Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found in Drinking Water
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
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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.
Big Stone II - Stopping the Unstoppable Coal Fired Power Plant
John DeCock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
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Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.
Protecting New York City's Water Supply from Gas Companies
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
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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.
What I Learned Running The New York City Marathon
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
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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.
Planting Trees Can Affect Local Water Availability
nature.com | Ana Belluscio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
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According to two new studies, planting forests in areas that currently don't have trees -- a process called afforestation -- can reduce the local avai...
Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
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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.
Bouncing Water Droplets Captured By High-Speed Camera (VIDEO)
Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology
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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...
Wastewater In New York Found To Be Radioactive From Gas Drilling
ProPublica | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
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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...
Climate Wrap-Up: Barcelona Talks Marked by Urgency, Frustration and Pleas for Patience
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
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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.
Clean, Safe Water For Two Cents A Day -- Not Bad, But Not Happening
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
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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.
Thirsting for Justice
Deborah Jacobs | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
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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.
The Story of One Day's Wages
Eugene Cho | Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact
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.
Sex And The Illusion Of Physical Form
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
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"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?
How to Save the World With Sanitation
Rose George | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
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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.
Amnesty: Israel Withholds Water From Palestinians
AP | MICHAEL BARAJAS | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
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JERUSALEM — Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the We...
Interactive Map: How A 4 Degree Temperature Rise Will Affect The Planet
guardian.co.uk | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
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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...
Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!
John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
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.
Smart Profs, Teabagger Administrators -- UC Berkeley Proposes Shutting Invaluable Water Library
Patrick McCully | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
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This is intellectual vandalism in keeping with the know-nothing, no-tax tendencies of the teabagging conservatives, but surely not of UC Berkeley administrators.
Climate Change Displacing Thousands
LA Times | Edmund Sanders | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green
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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...
Days 3 and 4 - My Week of Environmentally Responsible Living
Shravya Reddy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
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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.
An Aspen Institute Dialogue on America's Water Infrastructure
Michael Deane | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
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.
Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
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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.
No Impact Week: The Enigma of the Water Closet
Robert Glennon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
The water delivered to our homes is drinking-quality water but we use only ten percent of it for drinking and cooking. We use about one-third outdoors to water lawns. Of the water we use indoors, a third is flushed away.
Invading The Moon & Our Disordered Home Planet
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
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I think there's a message in Chicago losing the Olympics. I also think there's a message in the moon invasion despite its alleged success. The message is a simple one: It's time to focus on home.
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