We must elect leaders who care about the planet

by David Suzuki... We need a government that will lead when it comes to caring for the finite world that gives us life and sustains us. We've already squandered 20 years since global warming was first recognized as an issue requiring immediate attention.

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We must elect leaders who care about the planet

by David Suzuki... We need a government that will lead when it comes to caring for the finite world that gives us life and sustains us. We've already squandered 20 years since global warming was first recognized as an issue requiring immediate attention.

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David Suzuki: Vote Environment 2008 - CANADIAN ELECTION

David Suzuki doesn't care which party you prefer. He does care passionately that you know what's at stake in the federal election, and that you let politicia...

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Don't vote Tory, say Greenpeace and Sierra Club

globeandmail.com - The two environmental groups held a press conference in Ottawa Tuesday to provide their advice, weighing into the political arena that most other environmentalists have avoided this election campaign.

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Hacking democracy, Canadian style

A broad progressive movement is growing online to unite the parties of Canada's centre-left against the neo-conservative Harper government in the October 14th election. In Canada, neo-conservatives can grab majority power with only 38% of the popular vote. Progressives look to the web for ways to organize a resistance to this undemocratic outcome.

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Don't Vote Conservative if you care about the environment

Greenpeace Canada and the Sierra Club have come out urging voters to vote against the Harper Conservatives in the October 14th federal election. The position comes as a result of the Conservatives' environmental record in government, and their failure to commit to a minimum 25 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

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CANADA'S GREENS: VOTE FOR OTHERS TO DEFEAT TORIES

In a bid to defeat Harper, she is asking voters to support the Greens only if their Green candidate is likely to win. Otherwise, she urges voting for the Liberals or the NDP to avoid splitting the leftist vote.

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How to Defeat Stephen Harper - Vote For Environment

Here is a great new site that gives Canadians all the info we need to vote in our ridings to defeat Harper. The site provides picks for the most likely candidate in each riding to defeat the Harper Conservatives. If we vote strategically we can end up with a Liberal minority with the NDP and Green Party having a very strong voice.

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Help Avaaz stop CANADA'S LEADER Harper, Save the Planet

CANADIAN Environment lovers terrified by the prospect of a Harper majority but unwilling to donate to a political party now have somewhere to send their hard-earned cash.

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the Green Pages - Canada

From the Pembina Institute.... This month, former Prime Ministers Paul Martin, Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, John Turner and Jean Chretien, as well as many other prominent Canadians, joined an urgent statement of action spearheaded by PowerUP Canada

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Mayors "Get It" on Climate Change

Ironically, the most ambitious U.S. action in the fight against global warming is coming from big cities and their mayors.

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House passes $630 billion Pentagon budget, aid to Automakers

4 days ago: The House passed a $630 billion-plus spending bill Wednesday that wraps together a record Pentagon budget with aid for automakers.

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Going Green...

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Protect Canada's Climate Law!

This is an older page, but it highlights the fact that it is CRUCIAL we have a party in power who REALLY DOES CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.

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Wind-powered car hopes to smash 116.7mph world record

A British 'sail car' hopes to break the wind-powered speed record this month to raise awareness of zero carbon vehicles. Ecotricity founder Dale Vince and engineer Richard Jenkins plan to smash the current 116.7mph record with their specially-designed Greenbird vehicle.

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The Biggest Environmental Victory You've Never Heard about

On July 14th, the Ontario government agreed to prohibit development on at least half of the remaining wilderness areas in the region’s northern boreal forest – protecting about 56 million acres.If the government keeps its promise, we’ll have protected the largest untouched forest in Canada and the 3rd largest wetland in the world.

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Carbon Dioxide Auction Launches U.S. Effort to Combat Climat

Power plant owners and speculators yesterday bid for the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of a new multistate government program designed to reduce global warming pollution. Interested parties during an online auction offered at least $1.86 per ton of CO2 emitted; there were 12 million allowances (one per ton) to emit climate change–

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Hey Harper!: Green Policies ARE ECONOMIC POLICIES

Harper claims that he can handle the economy -- but as an enviro-skeptic he needs to remember that the last HURRICANE in CANADA cost $250 MILLION. GREEN POLICIES=SOUND ECONOMICS.

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Shame on CANADA to be on frontpage of Avaaz.org

This week world leaders gather at the UN General Assembly in New York. Here, all focus is on a multi billion dollar bailouts of financial institutions and the real untold scandal -- global poverty -- risks being forgotten. France, Canada, and Italy are threatening to slash their development budgets.

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Half of Canadians want reduction in Tory military spending

Half of Canadians want to scale back the Harper Conservatives' plan to boost military spending by $490-billion over two decades, a new poll suggests.By comparison, 27 per cent of those surveyed favour continuing with the plan and 11.2 per cent want to enrich it further.

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Canada 'to reclaim Arctic waters'

Ottawa also sees economic potential in protecting its claim to the Arctic, as the area is thought to be rich in natural resources.

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Canada's Record on the Environment -- Poster

Canada's Conservative's, whose economic and energy policies are rooted in the same tenets that Bush x2, Clinton, Brown, Blair, and others bought in various degrees, and that have now caused economic chaos, are up for re-election.

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The Next Bull Market: It's Green

"There's always a bull market somewhere," goes the old Wall Street saw. While financial markets collapse, a whole new multi-billion dollar green economy is on the rise. Washington is spending billions to bail-out Wall St but just a fraction of that would create millions of jobs, bring huge returns to investors, and, oh yeah, save the planet.

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The Worst Leader in the World?

Before Americans go to the polls, it is CANADIANS, whose oil interests are in bed with both their own prime minister and, by proxy, the US administration, who get to vote out THE WORST LEADER IN THE WORLD, this October...

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Save the Planet: Stop Harper!

For the last two years, the Harper government has done everything it could to wreck the world's efforts to fix climate change. At UN negotiations, Canada has been voted the WORST country in the world on climate change 3 times! Now, it's election time, and we have to make sure that Harper pays the price at the polls.

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The Poverty promise breakers

This week world leaders gather at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Here, all focus is on a multi billion dollar bailouts of financial institutions and the real untold scandal -- global poverty -- risks being forgotten.

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The Broad Environmental Footprint of Asian Cities

The broad environmental footprint of Asian cities has many large impacts that include the urbanization of Asia due to increased living standards but conversely poverty, exclusion, and environmental squalor have increased

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Concern Worldwide: working for the elimination of poverty

Concern Worldwide - an international organisation dedicated to reducing suffering and working towards the elimination of extreme poverty.

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New Global Warming Threat: 'Methane Time Bombs' Under Arctic

Scientists have today warned that global warming could rapidly accelerate as millions of tons of methane escape from the arctic seabed. According to preliminary findings, as the Arctic region gets warmer massive deposits of the greenhouse gas - 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - are rising to the surface.

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Chicago outlines plan to slash greenhouse gases

Mayor Richard M. Daley has announced a plan to dramatically slash emissions of heat-trapping gases, part of an effort to fight global warming and become one of the greenest cities in the nation.

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A Calculated Loss: How to Reduce Your Emissions

Global warming, climate change, reduce carbon emissions, CO2

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Video: Physicists to Unveil Major Energy Efficiency Plan

The APS, which represents 46,000 physicists in academia, industry and national laboratories, including nearly 60 Nobel Laureates, releases a major new study, Energy Future: Think Efficiency, that provides a roadmap for reducing America"s dependence on foreign oil and its contribution to global warming through dramatic improvements in energy efficie

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Renewable Energy in America Can't Save China's Coal

Nye points out that global warming knows no territorial boundaries – clean energy initiatives in the US could be overshadowed by green house gases from China.

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What is Global Warming and How Can We Stop It?

Global warming is a large issue with intense consequences at the personal and community level.Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide that are trapped by our atmosphere.What we need to recognize is that choices at the local and community level CAN make differences- and that these choices are economic choices, choices abo

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Global Warming

Alderson study of global change. He demonstrated Why should we worry about this blanket of Professor of Ocean Sciences and Director of the that the amount of carbon dioxide in the added co2 and other greenhouse gases?

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The Volt Isn't A Prius. It's Better

The Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius look a lot alike, but they are fundamentally different cars that blaze separate paths toward the inevitable electrification of the automobile. And while the Prius is the world's most-popular hybrid and the poster child for green(er) motoring, the Volt is more technologically advanced.

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Google and GE team up on Clean-Energy Policy & Technology

General Electric and Google on Wednesday announced a collaboration to lobby for renewable energy policies and to jointly develop clean technologies.During the Google Zeitgeist conference in Mountain View, Calif.

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16 Unusual International Perspectives on Water

Water is a basic element of life that we all need but around the world depending on where you live, the issues around water are vastly different, from being a reason to go to war, to being a financial boon, to being something that is utterly taken for granted.

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Ethical Shopping

Ethical Shopping: Buying stuff is necessary, but it's not always good for people or the planet. We've combed the marketplace to tell you who's good and who's not. Please join our community of consumers with a conscience.

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Arctic ice melts to second-lowest level: scientists

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic sea ice melted to its second-lowest level this summer, rising slightly from 2007's record but still showing a downward trend that is a key symptom of climate change, U.S....

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Japan CO2 trial to woo emitters with voluntary curbs

By Risa Maeda TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's planned CO2 trading scheme should be based on voluntary targets for emission cuts instead of mandatory ones to attract big emitters to join, a government advisory panel said on Wednesday. The trial scheme is...

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Connecting Environmental Protection and the Rule of Law

On the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, 35 human rights groups and WRI call on the presidential candidates to reaffirm the fundamental legal framework that makes environmental protection possible.

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Connecting Environmental Protection and the Rule of Law

On the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, 35 human rights groups and WRI call on the presidential candidates to reaffirm the fundamental legal framework that makes environmental protection possible.

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Phenology: The Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystem Health

A recent study of more than 542 plant and 19 animal species in 21 European countries confirmed a popular but previously unproven assumption: the leafing, flowering and fruiting of more than 75% of all plant species had advanced as a result of rising temperatures.

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How Sustainable Business Practices Attract Customers

She's Waiting: Five Ways to Reach Women via Sustainable Business Practices

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10 Easy Ways To Be More Sustainable With Books

About 20 million trees are cut down annually for virgin paper to be used for the production of books sold in the U.S. alone. Here's how a bibliophile can be more sustainable.

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Innovation for Sustainability

this is a blog about using innovative methods to achieve sustainability

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Sustainability of Carbon Credit Trading

According to Carbon Credit Trading an industrialist in Scotland in oil industry will pay a so called green business in Brazil. But do you ever think about people in the vicinity of both projects.

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Automate It! Three companies, three IT platforms, "greened"

But automation (business speak for “doing it better and faster”) is hardly a Darwinian one-way street – eco-minded companies are benefiting more than just their own bottom line by developing software that automates green decision making: they are greening entire industries. Green Printer, Workforce and Sustainable Minds get set to 'green it'.

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Oil Palm Plantations: No Substitute For Tropical Rainforests

The continued expansion of oil palm plantations will worsen the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, unless rainforests are better protected. Palm oil, used in food, cosmetics, biofuels and other products, is now the world's leading vegetable oil.

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10 Electric Cars That You Can Buy Today

The internet is abuzz with news of new electric cars that all seem to be coming out in 2010. It seems like every day we hear more about the Chevy Volt “extended range electric vehicle,” but not so much about what’s available right now. If you’ve got an itchy trigger finger and a hefty wallet, there are a few options for you right now.

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CO2 World: Field Guide to America's Favorite Greenhouse Gas

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas. It is emitted when fossil fuels—such as gasoline, oil, and coal—are burned, and it traps heat in the atmosphere. We produce more CO2 than the environment can process, raising the temperature of the planet. It’s getting hot in here.

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Growth of the Tarpits | Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar S

Although industry claims that the land will be reclaimed, despite forty years of tar sands production starting in 1967 not a single acre has yet been officially certified as reclaimed. Also, no one anywhere has ever successfully reclaimed such a profoundly damaged landscape to its original natural state.

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2030 Proposed Pipelines | Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar

2030 Proposed Pipelines

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Apple Introduces an Environmentally-Friendly iPod

If you’ve been holding back from buying an iPod nano for environmental reasons, it might be time to rethink your decision.

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New Energy Project Will Be Even Larger than the Pickens Plan

Australian developer Babcock and Brown has announced that it is working on a 79.5 MW wind farm in the Texas Panhandle— but the company has much larger ambitions than a single farm.

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How 'green' is the electric Chevy Volt?

General Motors at its centennial celebration in Detroit on Tuesday is expected to showcase the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid electric car that carries the heavy expectations of reversing GM's slide and slashing consumers' fuel use. Buzz around the Volt picked up last week when photos of the production car were captured, showing a less sporty...

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Toronta May Ban the Coffee Cup

Toront is trying to reduce waste to landfills by 70% in 2010.

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Renewable Bio-Fuel Sources: Camelina Sativa

INEOS Enterprises of the UK has entered into a partnership agreement with Great Plains-The Camelina Company for the purpose of expanding their bio-diesel enterprises world-wide. Great Plains-The Camelina Company is located in Montana and their achievements include establishing Camelina (oil seed) crushing machines and production facilities for crea

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Ten Ways to Save Green by Going Green

Going green inherently saves money by using less, we save more, but some big-ticket items can cost a lot. I’d love to install solar panels on my roof or a wind turbine in my backyard so I’d never have to see another PG&E bill again, but the reality is that I simply can’t afford either of those.

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Home-Brewed Biodiesel Goes Prime-Time

Home-brewed biodiesel may be ready to move from your neighbor's garage to prime time. No longer is the practice limited to a few mechanically inclined hippies with old converted electric water heaters. Now anyone can order up their own bio-brew kit online. "We are testing some products now to make sure they work at the level of quality our...

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Eco-Buyer Beware - 1,017 "Green" Products Are Not "Green"

Vice president of the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice, Case last year sent his researchers into a big-box retail store to evaluate the green advertising claims of some of the products on its shelves. The results were startling: of the 1,018 products TerraChoice surveyed, all but one failed to live up fully to their green boasts.

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Pickens Overlooks Existing Natural Gas Cars in Energy Plan

As part of his viral video-powered campaign, Pickens wants to put $160 million behind his case for natural gas-powered vehicles and the so-called Standard Taxi, which looks sort of like a London taxi made from Lego blocks. But, yo, T. Boone! Wake up and smell the coffee. There's little need to spend on developing an all-new CNG vehicle, because the

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We Can Solve the Climate Crisis

Why join we: Climate change is real. And it’s happening much faster than was predicted just a few years ago. The good news is that we can solve this crisis.

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California's 220 MPH High-Speed Train Will Be Emissions-Free

As if the announcement of a high-speed rail line that will go from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2 hours and 40 minutes isn’t exciting enough, Navigant Consulting now claims that the bullet train can run with zero greenhouse gas emissions.

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Britain's Worst Polluters Get Huge Windfall Payout - WTF?!

An in-depth investigation has revealed that many of Britain’s most polluting companies stand to receive a windfall of hundreds of millions of pounds, with no benefit to the environment. The huge handout comes as a result of the over allocation of EU carbon permits to some of the biggest names in world business.

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Gov. Schwarzenegger on offshore drilling and full tires

Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says that offshore drilling won't affect gas prices soon, yet full tires will.

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Jolie, Pitt donate $2 million for Ethiopian clinic

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are giving back to the country where their 3-year-old daughter Zahara was born.The couple have donated $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, said the Global Health Committee

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Ethical Affiliate

An Ethical Directory of Shops,B2B,Lifestyle and Community Companies with a Conscience

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"Ethical Failure" and Offshore Drilling

The phrase repeatedly chanted at the recent Republican convention - "Drill, Baby, Drill" - now sounds pornographic in the wake of the new sex and money scandal involving oil drilling companies and the federal agency that is supposed to oversee them.

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Ethanol Produced from Perennial Grass Could Offset 20% of Ga

For all the talk of switchgrass being the next miracle biofuel feedstock, there's still precious little to show for it. Yes, we did recently report on a study which showed that switchgrass could potentially yield 5 times more energy

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5 Places to get healthier, greener fast food - Healthy Livin

Grabbing fast food isn't my first choice, but it's usually unavoidable while traveling with my family. Can you suggest some healthier, green options? - Megan Morgan, Columbia, South Carolina We know how difficult (and expensive!) it is to...

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MTV Mows Down Rain Forest

After the Viacom-owned network finished filming their new treasure-hunt themed “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” on a remote, uninhabited island in the Republic of Panama, locals returned to find their beach tattered and abused.

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Ten Ways to Save Green by Going Green

Going green inherently saves money by using less, we save more, but some big-ticket items can cost a lot. I’d love to install solar panels on my roof or a wind turbine in my backyard so I’d never have to see another PG&E bill again, but the reality is that I simply can’t afford either of those.

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The Economics of Climate Change in the Caribbean

The UN Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean (ECLAC) is teaming with the UK's Dept. of International Development to produce country-by-country assessments of the probable economic impacts of climate change on the Caribbean.

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Matt Damon, Wyclef Jean visit Haiti city in ruins

There were cries of adulation -- and also of hunger -- as Matt Damon and Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean toured the flood-ravaged city of Gonaives on Sunday to call attention to the widespread suffering. Tropical storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike submerged the city and cut off roadways in and out.

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Haiti city hit by storms needs clean water, food

Floods that devastated a Haitian city and killed hundreds threaten to trigger a health crisis and fresh outbreaks of food riots in the impoverished Caribbean country.

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Want Your Own Wind Turbine? Here's How To Build One

But small-scale turbines are perhaps a more exciting realm of development. The standard, propeller-style turbine is well established, and there are many suppliers for this kind of generator in a range of sizes.

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Sunflowers: A Fuel of the Future?

Sunflowers are already used for oil production and to make biodiesel— now scientists want to look into its viability as an ethanol producer in the state of Georgia and beyond.

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Alton Brown's "Good Eats" Going Green

Science-savvy chef Alton Brown has announced that future episodes of his hit Food Network show Good Eats will include discussions about sustainable and local food choices. Brown said he decided to make the change after noticing that many of his biggest fans were packing some extra pounds from the typical American diet that his shows promo

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Inhabitat � VIDEO: Sustainable Design at Postopolis!

A Green Design Blog, Sustainable Design Blog, Future-forward design for the world you inhabit - your daily source for innovations in sustainable architecture and green design for the home.

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September EcoMetro Green Events in Seattle

To celebrate the launch of the 2009 Chinook Book we will be celebrating at local green events around the Sound! Stop by our booths at the Sustainable Edmonds and Sustainable Ballard Festivals for your chance to learn more about the best of what’s green and local. Events include our Chinook Book 2009 edition launch party!

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Kona AfricaBike on Treehugger.com

Treehugger.com, currently the world's 18th most popular blog site according to Technorati.com, loves the AfricaBike and all it stands for. The uber impressive site is also the world's leader when it comes to the environment and green sustainability blogs. Yesterday, Treehugger posted a fantastic piece on Kona's AfricaBike. Check it out.

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2008 SRI in the Rockies Conference to Be a 'Green Meeting'

First Affirmative Financial Network and the Social Investment Forum, hosts of the 19th annual SRI in the Rockies Conference, have designed their 2008 event to be a “green meeting.” This year’s conference is expected to draw a record 700 sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) industry practitioners and professionals to Whistler, British Colum

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Environmentally Friendly Pre-engineered Steel Buildings

buildingilding design, also known as “sustainable building” is coming of age as we recognize that global resources are limited and that climate change is inevitable unless we take action now. Steel buildings are leading the way in the Green building revolution, meeting Green building design goals with innovative building design.

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Sustainable Homes from Easy Domes

The completed two-floor homes come with living room, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms and are constructed using only sustainable and recycled materials. The exterior is covered with non-toxic pinewood, and the roof is covered with grass.

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New Bacteria Could Replace Gasoline

About 10% of the UK’s fuel needs could come from a new strain of bacteria found in compost heaps.

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Green Bombs (?!?)

Green the world, and scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have taken that to the level of explosives. Researchers have added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB to improve the crystal quality and chemical purity of the material. These types of explosives are also purer and less polluting.

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The online fashion magazine : eco-fabulous style

Thread - the online fashion magazine dedicated to eco-fabulous style.

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Blood Diamonds - How To Help The Fight

Large parts of the developing world have been affected by the trade in conflict diamonds

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Documentary: "A World of Conflict"

The 14 part documentary "A World of Conflict" which follows reporter Kevin Sites on his journey to cover every major war zone in the world in one year.

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Small Farmers. Big Change.

Join our Reverse Trick-or-Treating Campaign: “When I am there [on the farm] I like to feel the fresh air, and when we are harvesting and cutting open the cacao, it’s a very beautiful thing … When I am in the cacao trees I feel very happy. With all it has given us, it’s a very beautiful thing.”

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Ethical Purchasing Forum

Ethical Purchasing Forum is a space for ongoing dialogue and collaboration, designed to bring together active citizens to explore trade issues and expand ethical trade.

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Business Ethics Institutions

Approaching Ethics (an outline of various ways to approach a decision provided by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics) * Decisions And Ethics Center at Stanford University * Ethical Decision Making, a PowerPoint presentation by Ernest A. Kallman and John P. Grillo * Ethical Decision Making - Representative Publication

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Canadian Evaluation Society - Ethics

CES GUIDELINES FOR ETHICAL CONDUCT
Evaluators are to be competent in their provision of service.

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Government Officials Tried To Rewrite Ethics Rules To Accomm

According to the new Interior Department Inspector General (IG) report, nearly a third of the Denver Minerals Management Service’s 55-person office “received gifts and gratuities from oil and gas companies.”

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Interior Dept. Officials Embroiled in Energy Ethics Scandal

Corruption at the highest levels of government. Just another example of how our government is completely out of control with no ethics whatsoever.

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Palin's Ethics Scrapes May Undercut Pledge to End Old Politi

These incidents raise ``some serious questions about her judgment and serious questions about her standards of ethics in public service,'' said James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in Washington.

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McCain Bundler, Booted for Ethical Probs: Works 4 Palin

Just like a bad penny, they keep turning up. New Jersey Star-Ledger reports that now, a former IDT officials - previously booted from McCain's campaign for his firm's ethics problems -- has resumed a new, more prominent, role on McCain's team -- specifically, overseeing Sarah Palin's travel, schedule and communications operations.

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WSJ.com - Ethics Adviser Warned Palin About Trooper Issue

A Palin adviser urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of Alaska's police chief.

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Will biotech change pharma ethics?

Colleges have become patent farms, and researchers have increasingly looked to starting their own companies as the way to profit from their work. So which side will win? Will the industry’s ethics improve as we move into this new era? Or will the universities’ ethics, in time, deteriorate?

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Palin's Ethics Scrapes May Undercut Pledge

Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate sent a signal that he would end business as usual and cronyism in government. Her record shows the Alaska governor engaged in some of the same practices she and McCain now condemn.

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The best green and eco-friendly shopping online

As our actions contribute to global warming like never before in history, more and more people are considering the ethics of what they buy and use. Is it green? Is it fair-trade? Is it sustainable? Is it recyclable? These are the questions consumers are beginning to ask when shopping.

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Palin Ignores Ethics Adviser,Smears Troopergate Investigator

Salon reports that Sarah Palin disregarded the advice of her ethics adviser, a former U.S. Attorney and Republican stalwart, who informed her that she probably had to comply with the Alaska House investigation alleged abuses of power. As governor, Palin fired Alaska's public safety commissioner because he refused to fire her estranged ...

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Morality Quiz/Test your Morals, Values & Ethics - Your Moral

Rate yourself against liberals, conservatives (and who knows who else) on a variety of scales. Fun and a serious research project too.

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Supervision: Ethical and Legal Considerations

Bernard and Goodyear, (1998) describe the major legal issues for clinical supervisors as malpractice, the duty to warn, and direct and vicarious liability.Malpractice - this refers to harm caused by negligence and is more likely for supervisors to be based on the alleged inadequate performance of their supervisee...

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Ethical SEO top tips

A nice, straight forward article looking at some simple ethical SEO ideas anyone can use to promote their website.

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What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying

How people spend their discretionary income – the cash that goes to clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol – depends a lot on where they live. People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics, etc.

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An Ethical Blank Cheque

British and US Mythology About the Second World War Ignores Our Own Crimes and Legitimizes Anglo-American Warmaking

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From Banners to Reusable Shopping Bags

Talk about creative recycling! An agency in Brazil is promoting the recycling of used banners into reusable shopping bags, and actually teaching poor communities how to make, market and sell them.

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Report: Climate Wrongs & Human Rights by Oxfam

In failing to tackle climate change with urgency, rich countries are effectively violating the human rights of millions of the world’s poorest people.

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The Number One Rule of "GREEN BUSINESS"

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India’s First Green Housing Project Completed (pics)

According to the Planning Commission, India will need to generate at least 700,000 MW of additional power by 2030 to meet growing electricity demands. India will certainly be looking towards alternative energy sources to generate a substantial portion of this energy.

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Green Party takes on Electoral College

Green civil action seeks to democratize the Electoral College by enforcing 14th Amendment voter protections, names Vice President Cheney as defendant! The Green Party's national platform endorses a constitutional amendment abolishing the Electoral College and providing for the direct election of the president by instant runoff voting.

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How to turn gas guzzlers into green machines

How much gasoline could US citizens save by driving around in light-weight hybrid vehicles? Up to half what they currently use, say scientists at MIT.

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The Landmark Cyber Park: India’s Cutting Edge "Green" IT Hub

The iconic park has been designed by Christopher Charles Benninger Architects, a reputable design house that aims to “seek the poetry in the place, the lyricism in the built-forms and vibrancy in the inhabitants’ lives.” The project is scheduled to be completed over the next three years.

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Japan Launching Eco-Rigs to Provide Food, Power

In just under a decade, we can expect to see a new form of sea monster take to the waves off Japan’s shores. Giant eco-rigs are Japan’s answer to diminished fish stocks and high energy prices.

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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales working on new Wikia Green

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and owner of Wikia, just went all ecogeek on us. Wikia focuses on creating deep-diving wikis in particular subjects (usually extraordinarily dorky subjects, like Star Wars or World of Warcraft.) But today Wikia launches a whole new wiki devoted to and only to the environment at green.wikia.com.

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Green Cement May Set Carbon Emissions Fate In Concrete

Stanford Professor invents a green cement that could eliminate the huge amounts of carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by the mfrs of the everyday cement used in concrete for buildings, roadways and bridges. His vision of eliminating a large source of the world's greenhouse CO{-2} has gained traction with both investors & environmentalists.

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Google pulls the plug on eco-friendly search engine

Well, saving the environment from the comfort of our computer chairs felt good while it lasted. Google has ended its partnership with "green" search engine Forestle, saying that the site offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links.

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Green Cement is Carbon Neutral from Power Plants

The Geological and Environmental Sciences Professor has invented a new type of cement that is carbon neutral—a huge innovation for a material whose production process normally spews vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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Ethical Corporation: Essay - Corporate social opportunity

Ethical Corporation magazine is a FREE monthly global business publication dedicated to providing companies around the world with practical advice and examples of how to successfully integrate responsible corporate practice into their management systems.

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Timberland's Jeff Swartz on Corporate Responsibility

No one preaches corporate responsibility quite like Timberland's Jeff Swartz. But with his company's revenue soft and the stock price tumbling, is his own job sustainable?

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Corporate Social Responsibility Jobs

Site that looks at Corporate Social Responsibility Jobs and how you can make a career out of doing something good for society.Go on make the world a better place by what you do every work day!

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Fairtrade @ Topshop

With all the greenwashing going on lately, it’s important to KNOW where your clothes/shoes/accessories come from by doing your own independent research and using your own judgment. I’m not going to say that baby steps aren’t important, and I do believe that every little bit helps, but if ethical sourcing and business practices are important to you

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The Morality of Economics

As Obama reveals his more "progressive" economic views, its important to look at the morality of what he proposes.

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eBay launches ethical shopping website

In a move that could shake up the future of consumerism, ethical shopping has gone mainstream. Capitalising on the ethical shopping trend sweeping the world, eBay has launched a new trading website for environmentally friendly products made using natural, organic, or recycled materials.

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Giftag. An Emerging social shopping platform.

Wish list creation from any website

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IMSA Leader Speaks on Why Ethics Matter at NAIFA Convention

MARKET WIRE via COMTEX -- Today, Timothy F. Kneeland, President of Life Investors Insurance Company of America, an AEGON company, addressed the membership of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) at its annual convention in San Diego, CA, about why ethics matter in a crowded and sometimes confusing marketplace.

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Norway excludes Rio Tinto over environmental damage - 9 Sept

Investment Pensions Europe - IPE.com is Europe's premier pensions web site, providing daily news, articles, web conferencing, white papers, links and more for the entire pensions community. Our suite of web products encompasses.

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Rio Tinto Fails The Green Test - Forbes.com

Norway's Government Pension Fund has blacklisted the mining firm over environmental concerns.

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Going Green Might Mean Seeing Green

Where consumers are more environmentally aware then ever companies are finding out if they are not in the know about "being Green" then they will not be in the green so to speak. More & more we hear about what companies are & what companies are not environmentally friendly.

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New Ipod Nano!!!! toxic free!!!!

The all new Ipod nano in its slim case and reverted vertical design brings a fresh new look to the Apple Ipod line.Includes accelerometer and 8GB is only $149!!! 16GB $199!!!! Plenty of colors to choose from!!!

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Norway fund drops Rio Tinto on ethical grounds | Reuters

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's sovereign wealth fund has sold its entire $850 million stake in mining group Rio Tinto, blaming it for environmental damage in Indonesia, the government said on Tuesday.The

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Tied in ethical knots at the supermarket? New shopping Guide

It was good to see a loaf of bread with a biodegradable wrapping in the supermarket on Saturday - until I saw that its sodium content was 600mg per 100mg (and anything over 500 mg per 100g of food is high). Deciding

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Whole Foods Market Signs Agreement with Farmworkers

Whole Foods Market, the world’s leading natural and organic foods supermarket and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the Florida-based farm worker organization spearheading the growing Campaign for Fair Food, announced today that the two will work in partnership to help improve wages and working conditions for Florida tomato pickers.

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Mexican Food Company Switching to Biodegradable Packaging

I grew up on this bread and I am so happy they are taking steps to go green. Check it out.

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Paper vs Plastic

They say paper is the more eco-friendly choice. I was surprised.

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Choosing a more ethical way to eat

Some think vegetarianism a lifestyle choice but one author says there are good environmental reasons for it, writes Sherrill Nixon.

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Ethical Sourcing

The goal of MEC's ethical sourcing blog is to encourage an informed dialogue on what�s happening in factories everywhere and what the root causes are.

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Ethical Green Web Hosting

Ethical Web HostingEthicalHost is dedicated to providing professional, low cost, ethical web hosting services that make a difference in the environment and in people's lives and communities. We donate 10% of our pre-tax profits to social and environmental organizations. At Ethicalhost

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Greenopolis Live - Nike Considered

Greenopolis and Nike are hosting an online chat about Nike's green efforts. Should be interesting and different.

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Ethical Directory Ethical Business Listings

Directory for businesses and companies with ethical business practices including Corporate Social Responsibility, fair trade and environmental.

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What Makes a Company Socially Responsible? | Global Investme

Should a company be recognized for its social responsibility by doing things external to its core business?

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Ethical Bean Coffee Company | Fair Trade Organic Shade Grown

Ethical Bean Coffee Company roasts only 100% Fair Trade Certified and certified organic shade grown coffees from around the world. We're committed to ensuring small-scale farmers receive a fair price for their efforts, sustaining their businesses and providing a decent standard of living for their families. We believe fair trade is a better way

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The Fair Trade movie is coming to the UK!

Check this out. A really cool event called Souled Out ‘08 is showing The Fair Trade on Saturday, October 4th, at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center. Check out their website for event details. It is showing at 3:30 and 5:30 in the afternoon. Says director Martin J. Clarke, “We’re really excited about what this will add to our programme.”

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Real organic stuff

A family company that's making and selling 100% certified organic stuff across its entire range. No pretending here.

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Indigo Ocean Trading - Fair Trade Jewellery

Indigo Ocean Trading is an online shop dedicated to bringing you stunning hand crafted Fair Trade products created by highly skilled people from places such as Afghanistan, Nepal, Indonesia, South Africa and India. Based in Buckinghamshire, Indigo Ocean provide fair trade jewellery, incense, toys and gifts from all around the world.

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Artisan Jewelry and Fair Trade Jewelry

All you want to know about Artisan jewelry and fair trade jewelry from around the world

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Ethics Nanotechnology

A starting point for exploring ethical issues in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics

The Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) is a body of external experts established in November 2001 by three Canadian Research Agencies -- the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) (SSHRC), to support th

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The Ethical Code

Demonstrate your commitment to high standards - Join the Ethical Code Program

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Ethics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life. It is significantly broader than the common conception of analyzing right and wrong. A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that is simply not satisfying, which is held by many philosophers to be more important than moral conduct.

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The Ethical Funds Company

Know what you own: Learn about the differences your investments can make with Ethical Funds.

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Green Cleaning Answer to Green Washing

Most people don't know that cleaning product companies aren't required to tell consumers what the ingredients are--they're often toxic. If you want to learn how to make your own green cleaners, check out this story!

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Bloggers Unite to Make a Difference - Train for Humanity.org

What – Getting Fit + Social Media + Blogging = Social Good: Raising funds for orphans & refugees who have been affected by genocide and civil war

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Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose?

Is there a new blogger scandal brewing? Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks seems to think so. Allen takes issue with the new video blog Webb Alert (which mentioned Read/WriteWeb today), saying that the blog doesn't disclose its connection with advertising network Federated Media (which hosts it and sells advertising for it)....

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Ethics of using neighbors open WiFI

I was wondering if it was legal..."If you're going to steal—no, let's say borrow—your neighbor's Wi-Fi access, you might as well do it right. Step one: Lose the guilt. The FCC told me that they don't know of any federal or state laws that make it illegal to log on to an open network."

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Pakistan journalists propose code of ethics

Journalists in Pakistan are looking to establish of code of ethics that seem to remind the public and the journalism community that media independence is important.

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Marketing Ethics, Success Through 'Fair Play'

Good little story about morals and ethics and there application in the Marketing/Sales Industries. Not all marketers are unscrupulous, many are good honest people like you and me. A good marketer presents what the best of what the market desires.

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Got Working Ethics?

Real story about the working ethics. Is that fair or not?!

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Bluffton University - Bluffton University Ethics Case

Bluffton University - Bluffton University Ethics Case Competition

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ETHICAL HACKING group best articles available on the

THIS SITE LISTS THE BEST RESOURCES AND CONCEPTS TO BECOME AN ETHICAL HACKER

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Ethics of GARCIA

Ethics of job automation.

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The Definition of Morality and Ethics

Most people think they understand morality and ethics.

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Business ethics

Article about business ethics

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Ethics

You can legislate behavior but not ethics. That is the reason for so much failure in business, government, and education.

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Sales and Marketing Ethics

Small Business selling Ethics

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Bussiness Code Of Ethics

As a branch of 'Applied Ethics', Business Ethics attempts to apply theoretical ethics to the business.

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Importance Of Ethics In Business , Ethics Law

Importance Of Ethics In Business , Ethics Law

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Creating a Digital Spiritual and Ethical Will

Learn how to create a digital spiritual ethical will. Step by step instructions.

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Creating a Digital Spiritual and Ethical Will

Learn how to create a digital spiritual ethical will. Step by step instructions.

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The Splintered Mind: Ethics Professors

Discourse on Ethics

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New stem cell technique may help solve political, ethical debate

A group of U.S. scientists has for the first time extracted stem cells from human embryos without destroying a budding life in the process.

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Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End

"Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989, envisioned a platform on which everyone in the world could communicate on an equal basis. But his vision is being threatened . . ."

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Is Trent Lott Leaving Senate To Dodge New Ethics Law on Lobbying?

After Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott announced his resignation this week, it was widely speculated that the Mississippi Republican was quitting in order to avoid new ethics rules that require senators to wait two years, instead of one, before becoming paid Capitol Hill lobbyists. Democracy Now! speaks with Sarah Dufendach of Common Cause.

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New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns

Two teams of scientists are reporting today that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo, a feat that could quell the ethical debate troubling the field. All they had to do, the scientists said, was add four genes. The genes reprogrammed the chromosomes of the skin cells..

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Reid: ethics reform, minimum wage and stem cell research head the agenda

Ethics reform, a higher minimum wage and more money for stem cell research are the top items on the Senate agenda next year, incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday in an interview with The AP. Reid said he will tackle those priorities after cleaning up the "financial mess" that the outgoing Republican leadership has left

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100 Million Green Facts You Didn’t Know About Junk Mail

100 Million Trees Are Cut Each Year to Generate Junk Mail. A report by ForestEthics, the nonprofit environmental organization whose mission is to protect endangered forests, has made a very startling revelation: that there are 100 million green reasons why junk mail are an annoying intrusion.

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Researchers seize huge Spam Botnet - Face Ethics Dilemma

"Kraken Botnet Infiltration Triggers Ethics Debate...Researchers seize control of one of the world's largest spam-spewing botnets, but there is disagreement about what should happen next."

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Cam'ron: Snitching Hurts "Code Of Ethics"

In an interview to air this Sunday on '60 Mins', rap star Cam'ron says there's no situation — including a serial killer living next door — that would cause him to help police in any way, because to do so would hurt his music sales and violate his "code of ethics."

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Sexy robots and the future of robotic ethics

The race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a “code of ethics” for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. Dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Henrik Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years”.

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What if... Ethical Questions Posed Being Polled by the BBC

"Suppose you could save five lives by taking one - what would be the correct thing to do? Such ethical dilemmas provide classic "experiments" for philosophers. Here the Magazine presents four such quandaries and asks readers to vote on what they think is right." See the answers to the polls after voting.

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**Republican Fires Employee For Confirming that He Violated Ethics Rules

A reporter uncovered documents showing that Republican Congressman Tim Murphy (R - PA) violated Congressional ethics rules by having members of his Congressional staff work on his re-election campaign. A member of Murphy's staff was questioned by a reporter and confirmed his ethics breaches. Murphy reacted by firing the employee.

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Anesthesiologist violates ethics, joins MO execution team

Despite the medical profession’s ethical guidelines against it, an anesthesiologist has joined the team that will carry out executions in Missouri. With all the pieces of its execution team apparently in place, the state is now ready after a hiatus of 2½ years to once again execute condemned prisoners whenever the MO Supreme Court issues the order.

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Ethical storm as scientist becomes first man to clone himsel

Critics fear the technique could be exploited by mavericks to make cloned babies and accused the scientists of reducing the miracle of human life to nothing more than a factory of spare parts.

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Must Read: Japan's Killer Work Ethic Is Killing Japense

Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it -- karoshi.There is a national karoshi hotline, a karoshi self-help book and a law that funnels money to the widow and children of a salaryman (it's almost always a man) who works himself into an early karoshi for the good of his company.

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30 U.S Officials Who Stood Up Against Bush Administration

Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released its newest study, Those Who Dared: 30 Officials Who Stood Up for Our Country, recognizing the brave individuals who have acted and spoken out against unethical and dishonorable conduct in the Bush administration. Link to summary and a full PDF report.

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The Ethical Dilemmas of Immortality

several ethical and moral arguments that have cropped up in recent years as labs around the world aim at the dream of immortality, or at least to extend lives well beyond the century mark.

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Do We Need a Code of Ethics for Robot Use?

An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea. It is being put together by a five member team of experts that includes futurists and a science fiction writer.

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Republicans block resolution calling for an ethics investigation into Foley

The clerk reads the resolution calling for an ethics investigation into Foley - Republicans boo Nancy Pelosi when she asks for a recorded vote.

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The list of Jack Thompson ethics investigations by the Florida Bar

The story summarizes three of the ethics investigations held against Jack Thompson. It also includes the actual legal documents for each case and some funny hghlights.

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John McCain Trashes American Workers

A rare videoclip of John McCain from April 2006, trashing the work ethic of American workers. In it, he doubts that any American would pick lettuce, even if offered $50 per hour.Just another example of how out of touch the man who can't keep track of his houses really is.

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Video: Female reporter shoved against shipping containerby police officer a

Aug. 3, 2007LOS ANGELES At a public event in Long Beach Friday morning, police officers accompanying Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa scuffled with reporters asking about the mayor and his girlfriend, Mirthala Salina, who was disciplined Thursday as a result of ethics violations at KVEA-TV, the Telemundo local station in Los Angeles.

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Hackers are all B'stards now

The morals and ethics that govern our real world just do not exist online.

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The 100 Worst Corporate Citizens

There's no point in rewarding companies that play pick and choose when it comes to business ethics.

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"I'll Compost Your Corpse" - BBC's ethical man explores burial alternative

The BBC's ethical man series has covered all aspects of trying to live a modern, ethical life. As the series comes to an end he explores a viewers offer to compost his corpse, and all the technical and legal difficulties that would stand in his way.

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Norway pulling money out of U.S. companies because of their lack of ethics

Norway has amassed a fortune of more than $300 billion over the last decade...but rather than managing their monstrous nest egg simply for the best returns, the reluctant billionaires of Norway are using the money to advance an ambitious ethical code...last June, Norway added Wal-Mart Stores to its blacklist for child labor issues...

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What I Learned at Hacker Camp

It's easy to create malicious code, penetrate firewalls, and steal personal and financial information. "Ethical hacker" Andrew Whitaker can show you how.

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Top 5 White Hat Hackers of All-Time

Often referred to as Ethical Hackers, these non-criminal hackers are hired by companies to examine and test the integrity of their systems.

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Wal-Mart's Own Rules Get Employees Fired

An employee who scrupulously followed the company's own ethics guidelines may find herself out of a job

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Junk Mail Produces as Much CO2 as 9 Million Cars

A report by the group ForestEthics estimates that destroying forests to make paper for junk mail releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as 9 million cars.

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Why P.E.T.A. is bullshit

Watch as Penn & Teller uncover the truth behind the lie that is the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The last 3 minutes of the video are priceless. I never knew PETA was so shady.

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SNL's Hillary Clinton: I have no ethical standards

How quickly SNL turned on Mrs Clinton!

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The ethics of Stealing Wifi

A recently released study by a security firm says that using an open WiFi network without permission is stealing. Ars looks at the ethics of open WiFi

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How To Become A Hacker

A Guide on How To Become A Ethical Hacker

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Testicles yield 'ethical' stem cells

Men's testicles may provide an “ethical” source of embryonic stem cells (ESCs), suggest new experiments in mice.

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Anchorage Daily News Says Palin is Stonewalling

"Gov. Sarah Palin is taking the wrong approach to Troopergate. She should be practicing the open and transparent, ethical and accountable government she promised when running for governor and boasts about now that she's on the national stage. Instead, Gov. Palin has begun stonewalling the..."

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An Alaskan's Perspective on Sarah Palin

A down-to-earth description of Sarah Palin's time as Alaska's Governor. It's got background about her executive experience and ethics investigation. The title: "What is McCain Thinking?" pretty much sums it up.

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The Ethics of Hell

Epicurus still matters.

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