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Why Copenhagen Will Be Crawling With Business Lobbyists
Environment  (tags: environment, business, economy, politics, pollution, world, climate-change, climate, CO2emissions )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - theecologist.org
Is a business presence at Copenhagen crucial or corrosive? Either way, in a few weeks Denmark is going to be up to its eyes in corporate lobbyists
SIGN OF THE TIMES--More Members of Middle Class File for Bankruptcy
Business  (tags: consumers, foreclosures, BANKRUPTCIES, CHAPTER 7, society, humans, economy, americans, money, usa )

Cal
- 8 hours ago - usatoday.com
A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University associate professor of sociology, finds that personal bankruptcy has become a largely middle-class phenomenon led by filers who are coll
GOOD NEWS!! Kenya Orphanage Takes in Elephant Babies
Animals  (tags: goodnews, animals, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, rescued )

Cal
- 3 hours ago - cnn.com
David Sheldrick Foundation makes room for all the elephants that come its way. Scores of animals are orphaned by drought, poaching and shrinking habitat
Today Is Universal Children's Day--November 20--U.N.
Society & Culture  (tags: children, rights, family, world, politics, U.N.culture, education, child, GoodNews, humans )

Cal
- 13 hours ago - un.org
Celebrated since 1954, it is a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children The Day was to be observed also as a day of activity devoted to promoting the ideals and objectives of the Charter and the welfare of the world's children
SOUNDS BAD---Gibson Guitar Under Federal Investigation for Alleged Use of Illegal Rainforest Timber From Madagascar
Business  (tags: corporate, environment, rainforests, bad business, business, world, ethics )

Cal
- 6 hours ago - news.mongabay.com
Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided Gibson Guitar's factory Tuesday afternoon, due to concerns that the company had been using illegally harvested wood from Madagascar, reports the Nashville Post
CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled With Floods
Environment  (tags: environment, globalwarming, climatechange, ecosystems, protection, humans, world, climate, ClimateChange, climate-change )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - ipsnews.net
Thailand's capital, dubbed the 'City of Angels' and the 'Venice of the East', is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
Effects of Judge's Katrina Ruling Could Be Huge
Science & Tech  (tags: design, levees, science, investigation, interesting, KATRINA, technology, tech, society, safety )

Cal
- 7 hours ago - latimes.com
The finding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is liable for much of the New Orleans flooding could change how levees are designed nationwide.
Catalina Bison Going on Birth Control
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, habitat, environment )

Cal
- 1 hour ago - latimes.com
The Catalina Island Conservancy has been rounding up the herd so females can get a reversible contraceptive vaccine. The goal: Control the size of the herd to keep it and the environment healthier.
Senate Bill Would Allow "Mentally Incapacitated" Vets to Buy Guns
Society & Culture  (tags: rights, military, veterans, violence, safety, guns, gun control, society, culture, crime, americans, ethics, politics, children, death )

Cal
- 33 minutes ago - motherjones.com
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says his "Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act" will protect veterans' gun rights. But the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls it a "dangerous" proposal that could allow "over 100,000 mentally incapacitated or incompet
Anti-Abortion Group to Protest Palin
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: politics, propaganda, Sarah Palin, protests, anti-Abortionists, right to lifers, government, u.s., news )

Cal
- 4 hours ago - motherjones.com
When Palin touts her book in Indiana, pro-lifers will be there--because they don't believe she's one of them
 
 
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