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Real Family Values: 9 Ways to Support Families in Hard Times

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Home Care, Social Security, Green Jobs, Tax Equity, 2010 Elections, Medicare for All, Part-Time Jobs, Jobs, Community Colleges, Paid Sick Leave, Housing Crisis, Land Trusts, Veterans, Precautionary Principle, Minimum Wage, 2010, Advertising, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Marriage Equity, Foreclosure, Head Start, Cancer, Medicare, Health Care, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Sarah van Gelder

For years, the Right dominated the dialogue on "family values." But what does it really mean to support families, especially in a time of economic har...

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A Dozen Threats to Your Water on the 38th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Sewage, Pesticides, Toxics, Agriculture, Pollution, Water Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Precautionary Principle, Stormwater, Clean Water Action, Climate Change, Clean Water Act, Fertilizers, Coal Ash, Runoff, Green News
John DeCock

Pollution prevention, efficiency, conservation, reuse, doing things locally and in a distributed and decentralized manner are all core principles for moving forward with water and other natural resources.

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The Precautionary Principle

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Precautionary Principle, Climate Change Denial, Natural Resources Defense Council, Green News, Climate Change, Global Warming, Midterm Elections, Senate Races, Pakistan Floods, Hurricane Katrina, Republican Senators, Record Heat, Green News
Edward Flattau

Every Republican running for the U.S. Senate in November believes either that human activity is not the driving force behind global warming or that the planet isn't even heating up, according to a recent survey.

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"Sugar is Sugar" Claims the Corn Refiners Association. But Is It?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Precautionary Principle, Corn-Refiners-Association, Prevention, Children, Health, Adm, Cargill, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Genetically Modified Food, Obesity, Sugar, Allergies, Corn Allergies, Food News
Robyn O'Brien

The Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that manufacturers have the option of using "corn sugar" as an alternate name for high fructose corn syrup.

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Restraining the Profit Itch

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sacred Earth, Precautionary Principle, Wall Street, Corporate America, Corporations, Regulation, Gulf Oil Spill, Wall Street Journal, Conflict Resolution, Deep-Water Drilling, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The gap between the diffuse human yearning for a decent world and the organized agenda of the corporatocracy has never, in my lifetime, been wider.

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Can an Oil Spill Actually Help the Environment? Finding a Silver Lining in an Environmental Crisis

Gay Browne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Precautionary Principle, Louisiana, Bp, Oil Spill, Greenopia, Ddt, Oil, Exxon Valdez, Green News
Gay Browne

No one is focusing on how we may look back at the oil spill as a defining moment in shaping environmental strategy and energy policy for years to come.

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Stuff My Dad Says about Monsanto - a "Roundup," If You Will

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agent Orange, Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Precautionary Principle, Food Politics, Genetically Modified Food, Vietnam, Usda, Roundup-Ready-Sugar-Beets, Monsanto, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Originally published on The Green Fork. I've been working on a broad range of food and environmental issues since 2005, but food politics became espe...

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Biotech FAIL: Bad Science, Worse Faith and Superweeds

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Precautionary Principle, Gmos, Biotechnology, Food Politics, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Real innovation in the agriculture world may not be the stuff of spliced genes and petrochemicals but a better understanding of time-tested methods of food production, like compost and worms.

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Putting Personal Back in Personal Care

Lauren Fornes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whole Foods Market, Face Parlour, Skincare, Supplements, Pangea Organics, Dr. Hauschka, Green Living, Aubry Organics, Precautionary Principle, Zero Waste Packaging, Search of the Cause, Premium Body Care, Whole Body, Labeling Standards, faceparlour.com, Jeremiah McElwee, Lauren Fornes, Skin Care, Green Chemistry, Alaffia, Ikove, Eco-Cert, Style News
Lauren Fornes

No one seems more passionate about regulating the rhetoric of skincare than Jeremiah McElwee, who recently helped to launch the company's Premium Body Care standard for Whole Foods.

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