Tag: Featured
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Makers of d-CON Sue California Over Regulations on Super-Toxic Rat Poison
The makers of d-CON products have filed a lawsuit challenging a California effort to limit the sale of super-toxic rat poisons to licensed specialists. The state’s new restriction on retail sales of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, due to take effect July 1, seeks to protect wildlife and pets from accidental poisoning. Poisonings have been documented in at least 25 species…
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Teens Turning Green Embarks on Conscious College Road Tour
Teens Turning Green (TTG), a youth-led non-profit, is hosting a road tour to inform, inspire and mobilize students around sustainability projects on university campuses across the country. [caption id="attachment_328856" align="alignnone" width="500"] Teens Turning Green works to mentor leaders on each campus, offer resources and support, and create collaborative global networks of change-makers. Photo credit: Teens Turning Green[/caption] “The…
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Yale Researchers Show Why Choosing a Paleo, Low-Carb or Fat-Free Diet is Not the Healthiest Way to Go
Diets can bring about life-altering changes, but they are also the subjects of never-ending debates. Until now. According to Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and researcher Stephanie Meller, there are no winners in your favorite dietary squabbles. Low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets? It doesn’t matter. Going vegan? That’s great, but that doesn’t necessarily mean…
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Hundreds of Students Participate in Walkout, Call for Gov. Patrick to Act on Climate Change
After roughly two hundred students from across Massachusetts walked out of classes today to call for strong action on climate change, Gov. Patrick (D-MA) agreed to meet with activists to discuss a ban on the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure. [caption id="attachment_328814" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo credit: JP Lowenthal/ Students for a Just and Stable…
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Report Reveals High Risk, No Reward of Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion
A new report released today by the Sierra Club and a coalition of 13 other organizations, including the Indigenous Environmental Network, examines the proposed expansion of the Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline and concludes that there are significant threats to water, health and climate. The report, All Risk, No Reward: The Alberta Clipper Tar Sands…