Mar
28
[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 [...]
Mar
27
MAPLight.org Adds New Research Tool to Government Transparency Toolbox
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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 [...]
Mar
27
Court: Mumia Deserves New Hearing
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[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 [...]
Mar
19
10 Reasons Organic Can Feed the World – 10 reasons GM won’t
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[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 [...]
Mar
19
Good news for green cars as hybrid cars hold their residual values
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[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 [...]
Mar
17
TSA can’t believe MacBook Air is a real laptop, causes owner to miss flight
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[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, [...]





