It's been a long journey

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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing
to ourselves and to one another.
~Gandhi
environmentalsciences.homestead.com/carbonsinks.html
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Open Society Institute
soros.org
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Worms bear sludge load
by Naomi Lubick 2/20/8
Researchers find that perfumes and drugs bioconcentrate in earthworms collected from soils treated with biosolids and manure.
pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2008/feb/science/nl_earthworms.html
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Earthworms in the coal mine
by Amanda Hanley 3/18/8
enviroblog.org/2008/03/earthworms-sludge-fertilizer.htm
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Initiative for Inclusive Security
womenwagingpeace.net
huntalternatives.org/pages/23_partnerships.cfm
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Search for Common Ground
www.sfcg.org
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Dems and repubs committing ecocide

They're all turkeys. I write-in voted for Kucinich.
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Another Automaton of the Atomic Lobby
Barack Obama's Nuclear Ambitions
by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank 7/4/7
mideastcenter.org/stclair07042007.html
...The purported solution to the imminent warming crisis, nuclear technology, is just as hazardous as our current methods of energy procurement. Al Gore, who wrote of the potential green virtues of nuclear power in his book Earth in the Balance, earned his stripes as a congressman protecting the interests of two of the nuclear industry's most problematic enterprises, the TVA and the Oak Ridge Labs. And, of course, Bill Clinton backed the Entergy Corporation's outrageous plan to soak Arkansas ratepayers with the cost overruns on the company's Grand Gulf reactor which provided power to electricity consumers in Louisiana.

The Clinton years indeed saw an all-out expansion of nuclear power, not only in the US, but all over the globe. First came the deal to begin selling nuclear reactors to China, announced during Jiang Zemin's 1997 visit Washington, even though Zemin brazenly vowed at the time not to abide by the so-called "full scope safeguards" spelled out in the International Atomic Energy Act. The move was apparently made over the objections of Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who cited repeated exports by China of "dual use" technologies to Iran, Pakistan and Iraq. The CIA also weighed in against the deal, pointing out in a report to the President that "China was the single most important supplier of equipment and technology for weapons of mass destruction" worldwide. In a press conference on the deal, Mike McCurry said these nuclear reactors will be "a lot better for the planet than a bunch of dirty coal-fired plants" and will be "a great opportunity for American vendors" -- that is, Westinghouse.

A day later Clinton signed an agreement to begin selling nuclear technology to Brazil and Argentina for the first time since 1978, when Jimmy Carter canceled a previous deal after repeated violations of safety guidelines and nonproliferation agreements.

In a letter to congress, Clinton vouched for the South American countries, saying they had made "a definitive break with earlier ambivalent nuclear policies." Deputy National Security Advisor Jim Steinberg justified the nuclear pact with Brazil and Argentina as "a partnership in developing clean and reliable energy supplies for the future." Steinberg noted that both countries had opposed binding limits on greenhouse emissions and that new nuclear plants would be one way "to take advantage of the fact that today we have technologies available for energy use which were not available at the time that the United States and other developed countries were going through their periods of development."

The atom lobby during the 1990s had a stranglehold on the Clinton administration and now they seem to have the same suffocating grip around the neck of...Barack Obama.

...To be sure small online donations have propelled the young senator to the top, but so too have his connections to big industry. The Obama campaign, as of late March 2007, has accepted $159,800 from executives and employees of Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power plant operator.

The Illinois-based company also helped Obama's 2004 senatorial campaign. As Ken Silverstein reported in the November 2006 issue of Harper's, "[Exelon] is Obama's fourth largest patron, having donated a total of $74,350 to his campaigns. During debate on the 2005 energy bill, Obama helped to vote down an amendment that would have killed vast loan guarantees for power-plant operators to develop new energy projects the public will not only pay millions of dollars in loan costs but will risk losing billions of dollars if the companies default."

"Senator Obama has all the necessary leadership skills required to be president,'' says Frank M. Clark, chairman of Exelon's Commonwealth Edison utility.

These gracious accolades come from one of Exelon's top executives, despite the fact that Obama proposed legislation in 2006 that would require nuclear plant operators to report any hazardous leaks. While introducing the legislation Obama noted the failure of Exelon to report a leak of radioactive tritium into groundwater near one of their Illinois plants. But the senator's criticism of nuclear power goes only so far.

During a Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works hearing in 2005, Obama, who serves on the committee, asserted that since Congress was debating the negative impact of CO2 emissions "on the global ecosystem, it is reasonable -- and realistic -- for nuclear power to remain on the table for consideration." Shortly thereafter, Nuclear Notes, the industry's top trade publication, praised the senator. "Back during his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2004, [Obama] said that he rejected both liberal and conservative labels in favor of 'common sense solutions.' And when it comes to nuclear energy, it seems like the Senator is keeping an open mind."

Sadly for the credibility of the atom lobby, some of their more eye-grabbing numbers don't check out. For example, as noted in a report by the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuke industry claims that the world's 447 nuclear plants reduce CO2 emissions by 30 percent. But the true villain behind global warming is carbon. Existing nuclear plants save only about 5 percent of total CO2 emissions, hardly a bargain given the costs and risks associated with nuclear power. Moreover, the nuclear lobby likes to compare its record to coal-fired plants, rather than renewables such as solar, wind, and geothermal. Even when compared to coal, atomic power fails the test if investments are made to increase the efficient use of the existing energy supply. One recent study by the Rocky Mountain Institute found that "even under the most optimistic cost projections for future nuclear electricity, efficiency is found to be 2.5 to 10 times more cost effective for CO2-abatement. Thus, to the extent that investments in nuclear power divert funds away from efficiency, the pursuit of a nuclear response to global warming would effectively exacerbate the problem."

Clearly Senator Obama recognizes the inherent dangers of nuclear technology and knows of the disastrous failures that plagued Chernobyl, Mayak and Three Mile Island. Yet, despite his attempts to alert the public of future toxic nuclear leaks, Obama still considers atomic power a viable alternative to coal-fired plants. The atom lobby must certainly be pleased.
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biblicalsecurity.org/php/opportunity.php
...A world without nuclear weapons is an idea whose time has come...
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Nuclear Threat Initiative
nti.org/e_research/profiles/USA/index.html
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antinewworldorder.blogspot.com
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author thinks composting is boring
antigreen.blogspot.com
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ecogaming
openthefuture.com/topsight
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the science of spirituality
globalonenessproject.org/videos/deanradinclip6
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digbysblog.blogspot.com
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informationclearinghouse.info/article19818.htm
...money must not become a commodity in itself to create more money...
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From
Better World Technologies:
Declaration of energy independence from the Department of Energy
bwt.jeffotto.com/declaration.htm
...Technologies exist that can eliminate all forms of pollution worldwide, and totally free the united States from any dependence upon foreign countries for its energy supply...
...agencies, in cooperation with the court system, have falsely imprisoned inventors and promoters of inventions for no reason other than that they discovered better ways to do things that were more practical than the already established technologies of the rich and powerful self interests. These public officials, corrupted by the rich self-interest groups, have abused their positions by using their power to protect the interests of the rich minority instead of the welfare of the people whom they were appointed to protect, by quashing competitive. practical innovations, that in many cases are vital to the happiness and welfare of We the People. Many inventors and promoters have been assassinated or imprisoned without the benefit of, or in some cases even the appearance of, due process of law, in order to prevent them from bringing their inventions to the marketplace...
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capitaleye.org
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alleghenyfront.org
environmental history project anecdote
To: kathy@alleghenyfront.org
About 1975 I saw on the Allegheny River North Side on the bank 2 barges docked side by side for long enough that the floating debris caught behind the 1 closest to the bank (which was a few feet farther down the river so that behind it was a backwash held in by the other barge) had grass growing out into the water nourished by the scum...the grass was undulating as it floated. This satisfied me that the industrial slowdown was allowing nature to take back...
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Overhaul of Agriculture Systems Needed
oaklandinstitute.org/?q=node/view/477
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksim_Square_massacre
...According to Kurtulus Turkish magazine,[19]Turkish CIA agent Hiram Abas, who "was closer than his own brother" to the CIA chief of station in Istanbul Duane 'Dewey' Clarridge,[20] was personally present on the May Day massacre. The Hotel International, from which the shots were fired, belonged to the ITT company, which had already been involved in financing the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in Chile and was on good terms with the CIA [18]. Hiram Abas had been trained in the US fin covert action operations and...
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greendrinks.org
biothinking.com/greendrinks/index.php?country=USA&city=Pittsburgh
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organic-center.org/res.science.html
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hide not yer light

Puttin it out there. We are filled with hope despite the enormity of the ensuing struggle.
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"When I am healed,
I am not healed alone."
-A Course in Miracles
innerharmony.com/thehonoring/ceremony.htm
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Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
ftpf.org
happynews.com/news/342008/fruitabu-fruit-tree-planting-foundation-launch-national-program.htm
...an international nonprofit charity dedicated to planting fruitful trees and shrubs to benefit communities, alleviate world hunger, combat global warming, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water...strategically donate orchards where the harvest will best serve individuals for generations to follow, at places such as public schools, homeless shelters, drug rehabs, low-income neighborhoods, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries...mission..featured in major publications such as The New York Times and The Hindu, benefits the environment, human health, and animal welfare at the same time...
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From interview of José Ramos-Horta
who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for his uncompromising and indefatigable work on behalf of the people of East Timor, brutally invaded by Indonesia in 1975:
speaktruthtopower.org/defend/profiles/profile_33.asp

...The late seventies were the darkest years in East Timor’s history: 200,000 people died because of weapons sold by the Americans. My own sister Maria was killed by a plane delivered to Indonesia two weeks before by the Carter administration. Those planes caused huge devastation in East Timor—my two brothers were also among the thousands killed. By the end of 1976–77, the Indonesian army was at a standstill. Because they never had a truly professional, disciplined army, they never expected such a huge resistance. They took thousands of casualties. If the U.S. had not intervened massively the Indonesian army probably would have been defeated militarily by the Timorese resistance force. So

the Carter policy made a difference with a massive injection of weapons to Indonesia that changed the balance of power and prolonged the war for twenty years...

...when the U.S. wants to use its power effectively for good, it can prevail. I am prepared to forgive the U.S. all sins of the past after this courageous leadership by Clinton.

Now you say this victory took courage, but I think more courage is required to be humble, to admit your mistakes, your sins, to be honest. More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms...
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From:
How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?
by Terrence McNally 4/2/8
http://www.alternet.org/environment/83032/

...stabilize climate and population, eradicate poverty, and restore the earth's damaged ecosystems. Failure to reach any one of these goals will likely mean failure to reach the others as well...
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http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/7951-how-to-create-an-angry-american
greenisthenewred.com
biz.yahoo.com/ap/080421/oil_prices.html
crimethinc.com
urbanfoodworks.org
zerofootprint.net
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National Environmental Education Foundation
neefusa.org
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survival in a cutthroat economy

To:	hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com

hazelwoodhomepage.com
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Responding to higher prices

With all the changes going on in the world, it would be easy to fall prey to fear. But I assume the universe runs on logic, that there is a reason for everything, so let's calmly assess the situation. Maybe we can see what it is we human beings are supposed to learn at this point in history.

First lesson I think is that there is a concrete connection between morality and material well-being. If we as a country, for instance, choose to go the way of the thief - stealing other countries' resources - the reaction of the world will be to designate us as an enemy and so will come a backlash. Isn't this what is happening now, with the dollar in decline and America the new bad guy in the eyes of the world? If we're being spanked right now, maybe it's because we need to wake up. We've forgotten that the heart of power is love. When the citizens of the United States stood up for justice and the victims of the world, our reputations went up. When we played the part of world pirates, using our superior technology and economic might to enslave others, our reputations and later power declined.

Sooner or later - and it might as well be now - we're going to have to face the fact that we continue to be a slave-holding nation. Oh, we made slavery illegal allright, but then many of our international businesspeople outsourced the slave business to other countries so as to avoid our laws and whitewash our consciences. Now we buy goods from overseas that have been made under labor conditions every bit as bad as those before the Emancipation Proclamation and the formation of the unions.

Pittsburgh's labor history is not well known. Working conditions were absolutely murderous until the unions fought their way into existence. And workers are going back to becoming more poorly treated in the United States now that the unions have lost a lot of their power.

Very little of how brutally factory workers are being treated in other parts of the world reaches our news media. There is a staggering number of people in the world who are being treated as nothing more than work animals - by factory owners skilled in hiding working conditions from traders (which allows the traders the illusion that the goods they buy are honestly come by). The international nature of business has allowed countries' laws to be subverted. There's little international ability to prosecute what goes on outside one's own nation. Too many large financial concerns - such as some corporations which have control of more money than most countries - have more power than morality and so are destroying the financial system.

Would you feel safer in a den of thieves or a church full of prayers? Well, Wall Street is not being treated as a sacred place. The financial system is imploding because too many people are gaming it.

We're going to suffer higher prices until we learn to rely more on ourselves. Locally grown food is one strategy the wiser are pushing. The costs of everything having to do with growing, processing, distribution, and marketing food are going up. So the end result is that, to the extent the consumer can become a "pro-sumer" - producing as much of what she or he consumes as possible - the price increases at the store can be managed. You don't have to buy what you produce yourself.

Working with those nearby doesn't necessarily have to involve money.
To the extent that we can work together with those around us - not worrying about translating every little good or service into it's dollar value - we can get things done without money. If a person has an ability to do something useful, think of that as money in the bank. Trade it with a neighbor, or even just give it away and don't be afraid to ask a neighbor when you need something. The best community is one where people help rather than fear each other, and that's a most efficient way of doing business.

Labor history professor Charles McCollester of Mt. Washington, who I would like to see as mayor someday, wants people to know of the following local labor history events:

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Monday April 28 – Worker’s Memorial Day

Market Square
11:30 AM – Crystal Eastman State Historical Marker unveiling
Noon: Worker’s Memorial Day Commemoration honoring all those who died
on the job during the past year. Keynote speakers: Rich Trumka,
Secretary-Treasurer AFL-CIO and Fred Redmond, Vice-President USW.
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IUP - 7:00 PM
An Evening with the Author
Dr. Devra Davis
Presentation and Book Signing
Author: The Secret History of the War on Cancer
When Smoke Ran Like Water (About the Donora Smog)
Eberly College of Business Auditorium, IUP - Free Admission
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Saturday May 3 – 1:30 PM
The Slave Ship
Marcus Rediker
Presentation and Book Signing
At the Pumphouse Waterfront Drive – Munhall PA
The Battle of Homestead Foundation
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Wednesday May 7 to Sunday May 11 - 8:30 PM
Gift to America
Maxo Vanka’s Murals
At St. Nicholas Church in Millvale
The dramatic murals at St. Nicholas are one of the most powerful
artistic expressions of American immigrant
and labor history in
America. The best known of the murals entitled “The Croatian Mother
raises her Sons for Industry” portrays a horrific mining accident in
the Johnstown area in which the family lost four sons. In a pair of
opposing murals, a Croatian family partakes of bread and soup with
Christ present, opposite the Capitalist who is reading a stock report
while being served a sumptuous dinner by a black servant with a
starving beggar at his feet.
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Saturday May 17 - 1:30 PM
Teaching Pittsburgh 250 – A Roundtable Discussion about Pittsburgh's 250th birthday
With Charles McCollester; Kate Daher, CAPA; Dave Fiore Pine-Richland:
Rich Williams, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial ; and others to be
confirmed
At the Pumphouse Waterfront Drive – Munhall PA
The Battle of Homestead Foundation
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Gift to America” play will highlight Vanka Murals at St. Nicholas Church

In celebration of Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary, actors and theatrical lighting will bring the murals of Maxo Vanka to life in the play “Gift to America,” which will run at 8:30 P.M., May 7-10 at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale.

The dramatic murals at St. Nicholas are one of the most powerful artistic expressions of American immigrant and labor history in America. The best known of the murals entitled “The Croatian Mother raises her Sons for Industry” portrays a horrific mining accident in the Johnstown area in which the family lost four sons. In a pair of opposing murals, a Croatian family partakes of bread and soup with Christ present, opposite the Capitalist who is reading a stock report while being served a sumptuous dinner by a black servant with a starving beggar at his feet.

The one-hour play is a conversation about the murals between Vanka and Father Albert Zagar, the priest who commissioned the murals. Two female characters also are a part of the dramatic reading, which will be accompanied by Tamburitzan music. Scripted by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Emeritus of English David Demarest, the play originally was staged in 1981. The murals described by Time magazine as “one of the few distinguished sets of murals in the U.S.,” depict the ravages of war and the sacrifices of immigrant workers in early 20th century industrial America. They also honor the congregation’s Croatian heritage and Christian faith. Vanka had recently immigrated when he began to paint the murals in 1937, and called them his “gift to America.”

The vivid imagery depicted on the walls and ceilings of the Millvale church reveal a passion that is both universal and uniquely Croatian. After seeing the murals, rock musician David Byrne of the Talking Heads called Vanka “the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh.”

The Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka is staging the play, and hopes to raise greater awareness of the murals. The performance will kick off a campaign to fund the illumination and preservation of the murals. The Labor Center at IUP is supporting the production with a grant.

Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door; no reservations or advances sales. For more information, call Diane Novosel at (724) 845-2907. www.vankamurals.org or vankamurals@aol.com

Love grows brains

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United Nations
Plant for the Planet
Billion Tree Campaign: Climate Neutral Strategy and catchments protection
unep.org/billiontreecampaign/CampaignNews/huruma.asp
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biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=1002
July 2006
...A team of students from Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., recently won the U.S. EPA’s 2006 P3 award for its work on biodiesel and sustainability....stands for People, Prosperity and the Planet...
“Closing the Biodiesel Loop: Self-Sustaining Community-Based Biodiesel Production,”
a closed-loop demonstration system of manufacturing biodiesel using solar thermal heating; wastewater bio-remediation; a passive, solar greenhouse; methanol recovery; soap making; and composting...
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rootsofempathy.org/WhatStu.html
...it is through experiences, delivered through senses that the...brain grows. If these experiences are delivered through the lens of a loving relationship, the...brain will grow...
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seedsofempathy.org
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bio-based materials:
From
National Non-Food Crops Centre
http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/metadot/index.pl?id=2377;isa=Category;op=show
...Plastics can be made out of oils from crops we grow, as well as from fossil fuels out of the ground...
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peoplesgeography.com
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From:

GM cornucopia for biofuels

by Jon Evans 3/28/8
http://www.biofpr.com/view/MTAzOTk3L0FSLzUxL251bGw%3D/featureDetail.html
"...GM crops have helped US farmers to increase ..."
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market-ticker.denninger.net/2008/04/ppi-up-yours-ben.html
"...All who either participated in or willfully looked the other way at the fraud of the last eight years must be prosecuted...
...A shutdown of "burn our food" - that is, repudiation of ethanol in fuel tanks. That should be banned, not mandated..."
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fossil fuel free food
i-sis.org.uk/foodFutures.php
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How Republicans Quietly Hijacked the Justice Department to Swing Elections
by Steven Rosenfeld 4/15/8.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/82348/
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bugs (microbes) to the rescue
earththesequel.edf.org
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[bamboozler turf - supermarkets]
Cracking the produce codes
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/forecastearth/25/cracking-the-produce-codes.html
by Jay Weinstein 4/11/8
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Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday
http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup
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studentsforademocraticsociety.org
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Biofuels nothing short of disaster

Environmentalists to blame as emissions worsen, world's poor starve

by Lorne Gunter 4/13/8

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=7ac33c22-ff7f-4108-a61f-a24757c61776

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Why Costs Are Climbing
As food prices surge, starvation looms for millions. Experts call for emergency action but admit there's no quick fix
by Eric Reguly 4/12/8
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19725.htm
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impactpress.com/links/impactlk.htm
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direct democracy for people-powered politics
mydd.com
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Chemical Industry Archives
chemicalindustryarchives.org
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From:
Some Good News on Food Prices
by Kim Severson 4/2/8
organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11364.cfm
...As the price of fossil fuels and commodities like grain climb, nutritionally questionable, high-profit ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup will, too...
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gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/global-gridlock-how-the-us-military-industrial-complex-seeks-to-contain-and-control-the-earth-and-its-eco-system
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http://twr.mobrien.com/articles/research/weapons_of_mass_destruction-BZ.htm
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The World According to Monsanto
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-842180934463681887&q=the+world+according+to+monsanto&total=5&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
"...Roundup's toxicity was hidden to protect the development of gmo's "genetically modified organisms"
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heyokamagazine.com
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Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
A Futuristic Nightmare That Just Might Come True
by Nick Turse 3/1/8
TomDispatch.com
billtotten.blogspot.com/2008/04/weaponizing-pentagons-cyborg-insects.html
informationliberation.com/?id=25075
gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/weaponizing-the-pentagons-cyborg-insects
Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it could be a reality, if a current Pentagon project comes to fruition.

Right now, researchers are already growing insects with electronics inside them. They're creating cyborg moths and flying beetles that can be remotely controlled. One day, the US military may field squadrons of winged insect/machine hybrids...
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Carter Center's agriculture program increasing food production
cartercenter.org/countries/burkina_faso.html
...phosphate-rock-enriched compost pits...
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Unitarians Universalists for Justice in the Middle East
oxfam

http://www.againstthewal.com/Mar%2007.htm
http://www.climatemanual.org/Cities/downloads/ClimateProtectionManual_Cities.pdf

Maida Springer-Kemp
http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001051.html
http://web.mac.com/babais/Site/pamealroughedit1.html
http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001051.html
Pollutants destroying flowers' aromas

ironweedfilms.com/our_partners

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Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
cseti.org/relatedlinks.htm
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Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies & the Economy

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"The Real Dirt on Farmer John"

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"Secret World of Gardens: Honey Bees"

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"My Father's Garden"

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"Net Loss: The Storm Over Salmon Farming"

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National Labor Committee
www.nlcnet.org
"putting a human face on the global economy"
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David Eson from Isidore Foods
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Global Forum on Agricultural Research
egfar.org/egfar/website/webring/partnerwebsites
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International Centre for Underutilised Crops
icuc-iwmi.org/our_partners.htm
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From:
Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
by Neil Mackay 9/15/2
informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm
...The PNAC [Project for a New American Century] report...:
...hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological weapons - which the nation has banned - in decades to come. It says: 'New methods of attack - electronic, 'non-lethal', biological - will be more widely available...combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes...advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool'...
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environmental charter school at Frick
groups.yahoo.com/group/pghenvironmentalcharter/links
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Engineers Without Borders
ewb-international.org/resources.htm
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retool.wordpress.com

Engineers Without Borders, on "The Role of Engineers in Poverty Reduction." More on his work on sustainability and engineering at http://www.edc-cu.org/profileamadei.htm
(7) April 17: Safe at Home: Living Without Pesticides is the first in a series of educational workshops exploring your health and the environment (inspired by the Women's Health and the Environment conference held last year) (6-7:30 p.m. at the Carnegie Science Center, free). For more info and to register, go to More Info >

(8) April 19: Earth Day at Frick Environmental Center. A fun community festival featuring bird walks, an owl encounter, live local entertainment, tabling by local environmental organizations, nature crafts, and stewardship activities including tree planting and a Garlic Mustard Pull (10-4, free). For more information or to volunteer, contact Patty Himes at 412-422-6538 or patricia.himes@city.pittsburgh.pa.us .

(9) Sierra Club's Environmental Film Festival, Part II. Films include Deconstructing Supper: Is your food safe?, Polar Bear Tour with Chad Kister, Great Bear Rain Forest, The Crabs, the Birds and the Bay: Spring miracle on Delaware Bay, and the (multi-Emmy) award-winning Natural Connection. (6-10 p.m. in Botany Hall, that small but grand building adjacent to Phipps Conservatory.)

(10) April 24: An introduction to cohousing by Chuck Durrett, coauthor of the seminal book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves -- and largely responsible for bringing cohousing to this country. (6:30 in 203 Margaret Morrison Hall at CMU; free.) For information on the local effort to create a cohousing community (and more on coho as well), check out http://www.pittsburghcohousing.org/ .

(11) April 29: "Local Living Economies: Green, Fair, and Fun" The Local Living Economies and Urban Farming lecture series concludes with Judy Wicks, founder of Philadelphia's Sustainable Business Network, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE, www.livingeconomies.org/ ), and the White Dog Café. Wicks is probably best known for establishing The White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her Philadelphia home in 1983. As the restaurant grew, so did her notion that the strength of her business relied upon the quality and sustainability of its locally grown ingredients. Envisioning how strengthening relationships among independent, community-rooted enterprises could inspire broad and profound cultural change, Wicks joined the Social Venture Network and co-founded the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in 2001, She is currently writing a book about the White Dog Café and local living economies called Good Morning, Beautiful Business. 5-6:30 in the Connan Room in CMU's University Center.

(12) April 30: "Food and Farming Based Entrepreneurship: The Next Generation of Business in Pittsburgh" Following the last lecture in the Local Living Economies and Urban Farming series, there will be a public workshop featuring keynote talks by Judy Wicks (see above) and Benjamin Gisin, publisher of Touch the Soil magazine ( http://www.touchthesoil.com/ ) and an expert on how monetary policy affects agriculture. Afterwards there will be a panel discussion with local and regional sustainability leaders. (1-5 p.m. in the Singleton Room in CMU's Roberts Hall; $50/$30 academics and nonprofits/free to the CMU community. RSVP by April 11 to 412-268-1125 or online at https://wwwserver.housing.cmu.edu/conferences/registration.taf?ID=LEUFPB2008 )

(13) May 3: Remember the three R's -- Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Folks with children know that they usually grow out of things long before they wear them out -- so the Pittsburgh Mothers' Center ( http://www.pittsburghmotherscenter.org/ ) will hold their annual Kids' Stuff Sale at the Pittsburgh New Church in Point Breeze. To donate your gently used children's/maternity items or for more
info on the sale, please email fundraising@pittsburghmotherscenter.org .

(14) ...and one event that is now in the past: the Pittsburgh Environmental Charter School has been approved, and will soon begin accepting student registrations for next year. A school website is in development, and in the meantime there's a Yahoo group to keep interested folks informed, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pghenvironmentalcharter/ . Information sessions will be taking place at various locations, starting this week; visit the Yahoo web site or call 412-247-7970 for more info.


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Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
lvejo.org/Links.htm
lvejo.org/campaigns/events4puddj.htm
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Good germs, bad germs: health and survival in a bacterial world
Jessica Snyder Sachs 2007
jessicasachs.com
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People for Workers Rights
andrew.cmu.edu/org/usas
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Pittsburgh Living Wage Campaign
www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/org/usas/living-wage/index.html
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Funders Network on Trade and Globalization
fntg.org
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Food riots fear after rice price hits a high
by Peter Beaumont 4/6/8
A global rice shortage that has seen prices of one of the world's most important staple foods increase by 50 per cent in the past two weeks alone is triggering an international crisis, with countries banning export and threatening serious punishment for hoarders.
guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/06/food.foodanddrink
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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"
~Dwight David Eisenhower
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"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction"
~John Steinbeck
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"The only security...is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force" ~Norman Cousins
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"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous"
~ William Proxmire
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healthcare4allpa.org
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Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
csrwire.com
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westmorelandconservancy.org
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United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers
ueinternational.org
ueunion.org
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Bamboo turning up in all types of products
pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/fashion/s_559351.html
...is being touted by some as the new "green" giant...requires little of the pesticides that are used in the cultivation of other crops such as cotton. Harvested bamboo groves...can regenerate themselves quickly, often within a year...
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http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/03/the_end_of_carbon_price_orthod.shtml
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08089/868923-28.stm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08064/862263-85.stm
http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=MjkyOTY%0d%0a
http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-02/americas-50-greenest-cities

making climate change our common enemy

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"Genuine security is only possible when we love our enemies."
~John Bender pastor@pittsburghmennonite.org
pittsburgh.pa.us.mennonite.net
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We don't have to fight terror any more because we need all to work together to birth the new age of one integrated Earth.
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wecansolveit.org/content/solution/clean_energy_economy
wecansolveit.org/pages/partners
"The new energy economy means thousands of new companies, millions of new jobs, and billions in revenue generated by solutions to the climate crisis..."
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technology for nurturing or killing

techluver.com/category/darpa
...“Robots sometimes stun the world, inspire a lot of people and change the belief of what is possible,” said William “Red” Whittaker...
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Master Development Planning in Hazelwood and Junction Hollow
city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp/assets/Final%20Presentation.pdf
robotcity.org/site.html
hazelwoodhomepage.com/ltv_concept_plan.html
hazelwoodhomepage.com/monfay.html
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
darpa.mil
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We'll live forever...somehow

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There's no hope, but I may be wrong.
~Pete Seeger
loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=06-P13-00018
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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
cires.colorado.edu
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Rapid Withdrawal Is Only Solution
testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq
by William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret. 4/2/82
informationclearinghouse.info/article19671.htm
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retool.wordpress.com
material-exchange.org
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ithacahours.org
ithacahours.com
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oxfamamerica.org
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Design of an enclosed composting reactor
Purdue Industrial Waste Conference 1985
globalenvironmental.biz/downloads/composting_reactors.pdf
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touchthesoil.com/resources/internet_resources.html
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fake terror history
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GbNDxoVTiwg
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nutri-tech.com.au/links.html
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From:
For Carbon Emissions, a Goal of Less Than Zero
by Matthew L. Wald 3/26/8
climatechangenews.org
IF the world is going to sharply reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by midcentury, then many businesses will have to go carbon neutral, bringing their net emissions of the greenhouse gas to zero...
Algae, which have a high energy value per pound and consume carbon dioxide, are being cultivated at a biofuel demonstration facility...
removing more CO2 than they produce. Instead of carbon neutral, how about carbon negative?...Carbon-negative technologies of some sort will be essential...The world is facing the certainty of massive emissions for decades to come from plants already running, he said, adding that atmospheric concentrations must be stabilized. “We’ve got such a carbon overshoot looming in the future that this is going to have to happen,”...
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions was necessary to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. But capturing the gas from coal plant smokestacks or switching to fuels that produce less of it when burned goes only so far...
“The great problem is actually removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,”...
“If you want to solve the global warming problem, you can’t do that by staying even,” ...
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From
votetoimpeach.org:
Five years of occupation, five years of war crimes
A message from Ramsey Clark on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion
http://pepib.convio.net/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5264&news_iv_ctrl=1041
...1. The April 2008 issue of Vanity Fair magazine contains an investigative report entitled The Gaza Bombshell supported by “confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials,” which shows that after the Bush Administration pushed for Palestinian elections in January 2006, then, having failed to anticipate a Hamas victory, urged President Abbas to remove the fairly elected Hamas officials. Thereafter, President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an “action plan” to provide the means to develop an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, “to crush the inevitable resistance”, which failed, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and the violent consequences since with Hamas rockets striking Israel and Israeli assaults killing hundreds of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank. Congress was told only non-lethal aid as required by law, was being supplied to Fatah, while Secretary of State Rice raised cash to buy weapons for Fatah from which “at least 20 million of such lethal assistance got through.” The entire enterprise involved a conspiracy to commit impeachable offenses.

Far more dangerous than the Iran-Contra escapade of the Reagan Administration, in which Elliot Abrams himself was convicted, the Bush Administration has destroyed any chance for a united Palestine in the near future and peace in the Middle East...
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into."
~Jonathan Swift
healingiraq.blogspot.com

They think we're stupid.

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They think we don't know they've been stealing elections.
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UnCounted, The New Math of American Elections
uncountedthemovie.com/trailer.html
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I am told by Kevin Haber pittsburghsplantingtrees@gmail.com of
Rooting Out Pollution; Planting the Solution
www.pitt.edu/~ksh12
that Cem Akin (formerly of Pittsburgh) who is now director of
Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (831.419.6369 or cem@ftpf.org)
ftpf.org/upcomingevents.htm
is interested in funding planting of native Western Pennsylvania trees in the Pittsburgh area, whether at schools, parks or other places.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws.
~Plato
greatdreams.com
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American Geophysical Union
agu.org
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pafilminstitute.com
thealliancefordemocracy.org
www.afd-pdx.org/links_files/Links.htm
http://www.ukwatch.net/article/basra_siege_endangers_trade_unionists
myantiwar.org/Channels
medialens.org/links
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Wildlife Disease News
wdin.blogspot.com
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globalamphibians.org
redlist.org/info/publications_links
savebiogems.org
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Viktor Bout
ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/01/23/viktor-bout-the-icon-for-international-black-markets
cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=6851371
globalpolicy.org/intljustice/wanted/2004/1021bout.htm
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re CERN
assessing the dangers of high-tech research
lhcdefense.org
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no comment
ken-welch.com
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National Environmental Coalition Of Native Americans
www.alphacdc.com/necona
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