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Seven Stress Relievers: Natural, Green Ways to Fix Any Day	23.11.2010	Global Health and Wellness News - ENN
Hiding from the world under your pillows? Finding yourself having small panic attacks or just need to relax? Forget binge-drinking and saving up for Club Med, we have seven surefire ways to soothe your inner stress monster!
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Rosemary Ahtuangaruak: Shell's Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland and Culture	23.11.2010	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Inupiat communities across the Arctic coast of Alaska primarily depend on Bowhead whales for subsistence food. Shell's proposals to drill for oil and gas in the Chukchi and Beaufort Sea are detrimental to that tradition.
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Shell’s Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland and Culture	23.11.2010	Common Dreams: Views
by Rosemary Ahtuangaruak This week families across the country will be celebrating Thanksgiving-sharing food and telling stories. Here is my story about our food and culture that would be destroyed if Shell Oil gets the permit to drill for oil in our homeland-the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. Since 1986 I lived in Nuiqsut, an Inupiat community on the Beaufort Sea coast of Arctic Alaska. In 1991, I graduated from the University of Washington Medex Northwest Physician Assistant program and was employed as a health aide in Nuiqsut for 14 years. read more
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Mark Ruffalo: When Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction	23.11.2010	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The only way we're going to defeat the gas industry and protect our water is if people become informed about its dangerous ongoing practices on a massive scale.
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Leah Lamb: Reclaiming the Vision of our Future: Living in a Culture of Connection and Creation	19.11.2010	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
There is a disease that is infiltrating our society. It's permeating our imaginations and infiltrating our ideas from every direction via movies, news stories, even...
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Brendan DeMelle: Pittsburgh Bans Natural Gas Drilling Over Fracking Threat	17.11.2010	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The Pittsburgh City Council today unanimously adoped a first-in-the-nation ordinance banning corporations from drilling for natural gas within city limits, a direct response to the threats to drinking water.
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Pennsylvania to Become 'Gasland'?	10.11.2010	Common Dreams: Headlines
On the day after the midterm elections, the outline of Pennsylvania's next battleground was clearly drawn. Pittsburgh hosted the largest conference of companies interested in the massive Marcellus Shale gas deposit, thought to hold enough gas to power the entire US for anywhere from two to 30 years. Drilling communities around the country report serious environmental and public health concerns. Pittsburgh itself already has gas development surrounding it, and hundreds marched to the conference to show their objection. read more
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'Green,' 'Organic' And 'Natural' Products Emit As Many Toxic Chemicals As Other Fragranced Items: Study	2.11.2010	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Widely-used scented consumer products that claim to be "green," "organic" or "natural" emit just as many toxic chemicals as other fragranced products, new research shows....
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K. P. Sasi: Fishing Communities and Politics of Climate Change in India	29.10.2010	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The cause of increasing sea levels may be a subject of debate to some, but it is a living reality threatening the lives and livelihood of more than 1 billion people living in low-lying areas.
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The Health Care Debate: Social Reflections	29.10.2010	Truthout - All Articles
In a recent Nation magazine forum in which participants responded to Eric Alterman's account of the structures that bind the political possibilities of the Obama administration ("Why a Progressive Presidency is Impossible for Now") and that articulated Alterman's notion that "the system is rigged ... against us," Theda Skocpol rebutted his "wrongheaded" assertion with her own judgment that, among other triumphs, Obama and "his unwieldy party.... read more
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Energy Psychology: Mental Health Experts Say It's Time to End the Ban	27.10.2010	Truthout - All Articles
Dr. David Gruder Ph.D., DCEP, a clinical and organizational psychologist and diplomate in comprehensive energy psychology, is a pioneer in applying insight and techniques from time-honored healing traditions for enhancing mental health. In 1999, he co-founded the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and served as its first president until 2002. Dr. Gruder was recently appointed the mental health coordinator for the nonprofit Energy Medicine Institute. read more
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"Natural" Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public - Here's How to Spot Them	21.10.2010	Truthout.com
In papers everywhere we hear arguments such as the one that appeared recently in the Rochester (NY) Business Journal, in an article by economist Raymond J. Keating, under the heading "N.Y. is missing out on economic opportunity." Keating wrote, "Environmentalists are claiming that hydraulic fracturing threatens groundwater supplies and are using anecdotal evidence to support their claims. Yet years of evidence have demonstrated that the fracking process is safe." read more
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Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck to Plot 2010 Election	20.10.2010	AlterNet
This post first appeared on Think Progress. In 2006, Koch Industries owner Charles Koch revealed to the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore that he coordinates the funding of the conservative infrastructure of front groups, political campaigns, think tanks, media outlets and other anti-government efforts through a twice annual meeting of wealthy right-wing donors. [...] ...
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'Natural' Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public -- Here's How to Spot Them	19.10.2010	AlterNet
Learn to decode the messages of the gas industry, its shills, the politicians in its pocket, and lazy journalists.
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Natural Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public -- Here's How to Spot Them	19.10.2010	AlterNet
Learn to decode the messages of the gas industry, its shills, the politicians in its pocket, and lazy journalists.
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Uranium spill elicits traditional approach	19.10.2010	ICT - National - Southwest
CHURCH ROCK, N.M. – About 10 miles north of this predominantly Navajo community, Highway 566 transects Red Water Pond Road, which is blocked at the entrance to an abandoned United Nuclear Corp. mine site from which nearly 1 million gallons of toxic wastewater spilled into the nearby Puerco River 31 years ago.
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Gulf Oil Spill 6 Month Anniversary: A Look At The Health Of The Ocean	19.10.2010	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. â Six months after the rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, damage to the...
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Five Minutes With HIV/AIDS Activist Paula Akugizibwe	14.10.2010	WireTap Magazine
Paula Akugizibwe is currently the advocacy coordinator at the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa ( ARASA ), an organization focused on ensuring universal access to quality HIV, tuberculosis, and health services as a human right. Akugizibwe has worked with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Southern African Development Community, and the World Health Organization on issues related to infectious diseases throughout Africa.In July, she headlined the opening ceremony of the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. Her candor, charisma and tireless advocacy have made Ms. Akugizibwe a force to be reckoned with in the international aid community. I caught up with after the Global Fund Replenishment conference in New York City last week. The conference was chaired by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and aimed to draw donations to secure long-term funding for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. With a budget of over $19 billion, the Global Fund accounts for over ...
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WWF's Living Planet Report Shows Humans Consuming 1.5 Earths	14.10.2010	ENS
WWF's Living Planet Report Shows Humans Consuming 1.5 Earths
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Five Minutes with HIV/AIDS Activist Paula Akugizibwe	14.10.2010	WireTap Magazine
Paula Akugizibwe is currently the advocacy coordinator at the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa ( ARASA ), an organization focused on ensuring universal access to quality HIV, tuberculosis, and health services as a human right. Akugizibwe has worked with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Southern African Development Community, and the World Health Organization on issues related to infectious diseases throughout Africa.In July, she headlined the opening ceremony of the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. Her candor, charisma and tireless advocacy have made Ms. Akugizibwe a force to be reckoned with in the international aid community. I caught up with after the Global Fund Replenishment conference in New York City last week. The conference was chaired by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and aimed to draw donations to secure long-term funding for the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. With a budget of over $19 billion, the Global Fund accounts for over ...
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