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• Are Green Smartphone Apps a Waste of Time?

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 126
  Do you need a smartphone app for going green? I suppose you may also argue, do you need a blog for going green? Let me answer that second question first! No, you don’t absolutely need to read a green living blog, but many people (including me) find it inspirational. It’s easier to make strides in your green ...
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• The essentials for true healthcare reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  It’s important not to lose sight of a few crucial details that must be included in any final healthcare reform bill if change is really going to become a reality. This is the focus of a post on Arianna Huffington’s blog today and a few key points are worth mentioning. She writes:Amidst the tea leaf [...]
  3 days ago

• EU manufacturer fined €11.5m for price fixing

  
  TameBay — Authority: 135
  The German competition regulators have fined a contact lens manufacturer €11.5 million for trying to restrict the price their products were sold for on eBay. Reports are that the manufacturer, CIBA Vision, had spies checking prices on eBay and reporting sellers that were selling at less than RRP. Sellers who ...
  5 days ago

• What’s Antimony? Zhu Zhu Toy Hamster Concerns.

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 126
  You may remember antimony from chemistry class. It’s the ole “Sb” on the periodic table of elements. Yes, it’s toxic with known ill health effects, especially to the lungs and heart. Yet, antimony is allowed to a degree in toys as a flame retardant. GoodGuide.com has really stirred the shopping pot by ...
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• Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 156
  You might feel like access to online video clips is one of those “inalienable rights” you hear so much about. The Internet of 2009 is awash in video content, from your favorite Seinfeld episodes to homemade videos of cats playing the piano—and everything in between. And you can get the material you’re looking ...
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• Baby goods shop shut down by bully boy brands

  
  TameBay — Authority: 135
  eBay are featured in the Sunday Times today highlighting restrictive trade practices by manufacturers who restrict how retailers can sell and price their products. Highlighted is online retailer “ Baby Zoop ” who have been forced to close their business “due to the illegal price fixing by the major pushchair ...
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• GoodSearch or GoodShop Your Picks

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 126
  Go to Goodsearch.com and raise money for your favorite charity just by searching the Internet! The list of participating nonprofits is seemingly endless, but you can just type in the name and click “verify” to see if your favorite charity participates. The environment category includes nonprofits like your ...
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• Achieving universal healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianAnyone who has read my posts knows I believe there is a great deal this country can learn from the experience of other countries and our own states when it comes to  confronting the conundrum of expanding health insurance coverage. We may not agree with ...
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• Fun BPA-free Storage Container for Food

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 126
  I’ve been using glass Pyrex BPA-free storage containers for my leftovers. (Yes, the lid is BPA-free as well.) I don’t have any real complaints with them other than the fact that replacement lids can be difficult to find. But, you know, the Pyrex containers just aren’t as beautiful as the chipper green ...
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• The hospital that could cure healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianIf you want a better understanding of the business practices going on at the Cleveland Clinic, you should take a look at a recent Newsweek article. It is titled “The hospital that could cure healthcare.” The article discusses many strategies the ...
  2 weeks ago

• eBay fined a further €1.7m by French in LVMH case

  
  TameBay — Authority: 135
  The French Commercial Courts have fined eBay €1.7 million Euros (about $2.55 million) for failing to comply with a 2008 injunction to block French eBay users from buying or selling LVMH Group perfumes and cosmetics on any eBay website. eBay say that they have done their utmost to respect the injunction and block ...
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• Mammogram recommendation makes sense

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto HealthI know that there are varying opinions on the latest mammogram screening guidelines released last week and I appreciate the sensitivity surrounding the issue.I realize there is concern from some, especially from women who may be worried about their health or who have a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Buy Nothing Day 2009

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 126
  Here’s your chance to participate by not participating. Buy Nothing Day is a 24-hour moratorium on consumer spending. It’s a way of speaking out against the toxic culture that constantly says we need more stuff. It’s revolting against excessive commercialism. It’s staying home on Black Friday. November 27 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Phthalate Study Linking ADHD

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 126
  Phthalates may be included in perfume, vinyl floors, furniture, nail polish, personal care items, medical equipment, car interiors, adhesives, paint and many things made of PVC . They’ve been in use around 50 years to make plastics softer and more flexible. Until recently, the chemical group was also used in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clinic with two doors – one for patients paying cash, the other for those with insurance

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  On Manhattan’s Upper East Side an imaging center exists and patients may not know it, but there are two doors. One door is for patients who are paying cash - a concierge type set-up. The other door is for patients covered by insurance.The investigative report can be read on MSNBC’s Web site. Just click here.The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kerry, Grassley Voice Concerns Over Multiple Station Ownership t...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Senators cite Raycom shared services agreement in Honolulu, say consumer choice...
  3 weeks ago

• HR 778 IH…The fresh milk bill no one talks about

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 137
  By: Marti Oakley  All rights reserved  It would appear earlier this year Rep. Ron Paul (R) Texas, introduced this simple bill into the record of the House.  Here we are in Mid-November, eleven months later……and not one co-sponsor or any action has been taken on this bill.  It is sitting idle in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Voters will no longer be told what to do

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Politicians have made the startling discovery that there is a new generation of adults for whom choice is a birthright and a way of life says Janet Daley
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