves Assailed Again, Fish and ESA Get Help
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"Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has approved the Bush Administration's flawed plan to eliminate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains."
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"The newly released Greenpeace report, Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable U.S.A. Energy Outlook, details how the United States can cut greenhouse gas emissions to the levels we must reach in order to prevent the worst effects of global warming and simultaneously build a sustainable economy."
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Sierra Club: Email – Rebuild and Renew America: Pass President Obama's Budget
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Sierra Club: Email – How Green Is Your Seafood?
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
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"When I got my first ice cream maker, I could only find a handful of vegan ice cream recipes in cookbooks or on the internet. So I started making up my own recipes. And then I started this blog. If only everything else in life could be so easy."
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"My husband and I are going to be buying a new television soon. Between an LCD and a plasma set, which is the more environmentally friendly?"
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"Sustainably grown bamboo is a very good choice for fabrics. But how does the consumer know it is harvested sustainably?"
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"Get involved and take action to save the planet. Share commentary and ideas on the environmental challenges we face, and the potential solutions to these crises."
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"When I was in grad school studying sociology of agriculture, one thing we talked about was organic agriculture and the difference between “organic” and “sustainable.” Most consumers think of these words interchangeably."
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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GAP, Banana Republic & Old Navy: Get 30% off during our Friends & Family event. We're calling it Give & Get because for every purchase you make, we give 5% of the amount you spend to the World Wildlife Fund; and in thanks, you get a 30% discount on your total purchase.
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"Defenders of Wildlife: Email – eNews: RIP Macho B"
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"Endangered Earth: Last U.S. Jaguar Killed, ESA to Earn New Life"
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"So far, Whole Foods is the only grocery chain that has signed on to the CIW's Campaign for Fair Food, which means that it has promised not to deal with growers who tolerate serious worker abuses and, when buying tomatoes, to a pay a price that supports a living wage."
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Are Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, and Van Jones hot? Or not? You decide.
—By Josh Harkinson and Jonathan Stein
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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"50 green and civic groups roll out tough climate principles"
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Yummy vegan food that's almost too beautiful to eat!
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"He now works to solve humanity's greatest problems with his foundation — yet has no program to curb global warming. That does not compute."
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"So the COTG turns 170 this week (in weeks, that is). Not sure how many dog years that is, but it’s pretty ripe vintage for a blog carnival."
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
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"Our industrial food system is rotten to the core. Heirloom arugula won't save us. Here's what will."
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"Today, activists from the Sea Lion Defense Brigade and In Defense of Animals, along with several autonomous individuals, crashed a press conference held by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) at Bonneville Dam. The press conference was being held to pre-emptively curb public revulsion over the agencies' plans to kill sea lions on the river beginning next week."
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"Technically, federal agencies still have the option of consulting experts on construction projects' effect on threatened wildlife, but the president is requiring it to be exercised in every case."
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"Billions to boost energy efficiency and clean up toxins? After eight dark years of Bush, environmentalists can hardly believe their eyes."
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"Due to, among other things, (organic) beer, I ended up in a rather heated discussion on the environment the other day. I'm wondering if you could help clear up a couple of these more or less classic micro-level questions."
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"What should people be doing with their old TVs if they decide to opt out of converter boxes and just buy a new one? Isn't this an ecological nightmare in the making?"
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
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"You helped beat back earlier efforts by big agribusiness that would have given you less information about what's in the milk you buy. But guess what? They're at it again in Kansas – Enough is enough!"
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"Best Friends has just returned from a special rescue mission at a burned-down puppy mill in Missouri."
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"For those of you who aren't familiar with these online events, carnivals are when one host blog lists many blog posts on a given subject (in this case, green), gives a brief description and then links the reader directly to the blog post."
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"Sierra Club: Email – Unleash the Potential of Energy Efficiency"
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"Upload a picture of your little one enjoying his or her favorite mealtime bite to your Flickr account and add it to the Whole Foods Market “Baby’s Favorite Foods” group for a chance to win a Whole Foods Market gift card, Whole Baby gift basket or a Canon Powershot digital ELPH camera. "
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"Featured Wilderness – Chaco Canyon — Periscope to the Past"
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
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"She may be off the national stage, but the Republican empress continues to ravage America's great wilderness state. Her latest target? Beluga whales."
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"Lessons from cognitive dissonance theory for U.S. environmentalists"
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"What are some environmentally friendly ways to keep my car clean, both inside and out?"
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"Cutting back on beefburgers and bacon could wipe $20 trillion off the cost of fighting climate change. That's the dramatic conclusion of a study that totted up the economic costs of modern meat-heavy diets."
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On three puppy mill rescues via HSMO and Best Friends.
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
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"Endangered Earth: Better Times for Lynx, Polar Bear, ESA"
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"Sierra Club: Email – Say "Cheese" for Clean Cars"
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"Sierra Club: Email – President Obama Delivers"
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"Join us for Kansas City's 5th Annual HRC Equality Bowl!"
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"Wayside Waifs invites you to join us for our 2009 Fur Ball on Saturday, May 9, at 6 p.m. at the Overland Park Convention Center."
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"The Captive Primate Safety Act would make it illegal to engage in interstate and foreign commerce with primates as pets – making it much more difficult for people to buy a chimp as a pet."
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
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"Please sign this petition to encourage Kansas City to continue funding the community recycling centers."
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"The Captive Primate Safety Act (H.R. 80) prohibits interstate and foreign commerce in primates as pets."
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At My Zero Waste
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When love isn't enough, there's LifeLine
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