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    Do you food scrap recycle? What are the opportunities in your county/state?

    Food scrap recycling is generally a city/county based program where household food waste can be recycled by a municipal agency. Fortunately, my county, Alameda County in California (pop. ~1.5 million) has been diverting millions of pounds of food waste from the landfill since 1990. Food scrap...
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    Mitt Romney responds to allegations of bullying gay classmates in high school.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/10/national/w083439D47.DTL Mitt Romney apologized Thursday to classmates he may have offended by "hijinks and pranks during high school" and insisted he didn't know that some were gay. The Republican presidential candidate issued the...
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    GOP State Senator arrested with DUI admits he's gay.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=58665
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    U.S. EPA moves to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

    http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/40798
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    President Obama to lay out Afghanistan exit plan in tonight's address to the nation.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8388939.stm
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    Republican National Committee cancels insurance for abortions after providing it since 1991.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/14/MNUH1AJS8I.DTL
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    Rate of Amazonian deforestation at record low, drops 45% since economic recession.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8358094.stm
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    Canada's oil sands emit more greenhouse gases than entire countries.

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/13/greenpeace-oilsands.html
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    Drinking from plastic water bottles raises level of bisphenol-A chemical in body by 70%.

    http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/40591
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    UN reports 'substantial' damage to historic Babylon site during U.S. invasion of Iraq.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8142929.stm American troops and contractors caused substantial damage to the archaelogical site at Babylon in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, a new UN report says. The report says key structures were harmed and the site was subjected to "digging, cutting...
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    California's redwoods > your region's trees.

    Y'all ain't got #%#$. Sequoia sempervirens latin for ever-living. These magnificent trees can live to over 3,000 years old and grow taller than 350 ft. Hands down thecoolest trees in the world.
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    2009: The year of the shark. Boycott shark-finning for soup.

    http://www.stopsharkfinning.net/shark-finning.htm
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    Do you frequent your area's parks?

    Every single one of those green areas are parks in the Bay Area. Redwood forests, tidal marshlands, rivers, sandy ocean beaches, mountains, rolling hills andoak groves are all all within an hour's drive. Within my local area alone there are a variety of parks all featuring breathtaking natural...
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    Viva La Revolución! Cuba's socialist revolution marks 50 years.

    The 26th of July Movement, a socialist-nationalist campaign led by a young Fidel Castro in 1953, culimanted in the overthrow of Cuban President GeneralFulgencio Batista January 1st 1959. Comprised of Cuban political exiles, Castro, among others including Che Guevara, waged a highly publicized...
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    Blackwater guards receive 14 counts of manslaughter for attacking unarmed Iraqis

    http://www.breitbart.com/...UN0380&show_article=1
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    Milk: The Harvey Milk story. First openly gay official elected in U.S. history.

    I saw this movie the past weekend in San Francisco. It's the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly homosexual person elected to public office. He waselected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (a group of officials that vote on issues pertaining to the city) in 1977. He was arguably the...
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    Military recruiters: on campus or otherwise. Your thoughts?

    How do you feel seeing military members recruiting young men to the armed service, especially during war time? I see them everywhere: the mall, job fairs, and,most visibly, on college and even high school campuses. UC Santa Cruz made national headlines when Students Against War protests...
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    3/20/08 The War on Iraq 5 years on .. your thoughts/feelings + facts/figures

    Launched March 20th 2003 by President George Bush under the since debunked accusation of WMD possession (violating a 1991 treaty), a multinational"Coalition of the Willing" invaded Iraq. Despite wide criticism of the supporting intelligence and lacking evidence from United Nations...
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    The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

    At the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows and the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blows and no birds ever sing excepting old crows... is the Street of the Lifted Lorax. And deep in the Grickle-grass, some people say, if you look deep enough you can still see, today, where the...
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