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A Christian who Died for Green Causes

A Christian who Died for Green Causes October 5, 2009 | Posted in Creation Care, Environment and Society

In 1972, Brenda Hean died while protesting a hydro-electric project in Tasmania, Australia.

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CARROTMOB

September 10, 2009 | Posted in San Francisco

Everyone in SF has been waiting a long time for the second ever Carrotmob event in the city, and now the day is upon us! TONIGHT, San Francisco is mobbing Epicenter Cafe! Your life will not be complete without attending this event.

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River pollution spawns gender-altering steroids in fish.

1 comment | September 10, 2009 | Posted in Water

This news article recounts how scientists found gender has been and continues to be skewed in fish by man-made chemicals and processes. And if these water-borne hormones from businesses can make fish mature faster, then why not humans? (rgbh hormone in school lunch milk comes to mind...)

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Car Enthusiasts and Climate Change

8 comments | September 2, 2009

I grew up riding in cars. Lots of them. Owned quite a few too. And lately I've adjusted to being in them slightly less often.

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The city that ended hunger

The city that ended hunger June 17, 2009

“I knew we had so much hunger in the world. But what is so upsetting, what I didn’t know when I started this, is it’s so easy. It’s so easy to end it.”

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Review of San Francisco Green Drinks

5 star rating Review of San Francisco Green Drinks May 29, 2009 | Posted in SustainAmerica

Good mixer The people are a cool mix of eco stiffs in government, business and academia. Worth a visit! Even if they charge money for it nowadays.

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SF 'Urban Eco Map' to launch May 21st

April 30, 2009 | Posted in San Francisco, Environment and Society

New green website Urban Eco Map goes live this May 21st.

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'Sex and Sustainability' Event Mixes Art and Development

'Sex and Sustainability' Event Mixes Art and Development April 29, 2009

Hundreds of onlookers packed into the Alphonse Berber Gallery on Bancroft Way Tuesday night to learn about how unmitigated population growth hampers development in Third World countries.

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Save BC Salmon Campaign

April 27, 2009 | Posted in Vancouver

When the 4-year-old Fraser River sockeye went to sea in 2005, they were heavily infected with sea lice around the Campbell River fish farms. So few of these salmon returned that the entire south coast commercial fishery has closed...

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Review of Democracy Now!

1 star rating Review of Democracy Now! April 26, 2009 | Posted in Books, Mags, Music & Film

Most useless show ever I used to listen to this show a while ago on kpfa. Then after getting knowledge from a wider variety of sources (online) I realized that most of this show sidesteps the biggest stories (most of sonoma state's project censored articles, or "from the wilderness")...

Amy Goodman gets paid by Hearst...

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