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Last week I received a four page letter from Maude Barlow, National Chairperson for the Council of Canadians. I paid a lot of attention to it because my 12 year old son asked me what it was about, then asked me to read it aloud. I didn't really want to because this is what it said.

They're coming to take our water...
Dear Concerned Friend (that …

Follow the epic journey of an intrepid bag as it travels hundreds of miles to join the thriving community of plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This spoof is produced by Heal the Bay and narrated by actor Jeremy Irons in support of a bill to ban single-use plastic bags in California.

Vogue is not a magazine I usually read, unless waiting for an appointment, but photographer Steve Meisel sure got my attention this time with his photo shoot in Vogue Italia this month.

Models, likened to oil covered birds, are shown languishing on the shore. Tyler Grey of Fast Company may not like this but for anyone who feels kinship to the …

The New Economics Foundation is an independent UK think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. They aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environmental and social issues.

The group is also the producer of an innovative video called The …

In the wake of the H1N1 pandemic panic, Swissinfo, an enterprise of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, reported last week that a long list of Western European countries are attempting to return, resell, donate, or otherwise offload hundreds of millions of surplus doses of the swine flu vaccine. In one of the more extreme examples, France is …