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SWALLOWING PARTISAN PRIDE MAKES FOR GOOD ENVIRONMENAL NEWS

A bi-partisan group, dubbed the “Gang of Ten”, through compromise and the swallowing of a little partisan pride, has come up with proposed legislation that most Americans can support and is really good news for the environment. And it actually might do everything it’s intended to do: reduce our need for foreign oil, reduce [...]

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NAFTA Completion

Were you celebrating the completion of NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement, on January 1st of this year?  I definitely wasn’t. I have heard about NAFTA here and there but have not known the details and therefore didn’t even know about the completion of the 14 year phase-in process.  Reading in Yes Magazine, I found [...]

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Transpartisan- A New Way of Being

Voices from the left and right, motivated by anger and hostility more than rational thought, have been moving further and further to their respective sides of the political spectrum. This migration creates a toxic divide, where it is impossible to engage in meaningful dialogue in order to form the consensus we need to create [...]

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Endangering the Endangered

It seems things will be getting worse for the United States’ 1,300 endangered animals and plants. The Bush administration is altering regulations so federal agencies have the right to determine whether their construction projects will damage any of the endangered animals. At the moment, agencies must meet standards instituted by the Wildlife Service, and the agencies’ [...]

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The “Greed Olympics”

The Beijing Summer Olympic Games commence this week. On a level above other international competitions—by virtue of their history, dramatics, and relative infrequency—the Olympics have long been a symbol of unity and equality (though sometimes also the site of extreme political statements). So Beijing was a controversial choice to host, with opponents concerned with China’s [...]

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Practical Plans are Effective Plans

Barack Obama unveiled his energy plan on Monday. Overall, it promotes attainable goals. There’s no talk of hydrogen-powered vehicles (a technology that seems to be taking forever to come to fruition and whose environmental impact is suspect) or discovering double-secret reserves of oil buried right under our noses. He does mention controversial ethanol but groups [...]

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