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D.C.'s newest baseball team: The Washington Exxons
Protestors object to a green baseball stadium sponsored by the world's dirtiest corporation |
Mike Tidwell |
20 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Imagine a Major League Baseball stadium constructed to actually fight lung disease. Imagine engineers eschewing asbestos in every form, using only materials approved by the American Lung Association. Imagine emergency inhalers at every seat, with team officials aggressively marketing the 'healthy-lung' park to conscientious fans. Then imagine your surprise, in visiting the park, to see a huge Marlboro cigarettes ad plastered across the left field fence. Ima ... |
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| Topics: politics, green living, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics) |
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Conservatives don't know Jack
They don't get that climate is a security issue |
Joseph Romm |
09 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'The Democrats' Global War on Weather' and 'Jack Bauer, Climatologist???' are the headlines conservatives are using to mock efforts by progressives to finance a National Intelligence Estimate to study global warming. But climate is clearly a national security threat, as made clear in a recent CNA report from a distinguished group of former military leaders (PDF). As but one example, a 'ferocious drought and famine' were the driving forces behind the crisis in Darfur, ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, green living, politics, TV (all these topics) |
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