Bottled water has contaminants too, U.S. study finds

The Environmental Working Group said it notified California's attorney general of its intent to sue Wal-Mart. The group wants the company to label its bottles in California with a warning of cancer-causing chemicals. Wal-Mart did not respond to a request for comment.

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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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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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How green is Apple now?

Apple says its new notebooks are among the greenest in the industry. Environmental experts are pleased, but still have questions about how recyclable they are and how much their production and use impact greenhouse gas emissions.

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How green is Apple now?

Apple says its new notebooks are among the greenest in the industry. Environmental experts are pleased, but still have questions about how recyclable they are and how much their production and use impact greenhouse gas emissions.

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Smoke and C02: how to spin global warming [video]

This new American News Project video nails the history of spin on global warming and tobacco

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CONSIDERING A HARPER GOVT?: You Can't Spin Mother Nature

No matter how much George W Bush, John Howard and Stephen Harper talk about action, the bottom line is that mother nature waits for nobody

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Urge CARBON TAX, 230 **ECONOMISTS** to CANADIAN Politicians

Jack Layton of the NDP is wrong about Dion's carbon tax apparently, so please only vote for the NDP in districts where they are a threat (IMHO). SEE http://voteforenvironment.ca for your district. To complain to the NDP for playing politics with our children's futures, contacthttp://www.ndp.ca/contact

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Urge CARBON TAX, 230 **ECONOMISTS** to CANADIAN Politicians

Jack Layton of the NDP is wrong about Dion's carbon tax apparently, so please only vote for the NDP in districts where they are a threat (IMHO). SEE http://voteforenvironment.ca for your district. To complain to the NDP for playing politics with our children's futures, contacthttp://www.ndp.ca/contact

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Shell Oil Caught Red Handed at Greenwashing

Shell Oil has been rebuked for advertising the sustainability of its Canadian tar sands project as well as a scheme to build North America's largest oil refinery. Both projects will lead to more greenhouse gases and extracting oil from tar sands is a highly inefficient process that requires the destruction of massive tracks of virgin forest.

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Help spread the word on Reddit | Vote For Environment / Vote

voteforenvironment.ca provides information about how canadians can vote strategically to prevent vote-splitting from electing a harper majority government. The successful outcome of this project projects a minority liberal government that is supported by other parties, all of whom have promised action on the serious issue of climate change.

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Oil sands: Canada's dirty secret

As oil prices soar, the search for new sources has led the world to Alberta and its vast tar sands. Now the country famed for its wilderness and clean living is caught between fuelling the world's oil-hungry economy and the environmental devastation that exploiting the tar sands produces

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CANADA: Conservative Party Platform On the Environment

The Pembina Institute provides policy research leadership and education on climate change, energy issues such as oilsands and coalbed methane, green economics, energy efficiency and conservation, renewable energy and environmental governance. We create sustainable energy solutions through research, education, consulting and advocacy.

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4 Views of the Financial Crisis From a Green Perspective

What Does It All Mean to the Effort to Curb Global Warming?

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CANADA: Harper's Green Plan "it won't cost much fellas"

"But the Conservatives also have a plan to cut emissions by 20 per cent from 2006 levels by 2020. When asked Saturday to price his own plan, Harper merely said it wouldn't cost much."Though, as usual, nothing was actually revealed to analyze!

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CANADA: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Carbon Tax

OTTAWA - With only four days left until Canadians cast their ballots, Stephen Harper refuses to tell Canadians how much more they will end up paying "on everything" as a result of his plan to regulate industry and price carbon at $65 per tonne.

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New video: not even Bush, Howard and Harper can spin mother nature

The top polluting countries in the world are meeting to talk climate change in Washington, DC this week. When will they stop talking and do something? Last time I checked mother nature isn't listening to anything we have to say.

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Canadian government faces suit over killer whale habitats

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Environmentalists are taking the Canadian government to court, demanding it use the country's Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia.

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CANADA'S Record on Climate Change and the Environment

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 for his reckless and un-Canadian

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CANADA'S Record on Climate Change and the Environment

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 for his reckless and un-Canadian

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CANADA: Pioneers on Climate Change (Video)

http://voteforenvironment.ca ; http://avaaz.ca

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CANADIAN ELECTION OCT 14: http://voteforenvironment.ca

Canadian artists have joined together to record a song sponsored by Avaaz, titled You Have a Choice, to mobilize and inspire Canadians to stop a Harper major...

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Is There a Case for Carbon Taxes?

The Tories have damned carbon taxation as a scheme to thwart Alberta’s prosperity and return Canada to discredited “tax and spend” traditions. The B.C. and federal NDP have opposed carbon taxation on the spurious grounds that the alternative cap and trade system is inherently superior.

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CANADA: HARPER'S GREEN PLAN MORE EXPENSIVE THAN DION'S !!!!

Yet, tax economist Jack Mintz has warned the economic consequences of Turning the Corner could be more dire.He said it’s difficult to estimate the costs, but taxes, levies, any costs end up getting shifted to consumers to the extent they can.

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CANADA: Green Leader Blasts NDP on Carbon Tax Stance

NDP Leader Jack Layton's opposition to a carbon tax shows he's more interested in hurting the Liberals than helping the environment, says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

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CANADA: 230 ECONOMIST'S SUPPORT "GREEN SHIFT"... LAYTON WRONG

Harper's view was dismissed by more than 200 economists who this week signed a letter encouraging politicians to put a real price on carbon dioxide emissions through a new tax to avoid facing "market failure." Suzuki is also upset at Jack Layton's New Democrats...

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CANADIAN ELECTION: Senior Bank Economists Back CARBON TAX

The days of Ontario driving the nation's economic engine are over and the province needs to embrace a "sweeping" new economic vision -- which might include a carbon levy in order to finance much-needed corporate and personal tax cuts, says a report from senior economists at the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

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globeandmail.com - Oil sands will pollute Great Lakes, repor

Talks of new refineries near the Great Lakes to help process oilsands bitumen, with not much research into the longterm effects....

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globeandmail.com - Oil sands will pollute Great Lakes, repor

Talks of new refineries near the Great Lakes to help process oilsands bitumen, with not much research into the longterm effects....

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Harper Government Suppresses Climate Report - Now

Forest fires, drought, and increased deaths from smog, heat and disease. That is the grim scenario laid out in an important Heath Canada report of the impacts to Canadians from inaction on climate change. Strangely, this report was also buried by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper

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Canada's Pope of the Environment David Suzuki on how to Vote

At the David Suzuki Foundation, we believe that the health of our environment and the vitality of our democracy go hand-in-hand. Yet because we tend to be pretty cynical about politics these days, we sometimes forget this, just as we sometimes forget what real democracy demands of all of us - and not just our elected representatives.

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Economy versus the Environment

Post a Comment The upcoming October 14th federal election may be a Canadian first - the first time environment and climate change issues might play a defining role in a federal election. While this is a positive step, Canadians should be wary of positions that ask them to choose between the economy and the environment

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Canadians urged to 'vote strategically' for the environment

Posted is National Posts news blog, watching the news so you don't have to with up-to-the-minute breaking stories, news from the Internet and takes from National Post writers.

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CANADA: YOU HAVE A CHOICE

The Canadian artists who rallied together for this effort include: K-OS, Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies, Ben Kowalewicz of Billy Talent, Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace, Sarah Harmer, Hawksley Workman, Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene.

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CANADA: ANOTHER CANADIAN CLIMATE CRIME

YEP, THAT'S WHAT WE GET FOR VOTING IN HARPER, INTERNATIONAL SHAME AND EMBARRASSMENT. SEE: http://digg.com/world_news/NEW_CAMPAIGN_Save_the_PLANET_Stop_Harper_MUSIC

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NEW CAMPAIGN: Save the PLANET: Stop Harper! (MUSIC)

Artists include K-OS, Ed from Barenaked Ladies, Sarah Harmer, Hawksley Workman, Jason Collett from Broken Social Scene

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Alberta's Oil Sands Sucking Up Volumes of Water

The architects behind the Alberta oil sands project – the largest and dirtiest energy venture on Earth -- are in for a crude awakening. And fast. That’s because their prized $150 billion "black gold" enterprise is gulping up an unsustainable amount of water. A whole river in fact.

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Alberta's Oil Sands Sucking Up Volumes of Water

The architects behind the Alberta oil sands project – the largest and dirtiest energy venture on Earth -- are in for a crude awakening. And fast. That’s because their prized $150 billion "black gold" enterprise is gulping up an unsustainable amount of water. A whole river in fact.

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CANADA'S HARPER Argues for Climate Targets... When He's 90!

CANADA'S Harper, together with BUSH, argues for climate targets, not in 12 YEARS FROM NOW, what the rest of the world pushed for, but for when HE WILL NO LONGER BE IN POWER! So, this means HE BELIEVES IN GLOBAL WARMING BUT WANTS TO PASS THE BUCK TO OUR KIDS???

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CANADA'S HARPER: 1 OF 4 AGAINST U.N. RIGHTS OF NATIVE PEOPLE

The General Assembly today overwhelmingly backed protections for the human rights of indigenous peoples, by a vote of 143 in favour to ***ONLY 4*** against (Incl. AUSTRALIA'S HOWARD, CANADA'S HARPER, and BUSH'S USA)

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Canada ranks 2nd last in G8 carbon reduction

Canada and the U.S. are the worst countries in the G8 when it comes to taking effective measures to forestall the risk of rapid and uncontrolled climate change, according to an assessment of the major industrialized countries compiled by a European-based environmental consulting firm..

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Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites

CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.Environmentalists say the process amounts to a "hidden subsidy" to mining companies,

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CANADA VOTES: If you care about toxic pollution, READ..!!

"...The result could be demands for compensation whenever an environmental law prohibits a property owner from doing something (like putting a toxic site in the middle of a community)..."

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BLOCK HARPER -Vote for environment in Canada

Make your vote count - Vote for the second favorite candidate after the conservative in your area! Block Harper and his bad (absent) environment policies.

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CANADA: PERSONAL TAXES CUT; POLLUTION TAXED: NUMBERS ADD UP!

DON'T BELIEVE HARPER -- DO THE MATH YOURSELF : VERY EASY TO FOLLOW ON THIS SITE; DO THE CALCULATIONS YOURSELF -- VERY SIMPLE TO DO

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CANADA: PERSONAL TAXES CUT; POLLUTION TAXED: NUMBERS ADD UP!

DON'T BELIEVE HARPER -- DO THE MATH YOURSELF : VERY EASY TO FOLLOW ON THIS SITE; DO THE CALCULATIONS YOURSELF -- VERY SIMPLE TO DO

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globeandmail.com - Green Party announces its first member of

Ottawa Parliament Hill has seen its first Green Party member infiltrate the halls of power.

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CANADA'S HARPER: IF GLOBAL WARMING IS BUNK, JUST SAY SO...

In a way, it is okay for Harper to be against believing in climate change BUT WHAT IS NOT OKAY IS TO PRETEND YOU BELIEVE IN IT IF YOU DON'T -- YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT: FINE, THEN HAVE THE B**LLS TO COME OUT AND SAY SO.

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Green Collar Jobs to Fuel Future Economy

With the economic downturn, many job markets seem in peril. However, investment in energy efficiency and renewable-energy strategies could create 2 million jobs in two years, economists claim.

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SHOUT FOR MORE AID: CANADIAN ELECTION: Make Poverty History

We asked all the five major party leaders what they would do about poverty, in Canada and overseas. ALL the leaders EXCEPT CONSERVATIVE LEADER STEPHEN HARPER AGREED TO ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS about their plans to fight poverty....

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On the Environment: CANADIANS Care, Harper Doesn't

voteforenvironment.ca provides information about how Canadians can VOTE STRATEGICALLY to PREVENT vote-splitting from ELECTING a NEO-CON HARPER MAJORITY GOVT ON OCT 14.

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