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submitted by Bert for team Green Living 69 weeks 2 days 17 hours 42 minutes ago
Until recently, nuclear power seemed to be making its way back into public favour in Germany. A warm winter, and dire warnings by scientists about climate change, convinced many that carbon emissions might be a bigger danger than nuclear accidents or radioactive waste. Opinion polls this...(more)
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written by Grace for team Green Living 43 weeks 1 day 2 hours 9 minutes ago
According to its website, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of women’s, public health, labor, environmental health and consumer-rights groups with the goal to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 21 weeks 8 hours 19 minutes ago
For many residents of this liberal bastion, President Bush's name is mud. Now activists here want to make that moniker stick.
A group calling itself the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco this week submitted a proposal to rename a local sewage treatment plant after the outgoing...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 9 weeks 2 days 15 hours 12 minutes ago
Warning on lead fallout at gun clubs
For 40 years on clear mornings, avid shooters have turned out at the Petaluma Trap and Skeet Club for the sport of popping away at clay pigeons hurled into the air.
The western Sonoma County range looks idyllic with hawks and...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 19 weeks 4 days 13 hours 25 minutes ago
A lot of us think of green living as conscious living - being aware of where our food, energy and products come from, how they were grown or made, where they will go and how they will be handled when their useful lives are over.
But an...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Green Living 44 weeks 4 days 22 hours 37 minutes ago
Environmental group Greenpeace said on Saturday its anti-whaling ship, which has been harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, had saved an estimated 100 whales but was running low on fuel and would return to port.
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Green Living 8 weeks 4 days 7 hours 14 minutes ago
Well, here we are at the beginning of the Not-So-Great Depression. After years of living beyond our means and having too much on our plates, now we will have just enough - if we're lucky.
Whether the current economic downturn lasts five years or 20, it will...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 19 weeks 1 day 8 hours 42 minutes ago
SolarCity, California's No. 1 residential solar power company, today announced one of the nation's most affordable solar power financing options for San Francisco residents. SolarCity's SolarLease options incorporate incentives from San Francisco's groundbreaking GoSolarSF program, and can allow many San Francisco homeowners to use clean, renewable...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 22 weeks 3 days 14 hours 18 minutes ago
As forecasters take that possibility more seriously, they describe fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time.
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Green Living 21 weeks 2 days 1 hour 26 minutes ago
If I hadn't taken the train, I'd never have learned how to say "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" in Italian. Or had a Louisiana Cajun explain how to boil crawfish. Or met a veteran flight attendant who'd rather travel by rail.
I also wouldn't have gotten a...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 31 weeks 1 hour 19 minutes ago
Consumers in the United States and Britain are not only aware of global warming and threats to the environment, but are also worried about it and taking steps to change the way they live and what they buy as a result.
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 66 weeks 2 days 14 hours 12 minutes ago
Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food on individual farms in developing countries, as low-intensive methods on the same land—according to new findings which refute the long-standing claim that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population.
Researchers from...(more)
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