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August 9, 2006
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A local organic farm owner wants the community to have vegetables grown by someone using the wisdom of nature rather than someone with a knowledge of pesticides.
Rashid Nuri, an agriculturalist for almost 40 years, in April formed Truly Living Well Urban Organic Farms, a community-supported agriculture organization with farm sites on Washington Road in College Park and Harbin Road in Atlanta.
Nuri also has sites in Henry and Clayton counties and hopes to have 40 acres of plantings throughout metro Atlanta.
August 9, 2006
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Fresh organic produce, herbs and flowers grown by local high school students at the Green Youth Farm in North Chicago is available for purchase at the Greenbelt Forest Preserve beginning today.
Harvested items will be available today and Aug. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m. Residents are also invited to bring the family and pick their own from the Green Youth Farm garden, located in the preserve, on Saturdays through October 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
August 8, 2006
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When Wal-Mart brings its giant food stores to Canada starting sometime this year, the amount of food labeled as organic sold in Canada will likely jump exponentially. While the world's largest retailer already sells organic products at its U.S. Sam's Clubs and in the so-called "pantry" section of its Canadian Wal-Mart stores, it has decided that offering more organically grown food will spiff up its image as a socially conscious retailer, bring in a more upscale customer-and fatten the bottom line.
August 8, 2006
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The White House has nominated Susan Dudley, an anti-regulatory extremist from the industry-funded Mercatus Center, to an obscure but powerful office where she would have the power to gut the federal government's very ability to protect the public.
Dudley would become the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an office in the White House Office of Management and Budget with enormous authority over environmental, health, and safety regulations.
Dudley would become the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an office in the White House Office of Management and Budget with enormous authority over environmental, health, and safety regulations.
August 8, 2006
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Last October, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. gave a remarkable speech http://walmartstores.com/Files/21st%20Century%20Leadership.pdf to his employees. He pledged to transform Wal-Mart No. 2 on the Fortune 500 energy and produces zero net waste.
It was an outrageously bold promise, and a bit disorienting.
It was an outrageously bold promise, and a bit disorienting.
August 8, 2006
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Dear readers,
We have some truly astonishing news for you today. For starters, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) now seems to be openly abandoning any last remnants of journalistic integrity by announcing it will not ban the publishing of studies written by authors who hide their financial ties with drug companies.
We have some truly astonishing news for you today. For starters, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) now seems to be openly abandoning any last remnants of journalistic integrity by announcing it will not ban the publishing of studies written by authors who hide their financial ties with drug companies.
August 8, 2006
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Like Mickey said, it's a small world after all, and pollution that gets exported can end up coming back home. Case in point: mercury, a neurotoxin especially dangerous to children and women of childbearing age. The U.S. is cutting down on the use of mercury, and has passed laws to limit mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. But there's plenty left in the system, and when it's extracted in the recycling process, it's often sold overseas via an almost completely unregulated commodity market.
August 7, 2006
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-- Do you believe in Iraqi "WMD"? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?
Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.
People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.
Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.
People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.
August 7, 2006
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August 7, 2006
From: the Guardian & GregPalast.com
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In the six years since I first began investigating the burglary ring we call "elections" in America, a new Voting Reform industry has grown up. That's good. What's worrisome is that most of the effort is focused on preventing the installation of computer voting machines. Paper ballots, we're told, will save our democracy.
Well, forget it. Over the weekend, Mexico's ruling party showed how you can rustle an election even with the entire population using the world's easiest paper ballot.
Well, forget it. Over the weekend, Mexico's ruling party showed how you can rustle an election even with the entire population using the world's easiest paper ballot.
