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      <title>Top Small Workplaces Video</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Enter Message / description of files attached:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:16:27 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1620</link>
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      <title>Top Small Workplaces of 2008</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top Small Workplaces 2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="subhead"&gt;Creating great workplaces has never been more important for small businesses. Nor more difficult. Here are 15 companies that do it well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="byline"&gt;By Kelly K. Spors&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="article_pagination_top" class="articlePagination"&gt;It's never been harder to create a great workplace. With all the turbulence in the economy, business owners are spending more time trying to boost sales and cut costs than fretting about the well-being of their employees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="articlePage"&gt;But creating a rewarding work environ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:14:12 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1619</link>
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      <title>PIRG statement on defeat of Wall Street bailout</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Here's my latest from my main blog, where I have a lot more on what is wrong with the Wall Street bailout--&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;http://www.uspirg.org/consumer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Statement of U.S. PIRG&amp;rsquo;s Ed Mierzwinski on Defeat of Wall Street Bailout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,san...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:37:44 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1610</link>
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      <title>PIRG statement on defeat of Wall Street bailout</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Enter Message / description of files attached:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Here's my latest from my main blog, where I have a lot more on what is wrong with the Wall Street bailout--&lt;strong&gt;http://www.uspirg.org/consumer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Statement of U.S. PIRG&amp;rsquo;s Ed Mierzwinski on Defeat of Wall Street Bailout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:37:16 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1609</link>
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      <title>Investing In Girls</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;At AIDS 2008, the world's largest HIV forum in Mexico City that commenced this weekend, the need for interventions specifically designed to empower girls was clear: increasingly, the face of AIDS in Africa is young and female.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UNAIDS figures from Swaziland are a good snapshot: HIV prevalence among girls 15-24 is over 20 percent; among boys it's just over 5 percent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Global Fund &lt;a href="http://www.joinred.com"&gt;(RED)&lt;/a&gt; grants in Rwanda, Ghana, Swaziland and Lesotho emphasize programs serving women and children. And more needs to be done to give greater attention to fe...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:06:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1558</link>
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      <title>UNIVERSAL ACTION NOW: RIP HIV</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Mexico City welcomes over 20,000 visitors and 3,000 members of the media today to convene AIDS 2008, the world&amp;rsquo;s largest HIV forum.  Over the next five days we&amp;rsquo;ll hear new scientific research and intense dialogue on the major challenges facing the global response to AIDS.  &amp;ldquo;Universal Action Now&amp;rdquo; is the theme, but what does that really mean? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;ldquo;Universal&amp;rdquo; connotes individua...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:16:32 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1554</link>
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      <title>MEXICO - Call for &#8220;exemplary punishment&#8221; for police hounding of the media</title>
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&lt;p class="spip"&gt;Around 30 police officers with the Federal Preventative Police (PPP)
threatened Rafael Leyva Mex&amp;iacute;a and Luis V&amp;aacute;squez Vega, photographers
respectively on the regional dailies El Diario de Los Mochis and
Noroeste in Los Mochis in Sinaloa state on 15 July, after they took
shots of a police convoy just after it left the scene of a
demonstration.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="spip"&gt;They pointed guns at the journalists whom they accused
of being from the "gutter press" before photographing them while
heaping insults on them. Other journalists who a...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:25:42 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1532</link>
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      <title>Dear America: Are You Really Going To Eat That?</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While much of the globe is constantly faced with scarcity, disease and
starvation, the Western world insists on self-inflicted suffering via
those American Dreams we&amp;rsquo;ve got our chubby fingers so tightly wrapped
around. As strange as it may be to comprehend, many Americans are
literally starving themselves through gluttonous over-indulgence.
Author John Robbins (D&lt;em&gt;iet for a New America,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Food Revolution&lt;/em&gt;)
has noted that there are equal numbers of people in the world (roughly
1.2 billion of each group) suffering from diseases related to povert...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:17:33 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1517</link>
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      <title>Welcome to the Rainforest Alliance SmartHouse and TreeHouse!</title>
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      <description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the launch of the Rainforest Alliance SmartHouse and TreeHouse, two new interactive tools designed to introduce Web site visitors to the people, places and processes that stand behind production of sustainable goods.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond;"&gt;Our SmartHouse -- complete with kitchen, living room and backyard -- ...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:34:13 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1515</link>
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      <title>Hello from Big Sur - Alec Henderson</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:14:42 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>Hello everyone, 

After spending two months deep in the mountains of California's Central coast I and the majority of monks at the Tassajara Monastery have been evacuated due to the recent fires. My friends at the LA Times wrote a front page article http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-fires28-2008jun28,0,4613015,full.story
on our plight and this has generated some significant publicity. 

I am hold up in Santa Cruz with the monastery dog, Ginger. She and I are well and blogging at 

http://sittingwithginger.blogspot.com/

I am only back on the grid until we can ret...</description>
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      <title>As Fire Approaches Big Sur Monastery Monks Prepare to Fight</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;TASSAJARA, CALIF. -- In this remote Zen enclave on Big Sur's forested
backside, wildfires lurk on three sides. As flames edge closer and ash
falls from a crimson sky, the Buddhist monks are readying for a final
stand.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Priests and students alike at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center have
been doffing their traditional black robes, hefting picks and shovels,
and forging 10-foot-wide firebreaks. Atop the roofs of the monastery's
old retreat cabins and meditation hall, they've jury-rigged plastic
pipe sprinkler systems.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Perhaps more serene than some, they were amon...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:20:23 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1513</link>
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      <title>Easy Ways You Can Help Conserve Rainforests</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-large; font-family: Cheltenham-Bold;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Formata-Medium;"&gt;Choose foods grown on farms certified by the Rainforest Alliance&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Formata-Medium;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small; color: #231f20; font-family: Cheltenham-Book;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small; color: #231f20; font-family: Cheltenham-Book;"&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Buy coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, bananas, orange juice, g...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:54:33 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/102</link>
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      <title>New comment! - Preventing Climate Destabilization: Three Obstacles</title>
      <description>Dan:
The economic doctrine really is like religious dogma, as you said. Another term I've heard used that is pretty descriptive is "market fundamentalism." The idea that if you just turn the markets loose all our problems will be solved is beyond absurd. Humans assign monetary values to things and resources that are not exploited are considered without value. Within this dogma, clean air, clean water, healthy oceans, and healthy forests have no intrinsic value except for the profits that can be wrung from them. 

Thanks for your comment! </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:42:53 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - Preventing Climate Destabilization: Three Obstacles</title>
      <description>I believe you've addressed three of the main issues we must face in the near future. 

Unlimited growth is a logical and physical impossibility. You cannot get something from nothing! When you burn the last of the coal, kill the last of the tuna, pollute the last aquifer, raise the last forest; there is no more. This economic doctrine is closer to religious dogma than anything else. It takes great hubris to deface the earth all while claiming humanity is on the path of progress.

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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:59:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - Casual Cruelty: Accepting Institutional Terrorism</title>
      <description>Beautifully important piece Lee. I actually just wrote a paper about political "doublespeak/think" and many of the examples of government rhetoric used in this article are perfect examples of the linguistic tactic. Thanks for writing this,
Eli</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:47:45 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1267</link>
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      <title>New comment - Teenage Rebellion Now Considered Mental Illness</title>
      <description>Bravo!!  Wonderful, insightful, intelligent article!  As a formerly-diagnosed ADHD kid now all grown up, I can relate and appreciate this piece tremendously.  Thankfully, my mother had the insight and the fortitude to weather out the behavioral issues without medicating me... unlike all of these poor thousands of children who are sedated every day in our country.  We need to stop allowing teachers, administrators, psychiatrists, misguided and tired parents, and the pharmaceutical companies the power to tamp out the small flames of independence and individuality that could become vast fires ...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:59:59 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1132</link>
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      <title>New comment! - Nuclear Power, By the Numbers</title>
      <description>Lee,
wonderful collection of data...statistics can tell a powerful story. How can people even argue for nuclear energy? What is the argument (and I don't mean the propaganda)?
Eli</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:52:15 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1217</link>
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      <title>New comment - The Wasted Years</title>
      <description>Good on ya for sharing - for those lazy people out there you can watch a great The Story of Stuff video here

http://web.1.c3.audiovideoweb.com/1c3web3536/StoryOfStuff.mov</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:48:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Wasted Years</title>
      <description>Excellent article! I think a large majority of the population realize that the facts listed are true but feel helpless when it comes to making a difference. Thank you to Lee Purcell for his links which I found very interesting.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:09:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Teenage Rebellion Now Considered Mental Illness</title>
      <description>Great article that gets you thinking. I experienced a case when a boys behaviour was the onset to a servere mental illness that has lasted 25 years of his adult life so far. Most bad behaviour may be normal but not in every case.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:17:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Ally Request - Boston Vegan Association</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:13:03 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - Bats in the cave, canaries in the coal mine</title>
      <description>Hi, Lee - Thanks for the heads-up on Rethos, and for this post.  I'd heard about the bees, but had no idea bats were also endangered.  I'm deeply fond of both critturs, so this increases my determination to spend my remaining years on this planet doing my level best to undo the damage being done.  And you're so right about where hope lies. I believe the Gaia hypothesis -- that  Earth is one giant organism, with water for blood, rock for bone, soil for flesh.  So much of what's  happening right now is essentially cancer, so maybe the grassroots movement is Gaia's way of mobilizing "antibodie...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:03:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1171</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Rhiannon</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:33:47 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Tamsin Smith</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:49:23 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Teenage Rebellion Now Considered Mental Illness</title>
      <description>I would suggest reading some Alfie Kohn, Heather.  Particularly Homework Myth.  For anyone not in school, I'd suggest Punished by Rewards.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:32:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - DanRose</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:11:55 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Animals and Culture, Part Deux</title>
      <description>Excellent evaluation of the moral compromise culture expects of children.  Have been trying for sometime to figure out the disconnect - I see it as some kind of "switch" .  The consideration for animals becomes "sentimental" and "impractical".  Eventually it extends to other emotions - sadness, anger, joy - Until we're all robotic consumers hooked on meds trying to give life some meaning...... 

To those of us lucky enough to un-switch, society then casts it's disapproval.  We become "fringe" or "extremeists"......  I for one, would rather stay connected to my humane ethics - society be d...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:51:43 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1172</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Dominic Muren</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:33:43 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - Bats in the cave, canaries in the coal mine</title>
      <description>Lee,
This article is downright beautiful. I enjoyed how you segwayed from a well written survey of species decline, to its larger implications, and then to a discussion of what is being done about it. You end on a somber, yet hopeful note, which I think is most appropriate for the subject matter. I also love how you incorporate links into the articles, providing the reader more avenues for research and intellectual exploration. Bravo!</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:35:39 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Animals and Culture, Part Deux</title>
      <description>A wonderful and intelligent rant Mary! Our culture shapes us to be consumers because we live in a consumer-culture - If we can change or at least affect the type of consumerism that pervades our society, than perhaps we can make a lasting change for our future generation. At the very least, we can affect those around us, particularly our children. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:20:35 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Ally Request - Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington, D.C.</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:48:24 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Jennifer Capo</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:29:15 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Kathie Taylor</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:52:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Ally Request - Monika Kshatriya</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:06:03 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Bari George</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:09:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Ed Mierzwinski</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:48:38 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:43:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Ally Request - Sterling Planet</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:14:32 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Rainforest Alliance</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:52:43 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:38:42 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Hard Rock Philanthropy</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:50:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Mary Martin</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:00:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Teenage Rebellion Now Considered Mental Illness</title>
      <description>Nicely stated Heather. I am particularly fascinated by the author's thesis that psychologists and psychiatrists are a class of people prone to excessive conformity and that this may account for their tendency to pathologize defiance. Perhaps the DSM V should have a new condition called CCD (Conditioned Conformity Disorder). Heather, please go out from high school and take your ideas and do great things with your life. We will all be the better for it. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:01:17 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Alec Henderson</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:15:26 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Elias Feghali</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:20:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - jill ettinger</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:27:26 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/blue_goose/allies</link>
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      <title>New comment - Teenage Rebellion Now Considered Mental Illness</title>
      <description>I believe that there is no such thing as "excess" passion for liberty. As a high school student, I often feel like I am being "enslaved" in a way, being forced to follow rules that noone will/is required to explain to me. I understand that there need to be rules and regulations, but I also believe that the individuals being forced to abide by these rules deserve an explanation of why. And if/when they decide that they disagree with the rules, and chose to rebel against these rules, I think it's ludacris to label them as mentally ill. Rebellion is defined as "the resistance to or defiance of...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:49:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1132</link>
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      <title>New comment! - Traversing the Biofuels Thicket</title>
      <description>Lee,
Great article. I have also been impressed by the quality of discourse abounding the net regarding climate change solutions. I hope that we can translate this intellectual discussion into ACTION - I know that I have a ways to go myself. Thanks for the many relevant links!
Eli</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:57:46 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1125</link>
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      <title>New comment! - Medium for Social Change or Channel for Mass Manipulation?</title>
      <description>I think Alec is right that net neutrality is at the heart of our Internet communication freedom, but I don't think it's yet a done deal that the laws are going to change in favor of the telecoms. Act now and put the pressure on, through your legislators, to ensure that net neutrality remains intact. Otherwise, there is no guarantee that communication channels like Rethos will get the distribution they deserve. </description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:39:44 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - Medium for Social Change or Channel for Mass Manipulation?</title>
      <description>Very well written and argued! I was so suspicious I did a plagiarism's check using Google. 

Dan I totally disagree with you about the internet being a difficult medium to censor. 

As we speak, the forces of evil at telecoms around the country who are building the fiber-optic back bone soon to wire everywhere to everywhere are succeeding in getting permission to selectively filter these fiber-optic pathways. 

The rules which currently require the phone companies and cable companies to permit full internet access through DSL and Cable media are soon to be history. For example, AT&amp;T would j...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:19:24 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1077</link>
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      <title>New comment - Biophilia or Biophobia? Let's fall in love with nature... again</title>
      <description>"Children are our best hope for rediscovering our love of nature. If we expose our children to untamed nature we can help them develop an affinity for it."

This is the amazing truth...and a very passionate read.  Thanks. 

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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:26:02 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - Medium for Social Change or Channel for Mass Manipulation?</title>
      <description>Great article!

The internet would be an incredibly difficult medium to censor. The potential for exploitation is immeasurable but so is the potential for freedom of speech.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:47:28 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1077</link>
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      <title>New comment! - Medium for Social Change or Channel for Mass Manipulation?</title>
      <description>Well written and very thoughtful piece Lee! I feel the same way about the dual potential of mass communication. I do think that provided the internet remains free and neutral, that is will remain a hotbed for discourse and democratic change. Lets hope...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:28:01 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Is Unhealthy the New Healthy?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s all about the pursuit of happiness, isn&amp;#8217;t it?  A baconator promises a few moments of pleasure, immediate gratification, at a price anyone can afford.  The average, overweight American doesn&amp;#8217;t understand the concept of delayed, sustained gratification that comes from a healthy lifestyle.  Why?  I think Muhammad Yunus nails it in his new book that calls capitalism &amp;#8220;half developed&amp;#8221; because it focuses only on the profit-oriented side of human nature, not on the satisfaction derived from helping others.   In other words, the immediate, short-term gratificati...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:09:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1054</link>
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      <title>New comment - Cable Giants want our Internet and they are Willing to Cheat to Get it!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The internet is the last true means for expression and free speech. Corporate America knows that, and will do whatever it takes to law down the law  (via corporate government lobbyists)&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The hole America is falling into in terms of corporate power and influence on government is one that is hard to get out of. Mark my words&amp;#8230;it gets worse from here if nothing is done.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:49:06 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/981</link>
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      <title>New comment - Cable Giants want our Internet and they are Willing to Cheat to Get it!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Its a common theme for bloodless corporate evil doers to blur the distinction between laws and government. The current regulations which force AT&amp;#38;T to swallow the entire net when passing it on to &lt;span class="caps"&gt;DSL&lt;/span&gt; customers    are content neutral and thus if AT&amp;#38;T wants to do business through its phone lines it cannot reach into its network stream and, for example, block Google until it pays a network toll for the privilege. That&amp;#8217;s good law and the government that enforces it is good government.  That&amp;#8217;s law that really says &amp;#8216;Hands off the internet&amp;#82...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:47:10 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Cable Giants want our Internet and they are Willing to Cheat to Get it!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;d say it&amp;#8217;s corporations &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the government&amp;#8230;  The US government uses the internet to infiltrate activist groups, spy on people, etc.  But I agree with Alec- AT&amp;#38;T is pulling a bait and switch on us by making it seem like it&amp;#8217;s only the government that&amp;#8217;s a danger and that corporations are our friend.  Same line of poo the media networks feed us about Democrats and Republicans, that they are polar opposites when in fact they are both corporate-funded PR campaigners campaigning for the same exact thing.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:57:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/981</link>
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      <title>New comment - Cable Giants want our Internet and they are Willing to Cheat to Get it!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;thanks for spreading the word&amp;#8230;..one needs only to look at China&amp;#8217;s governmental grip on the internet to know that there are limits to the freedom we think we have on the net. The fact that the internet is easily controlled by the powers that be is critical information..in the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;USA&lt;/span&gt; the powers are corporations, &lt;span class="caps"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; the government.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:31:32 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Cable Giants want our Internet and they are Willing to Cheat to Get it!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nice Post. I also think their is a problem with ologopolies with pricing scams. I know I am paying like $45 a month for 10m down and 512k up. Yes thats not even 1m up, now those who might care are asking what I need this speed for, but mainly &lt;span class="caps"&gt;PODCASTS&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="caps"&gt;IPTV&lt;/span&gt;. Yes, I want those &lt;span class="caps"&gt;HDTV&lt;/span&gt; quality clips that are gigs in size. I know FiOS is pushing the envelope, before I moved, I had 20 down and 5 up for $39.99!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;So I think these &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ISP&lt;/span&gt; are not only blocking and creating &amp;#8220;their&amp;#...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:30:20 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;King or Queen of your own sustainability domain&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We'd like to offer you some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains collected over the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What we ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol (the 3 finger symbol) around the world and brings attention to, and supports at least one of the Climate Change related projects we&amp;rsquo;re working on (Like &amp;ldquo;STOP the GLOFs&amp;rdquo;) The rest will be up to you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almost two years ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainab...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:14 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/64</link>
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      <title>Communications Coordinator</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Eastern Association of &lt;span class="caps"&gt;MSF&lt;/span&gt;-C is looking to fulfill this position on their Executive Committee (see below in English).&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;L&amp;#8217;Association-Est de &lt;span class="caps"&gt;MSF&lt;/span&gt;-C cherche &#195;&#160; pourvoir &#195;&#160; cette position dans leur comit&#195;&#169; ex&#195;&#169;cutif:&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Coordonnateur des communications
Mandat :
Le (la) Responsable des communications a pour objectif d&#226;&#8364;&#8482;encourager les expatri&#195;&#169;s de retour de mission aient un r&#195;&#180;le proactif dans le t&#195;&#169;moignage aupr&#195;&#168;s du public et dans les m&#195;&#169;dias en collaboration avec le bureau des communications ainsi que de favori...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:44:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/59</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/59</guid>
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      <title>Editorial Intern</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We are seeking an individual with a writing/editing background. The ideal candidate will be enrolled in a journalism/english program.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The Women&amp;#8217;s Post is Canada&amp;#8217;s only newspaper designed for professional women.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;For more details or to apply please email info@womenspost.ca&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:07:44 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/56</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/56</guid>
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      <title>Please come to Los angeles for Darfur Rally</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Monday October 15  in  Downtown &lt;span class="caps"&gt;LA   12&lt;/span&gt; noon!!!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Help to stop American Investment in Darfur! Join me in downtown Los Angeles for a rally!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.savedarfur.org/page/event/detail/4jjgb#rsvp"&gt;Click here to sign up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:07:10 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/32</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/32</guid>
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      <title>Write/Draw for rethos!</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Friends,
We are in the process of starting a new project at rethos dedicated to citizen journalism and creative expression. We want rethos to become a organic media channel with a focus on promoting positive social change throughout the world. If you are interested in learning more about this new venture, please send an email to eli@rethos.com. We need people who are ready to start doing freelance work right away, so please take advantage of this unique opportunity!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Eli
http://www.rethos.com/eli&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:39:28 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/30</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/30</guid>
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      <title>Are you a great designer, or translator?</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We are in the process of translating the word/concepts/phrase of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;span class="caps"&gt;SOCIETY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ENVIRONMENT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ECONOMY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;... into the languages of the world, and adapting the different ways of writing to the three fingered hand symbol.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can see a sample of the Sustainability Symbol in Chinese script on this message.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your name will be forever associated with the chosen modification of the symbol that represents &amp;ldquo;Society, Environment, Economy&amp;rdquo; in your linguistic communi...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:15:45 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/25</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/25</guid>
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      <title>Convert website into something attractive</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The three finger Sustainability Symbol is beginning to attract attention on and off the internet. This is a double-edged sword.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;On one hand, more and more people are learning about the campaign (personally passing it along from one individual to another),&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;on the other hand, our website stinks.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s homemade, and as you will see, I&amp;#8217;m no web designer!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;If there are any talented web designers out there in the Rethosarian community, please have a look at www.DragonTHINK.com and make a suggestion of how we could use some of the existing conte...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:51:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/24</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/24</guid>
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      <title>Conserve the Rainforest</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Support an organization that works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:32:14 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/19</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/19</guid>
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      <title>Rethos journalist visionary wanted!</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The beta version of rethos.com has just launched, and social venture is currently seeking to recruit journalists to contribute compelling content to the rethos platform. If you are an accomplished journalist, freelance writer, or want to become one, rethos invites you to have a profile in the community and offer reports and opinions on you issues of your passion &#226;&#8364;&#8220; these will serve as the anchors of rethos discussions and debates.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Experience/Skills Required:&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;- Experience in writing journalistic content&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;- A passion for the rethos mission&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;- A profes...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:24:52 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/9</link>
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