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School Lunches Get Healthier, But Pizza is Still A Vegetable

January 31, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Rachael Ray announced new nutrition standards for school lunches, the first major change in school meals in over 15 years. The program allots an additional six cents per school lunch—the first real increase in 30 [...]

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Keystone XL Makes No Economic Sense for America

January 16, 2012

Keystone makes no economic sense for America. Once we take into account the true cost of oil including subsidies, environmental damage, and military costs, oil is far more expensive than the alternatives. The best thing we can do for the American economy and for American businesses as a whole is to wean ourselves from oil as quickly as possible.

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US Congress Worth Over $2 Billion: Wealthy Lawmakers Mostly the Top 1 %

January 2, 2012

Do people become politicians because they are rich or are they rich because they are politicians? Whichever the case, such a high proportion of wealthy lawmakers is just not a healthy situation.

According to a Roll Call analysis of US Congress members’ financial disclosure forms, the collective net worth of American lawmakers jumped 25 percent to over $2 billion in just the last two years — with 50 of the richest Congressmen and women accounting for 90 percent of the increase.

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What Drove (or Stalled) the Sustainability Mindset in 2011?: The Year in Review

December 20, 2011

John Friedman talks about the key factors that affected how the government, wall street and main street perceived sustainability in 2011. The occupy movement, the seven billion people, the up-one-day-down-the-next-day economy, the congress and its failures all affected the sustainability mission. 2011: A year in review.

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Tax Bill Throws Obama into a Catch 22 Situation Over Keystone XL and Jobs

December 19, 2011

President Obama put off a decision on the controversial Keystone pipeline that will carry tar sands oil from Central Canada through the Central U.S. down to refineries in Louisiana. The Administration’s action requires a full environmental review – a move that puts off the pipeline decision until 2013, following the Presidential election. But the pipeline approval has raised its head again in an unlikely scenario – a tax bill to extend payroll taxes for American businesses.

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Congress Fails Our Children by Claiming Pizza is a Vegetable

November 28, 2011

Recently, America has had to come to terms with the fact that apparently, Congress thinks that pizza is a vegetable. It’s a decision that’s raised a lot of eyebrows – the tomato paste used for sauce doesn’t really seem to counteract the crust, cheese and pepperoni that make up the rest of a slice of pizza.

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Most Popular Articles of October: Gross Seat Savers, Sharks Invading a Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)

October 31, 2011

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One of the downsides of public transportation is that you can’t always expect a free seat, and you can’t save a place for yourself or a friend. But Jaymi showed us a novel solution — fake spilled ice cream cups and coffee to keep p…

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35 Congressmen Move to Kill $122 Billion in Subsidies to Big Oil

October 18, 2011

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Who likes oil subsidies? Nobody! Nobody but the oil companies, that is. But as we know, these subsidies, which American taxpayers annually spend billions of dollars on, are extremely difficult to kill. But 35 U…

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Tea Party + Coal Companies + Fox News = All-Out PR War on the EPA (Video)

October 13, 2011

It’s no accident that something as innocuous as the Environmental Protection Agency has become the right’s villain du jour — it was the result of careful coordination, especially between coal compani…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rick Perry’s Climate Censorship Takes Cues from George W. Bush

October 13, 2011

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News broke on Monday that the Texas government was working to censor a scientific report that mentioned the impacts of manmade climate change on Galveston Bay. The impacts it described, which included incr…

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