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Google Gaga
Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group |
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13 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group The popular search engine Google is facing accusations of censorship after it refused to carry ads from an environmental group that is protesting a major cruise line's sewage-treatment methods. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Oceana paid Google to run an ad that read &qu ... |
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| Topics: business, Florida, green living, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Too Cool, from School
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20 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Too Cool, from School Pennsylvania State University has undertaken a massive new recycling program -- not for paper or plastics or food waste, but for the mammoth piles of stuff that students leave behind at the end of every school year, from sneakers to TVs to sofas. The end-of-term junk problem grew into a major headache on U.S. campuses during the 1990s, as ... |
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| Topics: green living, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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Boy, You're Gonna Carry That Weight
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10 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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Getting the Munchies
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31 Jul 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ... |
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| Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, toxics (all these topics) |
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Free-Range at Last, Free-Range at Last
Is cheap meat worth the karmic cost of industrial animal production? |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
20 Nov 2000 |
Soapbox |
| With Thanksgiving nigh, the question arises: What is the meaning of sustainable cuisine? Which came first? Kennedy with both a chicken and an egg. The word sustainable expresses the obligation that each generation has to the next to preserve the value of the natural world. It does not mean we can't use nature. Humankind, a predatory animal, is part of ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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