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Your Holiday Mailbox-Detox Diet
Signs of the approaching holidays: twinkling lights, Santas on street corners, carols on the airwaves, and...a mailbox overflowing with unsolicited catalogs. Each year more than 18 billion catalogs are sent to potential shoppers in the United States, many of them printed expressly for the winter gift-giving season.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
A Community's Health in Black and White
Five years ago, Sheila Holt-Orsted's father discovered he had prostate cancer. Then she found out that she had cancer, and her neighbor had it too.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
Come Play With Us in the Blogosphere
In recent months, NRDC has launched a number of interactive Web sites in order to better connect members and the general public with NRDC experts.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
Conquering Our Invisible Energy Demons
Renovating old buildings can help curb global warming -- big time -- and put money back in owners' pockets
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
In Defense of Clean Air
When the current Bush administration took office in 2000, our natural resources were placed on the auction block, and the landmark laws designed to protect them came under attack.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
L.A. to Poor: Take a Hike
Each day, some 500,000 Los Angeles residents climb aboard city buses to get to work, to school, or to the hospital; the median household income of those riders is just $12,000 a year.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
Protecting an Alaskan Beauty
The sight of a yellow-billed loon, landing gracefully on the cool waters off Alaska's northern coast, is that of a bird calmly unaware of the threats to its survival.
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Saving an Undiscovered Sea World
Deep beneath the surface, vast communities of alien sea life make their home on underwater mountain ranges, or seamounts, most of which are completely unknown to science.
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Silicon Valley's Eco-Warrior
In August 2006, when the California State Legislature passed what has been widely touted as the most important global warming law in the United States, the environmental community cheered the dawning of a brighter, more hopeful future for the planet.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
Water Returns to Sacred Hopi Springs
In the late 1960s, Peabody Energy, an international coal mining company, entered into an agreement with the Hopi and Navajo tribes of Arizona's Black Mesa to begin what would become the nation's largest strip mining operation.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007