http://www.greenchange.org/ Green Change is a community of people with Green values: justice, grassroots democracy, sustainability and non-violence. http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5574 <div class="text blurb">"That is an incredibly muscular vision of when you would overrule precedent," which usually guides justices in new cases, Harris says. "That makes it look like this is a court that's ready to go."</div> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5574 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5573 <div class="text blurb">Thousands of tons of trash are thrown into the sea each year, endangering humans and wildlife. A classified German government report obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE indicates that efforts by the United Nations and the European Union to clean up our oceans have failed entirely. </div> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5573 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5572 <div class="text blurb">The chances of default on the government-backed loans are "very high-well above 50 percent," according to the Congressional Budget Office. "If they go belly-up, taxpayers get to pay it," said Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear. "</div> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5572 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5571 <div class="text blurb">A trio of House lawmakers yesterday introduced a bill to block U.S. EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, marking the latest in a string of bipartisan attacks against forthcoming climate rules.</div> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5571 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5570 <div class="text blurb">While researchers and scientists investigate the cause of our diabetes, obesity, asthma and ADHD epidemics, they should ask why the FDA approved a livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs, according to angry farmers who phoned the manufacturer.</div> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5570 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5569 <div class="text blurb">The US Treasury in conjunction with the Department of Housing and Urban Development should put in place for the next 18 months a home price insurance program providing a form of catastrophic loss protection for homebuyers taking a chance on the current housing market.</div> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5569 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5568 <div class="text blurb">Adm. Mike Mullen, the nation's top uniformed officer, made a strong appeal for allowing gays to serve openly in the military, a shift that highlighted the Pentagon's growing support for lifting the "don't ask, don't tell" law.</div> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5568 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5567 <div class="text blurb">While many in the public and on Capitol Hill have been angered by outsize paydays at financial firms, the AIG retention bonuses have been especially rankling because the company has received a federal rescue package of about $180 billion in loans, stock investments and other commitments from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.</div> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5567 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5565 <div class="text blurb">A key bloc of Democrats has a climate Plan B: Ditch cap and trade for an energy bill filled with industry giveaways.</div> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5565 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5564 <div class="text blurb">The reduction goals announced by the nations responsible for the bulk of the world's greenhouse gas emissions are likely to fall short of what many scientists say is needed to limit the disastrous effects of climate change, a U.N. official said Monday.</div> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5564 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5563 <div class="text blurb">Howard Zinn, the people's historian, speaks about the need for civil disobedience to resist war, racism, and other government-sanctioned wrongs.</div> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5563 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5562 <div class="text blurb">From anxiety and hormonal disorders to high blood pressure and type II diabetes, doctors are treating boys and girls for numerous medical conditions that were once uncommon or never seen in children - and many are preventable.</div> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5562 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5561 <div class="text blurb">The Justice Department is investigating whether officials of Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Iraqi government officials in hopes of retaining the firm's security work in Iraq after a deadly shooting episode in 2007, according to current and former government officials.</div> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5561 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5560 <div class="text blurb">State and local ordinances known as Jim Crow laws in at least 11 Southern states prohibited interracial interaction in most areas of public life - restaurants, schools, courtrooms, buses and trains, movie theaters, even reform schools. Starting 50 years ago Monday, students across the South decided to change that.</div> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5560 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5559 <div class="text blurb">A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the negotiations.</div> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5559