"This is the first tribally driven planned housing development on the reservation since the creation of the traditional housing constructed over 400 years ago, and it is the only rental housing on the pueblo..."
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/D1YEDfBJfxw/3095615 http://www.care2.com/news/member/864072146/3095615 Whole Foods Market admits in an internal company memo that it sells Monsanto's genetically modified foods, while at the same time they claim to support mandatory GMO (genetically modified organism) labels.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/fWr_L8eLQBI/3096135 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3096135 Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas is visited by more than 300,000 hikers, birdwatchers and tourists annually, but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from dirty coal plants and oil refineries.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/fUAjXWoFK5Y/3094614 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3094614 Shoreline is supposed to be a place that cares about trees. We need a "stand-alone, independent tree board" that represents all of Shoreline not just one neighborhood and we need to truly enhance our urban forest
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/mRgAYMzl30E/3094661 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3094661 Jasper National Park, located in the beautiful Canadian Rocky Mountains, is a massive pristine park that is home to glaciers, soaring mountaintops, waterfalls, and various wildlife like grizzly bears, mountain goats, and wolverines.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/CaOpz6ohqh0/3094875 http://www.care2.com/news/member/315422367/3094875 Many of the countries whose forests are being clear felled are developing countries, but even many Western countries are still shaving the planet of natural habitat at an irreversible rate.

We are in the middle of a mass extinction.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/aTlY61bFCog/3093476 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3093476 The new energy secretary, Ed Davey, a Liberal Democrat, faces pressure from conservatives in the UK's coalition government. Despite not attracting a majority vote, Britain’s conservatives seem determined to destroy environmental initiatives.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/3mCr3EQCZYQ/3093856 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3093856 In 2011, the Brazilian government declared its intent to keep deforestation from ruining its Amazonian rainforest. President Dilma Roussef herself even promised not to allow more deforestation or pardon for environmental criminals.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/-se1LLA_0z0/3093917 http://www.care2.com/news/member/675040919/3093917 Environmentalists are torn over the high cost of breaking reliance on fossil fuels. Public comment has been sought, but insiders are calling the shots.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/yffVkHrwbYQ/3092165 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3092165 Australians use 3.92 billion plastic bags a year, that's over 10 million new bags being used every day. An estimated 3.76 billion bags or 20,700 tonnes of plastic are disposed of in landfill sites throughout Australia every year.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/DchvA_8ZWto/3091587 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3091587 The oil boom in North Dakota is out of control. The state officials have done little to protect the residents, the communities, the wildlife, and the landscape. It is truely the Wild West.

The North Dakota Badlands are home for the many animals;
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/eTEJHbzhEq0/3091176 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3091176 Michele White helms a school aimed at giving Detroit’s public school students exposure and access to design thinking and landscape architecture, urban planning and product design professions.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/Tefsx0CMvUA/3090057 http://www.care2.com/news/member/115779921/3090057 Despite offshore oil drilling's long record of environmental disasters the Obama administration is considering a plan to allow more offshore drilling in the Arctic. He even talked about it in his State of the Union address.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/RZD2vLvcaTw/3090827 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3090827 Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtles and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food , or simply become tangled. The manufacture of plastic bags adds tonnes of carbon emissions into the air annually.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/PNy1PXXolnw/3091385 http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3091385 Stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for American cars and trucks are essential – and your email right now to the Obama administration supporting their landmark new standards for cleaner cars and trucks can help us all take a huge step
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/RswfaVZlwVw/3090044 http://www.care2.com/news/member/870241076/3090044 Going Native: Urban Landscaping for Wildlife with Native Plants
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/3V1Kv7u0aWs/3088848 http://www.care2.com/news/member/109251791/3088848 Increase recycling rates in Colorado by implementing a refundable deposit on bottles and cans.


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/jw8Kwd4YYfQ/3089130 http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3089130 They will be permitted by the state to apply fertilizer to lawns when grass plants will not benefit, and when nitrogen stormwater runoff will do must damage to ecosystems and death to marine life.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/WGnKMnefclw/3088828 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3088828 Unless the country moves to designate four national heritage sites that would forever protect the beauty of Australia's Cape York, six new mines could soon deface the gorgeous peninsula.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/xjHPe0wc5_w/3088825 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3088825 Nitrogen is Florida’s worst ecosystem pollutant and is known as the worst pollutant of ocean ecosystems around the world. Excessive nitrogen coming off the land from fertilizer applications feed algae and other microorganisms that bloom.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/KgWxTCmC3-g/3088831 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3088831 For decades following the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, mining companies were rightly prohibited from dumping waste directly into our rivers and streams.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/VMS-2OsdpqY/3087821 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3087821 In 2002 the Bush Administration helped establish a loophole in the Clean Water Act which allows mining companies to pour often-toxic runoff into lakes and streams; this loophole still exists today and was recently fortified by a Supreme Court ruling.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/LRE_T0PnEKQ/3087918 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3087918 The Marine Debris Act will address the impacts of ocean trash, continue the Interagency Marine Debris Coordinating Committee, and develop and maintain the Federal marine debris information clearinghouse.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/SsvKvOfcS5c/3089076 http://www.care2.com/news/member/362356491/3089076 20 percent of all greenhouse gas pollution in the United States comes from the cars and light trucks we drive.

Right now, the Obama administration is finalizing new fuel-efficiency and global warming pollution standards for these vehicles
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/z28g7A9GfXg/3087464 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3087464 Yes! I pledge to be a Clean Air Advocate and help ensure that our cornerstone environmental law -- the Clean Air Act -- is used urgently and ambitiously to curb global warming and won't be diluted by hostile politicians or weak compromises this year.

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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/6aPCsApmwhY/3087468 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3087468 Legislators from Minnesota and Wisconsin are pushing a radical bill that would facilitate the construction of a $700 million bridge over a protected river. In fact, the bill would set a never-before-seen precedent as such a highway has never been allowed
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/wvMjAP-1OXk/3087492 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3087492 This week Congress will move forward with transportation bills that would fund our nation’s roads, bridges and transit systems in the coming years. This is an opportunity to reduce our dependence by building safe, convenient transportation options walking
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/WbvdR2kgKh0/3087759 http://www.care2.com/news/member/456974296/3087759 Despite Georgia solar energy pioneers attempting to develop sustainable energy methods, an outdated law makes it illegal for anybody but Georgia Power to sell electricity to a Georgia home or business.


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/gNUa0Yhpyek/3086015 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3086015 Help protect penguins, seals, minke whales and the ecosystem they need to survive. Tell Secretary of State Clinton to protect this pristine ecosystem that is threatened by industrial fishing.


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/s7I3m_kEaG8/3085597 http://www.care2.com/news/member/596642966/3085597 Few shoppers stop to consider that disposable plastic bags have a devastating impact on marine animals such as whales, seals, sea birds and turtles. More than 100,000 animals die every year after ingesting or becoming entangled in them.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/Vk3667sqfy8/3084295 http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/3084295 Unless environmentalists win their lawsuit, Miami's Biscayne Bay will be drilled and blasted for a two full years on behalf of the controversial "deep dredge." Using a flawed "if you build it, they will come" model, Florida boosters think a deeper Miami
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/MrQSJghfSeg/3082609 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3082609 Michael Gove, the UK education secretary, wants to scrap legislation requiring new schools to adhere to globally recognised environmental and health standards.


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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/CWH3RY0xUHI/3082635 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3082635 This should come as no surprise: Georgia-based power utility Southern Company is brazenly shirking standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in order to advance its own profit-motivated interests.
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/xC3VoiSrGE4/3082689 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3082689 The Ross Sea region of the Southern Ocean is a pristine coastal sea located near Antarctica. This area where the sea extends further south than any other point in the world supports a rich and dynamic ecosystem and is home to a wide array of marine animal
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/ulcRpSs5tyQ/3081865 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3081865 As concerned consumers, we believe that it is important for us to know that the airline companies with which we travel help reduce consumer waste by implementing recycling programs. Overall, airlines have the capacity to recycle nearly 500 million more
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/gdc9jpexpZI/3081896 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3081896 HOW TWO TEENS MADE A DIFFERENCE BY TEACHING THEIR NEIGHBORS TO RECYCLE
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/oVaZgbA_mfs/3082533 http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3082533 President Obama made energy a central focus of his State of the Union speech, from developing America's natural gas resources to investing in clean, renewable energy.

And he reaffirmed his commitment to "protecting our kids from mercury pollution"
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]]> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/c2nn-green/~3/xnMFVvT8biQ/3081880 http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/3081880 The production and disposal of plastic bags causes serious environmental impacts,including contamination of the environment, the deaths of thousands of marine animals each year, widespread litter and ruin of the environment, and increased waste disposal
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