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Solar (Freakin’) Roadways!

May 29, 2014 Madonna Gauding Environment, Ideas, Infrastructure Leave a comment

Global warming and its effect on climate change is real, and it’s frightening. While our political and corporate classes are joined at the hip and still

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Dereliction of environmental duty

March 27, 2014 Susan Cunningham Environment, Missouri region Leave a comment

Three events in the last two days have helped me better understand why citizens are helpless against purposeful polluters and the damage they cause

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America’s not-so “Golden Age” (1945-1971)

March 18, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Employment, Environment, Infrastructure, Labor and unions, Privacy/surveillance Leave a comment

The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted many of us to look back to the decades after WWII for guidance—when Glass-Steagall kept banks in check,

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Mauricio Mayorga and his Clean Garbage Project

March 14, 2014 Christopher Burke Activism, Environment, International One comment

Mauricio Mayorga, a Colombian artist, loves sand, the beach, the ocean and the sea (all beaches, all oceans and all seas).  Many of his

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CVS stops selling cigarettes: A look at some unintended consequences

February 17, 2014 Arthur Lieber Business, Consumer issues, Environment, Health Leave a comment

Like most of the other 81% of American adults who don’t smoke, I was delighted to hear that CVS Pharmacy was taking the bold

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Should we freak out about population growth?

February 6, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Environment, Population growth Leave a comment

While browsing YouTube, I came across this video by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki. He explains the concept of exponential growth and how it applies

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Climate Counts: Rating companies by their environmental impact

December 20, 2013 Renee Shur Climate Change, Consumer issues, Corporations, Environment Leave a comment

Consumers of the world, unite! You know you’re going to buy stuff, so why not use your buying power to send a message to

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No milk in the dairy case? Climate change is to blame.

November 27, 2013 Renee Shur Climate Change, Environment, Food, Science Leave a comment

If you think the effects of climate change on our food supply are something only our children or grandchildren will have to deal with,

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Science supports climate change reality: It’s time for the media to get on board

November 13, 2013 Renee Shur Climate Change, Environment, Media, Science Leave a comment

How times change. It seems just yesterday when Al Gore was being vilified as America’s über-exaggerator for his warning in 2006 of the coming

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The sad saga of Missouri’s “Free to Pollute” bill

November 7, 2013 Michael Berg Activism, Corporations, Environment, Government, Missouri region, Politics, States Leave a comment

Polluting businesses use their money and influence to pass terrible legislation that goes against the interest of Missourians.  Few bills demonstrate this fact more

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