Send Secretary of the Interior Salazar a message that you support a ban on new offshore drilling. Use our counter to track how many gallons of oil are being pumped into the gulf. [...]
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As your members of Congress debate health care, we need to make sure they’re considering the impact of corporate agribusiness on the public’s health. To give you an example, just one hog company…. [...] The 15 Most Toxic Places to Live [...] 80% of our waterways show traces of medications, a result of expired or unneeded perscription drugs disposed of down the household drain. Please join the kickoff event for a permanent medicine collection bin at the Elihu Harris State Building Lobby, 1515 Clay Street, in Oakland. [...] 16-year old Kid, Daniel Byrd, Discovers Plastic-eating Microbes: It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where a high school student presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic. [...] Visionaries who are changing your world: Paul Stamets has deployed mushrooms to clean up toxins, restore soil, and combat pests; he hopes one day to use them to cure tuberculosis, revive entire ecosystems, and even seed other planets for life. [...] Photo: James Tworow/Flickr Depending on how old and how large your TV is, your analog beast could be toting around eight pounds of lead and other heavy metals such as barium, cadmium and chromium (let’s assume four pounds per set is average). If you multiply all that lead by 100 million (the estimated number of analog TVs in current [...] [...] Photo: Samuel Mann/Flickr . It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic. Now another high school student [...] [...] |
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