Big, internationally owned record companies are looking to put a new tax on every song played on radio so that they can get richer while local radio stations go bankrupt and up and coming artists are silenced. It is a bad idea, but it will become a reality unless we tell our members of...
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Boom box? Bloom Blocks? Although it’s still wet behind the ears, the interwebs are all aflutter with details about this latest example of brilliant alliteration, and clean energy technology. Exploiting the willingness of mainstream consumers to go green as long as it saves them some money, the Bloom Energy Fuel Cell allow a typical...
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Several months ago, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lisa Jackson, announced that the agency had confirmed its suspicion that greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health and welfare (Care2). This finding had been almost three years in the making, as it was April of 2007 when the Supreme Court ruled...
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Note: Today is the Rainforest Action Network’s Social Media Day of Action to end mountain top removal mining, and hold accountable the corporations that are supporting it. Please visit DirtyMoney.org for easy ways to use your Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and blogs to hold JP Morgan Chase accountable for financing this despicable practice. Whether...
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Although the Obama administration’s proposed budget for endangered species includes much-needed increases for climate change planning and adaptation, it proposes to cut funding or flatline budgets for other key endangered species programs, including listing, recovery, candidate conservation, and law enforcement. “Although acknowledging the serious threat to endangered species from climate change, Interior Secretary Salazar...
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It’s baaaa-aaack. Valentine’s Day. Yet another one of the infamous “Hallmark Holidays” based loosely on history and commercially inflated to monumental status for no other reason than to make people think they can buy their way into the heart of that special boy or girl. Consider these disturbing facts from TheRomantic.com: 110 million roses,...
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