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Incandescent Light Bulb Hoarder Confesses the Error of His Ways : TreeHugger

Seeded on Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:23 PM EDT (TreeHugger)

A self-professed environmentalist confesses that he has been hoarding incandescent bulbs for months, in anticipation of the "light bulb ban" -- before realizing the error, and utter ridiculousness, of his doing so.

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11 U.S. Cities With the Worst Air Pollution

Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:14 PM EDT ()

Seeded by krishna-167929

Air has gotten cleaner in recent years. But more than half of people in the U.S. still breathe air dirty enough to cause health problems, according to an American Lung Association (ALA) report.

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Q&A;: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis

Seeded on Sat Jul 9, 2011 4:29 PM EDT (Wired News)

Seeded by krishna-167929

Bill Gates, head of charity, is every bit as brilliant and hyperrational as Bill Gates, head of Microsoft, ever was.

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Online Climate Explored at Google

Seeded on Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:28 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by multifariousone

Scientific Agreement: While approximately 97% of publishing climate scientists agree that climate change is occurring and that it is caused primarily by human activities, this high level of scientific agreement is understood by only 44 percent of the Alarmed, 18 percent of the C …

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Bill Would Stop Regulation of Pesticide Use Near Water - Blog - OpenCongress

Seeded on Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:38 PM EDT (OpenCongress,org)

Seeded by Pamela Drew

For anyone unsure Congress protects profits over lives, human health and the environemt, take a look at the move to stop tracking toxins in our water!! From OpenCongress.org...

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Supreme Court says EPA, not federal judges, is responsible for regulating greenhouse gases

Seeded on Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:35 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Seeded by SuperSaiyan

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously shut down a huge global-warming lawsuit in which states asked the federal courts to regulate polluting power plants.

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Anonymous Citizens of the World Unite Against Monsanto

Seeded on Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:39 AM EDT (YouTube)

Seeded by Pamela Drew

In 1994 Congress granted petrochemical companies the right to feed the people of America genetically engineered foods without human health testing or labeling for consumers to know what they're swallowing.

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