Posted by at Dec 21st, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: News , Polit-eco , Activism Residents in Ethiopia are lining up to get free, low-energy light bulbs from the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation. The EEPC says the bulbs use less energy and last longer, cutting both power bills and power consumption. Most [...]
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Posted by at Dec 19th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Activism Did you neglect to get around to sending holiday cards? Is it too late to put some cards into the snail-mail? Are you on the fence on whether e-cards are tacky for the holidays? Here is your answer! Mokugift is an online tree [...]
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Posted by at Dec 17th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: News , Activism , Plants and Wildlife You know what Santa hates? The cruel, inhuman and torture-filled fur trade. At least that’s what French anti-fur activists Fourrure Torture, aka ” Fur Torture ” would have you believe. Fourrure Torture took to the streets of Nice last [...]
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Posted by at Dec 17th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Activism , Plants and Wildlife We’re on PETA’s side on this one. Orangutan Outreach just sent a heads up that The ZOO of Northwest Florida is in the process of selling Indah, their three year old baby orangutan and daughter of Sara, [...]
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Posted by at Dec 15th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Health , Polit-eco , Activism Ever wondered about the environmental implications of your Christmas ham? Many porkers in the U.S. are grown in facilities with thousands of animals. Putting this many of pigs in one place sometimes makes the pigs and the people around them unhappy, particularly because [...]
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Posted by at Dec 15th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Home , Activism I’m a huge fan of Green Dimes , a wonderful service that gets you off junk mail lists. Just imagine: a world without catalogs, credit card offers or coupons for free delivery from that weird restaurant down the street. This nearly perfect, [...]
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Posted by at Dec 12th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Celebrities , Activism Thank you PETA for trying again to make us hate fur. Or at least hair . The latest star of their “I’d rather go naked” campaign is Khloe Kardashian , also know as the third prettiest Kardashian sister. Over at [...]
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Posted by at Dec 11th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Health , GreenTech , Activism In the early 1960’s, during a vacation in the Caribbean, one of Heineken’s brewers noticed two major problems: the beaches were covered with discarded beer bottles and the people didn’t have reasonably-priced building materials. Seeking to kill two birds with [...]
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Posted by at Dec 10th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Food , Kids and Parenting , Activism Lots of crazy carnivorous proposals have been thrown around over the last year to promote a more climate-friendly form of meat-eating. Just off the top of my head, I can remember reading stories about the benefits of eating: [...]
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Posted by at Dec 9th, 2008 in Activism
Filed under: Celebrities , Activism Hunter, fur coat enthusiast, and mediocre at best rap-rock-country crooner Kid Rock has says he’s willing to ” go to war ” with PETA should they try dousing one of his fur coats with red paint or any other foreign substance. In an interview with [...]
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