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Wells Fargo:Lootin and Pollutin in Coal Country


Wells Fargo bank is funding coal companies that use a destructive resource extraction process known as mountaintop removal. Using dangerous explosive   read more

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The Houston environmental magnet school that's an environmental catastrophe


Climb into Juan Parras' rickety Jeep Cherokee, and he'll show you around the neighborhood. He calls it his “toxic tour.” Parras lives in Houston’s Ea   read more
Location: Houston, Texas

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Volunteer for Barton Creek Greenbelt Trail Improvements on April 14th


As part of the city-wide “It’s My Park! Day" event on April 14, we are joining the Greenbelt Guardians to work on two of the Barton Creek trail...   read more
Location: Austin, Texas

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Fluorescent Light Bulbs Can Be Costly - Over $2000 if You Break One!


How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour -- unless you break the bulb. Then yo   read more

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The Property Cops: Homeowner Associations Ban Eco-Friendly Practices


People rarely confront HOAs directly over clothesline rules; most either conform or covertly disobey. Alice lives in the Lakeside subdivision in Aust   read more

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A Crime to Produce Power from Wind? Current House Bill Proposes Just That


Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) in the House Natural Resources Committee has introduced a bill to make it a crime to produce energy from wind turbines.   read more
Location: USA

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Survival Among the Ruins


How is it that Jim Crace, an English novelist, and our own Cormac McCarthy sat down at about the same time to write novels about a blistered, disinte   read more

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Moguls and Misanthropes


SNOW JOB?Sing along now.

Oh the dazzling flakes and the slopes that snake, on the Big Mock Candy Mountain

Where the bluebirds sing and   read more

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Don't Stop Believing


Renegade Bloggers Besiege the Southern Baptist Convention.   read more

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Democrats Kiss Up to K Street


Democrats who were sent to Congress in the tide-turning election of 2006 are selling out the economic populism that got them elected in the first place.   read more

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