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America's Waterways Need Help - and, Yes, You Can Help

Steve Fleischli | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Arlen Specter, Russ Feingold, Los Angeles River, Waterways, Lisa Jackson, Congress, Lamar Alexander, George Voinovich, Dianne Feinstein, Clean Water Restoration Act, Amy Klobuchar, Streams, New York City, Rivers, Clean Water Act, U.S. Senate, Kansas, Commerce Clause, Supreme Court, Clean Water, Max Baucus, Wetlands, Drinking Water, Rapanos, Green News
Steve Fleischli

By some estimates, 60 percent of U.S. creeks, rivers, and streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands and other sensitive waterbodies have lost federal protection in the last few years due to the Supreme Court's decisions.

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Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Research, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Wetlands, Science, Permafrost, Oceans, Methane, Global Warming, Climate Disruption, Green News
Bill Chameides

Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regularly at th...

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To Be or Not to Be Green?

Ginna Kelly | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Wetlands, Mcmansions, Green Living, Green News
Ginna Kelly

My family is making a green choice. By preserving our farm as wetlands, we will provide clean air, water, and open space to the community. Most importantly, we will have set an example.

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Why Should Anyone Care About Louisiana?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Economy, Cancer Alley, Sugar Cane, Oil, Wetlands, Mccain, Pollution, Barack Obama, Delta, Hurricane Gustav, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

It is highly unlikely that candidates will make appearances down here in the final two weeks of the election, even though many parts of the state are still reeling from... Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

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Subprime Development: the Mother of All Collapses

Janet Ranganathan | Posted 11.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Poverty, Ocean Dead Zones, Dead Zone, Ecosystems, Environment, Wetlands, Climate Change, Amazon, Green News
Janet Ranganathan

Of the two billion people living on less than $2 a day, three quarters live in rural communities that depend on natural ecosystems for sustenance and livelihoods. If subprime development persists, many will pay: first with their livelihoods, and then with their lives.

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Hurricanes, Three Years Later -- Five Truths

Carl Pope | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Wetlands, Climate Change, New Orleans, Gustav, Hurricane Gustav, Green News
Carl Pope

Hurricanes are big; nature is bigger. Natural systems, not engineered ones, are the only defenses big enough to rely on in a big storm.

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Coastal Erosion Challenges Perseverance Of Louisiana Fishing Community

NYT | Susan Saulny | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Louisiana, Coastal Erosion, Shrimping, Wetlands, Golden Meadow, Fishing, Weather, Extreme Weather, Land Loss, Gulf of Mexico, Patois, Offshore Drilling, Green, Green News, Environment, Green News

GOLDEN MEADOW, La. -- The men still bark orders in a French patois here while at work along the banks of Bayou Lafourche, a watery main street whose l...

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Mr. Bill: "Oh No, Fix the Coast you Broke, Shell Oil!"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Gulf Restoration, Public Relations, Message, Oil, Katrina, Wetlands, Green Living, Media, Mr. Bill, Shell Oil, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Meanwhile: Conspiracy Rumors Swirl Around Photo Op An ominous email came in to the sluggo.com listserv, and writers for independent media knew it...

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New Orleans' Musicians Take Message to DNC and RNC

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Democratic Convention, New Orleans, Hurrican Recovery, Rnc, Jazz, Cyril Neville, Irma Thomas, Dnc, Wetlands, Blues, Music, Tab Benoit, Entertainment News
Georgianne Nienaber

On August 24 Tab Benoit and the Voice of the Wetlands All Stars have accomplished something that is quite remarkable -- they will open the Democratic Convention.

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Germany Abuzz Over Racy Novel Of Sex And Hygiene

New York Times | NICHOLAS KULISH | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: German Novel, Books, Huffpost Books, Wetlands, Media News

Not many literary readings are restricted to an over-18 audience. Fewer still take place under circus tents. Yet nothing could be more appropriate for...

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