10 reasons to mug America - seriously BYOM math + research

 I'm a potter and I mean it. I sincerely believe that BYOM ( bring your own mug ) could be the key to a major shift in ridding America of a lot of garbage, By doing this simple act of mugging America we would simultaneously be halting the weight of a few million barrels...

Petition 277: Release of compactor garbage truck leachate on city

October 8, 2009 I am sending this information to you so you can understand one of the major causes of illness in North American cities and towns. In1938 we began to use compactor garbage trucks in North America. The problem is: *  These compactor garbage trucks were not...

Typhoon Ondoy Have left Severe Damage on the Lives of Filipinos

Close to 300 people have died, while more than three million others have been affected after tropical storm "Ondoy" (Ketsana) wrought havoc in metropolitan Manila and some provinces in Calabarzon and Central Luzon regions.Forty-two people were reported missing, while the...

JAXPORT DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS

Talk about adding insult to injury violations of municipal codes and land use requirements are wavied for Jacksonville Port Authority regardless of its numerious infractions at least for the moment. To...

GO GREEN by 9th Grader

Go Green              One of the oldest tributes to the Earth were found in the Indian scriptures called the Vedas. In Atharva Veda which contains 63...

Obama's Earth Day traveling burned over 9,000 gallons of fuel

President Obama was in Iowa yesterday for Earth Day, but in an ironic twist, all his traveling on that day actually burned off about 9,000 gallons of fuel. He took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One....

Earth Day Celebration at Moody Gardens April 25-26

In conjunction with the much-anticipated reopening of the Rainforest Pyramid, Moody Gardens and the Oleander Society will host the annual Earth Day and Oleander Festival on April 25 and 26. The two-day festival will feature a wide variety of free activities, such as birding...

Oprah stresses it's important to save our planet on Earth Day

Oprah Winfrey is using her hour talk show today to try and get the message out about how important it is to start saving our planet, and takes an indepth look at what really happens to the trash that we throw away or...

Ben Harper and Relentless 7's Earth Day Concert in Rome

This Earth Day, artists from National Geographic's new music record label held a free concert in Piazza del Popolo in Rome to mark the day, and the headliners were Ben Harper and Relentless7. Bibi Tanga &...

On Earth Day President Obama promotes alternative energy use

On this Earth Day in Iowa, President Obama promoted the use of alternative energy sources so that the U.S. can be kinder to their earth. He said that the country should be more dependent on energy forms like wind...

Earth Day- Army Style

Each year, the U.S. Army celebrates Earth Day at approximately 200 major commands, installations and organizations in the continental United States and around the world.For a variety of fun and useful items to use...

EarthLink webmail crashes on Earth Day

The webmail service 'EarthLink' suffered a major power outage this morning, and users were unable to access any of their pages; ironic considering today is Earth Day. (At time of publication the site is still down)It is not known what caused the crash, as the site was offline...

Forget Earth Day, April 22 is National Jelly Bean Day

April 22, 2009 is one busy day.  It's Earth Day, of course, and it is also Administrative Professionals' Day (formerly known as Secretaries Day), but another event is being celebrated as well, National Jelly Bean Day. " You may be well over the after-effects of Easter,...

Re-thinking Earth Day (Aprill 22, 2009)

Is Earth Day still as important as it was nearly 40 years ago? This week, host Krystyn Tully talks the relevance of Earth Day in 2009 with Kathleen Rogers, President of the Earth Day Network in Washington DC, UK...

Time to rethink the development paradigm on Earth Day

Time to rethink the development paradigm on Earth DayNot only modern lifestyles are causing un-brindled exploitation of natural resources upsetting the ecosystem and upping the global warming, but also the national policies in India related to environment are not in tune with...

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