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Picking Green Produce Is a Numbers Game...Max Gladwell Shares the Secret!
Environment  (tags: organic produce, conventional produce, green produce, green, produce, organic, conventional, food, shopping )

Cris
- 221 days ago - maxgladwell.com
Have you ever looked at two bins of apples, one labeled "organic," and the other "conventional," and wondered if the apples might not be the same? I have. And since discovering a little secret of the produce industry, I've found ....
Bottled Water 'Bad as Smoking' - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, environment, Ian Kiernan, clean up australia, pollution, bottled water, water, ecosystems, CO2emissions )

Chrissy
- 276 days ago - news.com.au
DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking. A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.
Rare Win for Chinese Greens as Beijing Sinks Dam Plans - World - Theage.Com.Au
Environment  (tags: china, tiger leaping gorge, good news, win, dam, hydro power, electricity, green, government, environment, protection, destruction )

Chrissy
- 327 days ago - theage.com.au
CHINA has abandoned controversial plans to build a huge dam that would have submerged one of the country's most renowned tourist areas and forced the relocation of 100,000 people in the south-western province of Yunnan.
The End of Cheap Food
Environment  (tags: world, food eathanol, biofuels globalwarming, economy )

Mimi
- 347 days ago - economist.com
Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun--maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it--is at or near a peak in nominal terms. The rise in prices is also the self-inflicted result of America's reckless ethanol subsidies.
Ice Storm Coats Nation's Middle; 5 Dead
Environment  (tags: weather, ice storms, deaths, usa, humans )

WHITE WOL
- 347 days ago - news.yahoo.com
ST. LOUIS - An ice storm slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands Sunday in a swath from the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes as even colder weather threatened.
ACTION: Help People and Animals in California
Environment  (tags: agriculture, animals, environment, health, humans, oceans, pollution, protection, water, wildlife )

Maria
- 383 days ago - care2.com
If you are concerned with civil rights and/or the health and well-being of pets, wildlife, and the oceans please give a moment of your time to this pressing issue in California. People and animals are being sprayed with untested chemicals...
Blind People: Hybrid Cars Pose Hazard
Environment  (tags: carbonemissions, ClimateChange, conservation, eco-friendly, environment, globalwarming, health, humans, interesting, pollution )


- 415 days ago - news.yahoo.com
BALTIMORE - Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind.
Program Links Kids to Environs
Environment  (tags: environment, children, drought, crops, water, conservation, farmers, erosion prevention, education, natural resources )


- 424 days ago - al.com
The great drought of 2007 has been devastating to many of Alabama's farm families. On the days I drive from my home in Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, I pass field after field of burned-up corn and knee-high cotton. The economic toll on rural
Help Save Endangered Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep !
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, conservation, habitatdestruction, wildlife, endangered, protection, extinction, destruction )

Roxie
- 429 days ago - nrdconline.org
The Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting comments on its proposal to designate critical habitat for Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. Even though the proposal is a great step forward, it needs to be strengthened to include more essential lands needed
Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Forever
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, animals, habitat, polar bears, wildlife, habitatdestruction, endangered, humans, ecosystems )

Roxie
- 435 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Speak out for permanent protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Urge Congress to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) -- and permanent protection for vital polar bear habitat.
 
 
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