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Notable quotable
"Listen, I'm skinny but I'm tough."
-- Barack Obama as quoted in a Wall Street Journal article that questions if he is too fit to be president.
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Trash becomes treasure for this freegan
We’ve written about freegans many times before, but this video shows exactly what kind of treasures are sometimes thrown out with the trash:
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Snippets from the news
• U.K. is delusional that it’s cutting emissions. • Canada releases climate change report, denies playing it down. • Lawsuit brought in Everglades, sugar deal. • Brazil launches fund to preserve Amazon. • Aral Sea restoration a “partial success.” • Lakota radio station installs wind turbine.
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Common, EPA-OK’d insecticides causing health problems
More than a quarter of all significant pesticide-related health problems reported to the U.S. EPA in 2007 involved a class of insecticides deemed safe by the agency, says a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. Naturally occurring pyrethrins and their synthetic counterpart, pyrethroids, have been touted as safe alternatives to nasty organophosphates. In […]
