Category Archives: communities

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Getting accustom to moderate to exceptional drought

2012-9-14 – 2:58 pm

For comparison, “just 21.47 percent of the lower 48 states was drought free, which is down from 56.53 percent at the same time in 2011.”

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Take a stand against corporate funding of voter suppression

2012-9-2 – 9:24 am

Now some of America’s biggest companies, like Duke Energy, are helping the right wing to stop people of color, young people, and seniors from voting in order to help Republicans get elected.

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Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could

2012-7-27 – 2:08 pm

“unlike financial fraud or terrorist attacks,” (the Robber Barons, which decide what and what is not terrorism, want you to believe that “climate change does not register, emotionally, as a wrong that demands to be righted.”

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300,000 in Quebec demonstrate against climate change

2012-5-25 – 4:06 pm

People demonstrated peacefully with a strong message: “We are the citizens and this is our land. We get to decide what to do.”

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Americans Say ‘Yes’ to Clean Energy, ‘No’ To Fracking Without Safeguards

2012-5-24 – 1:54 pm

One of six respondents wanted to “ban fracking altogether because it’s not safe for the environment.”

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Community Scale Solar Power

2011-8-19 – 8:52 am

Let’s get building those Fibonacci sequence solar PV power plants

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From Gulf Stream to Gasland

2010-6-26 – 2:21 pm

New business opportunities, nicely packaged proposals with the proper amount of environmental consciousness, for the greater greed, er, good.

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The International Repercussions of the BP Oil Disaster

2010-6-14 – 7:15 pm

We have just begun to see the economic impact upon those that make their livelihood fishing the Gulf Stream waters

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The weight and length of the chain of coal cars

2009-12-22 – 3:32 pm

Daddy, why are they saying it’s O.K. to kill Nemo?

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Is that all you blighters can do?

2009-11-12 – 7:53 pm

Taken from blight, e.g., a bad case of the humans

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