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The Value of Water

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Pollution, Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Water, Chicago, Great Lakes, Privatization, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ballast-Water, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

If you scratch below the surface there's a problematic narrative: the water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.

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Latest Space Shuttle's Mission: Trash the Urine Recycler

Alex Pasternack | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology

Read More: Recycling, Poop, Water, Shit, Space Shuttle, Space, Toilets, Technology News
Alex Pasternack

When the space shuttle launched on Monday, it wasn't carrying a new satellite or even burrito ingredients. It was packed with a bunch of spare parts f...

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Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found in Drinking Water

news.nationalgeographic.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Runoff, Water Pollution, Water, Green News

For instance, thyme and sage spike during Thanksgiving, cinnamon surges all winter, chocolate and vanilla show up during weekends (presumably from par...

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A Good Week for Rivers

Lori Pottinger | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Dams, Activist, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Australia, International Rivers, Water, Green News
Lori Pottinger

It's been a bad week for dams - and a very good one for the world's rivers. Here's to the activists in Australia and Mexico who fought so well to protect their rivers.

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Big Stone II - Stopping the Unstoppable Coal Fired Power Plant

John DeCock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Sierra Club, Minnesota, Water, Mercury, Clean-Water-Action, Climate Change, Coal, South Dakota, Coal-Fired Plants, Green News
John DeCock

Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.

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Protecting New York City's Water Supply from Gas Companies

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Water Quality, Fracking Fluid, Fracking, Contamination, Water, Environment, Natural Gas Drilling, Water Supply, New York, New York News
Alison Rose Levy

New Yorkers were out in force last Tuesday to protect the purity of their legendary water. A public event focused on drilling in a vast Upstate reservoir of natural gas that developers are seeking to exploit.

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What I Learned Running The New York City Marathon

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Calories, New York City Marathon, Water, Hangovers, Personal Goals, Marathons, Brother Jimmy's, The Marathon, New York City, Dogs, Ex-Boyfriend, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

It's hard to run if your leg is gushing blood all over the place and hurting you. Also, the blood makes the ground slippery, and other runners will get mad at you, no matter how hard you try to explain that really, it's that jerk dog's fault.

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Planting Trees Can Affect Local Water Availability

nature.com | Ana Belluscio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Water-Source, Water Shortages, Tree Planting, Water, Afforestation, Green News

According to two new studies, planting forests in areas that currently don't have trees -- a process called afforestation -- can reduce the local avai...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Bouncing Water Droplets Captured By High-Speed Camera (VIDEO)

Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Water Drop Bounce, Water Droplets, Water Drop Bounces, Water Droplets Bounce, Water, Technology News

So what really happens when a drop of water falls? It might look like it passes directly into the liquid below, but seen through a high-speed came...

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Wastewater In New York Found To Be Radioactive From Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fracking, Water, New York Wastewater, Dirty Energy, Environment, Natural Gas, New York Water, Natural Gas Dilling, Radioactive Wastewater, Green News

As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about...

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Climate Wrap-Up: Barcelona Talks Marked by Urgency, Frustration and Pleas for Patience

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Keith Schneider, Barcelona, Copenhagen 2009, UN Climate Change, Water, Bangkok, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

Barcelona was supposed to bring hints of what's to come in December at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. A world seeking sanity.

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Clean, Safe Water For Two Cents A Day -- Not Bad, But Not Happening

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Water, Clean Drinking Water, Safe Drinking Water, Drinking Water, Water, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Some experts think the number of people with unsafe drinking water could easily be 2 billion -- maybe even more. The statistics are fuzzy and no on really knows how bad it is. They just know it is bad.

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Thirsting for Justice

Deborah Jacobs | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Cory Booker, Human Rights, New Jersey, Newark, Water, United Nations, Politics News
Deborah Jacobs

Since August, Newark turned off nearly 600 water accounts in an attempt to collect $29 million in unpaid bills. Newark's desire to collect this debt is entirely understandable, but unpaid bills do not trump human rights or public health.

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The Story of One Day's Wages

Eugene Cho | Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact

Read More: One Day's Wages, Poverty, Global Poverty, World Hunger, Water Crisis, Water, Impact News
Eugene Cho

In 2009, my wife and I made our decision to donate our income to the cause of fighting extreme global poverty. We'd like to invite you to do some of the same.

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Sex And The Illusion Of Physical Form

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Skin, Homosexuality, Illusion, Physical Form, Sex, Water, Prejudice, Srini Pillay Srinivasan Pillay, Love, Gender, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

"Maya" is a Sanskrit term that refers to the "illusion" of physical and mental forms. If the physical form is in fact an illusion, who are you having sex with?

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How to Save the World With Sanitation

Rose George | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: World in Photos, Global Development, Global Poverty, World, Water, Africa, Sanitation, World Photos, World News, Rose George, World News
Rose George

Food and water contamination kills more children than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human waste is an impressive weapon of mass destruction. So here's what's being done about it.

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Amnesty: Israel Withholds Water From Palestinians

AP | MICHAEL BARAJAS | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Settlements in Palestine, Israel, Water Crisis, Water, World News

JERUSALEM — Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the We...

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Interactive Map: How A 4 Degree Temperature Rise Will Affect The Planet

guardian.co.uk | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Production, Rising Sea Level, Water, Climate Change, Map, Carbon Dioxide, Extreme Weather, Forest Fire, Global Warming, Global Temperature, Green News

A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other l...

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Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!

John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Packaging, Waste, Trash, Climate Change, No Impact Week, Oceans, Water, Epa, Green News
John DeCock

The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Smart Profs, Teabagger Administrators -- UC Berkeley Proposes Shutting Invaluable Water Library

Patrick McCully | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Water, Tax Cuts, Teabaggers, UC Berkeley, International Rivers, Water Resources Library Uc Berkeley, California Budget Cuts, Green News
Patrick McCully

This is intellectual vandalism in keeping with the know-nothing, no-tax tendencies of the teabagging conservatives, but surely not of UC Berkeley administrators.

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Climate Change Displacing Thousands

LA Times | Edmund Sanders | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Drought, Sub Saharan Africa, Africa, Melting Glaciers, Somalia, Water, Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, Ice Pack, Sea Levels, Kenya, Dadaab, Green News

Africa is already home to one-third of the 42 million people worldwide uprooted by ethnic slaughter, despots and war. But experts say climate change i...

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Days 3 and 4 - My Week of Environmentally Responsible Living

Shravya Reddy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Transport, Sustainability, Carbonfootprint, Bicycling, Emissions, Organicfarming, Climatechange, Vegetarianism, Water, Vegan, Green News
Shravya Reddy

For all those looking for a way to lessen their carbon footprint, the bottom-line remains that a dietary shift is the single most effective way to do so.

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An Aspen Institute Dialogue on America's Water Infrastructure

Michael Deane | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Aspen Institute, Water Security, Water Infrastructure, Water Crisis, Water, Green News
Michael Deane

Experts throughout the United States agree that our nation's drinking water and wastewater systems face increasing infrastructure replacement challenges over the next several decades.

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Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: L.A., Holistic, Disposable, Children, Green Parenting, Babysitter, Waldorf Education, Diapers, Neuroscience, Strollers, Mothering, Eastern Europe, Actress, Medicine, Sitcom, Trend, Family, Research Professor, Materialism, Replacement Level, Nanny, Home-Schooling, Body, Nbc, Caregiver, Planet, Husband, Los Angeles, Sierra Magazine, Sustainable, Ucla, Reform Judaism, Health, Judaism, Population, Vegetarian, Homemade Hygiene Products, Bedsharing, Discipline, Earth, Liberal, Potty-Training, Cleaning Products, Cloth, Tolerance, Holistic Moms Network, Cats, Acting, Southern California, Kids, Celebrity, Stay-at-Home Mom, Mayim Bialik, Hollywood, Elimination Communication, Jewish, Tikkun Olam, Religion, Water, Fast Food, Slings, Environment, Mom, Shtetl, Blossom, Green News
Avital Binshtock

We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.

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