Kashmir's rivers and streams have decreased by two-thirds, and many glaciers have completely disappeared over the last four decades. Average temperatures have risen between 2.6 and 4.2 degrees...
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Columnist Jenni Carlson in Saturday's Oklahoman attacked Oaklahoma State backup QB Bobby Reid, essentially stating that he just didn't care about the game. Coach Gundy didn't like it. No,...
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by Miche on September 26, 2007
I just recently moved to North Carolina (yesterday), and happened upon a couple excellent publications. One of them is Indy, a free weekly publication that focuses on social activism and human rights...
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Darron Stover of www.invest4change.com wrote in this month's Innerchange magazine about investing in energy. Although somewhat vague and obvious, he does offer some good tips for those that wish...
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by Miche on September 25, 2007
Isn't it sad that we need non-profit third parties to figure out what pesticides, cosmetics, dyes, prescription drugs, and gasoline does to us? The manufacturers should do the studies and be...
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If you're interested in buying stocks of socially responsible companies, there is an index of Dow Jones traded companies called FTSE4Good which is regularly maintained by a committee to ensure...
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I'm not sure if you have heard about the LOL Catz fad (how ever they want to spell that), but I'm having a hard time deciding whether it's cute or annoying. To an extent it seems to...
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BuzzMachine has a very interesting viewpoint on the so-called impartiality of journalists. Albeit technical and rather thickly written, it definitely poses a very good point. "There I think we...
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by Miche on September 22, 2007
If there's one thing Microsoft does well, it's keeping the money rolling in. Most recently the technology giant has been asked to re-write their Permissive Lisence (MS-PL) because OSI has...
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Filed in archive Go Green
by Miche on September 22, 2007
It's so easy to forget just how much every little action effects every other thing on this planet. Fortunately, this video helps us to remember. While the video is far from self-explanatory,...
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by Miche on September 21, 2007
Chiquita International and its Columbian subsidiary Bananex have a really big problem. On one end of the debate you have the Columbian militant group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), who...
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by Miche on September 21, 2007
Oil companies are being encouraged to literally sweep their CO2 emissions under the rug with "carbon capture and store" (CCS) technology. Basically the theory is to capture carbon emissions...
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by Miche on September 20, 2007
Photo via Associated Press Normally you wouldn't have to worry about crocs when you're taking the escalator, but if your kids are wearing these special sticky shoes by the same name, you...
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by Miche on September 20, 2007
In a recent commercial, Hyundai asks the question "if you had the technology to save 10,000 lives, would you hesitate to use it?" The first thought in my head is, heck yeah! Especially...
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by Miche on September 19, 2007
No no, it's not that multi-million dollar blockbuster "The Matrix" - it's "The Meatrix" - an interesting set of flash mini-films that demonstrate where meat really comes...
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