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Big Oil Buying Off Our Future?
By Larry Schweiger Check out this new report from the Center for Public Integrity The Global Climate Change Lobby. Fossil fuel industries are spending millions worldwide to spread fear and misinformation about climate legislation and an international climate treaty. Does...

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Senate Progress for Clean Energy & Climate Action
The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act yesterday on an 11-1 vote. Committee Republicans boycotted the vote, but even if all had voted against it, the bill would've passed comfortably. Even the one Democrat who voted against the bill, Se...

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The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act yesterday on an 11-1 vote. Committee Republicans boycotted the vote, but even if all had voted against it, the bill would've passed comfortably. Even the one Democrat who voted against the bill, Sen....
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By Larry SchweigerCheck out this new report from the Center for Public Integrity The Global Climate Change Lobby. Fossil fuel industries are spending millions worldwide to spread fear and misinformation about climate legislation and an international climate treaty. Does Big Oil think they can buy...
Mark Lovett
Mark Lovett
The level of profit (hundreds of billions) at stake is so great that the oil companies will continue to spend millions defending it.
Fri at 12:03am
Sarah Leithauser French
Sarah Leithauser French
Why don't they just go build magnetic engines/air-powered engines with all that extra dough, (coal industry could just build marine turbines, instead) then sit back, enjoy hugs, kisses, and years of applause? Legacy of good decision-making sure to be appreciated by their own children & grandchildren... I just don't get it...
Fri at 12:17pm
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Save Ice Cream! #HelpHoneyBees
Häagen-Dazs knows the importance of honeybees to ice cream. Pollination is "essential for ingredients in nearly 50 percent of our all-natural superpremium flavors," according to their website, HelptheHoneyBees.com. In an effort to raise awareness for the decline in honeybee populations around...

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This week’s Last Chance Appearances
By Larry Schweiger I’ll be speaking about my new book Last Chance this Friday November 6 in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Garden Club of Virginia Conservation Forum. I’ll also be speaking on Saturday November 7 at National Wildlife Federation’s affiliate...

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Häagen-Dazs knows the importance of honeybees to ice cream. Pollination is "essential for ingredients in nearly 50 percent of our all-natural superpremium flavors," according to their website, HelptheHoneyBees.com.In ...
Sarah Leithauser French
Sarah Leithauser French
Check out these 3 related articles (if you like to read/learn!), or AT LEAST READ THE IMPORTANT BITS HERE (I've copied & pasted them below the link to each article. Hope this helps!

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/10/20/study-high-fructose-corn-syrup-and-its-toxicity-to-the-honey-bee/
Alarming excerpt, "In the new study, Blaise LeBlanc and Gillian Eggleston and colleagues note HFCS’s ubiquitous usage as a sweetener in beverages and processed foods. Some commercial beekeepers also feed it to bees to increase reproduction and honey production. When exposed to warm temperatures, HFCS can form HMF and kill honeybees. Some researchers believe that HMF may be a factor in Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious disease that has killed at least one-third of the honeybee population in the United States... Because HFCS is incorporated as a sweetener in many processed foods, the data from this study are important for human health as well,” the report states. It adds that studies have linked HMF to DNA damage in humans. In addition, HMF breaks down in the body to other substances potentially more harmful than HMF."
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http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=222757 Pertinent excerpt: "More than 80% of the colonies fed pollen substitute or natural pollen continued to rear brood throughout the study compared with only about 30% of those fed high fructose corn syrup."

http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid=105026
Important excerpt from above article: "possible mercury contamination of these food chemicals was not common
knowledge within the food industry despite the availability of product specification sheets for mercury-grade caustic soda that clearly indicate the presence of mercury (as well as lead, arsenic and other metals). Upon further investigation, she found mercury contamination in some commercial HFCS,
which can be made from mercury-grade caustic soda.
Through this public scientist’s initiative, the FDA learned that commercial HFCS was contaminated with mercury. The agency has apparently done nothing to inform consumers of this fact, however, or to help change industry practice."

So- Even health-concious people who don't eat HFCS (by choice- but had no idea it was present in "natural honey", and fed it to their chemically sensitive child with developmental disorders (chemically induced) are inadvertantly further poisoning their children's bodies, and destroying their neurological function?!?
WE NEED TRANSPARENCY, ADEQUATE (honest/thorough) food labelling laws, Pass the KSCA (Kid safe chemical act), Overhaul the TSCA (Toxic substances control act), Support the work of EWG (Environmental working group), & Safer chemicals, Healthy families...
Thu at 4:27pm
Beth Haulum
Beth Haulum
I love the Haagen Daaz honey vanilla! I love their website too. If you click on the fields it lets you fly the bee around and you can learn some cool facts about how much the honey bees help and affect our food supply.
Thu at 8:36pm
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By Larry SchweigerThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports most of the principles for a bipartisan climate change proposal articulated recently in an editorial by Sens. Kerry and Graham.Since the Chamber has recently experienced some high profile departures over this issue, I welcome their clarifica...
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By Larry SchweigerI’ll be speaking about my new book Last Chance this Friday November 6 in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Garden Club of Virginia Conservation Forum. I’ll also be speaking on Saturday November 7 at National Wildlife Federation’s affiliate Texas Conservation Alliance in Dallas an...
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Republicans on the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee are continuing their boycott today, refusing to work on amendments to the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act. But the bill's supporters got some good news late yesterday:The prospects of enacting a Senate bill got a tiny boost Tue...
Brian Jenkins Leggero
Brian Jenkins Leggero
I think they should be docked a day's pay for every day they boycott. Don't we elect them to work for us? Are these Senators on Strike now? We shouldn't pay them until they return to work. They are striking "Clean Energy" "Creating Good Jobs" "Lessening our Dependence on Foreign Oil" "Cutting of Money to Terrorists" Shame on them! Get back to work you lazy bums!
Thu at 5:16am
Lori
Lori
Republicans really suck
Thu at 6:36am
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By using a high speed camera, a BBC natural history film crew was the first to capture the mating sequence in super slow motion.
Alexander Chow-Stuart
Alexander Chow-Stuart
Absolutely stunning. This is just beautiful - I think I may have been a spatuletail hummingbird in a previous life:)
November 4 at 6:09am
Renee Strauss
Renee Strauss
A very beautiful hummer.
November 4 at 10:24am
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A Florida Manatee in the Homosassa River in Florida Copyright (c) 2000 Wendee Holtcamp The gentle “sea cow” or Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostrus) – a subspecies of West Indian manatee – thrives ...
Joanne Colsen
Joanne Colsen
I think boat alarms are a great idea. The manatees do need our help.
November 4 at 4:50am
Mc
Mc
Sounds like these boat alarms are a "no brainer" and should be mandatory asap.
November 4 at 6:22am
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