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How High Fructose Corn Syrup Ruined America

The Story of Bottled Water

Chevron: Clean Tech Means More Oil

by Terry Winders 09.21.2009

Why it matters:
Chevron has been unabashedly gouging its hungry talons into the Earth in pursuit of profit for decades. Now, in a ghoulish twist, Chevron invests in a solar company that doesn’t create solar energy to use, but helps Chevron [...]

Memo to Canada: Keep Your Tar Sands Oil

by Kevin McCann 09.16.2009

Why it matters:
Because the cost of energy freedom shouldn’t be our health and that of our environment.
Recap:
To mark yesterday’s first official meeting between President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, American environmental activists from the Rainforest Action Network unfurled [...]

Wine – Not Whining – and the Environment.

by Kevin McCann 09.15.2009

Why it matters:
Because, while we probably shouldn’t overdo it (no more cognac for you Kanye ), we all take a nip once in a while.
Recap:
National Geographic provides Americans with a wealth of information (e.g. anatomy lessons for prepubescents). But a [...]

350 or Bust

by Kevin McCann 09.11.2009

Why it matters:
Complete environmental collapse, anyone?
Recap:
No, 350 is not a radical – but incomplete – skate move. It’s our only hope… Like Obi Wan Kenobi. Okay enough with the metaphors.
According to NASA’s James Hansen, touted as the scientist who sounded [...]

H2Oil: The Movie Shell Doesn’t Want You to See

by Scott Badenoch 09.08.2009

Why it matters:
The Alberta Tar Sands are one of the most horrific environmental catastrophes of all time yet bring Shell and it’s big oil compadres record profits: H2Oil tells the story with incredible poignancy.
Recap:
Thanks to Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands, Canada [...]

The Upside of the Downturn

by Kevin McCann 09.02.2009

Why it matters:
Because voracious consumerism seems to have a negative effect on the environment. Who would have guessed it?
Recap:
According to a recent Reuters report, the economic crisis…has an upside! The European Environment Agency announced Monday that greenhouse gas emissions for [...]

The Dirt on Dry Cleaning

by Nancy Astrid Lindo 08.31.2009

Why it matters:
Did you know that the dry cleaning industry is known to use highly toxic chemicals which are absorbed by the fabric and released by body heat onto our skin and into our bloodstream? Not cool.
Recap:
The U.S. National Institute [...]

The Movie Chevron Doesn’t Want You to See

by Scott Badenoch 08.31.2009

Why it matters:
Multi-nationals like Chevron have been destroying communities and the planet all in the name of profit without ramifications for decades and it is time for that to end.
Recap:
Beginning on September 9, the world will be able to see [...]

Why Candy Kills Forests

by Kevin McCann 08.28.2009

Why it matters:
Cadbury (yes, the juicy easter egg company) took the first step to eliminate palm kernel oil from their candy because it’s production is leading us to reduced biodiversity, massive deforestation, and fewer cuddly orangutans — because there’s already [...]

California Bankrupt: the Great Garage Sale

by Argam DerHartunian 08.27.2009

Why It Matters:
California has lead the way in blind consumerism and now are so broke they have to sell their old stuff to make ends meet…sound like anyone else you know?
Recap:
Looks like California is pulling out all of the tricks [...]