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Dog Food, Spinach, Peanut Butter, Pork & Chickens

seajane says it here
Now it is fish too.
When I lived in Florida during the fruit fly infestation, malathion was dumped by airplanes all over the state to save the Orange crop with no consideration about the effect on us humans. Orange juice profits are more important than human life right?
I’ve had allergy problems ever [...]

Al Gore: 15 ways to avert a climate crisis

http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/ALGORE_high.flv

Thanks to seajane


Global Warming Slide Show

[ May 3, 2007; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] GLOBAL WARMING SLIDE SHOW
THURS, MAY 3
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Michael Servetus UU Fellowship
4505 East 18th St., Vancouver

Jill Sughrue, a sustainability consultant and volunteer with the Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) will give a slide presentation about climate change. She recently received training from Al Gore with the Climate Project in Nashville, Tenn. [...]

Blue Fund outperforms market - first 6 months

The Blue Fund is celebrating its 6 month anniversary! We are glad that you continue to be interested in Blue investing, and we’re excited to share some of our most recent good news with you.
The Blue Fund outperformed market benchmarks in first 6 months.
Both The Blue Large Cap Fund and The Blue Small Cap Fund [...]

The Corny Alternative Fuel Hoax

I remember first hearing about ethanol as a possible way of buying more time for our SUV, drive-through lifestyle and had my own doubts. Sounds like more people are, too:
Exposing the Corn-Based Ethanol Hoax as a Solution to Peak Oil
Corn lobby’s tall tale of a gas substitute America is swooning over ethanol, the renewable fuel [...]

National Day of Climate Action

[ April 14, 2007; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Rally, Speeches & Live Music
Vancouver, WA

April 14, 2007 01:00PM to 03:00PM
Event Description:
Please attend a rally in Esther Short park. We will have speeches on global warming, conservation and information on how you can make a difference. Music will be provided by Pete Dubois’, the Recycleman and the Dumpster Divers. Come and enjoy his lively music [...]

Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Wins Oscar

For those of you who don’t watch the Oscars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5HwrqF1O4


It really is simple

From Dave Johnson of the blog, Seeing the Forest
Here are some things going on in the real world:
Those people in Iraq are D.E.A.D.
That national debt is Money. That. We. Owe.
Houses and buildings Will. Be. Under. Water. from global warming.
Every single day that the posturing continues more people die in Iraq, more carbon goes into the [...]

The Politics of Ethanol

Many people, including scientists and some big companies believe that we are running out of oil. What oil there is, is located mostly in very hostile environments. One possible alternative to oil is ethanol. Lately, there has been a high demand for ethanol. Even U.S. President George W. Bush said “We must continue investing in [...]

Our gringo government and Chavez

Is it just me or is there something missing in this story?
Venezuela’s Chavez says “gringos go to hell”
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday told the U.S. government to “go to hell” after it questioned his plan to seek special powers to legislate by decree as part of his self-styled socialist revolution.
Chavez, a [...]

Christian Coalition leader quits over political split

Interesting…:
WASHINGTON - The president-elect of the Christian Coalition announced yesterday that he was stepping down, saying the religious group appeared to balk at his proposals to focus on environmental and anti-poverty issues rather than on purely “moralistic” issues such as abortion.
The Rev. Joel C. Hunter, who was scheduled to take office Jan. 1, said his [...]

Fast Food Nation (trailer)

A must see flick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPYbFCLZ5o