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Festive Fun With Christmas Around the Corner
Green Lifestyle  (tags: family, food, greenliving, eco-friendly, CoolStuff, recycling, shopping, Christmas, Christmas shopping )

Catherine
- 4 hours ago - sidewaysnews.com
You cna be festive and responsible, think ethically and enjoy it! Find out how to buy a truly green Christmas tree, what to buy friends and families and where you can get amazing treats and feast items. And don't forget those worse off than you...
Zuma Announces New Aids Policy
Health & Wellness  (tags: death, drugs, health, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, protection, Aids, HIV, WORLD AIDS DAY )

Catherine
- 5 hours ago - sidewaysnews.com
South Africa's president has announced that testing for Aids will be expanded and all HIV-positive babies will receive treatment.
BP Oil Giant Vs. Colombian Farmers
Society & Culture  (tags: government, freedoms, news, politics, society, colombia, farmers, Farmers rights, Colombian farmers, BP, oil giant, oil pipeline, court case, South America )

Catherine
- 7 hours ago - sidewaysnews.com
Oil giant BP is being sued in the High Court by 95 Colombian peasant farmers, who claim the construction of an 830km pipeline has destroyed crops and water supplies, rendering the land unsuitable for the subsistence farming upon which they depend
Zoos Unite Over 350ppm Carbon Target
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, extinction, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, zoos, Climate Change, 350, World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, WAZA, Zoological Society )

Catherine
- 12 hours ago - sidewaysnews.com
Over 200 members of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) have signed a petition calling world leaders to reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions to below 350 parts per million (ppm) in a bid to prevent creatures from becoming extinct.
Babies Are Born PrePolluted - Let's Change That
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, health, prevention )

Chris
- 13 hours ago - youtopia.uservoice.com
Today's the last day to help EWG raise $15,000 to stop babies being born pre-polluted. Please read the material linked to on the page and then vote if you support the cause.
Maitake Mushrooms 'Curb Cancer Growth'
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, interesting, health, drugs, cancer, disease, food, medicine, study, mushrooms, mushrooms, maitake mushrooms )

Catherine
- 15 hours ago - sidewaysnews.com
The maitake mushroom is more than a popular Chinese cooking ingredient, according to researchers at the Department of Urology at the New York Medical College, who claim that it could be potential weapon against cancer.
Action for World Aids Day
Health & Wellness  (tags: AIDS/HIV, aids, AIDS World Day, AIDS vaccine, research, news, ethics, disease, prevention, protection, risks, treatment )

Catherine
- 16 hours ago - sidewaysnews.com
There are over 33.4 million people living with HIV/Aids across the globe. Africa has 14 million Aids orphans and 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981. Respect those with HIV, find out the facts and the reality of HIV and protect yourself
Marine Conservation Sites Planned
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, endangered, conservation, environment, oceans, habitat, protection, Marine conservation, uk )

Catherine
- 1 day ago - sidewaysnews.com
Twelve new marine conservation sites around the coast have been proposed by Natural England, the Joint Nature Conservation Committeeand the Countryside Council for Wales.
Copenhagen 'Must Succeed'
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, ClimateChange, globalwarming, politics, protection, Ed Miliband, UK, copenhagen summit, Copenhagen talks, copenhagen )

Catherine
- 1 day ago - sidewaysnews.com
Ahead of the climate change summit in Copenhagen next week, the UK's environment secretary Ed Miliband has said the talks "can and must succeed". In a statement, Mr Miliband said that as the summit draws nearer it is already putting pressure on nations...
5 Ways to Protect Yourself From ... Tainted Chicken
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, safety, chicken )

Social
- 1 day ago - thedailygreen.com
Consumer Reports has found two-thirds of chicken contaminated with one or both of two potentially deadly bacterial pathogens, salmonella and campylobacter. Here's how to protect yourself.
 
 
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