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Jonathan Gold's best 101 restaurants in L.A. 23.5.2013 L.A. Times - Food & Dining
Queue up at a taco truck. Sip cocktails where Charlie Chaplin and George Clooney quenched their thirst. It's all part of why we love L.A.

Queue up at a taco truck. Sip cocktails where Charlie Chaplin and George Clooney quenched their thirst. It's all part of why we love L.A.
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Different Crystallographic One-dimensional MnO2 Nanomaterials and Their Superior Performance in Catalytic Phenol Degradation (Cached) 23.5.2013 pubs.acs.org

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Environmental Science & Technology
DOI: 10.1021/es400878c
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Has the GRI consigned itself to irrelevance? 22.5.2013 Business Operations | GreenBiz.com

The new GRI G4 leaves known defects firmly in place, says one commentator from Amsterdam.

Has the GRI consigned itself to irrelevance?
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From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain 22.5.2013 Commondreams.org Views
Beverly Bell
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CuH-ZSM-5 as Hydrocarbon Trap under Cold Start Conditions 22.5.2013 Environmental Science & Technology: Latest Articles (ACS Publications)

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Environmental Science & Technology
DOI: 10.1021/es304880b
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Philip Tegeler: Good News and Serious Challenges in Brookings Report on Suburban Poverty 22.5.2013 Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
As the report points out, more poor people now live in suburbs than in central cities. There is both "good news" and "bad news" in this trend.
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The festival year starts here 21.5.2013 New Scientist: Living World
The festival year starts here
Swedish Design Makes Castor Oil Cool 21.5.2013 TreeHugger
Dirk Winkel's slick desk lamp uses a bio plastic free of fossil fuel.
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Food Politic: The Source Project and Modern Agriculture in India 20.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
How is it possible that we have moved from a free system that enhances our environment to a costly system that destroys our environment?
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Fair Trade USA’s Draft Certification Policy Riles Organic Community 20.5.2013 Organic Consumers Association News Headlines

The Organic Consumer Association's Fair World Project opposes Fair Trade USA's draft policy for multi-ingredient products, which it says panders to big business and represents a step backward even from the group's previously contested standards. Dr Bronner's Magic Soaps is preparing to file a new complaint with the National Advertising Division.

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How GMO Plants Harm Food Production and Your Health 20.5.2013 Organic Consumers Association News Headlines

Optimal health is one of my passions and nutrition is one of the best tools I know of on how to achieve it. But the key to getting healthy organic vegetables, of course, is the health of the soil in which it's grown.

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New round of arts grants help revitalize and animate city neighborhoods 20.5.2013 Switchboard, from NRDC
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC:   It’s no secret, unfortunately, that many American downtowns and neighborhoods were disinvested, some severely, over the past several decades.  The consequences were devastating, as homes and storefronts were abandoned and once-thriving communities became devoid of opportunity and safety for...
N.J. developmental centers brace for huge change 20.5.2013 Philly.com News
TRENTON - With its imposing, Victorian-era buildings and leafy, college-like campus, the Vineland Developmental Center was in its time a state-of-the-art institution for treating young women with complex mental and emotional disorders.
Where Are All The Swarms? 19.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Longmont's Tony Lewis was on his way Thursday to collect a bee swarm at a home in Westminster when he was asked the question that...
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The IRS targeted tea party groups. Did liberal groups get better treatment? 17.5.2013 Yahoo: Politics
Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it improperly scrutinized certain conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. As an inspector general report on the practice found, groups with phrases like "tea party," "patriots" and "9/12 project" were targeted for the "Be On the Look Out" or "BOLO" list, and often [...]
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Cupertino: De Anza College's MLC wins award for design, energy efficiency 17.5.2013 San Jose Mercury News: San Jose/Valley
De Anza College's new Media and Learning Center has won a citation for energy performance from the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. The award honors built work that demonstrates how deep reductions in energy use are essential to good design in the 21st century.
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WATCH: New Documentary Follows Environmental Fights Around The Globe 16.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
A new environmental documentary premiering this month targets the serious impacts humans have made on the planet. "Elemental," directed and produced by Gayatri Roshan, combines...
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LEED Bashing: Plastic People trying to slip "Trojan Horse" amendments to gut LEED certification 16.5.2013 TreeHugger
Big Chem never misses a chance to try and keep plastics in green building.
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Predicting Project Environmental Performance under Market Uncertainties: Case Study of Oil Sands Coke 15.5.2013 Environmental Science & Technology: Latest Articles (ACS Publications)

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DOI: 10.1021/es302549d
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Oxfam and IPL release joint report investigating poverty issues in the supply chain of major UK supermarkets 15.5.2013 Press releases
A new report, Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction: Bouquets and Beans from Kenya, has been released by Oxfam and International Procurement and Logistics (IPL). A new report, Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction: Bo It is clear that, with 1 in 8 people in the world without enough to eat, this is a system that is not fit for purpose. Mark Goldring Oxfam chief executive Notes to Editors As the UN Framework on Business and Human Rights makes clear, companies have a responsibility to respect the human rights, including labour rights, of all people involved in or affected by their business. That is why Oxfam has campaigned over many years to ask companies to take action to improve the situation of workers in their global supply chains, and participates in multi-stakeholder initiatives which raise awareness and share best practice between companies, trades unions and non-governmental ...
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