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Posted by Michael Little
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
The next time you’re at the grocery store and the checkout clerk asks the question, 'Paper or plastic?' be sure you have all the facts. Paper is the environmentally friendly choice, goes the mantra, but, after calculating the total environmental impact plastic starts to look like a good choice (unless, of course, you carry your own cloth bags). Here is a comparison of various packaging options that might surprise you... |
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Read more... [Packaging: Does Plastic Deserve Its Bad Reputation?]
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Posted by geri
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
The Coca-Cola Company pledged to replace the water it uses in its global beverage operations, and that of its franchise bottlers, as part of a $20 million commitment to the World Wildlife Fund launched to help conserve seven of the world's most important freshwater river basins. "Our goal is to replace every drop of water we use in our beverages and their production," said the Company's CEO, E. Neville Isdell... |
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Read more... [Coca-Cola Company Pledges to Replace the Water It Uses in Its Beverages and Their Production]
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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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"Philadelphia Police Chief of Staff Kimberly Byrd has won the coveted George Fencl Award - named for the exemplary head of Civil Affairs during the stormy '60s, and given to an officer who exemplifies his qualities of 'compassion, dedication, loyalty and fairness'." Besides her 14-years on the Force, she is being honored today for "her years of service to grassroots community groups like Mothers In Charge and Town Watch, and her years of personally mentoring young African-American women." (more) |
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Read more... [Philly Cops Honored for Compassion and Fairness]
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Posted by geri
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
(IRIN) - Twelve-year-old Nhlanhla Matsebula, one of Swaziland’s growing number of children orphaned by AIDS, has good reason to feel proud. He has mastered the skill of plowing a field with a team of oxen and in doing so, saved his late parents’ farm from being taken.
A boy like Nhlanhla would normally follow a plough driven by his father, dropping seeds into the furrows. But their parents left little behind besides land and the children faced eviction from a farm that had been their family home for generations... |
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Read more... [Teaching AIDS Orphans to Farm and Help Themselves]
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Posted by Richard Young
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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Yesterday the BBC published a good-news-for-nature story. A beautiful species of bird called the Squacco Heron, which has not been seen for 141 years in Greater London, has been spotted at the Kingsbury Reservoir. (See it here) |
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