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Due to persistent work by numerous animal protection organizations like the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and many others, America may be close to a tipping point in reforming policies that promote excruciatingly inhumane treatment of chickens, pigs and other creatures in the nation’s animal agriculture industry, says the first graduate of the Humane [...]
Two of my favorite public figures, Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart, recently sat down together and talked at length about everything from the media, politics and the Rally to Restore Sanity, to Bush, corruption, Iraq, torture and war criminals. It is incredibly satisfying to hear two well-informed smart people, who clearly greatly respect one another, [...]
The International Tar Sands Resistance Summit begins one week from today near Missoula, Montana. Organized by Indigenous Environmental Network and Northern Rockies Rising Tide, the summit has the goal of building an international movement to effectively resist the most destructive industrial project on the planet, the Alberta Tar Sands. Concerned citizens and individuals representing tar [...]
Cars have gotten a hugely disproportionate bulk of transportation funds in the U.S. for decades, over half a century even. But with more and more people realizing this is bad for our health, bad for our pocketbooks, bad for the environment, and bad for the vibrancy of our cities, this is (slowly) changing. One of the [...]
