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I know I’m supposed to post this year yesterday but the clean-up after the Ondoy typhoon took time and a most of my strength to accomplish that I hardly want to do anything (even think) afterwards. It was a gloomy and gold Saturday. When I woke up, I knew rain was coming from the dark skies. So I, my dad and sister prepared ourselves for it. We took all laundry in, covered our dog’s cage so she would not get wet, we prepared candles and flashlights for the possibility of blackout, etc. We take

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This is going to sound scary at first.But I agree in principal with this mornings second lead OPED in the New York Times “The Future of Our Parks.”Yes we eed to keep up with the maintenance and repairs along with the beautification of them but we as a nation have more pressing issues to attend to right now.Those issues being like Presient Barack HUSSEIN Obama sending more troops to battle the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan as General McChrystal made the request for an the controv

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At first i asked. “LORD, IS THIS ONE OF THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING?”- Thyphoon Ondoy hits the Philippines and as of September 27 2009, 5:00 pm Death toll in Ondoy to reach 75 ; 295,000 individuals affected in MM, Bulacan, Pampanga, Batangas, Laguna, Rizal, Camsur. and Still under water : 45 bgys in Metro Manila, 36 in Bulacan, and 33 in Pampanga. source: twitter.com/gma7news It’s very heart breaking seeing our co-Filipinos battling and struggling due to this calamity. It

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There are a multitude of online resources to find weather and weather-related forecasting. Local and regional news affiliates, as well as national news feeds provide consumers with comprehensive weather reporting. Many newspapers, radio stations and television outlets have some sort of weather forecasting feature available online. There are also sites solely dedicated to weather forecasting. Whichever medium you choose, they have one thing in common; they receive their information from the Natio

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From The New York Times, where you can read the entire article on exporting trash by clicking here By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: September 26, 2009 ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — When two inspectors swung open the doors of a battered red shipping container here, they confronted a graveyard of Europe’s electronic waste — old wires, electricity meters, circuit boards — mixed with remnants of cardboard and plastic. “This is supposed to be going to China, but it isn’t going anywhere,” sa

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By John McLaughlinIt was a startling admission.  Prior to passage of “Cap-and-Trade” legislation by the House of Representatives, Mr. Henry Waxman (D, CA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and co-sponsor of the bill, in responding to a question from Mr. Joe Barton (R, TX) at a May 22 hearing, admitted the following:I certainly don’t claim that I know everything that’s in this bill.  I know we left it to ….we relied very heavily on the scientists on the IPCC and others and the consens

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Medicare for All: Yes We Can by Holly Sklar – Common Dreams More Americans die of lack of health insurance than terrorism, homicide, drunk driving and HIV combined. Grandma could be dead from lack of health insurance before she turns 65 and gets Medicare – 80 percent of first-time grandparents are in their 40s and 50s. America is the only country that rations the right to health care to those 65 and older. Lack of health insurance kills 45,000 American adults a year, according to a n

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Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Despite the recent push for clean energy, coal and its exchange traded funds could still find a home as more nations join the fight to combat global warming. In fact, coal is the world’s fastest-growing fuel based on consumption. So much so that it leaves crude oil and natural gas in the dust. The demand is on the rise, too: consumption of coal grew by 5.7 for oil and 3% for natural gas. This trend is expected to

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Massive traffic pileup in Los Angeles, California “If the U.S. isn’t careful, it might get lapped” Is it just me, or is this ridiculous? I’m not a regular reader of Bryan Walsh, but he seems to be TIME magazine’s writer for all things environmental. TIME’s Bryan Walsh says China “managed to seize the moral high ground – fairly or not” in last week’s climate talks . Walsh points the finger at China–this time, strangely, not because of China’s refusal to be held accountable for the env

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by Daniel Stouffer Since the emergence of the industrial age, we have come the prolonged proceed as well as have finished poignant technological moves brazen in what is radically the reduced duration of time. Once we had detected which the hoary fuels which we find all around us could be converted to appetite as well as to illustrate have the proceed of hold up which most better, we did not demeanour back. However, 300 years after we can right away see how most repairs the celebrated expenditu

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