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As more toxic crude continues to pump into the Gulf of Mexico every day, the petroleum industry continues to make billions. Oil companies have been recklessly pouring their resources into researching new and increasingly dangerous ways to drill in deeper and deeper waters, with no comparable research into how to contain a leak at such [...]
On Wednesday, the California Assembly passed legislation prohibiting pharmacies and grocery, liquor and convenience stores from giving out plastic bags. The bill passed the California State Senate today, and if signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, it will be the nation’s first statewide plastic bag ban. But the bill doesn’t stop there… customers will be charged [...]
The First Energy power plant on the Maumee River at the western end of Lake Erie accounts for $30 million in fish losses per year, according to a study released this week. While the sad fate of fish and wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico draws international attention, massive, chronic (and government-authorized) carnage of Lake [...]
We at the Wigg Party have been working to make our neighborhood in San Francisco a leader in the transformation to sustainability and resilience. One of the challenges we’ve faced is simply deciding what words to use to describe our movement. Here’s a post we did about the recuperation of the terms and symbols of [...]
