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• in Politics
  The Controversial KKK Looks to Adopt a Highway
  Why can't the Ku Klux Klan adopt a highway?
  by kdbarclay / on Jun 30, 2012
• in Green
  Toronto's New Law To Enforce Green Roofs
  Should cities enforce the public to install green roofs over their property?
  by azraiel / on Apr 14, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Passive Smoking: Anti-Smoking Legislation
  Smoking in cars with children on board
  by ethelsmith / on Feb 6, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “pollution”

 

• Allergy symptoms can be triggered by infections, even by changes in the weather

  
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  April showers bring May flowers — and for many people, congestion, sneezing and itchy, runny eyes. But sometimes those symptoms, even in the spring, don’t stem from plant and tree pollen but from dust mites and pet dander. And at least a third of people who think they have allergies actually have a condition known ...
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• Lessons from Kokeshs kidnapping

  
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  If you can be kidnapped ("arrested") for- and charged with- "assaulting an officer" or for "resisting arrest" when you have clearly done neither , why not fight the cops like your very life depends on it? Because it does , you know. .
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• 5 Ways To Talk With Conservatives About Climate Change

  
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  By Laura Michelle Burns In a survey by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies of 726 Republicans or Republican-leaning Independents, it was found that a slim majority of the participants (52%) believe that climate change is real. As a Conservative Republican, this statistic makes me sad because it ...
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• Salmon & Trout Association reports Sainsbury’s to Advertising Standards – and gets apology

  
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  The Salmon and Trout Association Scotland (S&TAS) today, 20th May, filed a formal complaint against Sainsbury’s over the supermarket’s erroneous claims concerning the geographic origin of and doubts over ‘responsible’ claims made for its Taste the Difference Scottish farmed salmon. The complaint was ...
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• Human-caused damage to environment impacts global water

  
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  WNN Earth Watch (WNN/VOA) Bonn, GERMANY, WEST EUROPE: Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun where humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers more than 11,000 years ago. Scientists are meeting in Bonn, Germany May ...
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• Clean energy in Colorado needs Governor Hickenloopers leadership

  
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  Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco   Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s signature on SB 252 to improve and expand the amount of renewable energy that utilities must ...
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• Living in China? What do you do about food safety/pollution?

  
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  Just now I opened my latest ZGBriefs China news digest and found: “Rat meat and Chinese food safety” and “20 million taps (and not a drop to drink)” . Right as I sat to down to write this post I also checked my Weixin ( 微信 – a Chinese social media thing). At the top of my feed was a post about ...
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• Hey Tourists, Guess Who’s Responsible For ‘Dirty’ Mexican Water?

  
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  A resort in Riveria Nayarit, Mexico. Reports indicate that despite tourists’ common complaint that Mexico’s disease-ridden waterways are merely the result of an essentially “unsanitary” nation, the pollution in question comes from U.S.-headquartered corporations. (Photo/Grand Velas Resort via Flickr) When ...
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• Your Voice Matters

  
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  Image courtesy of jeff_golden/Flickr . In a previous post, “Hold the Straw, and Other Tips for a Humane and Sustainable Life,” I wrote about my frustration every time I receive a straw in my glass of water at a restaurant. I just can’t understand why restaurants would choose to use a single-use, ...
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• Your Voice Matters

  
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  Image courtesy of jeff_golden/Flickr . In a previous post, “Hold the Straw, and Other Tips for a Humane and Sustainable Life,” I wrote about my frustration every time I receive a straw in my glass of water at a restaurant. I just can’t understand why restaurants would choose to use a single-use, ...
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• Toxic

  
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  by Maria Luci Running through western Indonesia, The Citarum River plays an important roll in the lives of those who live along its banks. Almost five million reside in the river’s basin, and its waters support locals through agriculture, fishing, cooking and bathing. It’s also one of the most polluted rivers ...
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• Climate resilience: Deconstructing the new buzzword

  
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  Defining resilience goes a long way to understanding what to put under the umbrella of climate resiliency. 
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• Adam Kokeshs arrest

  
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  I am not an advocate of using institutionalized kidnapping- euphemistically called " arrest " when committed by people who work for "government"- to remove "undesirables" from society.  But when that kidnapping is used against a person who wasnt doing anything wrong it is even more disgusting. It doesnt matter ...
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• Hong Kong launches first electric taxis

  
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  Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. The 45 bright red cars were launched by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD, which is partly backed by US investment titan Warren Buffett. Called the BYD e6, the five-door ...
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• How to be a little greener

  
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  We all leave a footprint on the world, just by being alive we contribute to environmental degradation. No matter what you do, you can’t eliminate your effect (offset it maybe) on the world, but you can minimise it. In this article I am going to look at some very simple things you can do to reduce the impact you ...
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• Radioactive Goldfish Discovered At Ohio Nuclear Power Plant

  
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  No word on an eye count.  Russia Today reports: Two radioactive goldfish were found swimming in a juice pitcher of nuclear reactor water in an underground steam tunnel at an Ohio power plant. Investigators are baffled as to how the radioactive fish remained unnoticed in the ‘secure’ facility. Investigators ...
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• US Interior Department Weakens Fracking Rules

  
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  Article from EcoWatch , May 16, 2013 The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing , on public lands today. The controversial oil and gas development technique—in which drillers blast millions of gallons of ...
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• The Kokesh armed march

  
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  (Note- Because I write almost everything at least a day in advance, so that I can have it post early for you to read with your morning coffee, I wrote this before his "arrest" [kidnapping] at the Smoke Down Prohibition V event.  The "arrest" changes nothing about what Ive written below.) It seems everyone is ...
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• Climbing Mount Everest

  
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  Mountain ClimbingSo, you want to climb Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak at 29,028 ft (8,848 m)? Youre not alone; about 4,000 climbers have made the trek to Everest in the last 60 years, since Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, conquered the mountain on May 29, 1953—60 years ago.Climbing ...
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• Revealed: the millions of metallic particles inhaled on the Glasgow subway

  
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  from Sunday Herald, 19 May 2013 Environmentalists are demanding urgent investigations intoair pollution on the Glasgow subway after a snapshot survey by the SundayHerald’s New Era magazine discovered that passengers were breathing in tens of millionsof tiny metallic particles that might damage their health. ...
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