[From Green Daily]
Filed under: Home
Clorox has been quite busy going green these days, what with buying up Burt’s Bees and coming out with Greenworks, their line of eco-friendly home cleaning products. Soon, Clorox will have another green credential on their resume, a Sierra Club endorsement.
According to the NY Times, this will be the first product [...]

MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization illuminating the connection between money and politics, announces its partnership with Congresspedia, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation. The partnership combines Congresspedia, the citizens’ encyclopedia on Congress, with MAPLight.org’s Legislator Pages.
“In bringing their data together, MAPLight.org and Congresspedia have joined forces to bring [...]

[From AP]
By KATHY MATHESON
photo credit: Aoife city womanchile

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday said former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer without a new penalty hearing.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Abu-Jamal’s conviction should stand, but that he should get a new [...]

[Via GM Watch]
1. 10 Reasons Why Organic Can Feed the World
2. And 10 reasons GM won’t
NOTE: The following articles come from the SPECIAL REPORT: ‘The death of food as we know it’ in the current issue of The Ecologist magazine.
The premise of ‘The death of food…’ is that an entire culture of cheap mass-produced [...]

[From The Green Car Website]
March 18, 2008 Posted by: Lee
photo credit: Taekwonweirdo
There is more good news for green cars and hybrids in particular. Mark Cowling, the business development manager of CAP announced at last week’s Car Fleet Management conference that hybrid cars were holding their residual values just as well as their petrol and [...]

[From Engadget]
Filed under: Laptops

The TSA has been known to take issue with products designed in Cupertino before, but for one particular traveler, it was Apple’s thinnest laptop ever that caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his ultra-sleek slab of aluminum underneath the scanner, security managed to find enough peculiarities to remove it from the flow, [...]

[From Boing Boing]
The TSA endangered the life of child who has a surgical feeding tube in his stomach by opening up his backup tube, contaminating it. The child pleaded with the TSA officer, who said that she had to open it or refuse to allow the child to board the plane. After an Orlando television [...]

[From blackagendareport.com]
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama has become a media parade on its way to a coronation.  Journalists and leading Democrats have done shockingly little to pin Obama down, to hold him specifically responsible for anything beyond his slogans of “yes we can” and “change we can believe in”.  [...]

[While I am not a religious person at all, a number of the (non-religious) points made in this letter ring true and are not widely seen. - RS]
             by Rabbi Michael Lerner
 
 The cross-the-political-spectrum attacks on Elliot Spitzer and the intensity of the demands that he resign his office show just how far the  Right-wing sexual [...]

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