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Environment

Military Base Solar Takes Aim At Gird Parity
Environment (tags: energy, environment, conservation, Sustainabililty, solar, solar power )

Michael
- 3 hours ago - earthtechling.com

Can the U.S. military use solar power to run a base for less than the cost of the grid power provided by a local utility?

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Tell Your Representative to Reject a Harmful Energy and Water Spending Bill ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection, water )

Cher
- 4 hours ago - secure.nrdconline.org

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a spending bill that would threaten the quality of our drinking water and make it harder to kick our dependence on dirty fossil fuels. The bill could get even worse on the House floor, where additional

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Defend Canada's Democracy and Environment From Bill C-38 ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 4 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com

Right now, the Federal Government is pushing through a massive budget bill (C-38) that undemocratically weakens or removes many of Canada's most important environmental protections, without input from the people these changes will impact the most.

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You Don't Know Frack: A Quiz About Fracking
Environment (tags: environment, energy, habitatdestruction, pollution )

Patricia
- 7 hours ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org

An interesting quiz about fracking.

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The San Joaquin River Is Our River. Speak Up for It ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment (tags: environment, habitat, nature, protection, rivers )

Cher
- 8 hours ago - secure3.convio.net

The San Joaquin River is California's second largest river, running 350 miles from its headwaters in the southern Sierra Nevada to its meeting with the Sacramento River in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. It is a river with a glorious past and a great future

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Stop Coca Cola Company From Using Eco-Harming Palm Oil ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 9 hours ago - forcechange.com

To ensure that the palm oil used in Coca Cola products is produced in a non-invasive, eco-friendly manner.

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Don't Allow Major Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Project to Go Forward ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 9 hours ago - forcechange.com

To stand behind the EPA's decision to appeal a federal judge's ruling that would allow a major West Virginia coal mining project to go forward.

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Baking Sands Worsen Leatherback Turtle Survival Crisis
Environment (tags: climate, animals, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, government, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, research, science, Sustainabililty, water, wildlife, world )

Andy
- 13 hours ago - simpleclimate.wordpress.com

Global warming will reduce the hatchling survival rate by at least half for the already endangered leatherback turtle, studying nests has told James Spotila from Drexel University and collagues.

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AUSTRALIA: Climate Change, Irrigation Threaten Murray-Darling Disaster
Environment (tags: climate-change, world, Australia, wildlife, protection, climatechange, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, conservation, climate, weather, water, green, habitat )

Cal
- 15 hours ago - greenleft.org.au

The rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin are dying. While average inflows decline due to climate change, extractions for irrigation remain at environmentally damaging levels.

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Stop River Tua Dam
Environment (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, habitat, nature, protection, Sustainabililty, wildlife, water, environment )

Marco
- 1 day ago - secure.avaaz.org

A few days ago, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, asked to stop working on the construction of the dam at the mouth of the portuguese River Tua, which threatens the classifide area of the Alto Douro Wine Region.

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Protestors Want San Onfore Nucular Plant Shut Permanently SHUT DOWN
Environment (tags: environment, humans, protection, pollution )

Mm
- 1 day ago - nbclosangeles.com

News and video at Site....Sadly, this is in California and has had so many problems! Thought some of you needed to be aware!

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