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20 Nov 2009 IN PLANET-100 | COMMENTS
Today's Planet 100 looks at Obama in Asia, Palin on Climate Change, Disco Ball in Space, and Plastic Making Boys Feminine.+ READ MORE
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19 Nov 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
A quick guide to some of the more commonly used acronyms and abbreviations used on Planet Green and TreeHugger+ READ MORE
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18 Nov 2009 IN INSTRUMENTAL | COMMENTS
Young and rising musician Nellie McKay talks about when she became vegan, how she talks about her politics to the media and to her audiences, and the political responsibility she feels she has not only as an artist, but as an individual: "you can't be neutral on a moving train."+ READ MORE
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16 Nov 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Greenpeace has a new executive director. Kumi Naidoo, a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and a leading advocate in the battle against global poverty, is the first African, and first person from outside the organization, to be selected to head Greenpeace. His background is in...+ READ MORE
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16 Nov 2009 IN PLANET-100 | COMMENTS
Today's Planet 100 looks at President Obama in Asia, Nissan Turns Over a New LEAF, and NBC Universal's Green Week. + READ MORE
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14 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
A note from the producer and writer/director of Coal Country. They have been personally touched by the destruction caused by mountaintop removal, but they have also seen the other side, met people who are proud of their work in the coal industry (when their companies follow the rules), and have...+ READ MORE
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12 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
If certain energy companies have their way, they'll be able to expand drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations in upstate New York in the near future. The public comment period on the environmental impact statement has just been extended until December 31. Make sure your voice is heard before...+ READ MORE
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11 Nov 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Bananas, the tropical fruit in such huge demand by East Germans or Ossis those first few weeks of undivided Germany in November 1989 are now the subject of dozens of East-West jokes. ("How can you use a banana as a compass? Place a banana on the Berlin Wall. East is where a bite has been taken out...+ READ MORE
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10 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Once you leave coal country after spending your whole life there, you have a whole new perspective once you return. But that makes you no less proud of your heritage, and Shirley Steward Burns writes here about how she is standing to protect hers. + READ MORE
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10 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Bobby Kennedy on the coal industry, the harm it is doing to the environment, and the politics that is allowing it all to happen. And why you should start acting now to stop it. + READ MORE
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6 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Doug Honnold, the managing attorney of EarthJustice, writes that a sad milestone has passed: "More than 100 [gray] wolves have been killed since Idaho and Montana began hunting them this fall." Following President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to remove gray wolves from the...+ READ MORE
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6 Nov 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
Buy a Coal Country DVD, CD, or book, and learn all you need to know about coal mining and mountaintop removal to stun you into action to stop it. Best part, buying the CD supports an organization already working to do just that.+ READ MORE
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6 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Nick Clooney writes about his childhood memories from Appalachia: from Grandpa Clooney dragging him to the Ohio River when all he wanted was an Eskimo Pie, up to what he thinks the community's gift was to the rest of the nation, a community now threatened by the coal industry and mountaintop...+ READ MORE
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6 Nov 2009 IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS | COMMENTS
Ashley Judd takes her canine companion back home to Kentucky, but finds a scale of destruction from mountaintop removal coal mining that even her dog can sense. Here, a moving story that illustrates why so many activists are working so hard to stop the destructive practice.+ READ MORE
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22 Oct 2009 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
it's now illegal to throw away food scraps in San Francisco--and failing to recycle can hit you with a $500 fine. When the news first surfaced that the law had passed, many were worried. But instead of lamenting how the city government is taking over its freedoms, San Franciscans have embraced the...+ READ MORE
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