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The dirty fingers of the billionaire Koch brothers seem to be leaving their grubby money-stained prints all over the news lately. ThinkProgress has just released a very telling video of Republican Senator Scott Brown enthusiastically sucking up to David Koch last week in Massachusetts. In the video, Koch repeatedly licks his lips, perhaps in eager anticipation of all the money that he will make with Brown’s compliant assistance. The weird tongue gesture is actually rather creepy and reptilian.
“Take this Hammer” is a gripping film which chronicles the journey of James Baldwin as he explores the streets of San Francisco in the spring of 1963. The writer and activist delves into what life is like for black people in the city, and meets with local youth and members of the African-American community. Baldwin questions whether there is a difference for black people if they are living in Birmingham, Alabama or in the Bay Area, and he wants to see:
To effect true, lasting change, there needs to not only be education, but a change in attitude and the way we see the world. A widespread way to do that is to teach children from a young age about the importance of conservation and climate change. The California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken a [...]
An EcoLocalizer reader recently shared a great site of his, Modes of Transportation, that helps you find and compare the percentages of people that use varying modes of transportation to get to work in U.S. cities. That is, you can compare: who walks to work more, residents of New York or San Francisco; who bikes more, [...]
By Randi Ragan Plants are healing gifts that the Earth has given us – not only for nourishment, but to cure health problems and provide ingredients for a bounty of natural beauty recipes. People all over the world have known this since the beginning of time. Modern science has effectively learned how to synthesize those [...]
