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Enviro Ministers: What Are You Guys Drinking?
Seems to be Kool-Aid from the tar sands lobby, as Renner and Prentice shrug off a key
study.
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Bankers, Bookies, and Gamblers
To get the right answer, i.e., that the proper function of a bank is to channel savings
into real investment, we must start with the right question.
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Fidel
Castro Addresses University Students
Fidel Castro addressed students at the University of Havana on Friday, speaking on the
main staircase, regarding the danger of a new war in the Middle East with unpredictable
consequences for the world.
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Phony War
As in Europe in 1940, we daydream on the edge of cataclysm, this one threatening all
civilization.
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Weaning the World Off Oil
Greenpeace's occupation of an Arctic rig carries a simple message: stop
drilling for fossil fuels
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Oilsands Operations Boosting Toxic Metals in Northern Watershed: Study
Canada's oilsands industry is polluting northern waters with toxic concentrations of
metals, according to a study released Monday.
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1000-Megawatt
Plant in Calif. Marks New Milestone in Solar Expansion
All together, the nine solar plants would cover 41,229 acres of BLM land and have the
capacity to generate 4,580 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 3.8 million
businesses and homes, according to federal estimates
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Beyond GDP: How Do We Measure Real Wealth and Happiness?
We've been measuring happiness in all the wrong ways. What's the
pathway to true quality of life?
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UN to Hold Crisis Talks on Food Prices as Riots Hit Mozambique
The tense atmosphere in developing countries, where food costs up to 70% of family income,
erupted in Mozambique
this week in three days of riots that left seven people dead, hundreds injured and
millions of dollars of damage.
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When in Ecuador,
do as the pre-industrial do: a brief getaway from the
industrial-economic monster
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Buddhism, Peace, and Ecology
How Buddhism could be a way out of the environmental mess we are in
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US Drones Will
Patrol Entire Southern Border
The US will today send another Predator drone on patrol flights along its border with
Mexico, allowing authorities for the first time to monitor the entire frontier with the
unmanned aircraft.
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Friends of the Earth Urges End to 'Land Grab' for Biofuels
Friends of the Earth says that biofuel crops, including sugar cane, 'are competing
directly with food crops for fertile land'.
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Huge ice chunk breaks off Ellesmere Island
A large parcel of ice has fractured from a massive ice shelf on Ellesmere Island in
Nunavut, marking the third known case of Arctic ice loss this summer alone.
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