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Mother Nature Network

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Grist

People of color contribute least to smog, yet breathe more of it. WTF? - Get a load of this: It’s not poor people whose nostrils get the dirtiest air. It’s people of color -- even wealthy ones.
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Great Lakes Echo

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GOOD

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My Plastic-Free Life

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Dot Earth

A Risk Analyst Explains Why Climate Change Risk Misperception Doesn’t Necessarily Matter - A longtime analyst of risk misperception says leaders can't wait for the public to "get" global warming.
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Environmental & Food Justice

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Eat Breathe Blog

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New. Clear. Vision.

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DetroitUnspun - The Detroit Regional News Hub

Two-thirds of the lights … 3,200 of them … are on in pilot areas on east and west side - The lights are coming on in Detroit neighborhoods. The Public Lighting Authority of Detroit (PLA) is two thirds …
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little house on the urban prairie

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MY ZERO WASTE

7 ways to reuse and recycle shoes - Zero hero Louay contacted me last week and said: “I have some shoes that are beyond giving to charity shops and so wondered if you knew of any way to recyc...
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The Environmental Blog

Simple, Healthy Eating Emphasized By Brazil’s New Food Guidelines - Last March I went to the famous strawberry fields in La Trinidad, Benguet while on an overnight stay in the Philippines summer capital Baguio City. The tri...
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this lively earth

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Movement Generation

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Great Lakes Guru

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Earthseed Detroit

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Detroit, je t'aime

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poetry & tsismis: emily's blog

When A Loved One Dies: A Salaam Alaikum - A salaam alaikum / Peace be unto you. . . i have no words except a salaam alaikum… ;'-(— Emily P. Lawsin (@emilylawsin) December 21, 2013 chin bowed, bee...
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Munching in the Mitten

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4 months ago
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Simply Three Makes 'The Christmas Song' Both Modern And Classical (VIDEO) - It's not unexpected that we get a multitude of submissions sent in to us here at The Huffington Post. What *is* unexpected, however, is this submission a...
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Enough

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Dirt Worship

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11 months ago
Just Education?

Bringing the whole-self to work - I am writing this blog to share with you my experiences as a mother, eco-warrior, local activist and someone who is learning to live and lead from my “wo...
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No Impact Man

No Impact Man Runs For Office - Please check out my article on the Atlantic Monthly's website about my activist run for Congress and how citizen politics can help do something about clima...
1 year ago
The PeaceWorker

Plans to Ship Coal to China Face a Hurdle: The West Coast - PHILIP BUMP - Coal companies are in a bit of a bind. Well, a few binds, really, but let’s just focus on one at a time, shall we? Demand for their product d...
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communicatinginthed

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Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op

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Green For All Blog

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100 Days Without Oil

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