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People We Love: Sarah Bergmann
by Fabien Tepperposted Feb 01, 2013 - Creating a pollination pathway for urban bees.
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The Page That Counts: Spring 2013
posted Feb 01, 2013 - Miles flown by a bar-tailed godwit in the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded: 7,200. Miles flown in the world’s longest nonstop, non-refueled helicopter flight: 2,213.
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What’s Stephen Colbert’s Solution to Climate Change?
by YES! Online Staffposted Jan 31, 2013 - Video: Stephen Colbert gets a lot of laughs out of climate change—at the expense of pundits who seem to have decided that solving the problem is just too much work.
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Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zernposted Jan 30, 2013 - It’s organic. It’s local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?
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You Are Where You Live
by Susan Griffinposted Jan 30, 2013 - How the sky, rain, geography, and cultures of our place shape us.
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Sex in the Wild (a First-Hand Account)
by Eva Haywardposted Jan 30, 2013 - What I learned about love from a hermaphrodite, a cannibal, and a dizzyingly diverse array of sea creatures.
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Students to Colleges: Take Our Money Out of Dirty Energy
by Sachie Hopkins-Hayakawaposted Jan 29, 2013 - A divestment campaign led by students is changing the national conversation about energy, creating a market for sustainable stocks, and linking up students with communities facing off against the fossil fuel industry.
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Why I Returned My Queen Elizabeth Medal of Honor
by Maude Barlowposted Jan 28, 2013 - A letter to Canada’s Governor General explains why Maude Barlow–together with Idle No More–are speaking out against the country’s new environmental rules.
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Bringing (Human) Diversity to America’s National Parks
by YES! Online Staffposted Jan 28, 2013 - Video: Take a journey to Yosemite National Park with the Amazing Grace 50+ Club, a Los Angeles-based church group that strives to bring more people of color to our national parks.
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Hank D and the Bee: Daily Waste
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Food or Ethanol? Why Farmers Shouldn’t Give in to Monocrops
by Shannon Hayesposted Jan 25, 2013 - It’s a good time to be in farming if you like to grow corn. It’s a tough time if you see yourself as a steward of the land. Shannon Hayes on why growers pressured by corn-heavy markets should hold out for crops that nourish the Earth.
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Tomorrow, We March on Washington to End the Gun Violence
by Rev. Jacqui Lewisposted Jan 25, 2013 - Twenty-two times more children have been killed by guns since 1979 than military personnel in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. Rev. Jacqui Lewis on why all of us—from clergy to factory workers—must not be too sad, too busy, or too afraid to say, enough.
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Europe Authorizes “Robin Hood Tax” on Financial Transactions
by Sarah Andersonposted Jan 25, 2013 - Support for the tax on stocks, bonds, and derivatives was so strong among EU finance ministers that it wasn’t even necessary to take a formal vote.
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The Recycled Orchestra: How Kids Make Music from Trash
by Cat Johnsonposted Jan 25, 2013 - Video: Living on top of a landfill, the people of Cateura, Paraguay have learned to make do with the discards of others—including the garbage they “upcycle” into musical instruments.
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What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
by Frances Moore Lappéposted Jan 25, 2013 - Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
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