November 2008 Archives

Nov 28

E-Waste

2008 4:58 PM Posted by Jen

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Problem: Old and broken electronics (e-waste) that you toss in the garbage are not just sitting in a landfill. E-waste leaches dangerous chemicals into the earth and wastes precious metals by not being recycled. Greenpeace though is on the mission...

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Nov 28

Razor's Edge

2008 1:15 AM Posted by Jen

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Problem: "According to US EPA estimates, 2 billion disposable razors make their way into landfills in the United States every year. "That's a lot of wasted crude oil and natural gas," said Hudson, "both in the handle in the first...

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Nov 24

Soccer Balls and Child Labor

2008 10:58 PM Posted by Jen

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Problem: While your child is playing soccer, children in Pakistan are working day and night to make the balls that our kids to kick around."After over a decade of promised reforms from the sporting goods industry, child labor in soccer...

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Nov 22

Private Plane Lame

2008 11:45 PM Posted by Jen

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Can you all believe the audacity of the big three automakers' CEO's who flew their private planes to DC to ask for bailout money? Read the following from the Times as I did and shakeyour head in disbelief! Tom Baldwin in...

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Nov 21

Skip the Goodie Bag Please

2008 11:53 AM Posted by elle

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These days birthday parties abound and each time my kid comes home with a blue clown-mouth from the indescribable frosting they ingested and a bag full of made-in-china plastic "goodies" and I really have a hard time comprehending the...

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Nov 20

Come On?! You are Kidding Me!

2008 6:33 PM Posted by Jen

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Is President Bush really going to endanger animals on the way out of office?According to Scientific American,"The Bush Administration's push for "midnight regulations" in the last moments of office continues.In the next 24 hours,President Bush is expected to relax requirements...

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Nov 19

Wasteful Lunches

2008 12:07 AM Posted by elle

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Ever think of the environmental mess that results from children's lunches? It has been estimated that on average a school-age child using a disposible lunch generates 67 pounds of waster per school year. That equates to 18,760 pounds of...

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Nov 18

rBGH

2008 12:00 AM Posted by elle

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rBGH is bovine Growth Hormone that is used in our Dairy Industry. Europe and Canada have both banned it because of it's apparent health threats including breast and prostate cancer. For some reason, the FDA is having a hard...

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Nov 16

Boycott Exxon

2008 8:47 PM Posted by Jen

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This headline in the business section of the New York Times today, says it all. The article tells about the most unbelievably arrogant attitudes of the Exxon executives and how they refuse to believe that we will ever be off...

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Nov 15

Kill Moths and Poison People

2008 12:00 AM Posted by Jen

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Back in May we told you about the aerial spraying of insecticide that was going on in the San Francisco Bay Area and how it was poisoning hundreds of people while attempting to kill the Light Brown Apple Moth. Well...

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