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Project Censored Exposes Hushed News
Every year, for last 30 years, Project Censored at Sonoma State University has been collecting and reporting on news that corporate media doesn't cover. The issues that don't make it to the corporate...
Tips for planning your vacation
While some of the travel trips might not be the safest alternative here in US, like hitchhiking, there is still a lot you can do when traveling to help environment.
Respected journal brings public to peer-review process
The scientific journal Nature has added a new element to its system of reviewing articles for publication---posting submissions online and allowing feedback from recognized scientists and institutions...
McDonald's allowing comments after 5 days of criticism
After more than 5 days--and critical posts on TreeHugger, AdWeek, Fast Company, Emergence Marketing, Church of the Customer blog, AutoBlogGreen, TriplePundit, CityHippy, BlogHer and Viral Garden-...
Scientific integrity cartoon contest
Union of Concerned Scientists is in the final round of its Scientific Integrity Cartoon Contest, recognizing the best cartoons dealing with the intersection of politics and science. Only 12 finalists...
Grandpa marching on Washington for clean air and safer schools
Culminating a hike of several hundred miles, West Virginia grandfather Ed Wiley will arrive in Washington tomorrow to ask the federal government to help where his local officials' resources fall short...
Harvard prof enlisting people of faith to save the planet
Pulitzer-prize winning biologist E.O. Wilson is working to unite religious Creationists and secular believers of evolution theory around a shared commitment to environmental conservation. "There are...
Are the National Academies Fair and Balanced?
Today Center for Science in the Public (CSPI) Interest hosted a public forum to discuss conflicts of interest on National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issue panels. CSPI's most notable finding was that...
Remaindered Climate Change Links
Here are a few remaindered links to get you through the weekend: In Did Al Get the Science Right? Der Spiegel surveys the scientific community for reactions to Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient...
EnviroGroups on MySpace ?
What do Oceana, Oxfam America, and Greenpeace all have in common? Well-among other things-they are all nonprofits that have tapped into the social networking world of MySpace.com to attract new...
WHO: Environment = Health
The World Health Organization has released a new report which strengthens the argument for increased controls on environmental pollution. Here are some of the key findings: 13 million deaths annually...
Contaminating science
Check out this editorial from the Toledo Blade on the role of the military and its contractors in watering down EPA regulations.
New tax rebate ideas from the ONION
Faux news infographic from the Onion: The ONION's latest infographic reveals eight humourous tax rebates in addition to the already laughable $100 rebate proposed by Senate Republicans to combat...
The Next Green Revolution: How technology is leading environmentalism out of the anti-business, anti-consumer wilderness.
Enviromental news article from Wired Magazine.
Wetland: Land That Gets Watered?
It's all fair enough. Some of these environmental terms sound like we should all know what they are, but in fact have precise technical definitions: watershed, wetland, sediment to name just three. So...
The 'Dead Zone': You're Paying for It in More Ways Than One
From The Huffington Post: "No, not the Stephen King novel. It's no work of fiction, but a growing horror just the same. Every spring, polluted waters from the Mississippi watershed drain into the Gulf...
East Coast Group Running Ad Campaign for a West Coast Congressman?
Environmental Action, a Boston-based advocacy group, is taking a poll on which of two anti-Pombo ads you would prefer to see run in Rep. Pombo's district. Each ad protests the potential sale of up to...
Dead in the Water
For over 20 years, scientists have documented the appearance of a summertime "Dead Zone" that all but obliterates marine life in what is arguably the nation's most important fishery, the Gulf of...
"Pombo-ize:" To Defeat/Be Defeated?
In a story in the Contra Costa Times, two people separately coin the term "Pombo-ize" to refer to that California Republican congressman's unsuccessful effort last fall to auction off our public lands...