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Global Briefs

Smoke Choke – Big Coal’s Big Plans to Hasten Climate Change

January 3rd, 2014 | by Natural Awakenings Staff

Environmentalists are mounting an effort to stop the coal industry from exporting millions of tons of coal to China and [&hellip

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Whale Wars – Military Exercises Threaten Sea Life

January 3rd, 2014 | by Natural Awakenings Staff

During the next five years, the U.S. Navy’s war games, using live munitions in our coastal waters, will potentially kill 186 [&hellip

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Life Threat – Evidence Mounts of GMO Dangers

January 3rd, 2014 | by Natural Awakenings Staff

The nonprofit Non-GMO Project, committed to preserving and building sources of non-GMO (genetically modified organism) products and educating consumers on [&hellip

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Eco-Skiing – White Resorts Go Even Greener

January 3rd, 2014 | by Natural Awakenings Staff

As skiers flock to snow-covered trails this winter, more ski resorts are going greener to save energy and support the [&hellip

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Power Walking

November 25th, 2013 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Shoe Insert Generates Electricity Two Carnegie Mellon graduates, Matt Stanton and Hahna Alexander, are the founders of SolePower, a company [&hellip

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Standard Returns

November 25th, 2013 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

New Sustainable Currency Geared to Stabilize World Economy The Terra, an Internet-based trade reference currency (TRC), has been launched as [&hellip

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Sustainable Solutions

November 25th, 2013 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Competition Launched to Measure Ocean Acidification As part of their mission of “making the impossible possible,” organizers of the XPrize, [&hellip

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Tagging Toxins

November 25th, 2013 | by Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp.

Online Database Identifies Safe Products SafeMarkets.org offers a new clearinghouse of information gathered by advocates investigating toxic chemicals in food, [&hellip