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If 98% of "Green" Products Greenwash - Which are the 2% that Don't?

Levi Novey | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Philadelphia, Consumer Confidence, Research, Shopping, Greenwashing, Green Business, Green Living, Terrachoice, Green News

We shouldn't generalize from a study that had found that 98% of "green" products on the shelves of American supermarkets made false claims.

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Mall Brands: Spencer's Gifts

Minyanville | Minyanville | Posted 07.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Philadelphia, Home News

In the last few years some of Spencer's more lascivious and suggestive products have earned the ire of jittery parents and family groups. In 2006 the...

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Stopping the 13 Second Clock: ACORN and Leading Mayors Join Together in Fighting Foreclosures

Bertha Lewis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

With millions more foreclosures staring us in the face, we have to act now to create sensible local solutions that will improve our communities, safeguard families, stabilize tax bases, and revive the economy.

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Men II Boys: A Documentary For Young Men of Color

Timothy Cooper | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Men II Boys is a new film that featuring interviews from BET journalist Jeff Johnson, Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Baltimore Ravens Tight End, Daniel Wilcox.

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Car Hits Crowd In Philly, Killing 3 Children: Police

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Car Crash, Home News

PHILADELPHIA — A car fleeing a robbery scene and being chased by police Wednesday night jumped a curb and crashed into a crowd, killing three yo...

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"Big Gay Musical" and "Hollywood" Sandwich Philly QFest

indieWIRE | indieWIRE | Posted 07.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Philadelphia, Home News

The Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, now known as QFest, has announced its opening and closing night films, set fo...

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Philly's Rx For Foreclosure Epidemic

Saul Segan | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing, Philadelphia, Saving Homes, Real Estate, Foreclosure, Houses, Living, Foreclosure News, Business News

Philadelphia, often noted for innovative and effective legal solutions and procedures, has done it again.

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Green News Report - June 4, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Carbon Capture and Storage, Green News, Congressional Democrats, Philadelphia, Green News Report, Coal, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama moves mountains -- unfortunately; Coal state Democrats heart coal; Chemical industry hearts BPA; PLUS: Big Bellies now...

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In Focus: Mom-And-Pop Loan Sharks Being Driven Out By Big Credit-Card Companies

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 06.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Philadelphia, Home News

PHILADELPHIA--People like Frank Pistone are part of a dying breed whose way of life is being endangered by the likes of American Express....

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Why We Can Never Do Enough for Mother's Day (No Really, We Can't)

Wendy Braitman | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Carnations, Unmarried Woman, Grafton West Virginia, Philadelphia, Anna-Jarvis, Mother's Day, Woodrow Wilson, Mothers, Living News

With Mother's Day hours away, I would like to honor my beloved mother, by using the word mother in a sentence as often as possible.

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Lock up teen criminals?

CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | Posted 06.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Reading, Philadelphia, Home News

Jane Velez-Mitchell HLN Ten years ago, teen Daniel Giddings shot a man during an attempted robbery and was sentenced to six to 12 years ...

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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Stopping the Every-13-Second Foreclosure Clock

Bertha Lewis | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orlando, Foreclosures, Mandatory Mediation, Acorn, Orange County, President Obama, Bertha Lewis, Foreclosure, Philadelphia, ACORN Home Defenders, Home Foreclosures, Politics News

In America, a family is losing its home every 13 seconds.

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AP Sources: Joost Seeks Cable TV Operator as Buyer

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.29.2009 | Home

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Online video site Joost is shopping itself around to different cable TV operators, but at least one has declined to buy it, according to people with k...

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Philadelphia's New Green Bank, Ready for Business

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Banks, Financial Crisis, Green Business, Sustainable Development, Philadelphia, Green News

The bank will "walk the sustainable walk." It won't have branches and will limit the number of paper checks to keep its environmental footprint to a minimum.

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Senator Specter Kicks Off Nationwide Town Hall on Clean Energy Future

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Arlen Specter, Climate Policy, Senate, Pennsylvania, Focus the Nation, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy Economy, Green Economy, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Philadelphia, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Youth Activism, Global Warming, Green News

International climate experts say that the next few years is the window for averting irretrievable climate disruption. If there's no action before 2012, that's too late.

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10.41 Million Reasons to Hate Comcast

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Internet, Philadelphia, Business, Comcast, Customer Service, Business News

Unless you want to be stuck with a Comcastic internet connection like mine, you should try DSL.

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Allen Iverson Still Longs for his Ring

Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Michael Jordan, Jordan, Obama Speech Philadelphia, Nba Playoffs, Detroit, Sustainability, Philadelphia, Allen Iverson, Nba Finals, Nba, USA Basketball, Entertainment News

I'm hoping that Iverson is able to shake off those painful back spasms, as he now comes back fresh for a struggling Detroit squad as their sixth man.

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Dr. Ruth, Robin Leach and Ellen Degeneres all in a Lucky Week!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 05.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Byron Howard, President Obama, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Ellen Degeneres, Patti Labelle, Dr. Ruth, Beverly Hills, Dr. David Best, Robin Leach, 52nd Annual New York Emmy® Awards Gala, Humane Society of the United States, Gretchen Wyler, Bolt, London Hotel, Genesis Awards, Katie Couric, CBS’ Greatest American Dog, The Street, Disney, Www.AnimalFair.Com, Bone Appetit, Marriott Marquis Hotel, Philadelphia, Www.Petsmart.com, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Beverly Hilton, New York City, Teri Hatcher, CBS Evening News, Desperate Housewife, Susan Feniger, Nicolette Sheridan, Marley & Me, Food Network’s “Too Hot Tamale”, Portia De Rossi, Dana Delany, 60 Minutes, Celebrity Kids, Style News

During the vegan dinner Lucky and I schmoozed with Byron Howard, one of the directors of the animated Disney hit film Bolt. Lucky spent the whole time flirting with him!

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The Secret War Against American Workers

Robert S. Eshelman | Posted 04.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Employee Free Choice Act, Recession Fears, Efca, Unemployment Benefits, Philadelphia, Recession, Wal-Mart, Business News

If a deepening recession threatens businesses, some of those businesses are also making convenient use of the times to do things they might have wanted to do, but were unable to do in better conditions.

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I've Decided to Move to Print... for a Day

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Boston, Geoff Canada, Metro Newspapers, Print, New Media, Harlem Children's Zone, Philadelphia, Metro, New York, Old Media, Media News

When Metro US asked me to be guest editor of their daily newspapers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, it immediately reawakened my early love affair with print, going back to my school years in Athens when my father was a newspaper editor and paper after paper that he ran kept going out of business -- but that's another story. It was great fun working with the Metro staff picking which stories to feature. Here are links to some of the stories we selected, and my take on them. READ MORE What If Jon Stewart, Instead of John King, Interviewed Dick Cheney Someone needs to kidnap King and take him to a journalism deprogramming center -- preferably one run by Jon Stewart and his team. READ MORE

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Philadelphia Daily News To Be Edition Of Inquirer

AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Newspapers, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly Daily News Inquirer, Newspapers, Media News

PHILADELPHIA — The company that owns both the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer will start publishing the tabloid Daily News...

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Philadelphia Newspapers Owner Files For Bankruptcy Protection

AP | BOB LENTZ | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Philadelphia Newspapers, Philadelphia Daily News, Newspaper Industry, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., Philadelphia Newspapers Bankruptcy, Media News

PHILADELPHIA — The owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday in an effort...

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Triage at the White House -- Are Children at Risk Merely an "Additional Issue"?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Philadelphia, Confidentiality in Child Abuse and Neglect, Child Abuse and Neglect, President Obama, Child Advocacy, Right to Counsel for Children, First Star, White House Agenda, Ombudsman for Children, Capta, Politics News

Candidate Obama offered hope for America's future and the country believed him. America's children living in fear pray that President Obama extends this hope to them.

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