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Stupid Global Warming Tricks: Climate Change Will Increase Illegal Global Warming News Watch
globalwarming.sbdttp.com via @greenerliving1 &bull 1 Hour AgoBefore I begin, I promise you that the story below is NOT a joke nor it is it some sort of satire. The truth is the global warming nut jobs have really gotten this ridiculous. From www.nosweat.org.uk: The 62 page… Full Story »
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American Moving and Storage Association
www.askbiography.com via @tarzanhari &bull YesterdayThe American Moving Storage Association (AMSA) is the non-profit trade association representing members of the professional moving industry based primarily in the United States. Its 3,200 members consist of van lines, their agents, independent movers, forwarders, and industry suppliers (AMSA does not represent the self-storage industry).… Full Story »
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Saving Energy with Solar Power : Using Solar Panels for Energy
www.diycreatesolarpanels.com via @Jim_Maginity &bull YesterdayHow do I use solar panels for energy? Learn about saving energy in your home with natural or solar power in this free video. Expert: Peter Bonenberger Contact: www.keepearthbeautiful.org Bio: Peter Bonenberger and his wife founded a non-profit organization called… Full Story »
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Blue Collar Philosophy: Record Low Temperatures In California Caused By Global Warming; Huh?
www.bluecollarphilosophy.com via @BlueCollarTodd &bull YesterdayThe unusually cool summer continued in Southern California, where several new record-low temperatures were recorded on Wednesday. The 68-degree low at Los Angeles International Airport broke the old record low for the day, which was 70 degrees in 1991. Santa… Full Story »
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Viking M. Services: Hope for a Change: Renewable Energy essentials
vikingmservices.blogspot.com via @newsjocky &bull YesterdayFor more information: www.hopeforachange.net This documentary about how people and communities using Renewable Energy provides hope that we will achieve a sustainable future. This hope is a natural result of the ability of renewable energy to replace non-renewables like fossil… Full Story »
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Cutting Edge Remodeling Residential and Commercial Services
www.cuttingedgeremodeling.net via @LucyAnnClark &bull YesterdayCutting Edge Remodeling, Inc. has been in business since 1996. We strive to continually impress and please our customers with high quality, 'first-class' work, craftsmanship, professionalism, excellent job performance, ethical business practices and superior customer service. John Kraft, owner of… Full Story »
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The GOP's Facebook Anti-Semites
MotherJones.com &bull Yesterday
Israel is responsible for 9/11, Al Qaeda is "100% state sponsored by Zionist Jews," and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is actually an agent for Mossad, the Israeli spy agency-at least according to posts on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page. Several avowedly anti-Semitic commenters regularly posted on the national GOP's Facebook wall, encouraging tea partiers and "White, Black, Spanish,… Full Story »
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GE: Good citizen, but where's the payoff?
Marc Gunther &bull YesterdayBob is vice president for corporate citizenship at GE, a 30-year company veteran, and a good guy. We met in 2o04 when we traveled together in Ghana while I was reporting a story on GE's values for FORTUNE. (See Money and Morals at GE.)A Recently we spoke about GE's 2009 citizenship report, and about what GE has learned in the past five years from its corporate citizenship efforts, including its high-profile campaign around Ecomagination, which focuses the company, and its marketing, on products and services that help solve the… Full Story »
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Shed Plans And Designs - 12,500 Woodworking Projects
www.shedplansanddesigns.com via @sustainable6765 &bull YesterdayIf you've suffered from any of this I can understand your fustration. With minimal supplies, and a very small cost, you'll get your shed construction project done quicker and cheaper! Using clearly written and illustrated step-by-step instructions, my shed construction plans explain the basics of shed construction, tools, materials, shop safety, and more. ShedPlansAndDesigns is a big, comprehensive package that contains all the plans, measurements, and directions needed to build beautiful sheds of every kind to suit both your needs and your budget. I have modernized the shed-building process just enough to allow even the unskilled and underfunded to succeed.… Full Story »
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BP's other disaster
Peak Energy &bull Yesterday
The headlines relating to BP today will no doubt be about the oil giant's record losses and the huge payout for its departing CEO. But there's a fascinating story to be told about its flirtation with renewable technologies, and it's a cautionary tale that has lessons for investors large and small, company boards and policy makers, as… Full Story »
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Bullfighting Officially Banned in Spain
Planet Green (Discovery Channel) &bull Jul 28, 2010
The ban passed with a 68-55 vote-a higher margin than many expected, and will go into effect in 2010 in the coastal northeastern region of the country. In reality, only one operating bullring (in Barcelona) will be affected-another ring is currently unused and will be turned into a shopping mall-but animal rights advocates are still celebrating the victory.… Full Story »
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Future 50 Awards
www.nashvillechamber.com via @nashchamber &bull Jul 28, 2010As we lead up to our 20th anniversary celebration in 2011, these awards have been a key indicator of the most successful companies in the region. Since the Future 50 program began, it has honored 901 companies, with the only tie in the history of the event occurring in 1996. Of those 901 honorees, 39 companies have been honored as Future 50 Hall of Fame companies, denoting five… Full Story »
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Richmond has a farmers market on wheels
The Ethicurean &bull Jul 28, 2010
The meals on the bus go round and round: In Richmond, Virginia, Mark Lilly has transformed a 1987 diesel school bus into a mobile produce market called Farm to Family, which also has a CSA program. The interior is really cool looking -- what a great idea for recycling… Full Story »
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Rapanui Clothing
www.rapanuiclothing.com via @JamesElliot &bull Jul 28, 2010Rapanui is an Eco-Fashion company from the Isle of Wight, that makes Organic, Ethical clothing using Renewable Energy with award-winning traceability. Rapanui Clothing 2009, All Rights Reserved. Rapanui and the Rapanui logo are Registered Trademarks Probably not Valid XTHML 1.1. Full Story »
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Cooking outside my comfort zone, pt. 1: A remembrance of squash blossoms past
The Ethicurean &bull Jul 28, 2010
Squash blossoms, or fiori di zucca as they are called in Italy, are my madeleines. I first ate them when I was an 8-year-old military kid -- OK, yes, a brat -- living in the steep Posillipo neighborhood of Naples, Italy. The concierge's wife, Signora Rossetti, kept a lush garden that rambled down the hillside; she would pluck the yellow blossoms and batter and fry them, handing them hot to us kids rollerskating in the alley outside her door. I couldn't imagine anything more romantic than eating flowers, even ones from vegetables. The fact that these were fried was… Full Story »
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Poll: Only A Bare Majority Of Republicans Believes In Global Warming
theplumline.whorunsgov.com via @chashomans &bull Jul 28, 2010In partnership with The Washington Post, The Plum Line has moved to WashingtonPost.com's Opinions section. Old posts are still accessible here - click the archives drop down menu below or use the search box. They show that only a bare majority of Republicans believe in global warming, and that GOPers are surprisingly out of step with the rest of the electorate (independents included) on the issue. Only 54% of Republicans believe "the world's temperature may have been going up slowly over the past 100 years," versus 43% who don't believe it. By contrast, 71% of independents say it's been happening… Full Story »
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BP Legal Strategy: Hire and Gag Scientists
Desmog Blog &bull Jul 28, 2010
Ben Raines of the Alabama Press Registeris reporting that BP is trying to hire scientists who are doing research in the oil-damaged Gulf of Mexico and then binding those scientists with legal agreements that will enable BP to bury their… Full Story »
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Student Claims University Violated Religious Freedom By Asking Her To Set Aside Homophobic Views
Think Progress: The Wonk Room &bull Jul 28, 2010A graduate student in Georgia is suing Augusta State University for threatening "to dismiss her from its counseling program when she refused to participate in a remediation plan to increase her tolerance" towards gays and lesbians. The student, Jennifer Keeton -… Full Story »
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Killing two birds with one stone (not literally)
www.keenforgreen.com via @KrissyKeenGreen &bull Jul 28, 2010Many people give up the consumption of animal products for numerous reasons, which may include personal health and well-being, ethical beliefs, food expense reduction, and more. Thinking today about the reasons why I choose to follow a vegan lifestyle lead me to considering the environmental impact of the lifestyle. For those of… Full Story »
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Textile World - Climate Change, Carbon Mitigation And Textiles
www.textileworld.com via @apparelindustry &bull Jul 27, 2010O ver the past few years, climate change issues have moved from the academic arena to front page headlines in mainstream newspapers worldwide. The magnitude of the problem has been addressed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, more than 300 gigatonnes of carbon have been released into the atmosphere. Stabilization of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide at around 450 parts per million… Full Story »
