Cartoonist Group | By Joel Pett
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Why Is Mainstream Media Faking a Climate Scandal When There’s Real Reporting to Be Done?
By Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. Posted December 10, 2009. This story was written by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald. As delegates from countries across the globe gather at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world is waiting to see if international leaders will [...]
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Nicholas Kristof’s Advice for Saving the World
What would happen if aid organizations and other philanthropists embraced the dark arts of marketing spin and psychological persuasion used on Madison Avenue? We’d save millions more lives. By Nicholas D. Kristof | Outside Online | December 2009 In 2004, I visited the Darfur area three times, trying to bear witness to the slaughter of [...]
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Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Damn Good
GIZMODO | By Wilson Rothman | December 7, 2009 A Two-Horse Race Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the market besides Nook and Kindle. Unless you plan to get all of your books from back-alley torrents, or stick to self-published and out-of-copyright PDFs, you are going to need a reader with a good content-delivery [...]
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Will Big Business Save the Earth?
The New York Times | by By JARED DIAMOND | December 5, 2009 THERE is a widespread view, particularly among environmentalists and liberals, that big businesses are environmentally destructive, greedy, evil and driven by short-term profits. I know — because I used to share that view. But today I have more nuanced feelings. Over the [...]
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Can Anyone Stop Facebook?
Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t … By Farhad ManjooPosted Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, at 5:20 PM ET Nearly a year ago—in the course of cajoling people into joining the ubiquitous social network—I marveled at Facebook’s astonishing growth rate: The site had just signed up its 150 millionth member, and about 370,000 people were joining every day. [...]
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Green homes red-hot: 17% of new builds get Energy Star seal
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, December 4, 2009 The home building industry is struggling, but one sector is booming: green homes. The number of homes winning the government’s Energy Star designation since the program began in 1995 has crossed the 1 million mark. Despite an overall housing slump, 75,000 have been added so far this [...]
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Study: Chemicals, pollutants found in newborns
SFGate | Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer | Thursday, December 3, 2009 Chemicals from cosmetics, perfumes and other fragrances were detected along with dozens of other industrial compounds in the umbilical cords of African American, Asian and Latino infants in the United States, according to a national study released Wednesday. Stacy Malkan wrote a book [...]
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A kinder, gentler abortion compromise
SFGate | by Al Lewis | Wednesday, December 2, 2009 The abortion issue threatens to drive a fatal wedge into the Democratic Senate bloc favoring health care reform, just as it nearly did in the House of Representatives. But it’s possible to keep intact the strongly held principles of anti-abortion and pro-choice members of Congress [...]
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Five eco-crimes we commit every day
New Scientist |01 December 2009 | by Dave S. Reay Coffee + Toilet Paper + Fast Fashion + Laundry + Food Wastage WHEN the UN Climate Change Conference opens in Copenhagen next month, all eyes will be on the delegates’ efforts to broker a deal that will prevent catastrophic global warming. Yet amid all the [...]