published March 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Read Are Walmart's Eco-Efforts Enough? Balancing Sustainability & Social Responsibility at America's Largest Retailer for more on Walmart Three years ago, Walmart pulled polycarbonates off their shelves because they were made with Bisphenol A (BPA). Marc Gunther complained that Walmart had become the new FDA , pulling product before the government agencies concluded that they were harmful. He wrote: ...
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published February 1, 2011 and has No Comments
There are lots of conservative Americans who write in to say that they care about the environment and are worried about dependence on foreign oil, even if they wish we would stop pushing the climate change agenda. I would think they and just about anyone in the country would be worried about the agenda of the The Heritage Foundation, ...
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published January 31, 2011 and has No Comments
Fracking, or Fracing as the oil and gas industry ungrammatically spells it, is short for hydraulic fracturing , and the technology is now being used extensively to extract shale gas, by pumping liquids at high pressure into the rock, creating and expanding fissures. The liquid is a mix of chemicals designed to carry a proppant , perhaps sand or ...
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published January 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Peter Kent Official Portrait Most environment ministers' job is to protect the environment; not in Canada. There, the environment minister is a shill for the tar stands industry. The new minister isn't camera shy, either; he is Peter Kent, former TV anchor for Canada's biggest news show. (He is the brother of Arthur Kent , the "Scud Stud" of ...
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published December 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Throwing Candy at Children, Santa Claus Parade. Image credit Jason Verwey Toronto used to be known for its green initiatives under former Mayor David Miller; the new mayor, Rob Ford, appears intent on not only stopping the City's green progress, but actively rolling it back. Next up: cancelling the 5 cent plastic bag charge that ...
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published December 2, 2010 and has No Comments
Eco Piggy Lamp from Ariel Rojo Design Studio In America, Joe Barton introduced BULB, the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, to repeal legislation that set minimum efficiency standards and would phase out incandescent bulbs. He's quoted in the New York Times: The unanticipated consequence of the '07 act - Washington-mandated layoffs in the middle of a desperate recession ...
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published November 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: mrpattersonsir The Jack Abramoff scandal became the symbol of everything our government shouldn't be. It represented the corruption of Washington and the lobbying players that had gotten a handle on those that we had elected to embody our values. Congressman Bob Ney pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government and making false statements in the scandal and ...
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published November 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Abardwell According to a recent story in the New York Times , prisoners and employees in 10 federal prisons were exposed to toxic metals while processing electronic waste for recycling. The program, which has been overseen by Unicor since 1997, works with federal prisons to recycle computer monitors, televisions, printers, and other pieces of
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published September 2, 2010 and has No Comments
New York Times Everyone in the red state is piling on the redesign of the oval office, complaining it is not patriotic enough, even though George Bush took Bill Clinton's red, white and blue garish extravaganza and turned it into a muted southern living room (and lost the red, white and blue) showing more taste than patriotism. But since... ...
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published August 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Images: Sydney Morning Herald (left), and The Greens (right). You may recall that just eight weeks ago Australia found itself with a new Prime Minister , it's first female one at that, in Julia Gillard. She had ousted Kevin Rudd , who although sweeping ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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