Certainly, increasing rates is appropriate in communities where they have been set too low, but clean, clear water is so essential to public health and well being that it warrants public funding. Proposals to accomplish that, such as the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act, deserve close scrutiny and support.
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Clean Water, at Any Rate
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments
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All’s Fair (Trade) in Love and Chocolate!
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
When I buy chocolate, I’m supporting a whole system of politics and people behind that chocolate. I want part of the pleasure I derive from eating chocolate to be the knowledge that I’m not adding to someone else’s abuse. Buying Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified chocolates is an easy way to ensure that your purchasing power supports chocolate growers with sound human rights policies. From now on it will be Green & Black’s Milk Chocolate for me.
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How to Save One Million Fish Every Hour
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments
As 2009 drew to a close, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) quietly issued a decision that will dramatically decrease the destruction of fish within Long Island’s south shore estuary. Tucked into the large expanse of salt marshes there, the E.F. Barrett Power Station can silently kill more than one billion fish and other marine life specimens every year.
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Expressing Your Inner Green Santa
December 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Consider expressing your inner green Santa by sending bounty to one or more of these worthy causes.
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Blog Action Day: Looking For Green in All the Wrong Places
October 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Global warming almost cost me a relationship. It did. Here’s the story.
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