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Last week, I wrote about the San Francisco Healthy Meals Incentive ordinance, which would ban the inclusion of toys in unhealthy fast food meals (i.e. in Happy Meals). As I wrote previously, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee voted 3-0 in favor of the ordinance and it is now up to the [...]
Is the growth of live webcams that stream images of wildlife in their natural habitat a good thing? For the North American Bear Center in Minnesota, it is. The Center’s Den Cam has attracted so many visitors that the organization has raised $400,000 in voluntary contributions from around the world through Facebook fans and Twitter [...]
Alec Loorz, founder of Kids vs. Global Warming, began his career as a climate change activist when he was 12 years old. You read that right, 12! That’s when he saw Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” that “changed his life forever.” He became so moved that he has been speaking truth to power, organizing and [...]
This guest post comes to us from Reginald Norris, Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Clean Energy Experts. Clean Energy Experts’s mission is to increase the adoption of economically and environmentally beneficial energy solutions by educating consumers through a portfolio of websites, MyEnergySolution.com and MultifamilyG.com, on the facts about clean energy and energy efficiency, [...]
“Our communities would be better served if the criminal justice resources we currently spend to investigate, arrest, and prosecute people for marijuana offenses each year were redirected toward addressing unsolved violent crimes. In short, the present policy is causing more harm than good, and is eroding respect for the law. Moreover, we are deeply troubled by the consistent and dramatic reports of disproportionate enforcement of marijuana laws against young people of color. Marijuana laws were forged in racism, and have been demonstrated to be inconsistently and unfairly applied since their inception. These are independent reasons for their repeal.
Especially in the current economic climate, we must evaluate the efficacy of expensive government programs and make responsible decisions about the use of state resources. We find the present policies toward marijuana to be bankrupt, and urge their rethinking.”
