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Mothers and Soldiers: Healing the Bonds Destroyed by War

Christian Avard | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Iraq War, Israel, Afghanistan War, Veterans for Peace, Syria, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, West Bank, Rachel Carson, Veterans Day, Upton Sinclair, Winter Soldier, Lebanon, The Jungle, Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans, Iraq Veterans Against the War, John Kerry Swiftboating, Silent Spring, Military Families, Books News
Christian Avard

Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror. She made international headlines as she traveled to Iraq to visit her son stationed in the Sunni Triangle.

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Earth Days: Dare To Care

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Days, Ronald Reagan, Stewart Brand, Climate Change, Rachel Carson, Environmental Movement, Jimmy Carter, Conservation, Robert Stone, Green Living, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Earth Days, the new film that opens this weekend from acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone, is being promoted as a history of the environmental movement in the United States. But it's more of a road trip, really.

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Risky Runoff: From Fish-Roe to Ritalin (My Reaction to "Poisoned Waters," a Recent PBS Frontline Story)

Michael DeJong | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Margaret Meade, Thinking Mindfully, Cleaning Supplies, Rachel Carson, We’re All Polluters, Industrial Waste, Acting Safely, Baking Soda, Flora and Fauna, Run-Off, Respecting All Manner of Life, Fresh Lemon, Chlorine Bleach, PBS Frontline, Ground Water, Lawn Care Products, Cosmetics-Industry, Agricultural Pollution, Health, Home Waste Treatment Systems, Micro-Particulates, Silent Spring, Poisoned Waters, Rivers, Water, Green News
Michael DeJong

The particulates from our own medicated bodily fluids are so fine that there are no water processing plants in the world that can trap them.

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Born in Wartime, Earth Day Unified the Nation

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day, Rachel Carson, Clean Water Act, Epa, Mercury, Ddt, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

Arriving suddenly -- as a gift whose time had come -- it offered folks something to unite around: the idea of an entire planet, our home, in peril.

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Earth Day Film Review: A Sense of Wonder

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Breast Cancer, Writing, Books, Rachel Carson, Nature, Environment, Silent Spring, Movie, Cancer, Earth Day, Film, Dvd, A Sense of Wonder, Green Living, Green News
Avital Binshtock

It's a quiet film, one that asks us to set aside our hunger for over-dramatic portrayals of human conflict; watching it feels like a meditation of sorts.

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A Green Opposition to a Colorless Proposition

Michael DeJong | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Green Jobs, Think Globally Act Locally, Proposition 8, Lesbian, Rachel Carson, Green, An Inconvenient Truth, Straight, Gay, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Eco-Toxins, Transgender, Greenwashing, Henry David Thoreau, Environment, Green News
Michael DeJong

Eco-activists Rachael Carson and Henry David Thoreau didn't call for cleaner air and water for gay people - they raised their clarion call to ignite a flame under all people.

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