This has got to be the quote of the day, if not week, month or year. Kim Barrett Johnson on Facebook referring to Rush Limbaugh’s claim, “exercise freaks … are the ones putting stress on the health care system.”
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Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | November 13, 2009
PLAYA GRANDE, Costa Rica — This resort town was long known forLeatherback Sea Turtle National Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. So Kaja Michelson, a Swedish tourist, arrived with high expectations. “Of course we’re hoping to see turtles — that [...]
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‘Selfish’ Giving: Does It Count If You Get In Return?
by TOVIA SMITH | NPR | December 22, 2009
It’s been taught to generations that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” But how blessed is it when you give in order to receive?
This time of year, charity is everywhere: Starbucks is helping to fight AIDS in Africa. Macy’s is giving to the Make [...]
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Long Shadows of an Economy and a War
By STEPHEN HOLDEN | The New York Times | December 18, 2009
IS it coincidence that “Up in the Air” and “The Messenger” — the two films that best captured a sense of what it was really like to live in the United States the year the bottom almost fell out — focus on men whose [...]
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Acid oceans: the ‘evil twin’ of climate change
By JOHN HEILPRIN | ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER | SEATTLE PI | DECEMBER 18, 2009
MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, Calif. — Far from Copenhagen’s turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of this protected marine area stand to gain from any global deal to cut [...]
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B.C.’s old-growth forests being systematically destroyed: report
BY JUDITH LAVOIE | VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST | DECEMBER 13, 2009
VICTORIA — The old-growth forests of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast are Canada’s most valuable weapon in the battle against climate change, but they are being systematically destroyed, says a new report from Sierra Club B.C., to be released Sunday.
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Solar conference: Here comes the sun and renewable energy
‘Community solar park’: State hopes Ellensburg idea takes off
LEAH BETH WARD | YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | December 13, 2009
ELLENSBURG – Gary Nystedt was brainstorming with a group of colleagues at a solar energy conference a few years ago when the idea hit him.
What if Ellensburg put up solar panels in a park and invited residents to [...]
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Cleaners ‘worth more to society’ than bankers – study
By Martin Shankleman | Employment correspondent, BBC News | December 14, 2009
Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests.
The research, carried out by think tank the New Economics Foundation, says hospital cleaners create £10 of value for every £1 they are paid.
It claims bankers are a drain on the country because [...]
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The 7 foods experts won’t eat
by Liz Vaccariello, Editor-in-Chief, PREVENTION (via SHINE), on Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:15am PST
How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them [...]
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Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.