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Published on Monday, December 21, 2009 by RH Reality Check
The Nelson ‘Compromise’: What It Will Cost Women

by Jodi Jacobson
The weeks-long soap opera of finding 60 votes for the Senate health reform bill came to an end yesterday when Democrats “compromised” with Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) on language regarding abortion coverage.  After catering first to Senator […]

Published on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by The Boston Globe
On Health Care, Women Compromise

by Derrick Z. Jackson
Male privilige in health care reform deepens with each line drawn in the sand. Senate Democrats got their 60th vote to close debate and move reform toward a Christmas Eve vote by succumbing to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson’s demands […]

Published on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by Environment News Service (ENS)
Yasuni Park Trust Fund Will Keep Ecuador’s Oil Underground
by Environment News Service (ENS)

 
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Ecuador’s initiative to protect the climate […]

Published on Friday, December 4, 2009
Baring Witness to the Dalai Lama’s Prediction

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Donna Sheehan & Paul Reffell

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Today the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper, in West Marin County, California, published a front-page photo of a Baring Witness naked protest. Seven years ago, the paper published the first Baring […]

Published on Friday, December 4, 2009 by Daily Progress (Virginia)
Wendell Berry Says Large-Scale Farms Killing Land as Well as Towns

by Ted Strong
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — A passive populace obsessed with easy answers has led to an economy that is destroying America’s land, author Wendell Berry told a packed-in crowd at the University of Virginia on Thursday […]

Published on Saturday, December 5, 2009
Tree Huggers: 15 Women Take It Off for the Environment

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Cammy Clark

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KEY WEST, Fla. - Fifteen mature environmental activists — age 44 to 78 — took off their clothes for a fund-raising 2010 calendar called Women Sustaining the Earth.
McClatchy Newspapers reporting […]

Published on Thursday, November 26, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Stand with the Women of Honduras

by Jody Williams and Lisa VeneKlasen
As U.S. policy makers equivocate about resolving the crisis of democracy in Honduras, a major issue is being ignored-the widespread abuses of human rights in the aftermath of the Honduran coup.
The brunt of these abuses has been borne […]

Professors claim worldwide health may be improved by reducing greenhouse gases
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Two professors from the University of California, Berkeley, have published a series of six papers outlining the health benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They claim the risk of developing health problems, especially among those in third-world […]

New Tires Made from Orange Peel Oil Instead of Petroleum
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Yokohama Tire, the North American subsidiary of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd., has introduced a new tire that replaces much of its petroleum with oil derived from orange peels instead.
“The eco-focused dB Super E-spec mixes sustainable orange oil and natural rubber to […]

Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by BBC News
Poor Women ‘Bear Climate Burden’
by BBC News

 
Women in developing countries will be the most vulnerable to climate change, a report from the United […]