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    <title>Rethos.com - Christine's Global Feed</title>
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      <title>Grats to ya boy</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Last night around 8pm I was at a house party here in Oakland getting
ready for my band&amp;rsquo;s set when somebody across the room shouted out
&amp;ldquo;Obama won!&amp;nbsp; he did it!&amp;rdquo; and the whole room broke out in cheers and
clapping.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I pulled out my cellphone and sent a text message to my
friend Labrie (who&amp;rsquo;s been pulling hard for an Obama victory and
recorded a couple songs supporting him and his candidacy) saying &amp;ldquo;Grats
to ya boy&amp;rdquo; and went back to working on getting our sound set up.&amp;nbsp; Later
that night as we closed o...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:59:23 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1625</link>
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      <title>Heroes of Healing</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;When I was diagnosed with several dis-eases I was told by doctors I would only get worse, to be on pain pills and life looked grim.&amp;nbsp; Through learning about the mind/body connection I was able to find teachers I resonated with to study so that I could heal myself.&amp;nbsp; Two years later I am healthier than ever.&amp;nbsp; I began to think about how wonderful it would be to have a large resource of inspirational leaders so that&amp;nbsp; people would have one spot to go to -- to view some videos, hear about what others had learned about them and find out more about different modalities to heal...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:44:54 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1615</link>
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      <title>Credit Card "Insiders" Speak Out About Abusive Practices</title>
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      <description>&lt;pre&gt;Earlier this year, former employees of MBNA and Bank of &lt;br /&gt;America contacted AFFIL looking for a way to speak out about &lt;br /&gt;disturbing sales practices they were trained to use as employees. Their stories confirm what&lt;br /&gt;we've long suspected: that credit card companies extend credit&lt;br /&gt;to those who can't afford it, and engage in a "tricks and traps" &lt;br /&gt;business model designed to max out cardholders and keep &lt;br /&gt;them on a debt treadmill as long as possible. Watch the video &lt;br /&gt;and listen to what Cate Colombo&lt;br /&gt;and Jerry Young have to say.&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:36:25 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1603</link>
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      <title>Santropol  Roulant</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="copy"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Santropol Roulant&lt;/span&gt; is an award-winning community organization founded and run by young
people in Montreal. We bring people together across generations and
cultures through an innovative approach to meals-on-wheels, and by
engaging youth to take an active role in their community. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Santropol Roulant&lt;/span&gt; uses food as a vehicle to create trust and build bridges between
individuals in a city where isolation among the elderly is the highest
in Canada.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="copy"&gt;&lt;span style="fon...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:26:04 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1601</link>
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      <title>A must read for every college kid heading back to campus! </title>
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      <description>&lt;h2&gt;Credit Card Tips for College Students&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that you're making financial decisions for yourself, be sure to protect yourself from credit
card tricks and traps.&amp;nbsp; Here are some tips to consider before you break out the plastic.&amp;nbsp; Adapted from "&lt;a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/CollegeCCTips.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Credit Card Tips for College Students&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3084649&amp;amp;msgid=56877&amp;amp;act=J9QU&amp;amp;c=185756&amp;amp;admin=0&amp;amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.consumersunion.org%2F" target="_blank"&gt;Consumers Union...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:12:35 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1593</link>
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      <title>Otesha is Hiring: High School Programs Director</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Otesha Project is hiring a new High School Programs Director!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the attached job description, or check http://www.otesha.ca/files/HSProgramsDirector08.pdf for more information.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:11 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1591</link>
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      <title>War on the middle class</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Credit card companies go after American college students, often with the help of universities. Lisa Sylvester reports.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:40:29 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1585</link>
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      <title>What Will Mac &#8217;n&#8217; Mae Cost You and Me?</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;THE inevitability of a taxpayer-funded bailout of &lt;a title="More information about Freddie Mac" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/freddie_mac/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Freddie Mac&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="More information about Fannie Mae" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/fannie_mae/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Fannie Mae&lt;/a&gt;,
the hobbled mortgage behemoths, shook investors last week, and shares
in both companies plummeted on fears that existing stockholders would
be wiped out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These government-sponsored entities guarantee or hold $...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:30:11 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1583</link>
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      <title>That Student Loan, So Hard to Shake</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;MOST people struggling to pay off their &lt;a title="More articles about student loans." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/student_loans/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"&gt;student loans&lt;/a&gt; keep quiet about it. They do not want to acknowledge that, perhaps in a
fit of na&amp;iuml;ve, youthful optimism, they borrowed more than they could
handle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then there is Alan Collinge, who for years has
described his struggle with tens of thousands of dollars in student
loan debt to anyone who will listen. He has appeared on &amp;ldquo;60 Minutes&amp;rdquo;
criticizing...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:08 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1582</link>
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      <title>Avoiding College's Plastic Hangover</title>
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      <description>&lt;p class="times"&gt;The immediate gratification of using plastic to buy an
iMac, tickets to a Coldplay concert and nights of bar hopping has a way
of coming back to haunt college students after graduation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="times"&gt;Despite their lack of a credit history and sizable
student loans, most college students can get their hands on credit
cards with as much ease as a swipe. And they're often lured into doing
so with awards like free T-shirts. Along with the freebies, however,
come some not-so-pleasant surprises: high interest rates and a range of
fees and penalties.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:25:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1581</link>
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      <title>Real democracy - Richard Treadwell</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:53:16 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>Hi all,

Lately, I've become increasingly involved with the common good bank project.

I was inspired by some discussions (with lynx in particular) here on rethos to educate myself enough to create some revolutionary financial institution - then I discovered it was already in progress.

Please check out the page, http://www.rethos.com/commongoodfinance. We need everyone's help for this thing to get off the ground. Having people sign up increases investor and state regulator confidence. A signature really helps, and if you want to help in other ways that can be arranged as well.

Tha...</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/inbox</link>
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      <title>Ally Request - Common Good Finance</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:32:36 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>Urban Next Summit in New Orleans - Nathan Rothstein</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 17:34:36 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>
Save the Date
July 24-25, 2008
New Orleans

Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still recovering from a storm that destroyed 80 percent of the city. While many are still struggling, New Orleans has also attracted thousands of young people from diverse backgrounds, who are passionate about rebuilding an American city in a more equitable way. By creating coalitions of talented young people in the private and public sector who work together, New Orleans is engaging urban enthusiasts in the rebuilding process.

While New Orleans has a unique opportunity to build i...</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/inbox</link>
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      <title>The Chinese Connection : The Red Dragon's tacit support of the Darfur Genocide</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In 1994 China, an emerging super power, desperately in need of new oil sources helped a poor Government in Khartoum convert the Sudanese nation into oil exporters.&amp;nbsp; In the 14 years since, as the oil and the money flowed, the relationship between the two nations has blossomed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, China accounts for a quarter of Sudan&amp;rsquo;s imports and for nearly 70% of it&amp;rsquo;s, oil led, exports.&amp;nbsp; The economic monopoly enjoyed by China through soft loans and state owned company investing in the Sudanese economy resulted, from its outset, in an incredible amount of Chinese poli...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:40:52 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1198</link>
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      <title>WHAT'S GREENER? Chicken or Beef? Or Vegetarian? Or Vegan?</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;There's been lots of debate on our blog about how best to eat green and healthy. We recently shared some information on sustainable seafood - but we thought it was time to discuss eating meat - are some options better than others, if you do decide to eat meat? Where can you look for local, organic food? Is local always the right answer? Is is greener to be vegan than vegetarian? How have you convinced people to eat less meat? What other answers are you looking for from our green team about what's on your plate? Check our blog at the end of the week for a response ...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:22:20 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1194</link>
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      <title>Honest Tea user generated video</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the winning videos from a video contest held by our friends at Honest Tea.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:16:58 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1193</link>
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      <title>A Bank for the Common Good</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;More and more people are seeking out an avenue to act and force
change, to be heard and acknowledged. This capitalist system is indeed
rotting from the inside out, but what it calls spoiled, we call ripe
for change. Aristotle got it right to say that man is a political
animal. People are feeling the unnaturalness of prolonged political
isolation; we are cynical in sizing up politicians, caustic in
describing our "democratic" process, yet ignorant in the reasons behind
our feelings. We attribute them to man's nature, to inevitability,
because when something is inevitable it can be...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:40:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1188</link>
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      <title>Excellent Video on Earth Day TV</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>Here is an excellent video from the Earth Day Network - 

It's a production of the University of South FLorida,  about an hour long, and very inspiring!

A great model for what we can do with the 3 finger Solution! 

Look at www.SustainabilitySymbol.com and check out EarthDay TV


</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:25:30 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1168</link>
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      <title>Speaking on Employee CSR, Employee Giving</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hopped over to LA and had the chance to be part of the Our Giving Community (http://www.ourgivingcommunity.org) conference. A fun event exploring a excited dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility! A pleasure to take part ;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2008 National Workplace Giving Summit&lt;br /&gt;"Defining Excellence"&lt;br /&gt;February 5-8, 2008 Wilshire Grand Hotel&amp;nbsp; Los Angeles, California&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Host: Our Giving Community is a nonprofit trade association representing more than 60 charitable federations and funds and 3,000 nonprofits nationwide that raise over $100 million annua...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:35:18 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1166</link>
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      <title>Speaking on Social Entrpreneurship, CSR</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Entrepreneurship:&amp;nbsp; Building Change for the Civic Sector&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recently had the chance to speak the the Princeton Univeristy Project 55 panel in NYC. Thx for the invite PU!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Panelists included:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; * Maia Blankenship, Washington DC Managing Director, Education Pioneers&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; * Peter Kellner &amp;lsquo;91, Founder, Endeavor&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; * PJ Kim &amp;lsquo;01, Former Director, FoodChange&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; * Alex Salzman &amp;lsquo;07, Co-Founder, rethos.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Moderator:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:17:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1165</link>
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      <title>Common Video: Product (RED)</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Enter Message / description of files attached:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:14:30 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1157</link>
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      <title>Tell the Senate to Stop Foreclosures!</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In the aftermath of reckless subprime lending, our nation's economy is in
serious trouble.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;This week the
Senate will vote on a new bill that would prevent unnecessary foreclosures and
stabilize the housing market.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Please
take a moment now to tell your Senators to support this bill &amp;ndash; call toll-free
1-800-580-5739 to be connected with them.&amp;nbsp;Here&amp;rsquo;s a sample message:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"&gt;I understand that the Senate will vote this week on Senator
Reid's "Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008," S. 2636.&amp;nbsp; This is a time to st...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:44:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1156</link>
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      <title>Kid Rock Video: Amen</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Just saw this on VH1 - even Kid Rock is doing the awareness thing... good on him...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:35:54 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1148</link>
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      <title>GOOD Magazine: Obama</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Another biography from our friends at GOOD.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:01:26 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1147</link>
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      <title>Jim Campen on Fox Business</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; Jim Campen, Executive Director of Americans For Fairness In Lending,
tells it like it is on Fox Business! Check it out: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:29:38 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1137</link>
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      <title>Success! 120,000 Valentines going to Congress</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We did it!&amp;nbsp; Right now, 120,000 Valentine&amp;rsquo;s Day
postcards are being delivered to Congress telling them that we've had enough
credit card tricks and traps.&amp;nbsp; The message is loud and clear:&amp;nbsp; the
time for reform is now!&amp;nbsp; If you haven&amp;rsquo;t
already you can still participate &amp;ndash; &lt;a href="http://www.creditcardreform.org" target="_blank"&gt;send
your Representative and Senators a Valentine&amp;rsquo;s Day email.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s keep the pressure on and the discussion going.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Do you
have a credit card horror st...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:27:41 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1120</link>
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      <title>TRUTH Campaign - Body Bags</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Enter Message / description of files attached:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:12:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1119</link>
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      <title>Ally Request - YouthAIDS</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:33:45 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;div class="byline"&gt;By &lt;a title="More Articles by Vikas Bajaj" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/vikas_bajaj/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;VIKAS BAJAJ&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="More Articles by Louise Story" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/louise_story/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;LOUISE STORY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="timestamp"&gt;Published: February 12, 2008&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards, people with
good, or prime, credit...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:54:54 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1114</link>
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      <title>Zip Code 'Redlining': A Sweeping View of Risk</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Will your zip code keep the American Dream out of your reach?  Check out this article from WashingtonPost.com&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Zip Code 'Redlining': A Sweeping View of Risk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id="byline"&gt;By &lt;a title="Send an e-mail to Kenneth R. Harney" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/kenneth+r.+harney/"&gt;Kenneth R. Harney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday, February 2, 2008;
Page F01&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Critics call it the new redlining: Many of the country's largest
mortgage lenders are imposing loan restrictions in entire counties or
Zip codes that they...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:22:22 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1094</link>
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      <title>Principles of Fair Lending</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Reinforcing the regulatory apparatus of the nation&amp;rsquo;s economy that
has collapsed under this administration is indeed one of the most
important challenges facing us today (&amp;ldquo;After the Fed,&amp;rdquo; editorial, Jan.
31).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What won&amp;rsquo;t work is the typical patchwork approach to
reform predatory lending. If Congress and presidential candidates want
to truly make a difference for borrowers, they need a comprehensive
approach to regulation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A set of principles of fair lending,
agreed to by Americans for Fairness in Lending, a coalition of national
consumer grou...</description>
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      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1089</link>
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      <title>Daily Show on Subprime Loans</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:08:44 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Lenders Who Sold and Left</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;By &lt;span class="caps"&gt;GRETCHEN MORGENSON&lt;/span&gt;
Published: February 3, 2008&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;THE&lt;/span&gt; Federal Bureau of Investigation said last week that it had opened criminal investigations into 14 companies that played a part in the mortgage boom and bust. While it did not identify the companies on its dance card, the F.B.I. said they included mortgage brokers, lenders, and the Wall Street banks that packaged and sold the securities. Investigators are looking for accounting fraud and possible insider trading at the companies, an F.B.I. spokesman said.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The burea...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:11:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Facebook Underutilized as a Tool Kit for Activism</title>
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      <description>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Despite Facebook&amp;rsquo;s vast, international audience and best-of-breed viral features, the site has yet to realize its potential to advance social change. My two co-founders and I conceived of Rethos.com out of criticism of the landscape of mainstream social networking websites and their apparent obsession with superficial content. Indeed, it remains doubtful that Facebook&amp;rsquo;s 60+ million members are going to super-poke their way to a more just and sustainable world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But the...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:35:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Send a "Valentine's Day" postcard to Congress: Kiss Credit Card Abuses Goodbye!</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Each year credit card companies sap billions of dollars from consumers&amp;#8217; wallets in excessive fees, unexpected rate hikes and other unfair practices.  &lt;span class="caps"&gt;AFFIL&lt;/span&gt; is partnering with Consumers Union in asking folks to take a moment to tell Congress to protect you, not the big credit card companies!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Just go to www.CreditCardReform.org and with one click you&#226;&#8364;&#8482;ll send a real post card to each of your representatives this Valentine&amp;#8217;s Day.  Consumers Union will hand deliver postcards in your name to your Representative and Senators on February 14th.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:34:41 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1072</link>
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      <title>AFFIL and James Scurlock talk to Wall Street!</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;On January 29, &lt;span class="caps"&gt;AFFIL&lt;/span&gt; members and Maxed Out director James Scurlock hit Wall Street to talk to bankers about Maxed Out, the subprime mortgage crisis and its effect on our economy.  The conversations were surprising &amp;#8211; even bankers agreed that we need regulation to keep the economy on track and prevent predatory lending.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:11:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1071</link>
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      <title>WHO'S GREENER? Clinton or Obama? McCain or Romney?</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;WHO&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8217;S &lt;span class="caps"&gt;GREENER&lt;/span&gt;? Clinton or Obama? McCain or Romney?&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;As we get closer to primaries in more than 20 states on February 5th, and with the field of candidates narrowing quickly, it&amp;#8217;s important to consider environmental issues as you prepare to cast a primary vote. Have the candidates&amp;#8217; positions on climate change, the Kyoto treaty, and their plans to increase energy efficiency or create green jobs changed your opinion of them? Is climate change a partisan issue? Tell us what you think at http://www.liveearth.org/?p...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:36:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1069</link>
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      <title>Linkin Park - What I've Done</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Cheers to Melanie (http://rethos.com/bleuphox) for this find!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:00:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1068</link>
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      <title>After the Fed</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;January 31, 2008
&lt;span class="caps"&gt;EDITORIAL&lt;/span&gt;
After the Fed&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Whether or not the Federal Reserve&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s recent dramatic interest rate cuts are the right medicine for today&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s stalling economy &#226;&#8364;&#8221; and the jury is very much out on that &#226;&#8364;&#8221; it is clear that the Fed has used up a big chunk of its recession-fighting ammunition in a very short span of time. In just over a week, it has slashed its benchmark interest rate by a total of 1.25 percentage points, to 3 percent. That doesn&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t leave a lot of room to cut further without opening the door to a potentially nasty upsurge in pr...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:34:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1067</link>
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      <title>Crashing the Subprime Party</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Wall Street strikes again!  Putting corporate interest before good judgment and consumer protection has to be stopped!  Check out this article from Slate by Nicholas Bagley: Crashing the Subprime Party How the feds stopped the states from averting the lending mess.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8217;...Some of the biggest players in the secondary mortgage market are national banks, and the states&amp;#8217; efforts to curb predatory lending clashed with the banks&amp;#8217; fervent desire to keep the market in subprime loans rolling. And so the national banks turned to the Treasury Department&amp;#8217;s Office of th...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:46:58 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1063</link>
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      <title>Killer Credit</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;When is enough enough? This is a great article by Adam Doster that sheds some light on the plastic hell Americans are living in. It&amp;#8217;s time to start fighting back!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Killer Credit
Attack of the $915 billion consumer debt monster
By Adam Doster&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Candace Angus is not one to break the rules. When she served on the Chicago police force for 25 years, it was her duty to maintain order. And as a longtime credit card user, she was never late on a payment and never in debt. So when she found interest on her Capital One balance considerably higher than she anticipated, she wa...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:30:42 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1062</link>
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      <title>U2 and Green Day "The Saints Are Coming" video</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Saw this video for the first time today. I wonder if we will see more cause related music videos in future?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:41:44 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1047</link>
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      <title>Correction of the web address! - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:21:44 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Sorry, CORRECTION... the web address is:
http://www.sustainabilitysymbol.COM    hope to see you online February 1st --- Don't forget to invite 3 people to share a 3 finger Photo!</description>
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      <title>You're invited to Celebrate the One Year Anniversary of 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:40:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Hello Sustainability Symbol Friends around the WORLD (Especially in Beijing) - 

IT'S A PARTY / CELEBRATION of the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol... and we're having a WEB-CAM World Party connecting YOUR town with Beijing China, site of the 2008 Olympics.  

You are most welcome to attend our party celebration for the One Year Anniversary of the 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol on February 1st at 

7pm - 9pm
Friday, Feb 1st
The Bookworm
Building 4, Nan sanlitun Road
Chao Yang District, Beijing
Tel: 65869507
www.chinabookworm.com

Plea...</description>
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      <title>Ally Request - Mohammad Al-Gammal</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:11:24 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>Carpooling Application</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;With carpooling in a steady decline despite the highest gas prices ever and record traffic congestion, two new online firms want to revive ride-sharing by piggybacking on social networking sites.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The startup services, through the popular Facebook.com, attack obstacles that have held back ride-sharing programs: the fear of sharing a car with a stranger and reaching the &amp;#8220;critical mass&amp;#8221; of numbers required to effectively match up people for rides.
Related Stories&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The site&amp;#8217;s core users, college students and recent grads, could turn out to be the perfect ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:47:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1021</link>
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      <title>The $10 per Gallon World</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;c/o Adei Ressi Blog (see link below)&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;We are already living in a $10 per gallon of gasoline world. Did that get your attention? Here are some things to think about:&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The average yield of gasoline per barrel of oil differs widely based on the quality of the oil (logical), ranging from 5% to 30% of the 42 gallons in a barrel when using straightforward conversion methods. The price per barrel of oil that you read about is normally the &#226;&#8364;&#339;good stuff&#226;&#8364;&#157; (Texas or Arabian grade), yielding over 12 gallons of gasoline per barrel and as much as two thirds in prime conditions.&lt;/p...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:40:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1019</link>
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      <title>Doing Philanthropy the Google Way</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is a great article about the changing landscape of philanthropy. As it has the worlds of search, advertising and online media, Google is disrupting and evolving the nature of corporate philanthropy by taking an entrepreneurial approach as opposed to a charitable approach to solving societal problems.  Says Susan Raymond, senior managing director for research and chief analyst at OnPhilanthropy, about Google.org and its new, entrepreneurial attitude towards philanthropy: &amp;#8220;Instead of just giving a man a fish, or even teaching him to fish, a social entrepreneur would invest in hi...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:27:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1015</link>
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      <title>NYC PASSES PLASTIC BAG RECYCLING BILL</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;NYC PASSES PLASTIC BAG RECYCLING BILL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Last week, New York City took a giant step forward in the fight against plastic. New York&amp;#8217;s City Council passed a bill requiring large stores and retail chains to collect and recycle plastic shopping bags. According to a New York Times report: &amp;#8220;New York is by far the largest American city to enact so broad a measure to limit the environmental impact of the bags. Altogether, each year the country is estimated to use 86 billion bags, which end up blowing down city streets, or tangled in the stomachs of wh...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:11:38 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1011</link>
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      <title>Solar Power Plants</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In this modern era, our lives revolve around newer and newer technology. With the development of newer technology the things that we use everyday to carry out the functions of our daily lives now required more sources energy than ever before. That gas powered snow blower used to clear driveways in the winter replaced that hand powered shovel in the corner of the garage.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem that comes from using these modern devices is the energy consumption of it. There is only a limited amount of resources available on the earth that can provide energy. One of the biggest prod...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:27:43 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1010</link>
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      <title>Think Democracy's Sexy? Volunteer with AisB!</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As always, if you&amp;#8217;re interested in volunteering, get in touch. We need people who can:&lt;br&gt;
- graphic design
- research, blog, and write
- web design
- do some mindless data entry (if you&amp;#8217;re in the mood for some tedium, but we try to keep it to a minimum!)
- develop website content
- translate (English &amp;#8211; French)
- help out at events (hand out surveys, talk up Apathy, take pictures, sell gear) and a plethora of other things.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:02:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/75</link>
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      <title>If I Could Change the World</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Please see my website at&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;http://millty.weebly.com/if-i-could-change-the-world.html&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Demar&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:00:34 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1004</link>
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      <title>Hummer Ad</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;While Hummer is often held up as the poster child for corporate irresponsibility this ad offers an interesting perspective that defends Hummer&amp;#8217;s service as a disaster rescue vehicle.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts on this new perspective?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:41:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1002</link>
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      <title>Nau's Thought Kitchen: Cutting Through the Crap</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;From Nau&amp;#8217;s Thought Kitchen (see link below) -&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I recently spoke with Zoe Cameron, who hails from Toronto but is currently living in London. She works as an award-wining freelance journalist specializing in science, environmental, and health-related stories.
When I went to check out her blog Zoetic I found the following post pertaining to the United Nations Development Programme report: &#226;&#8364;&#339;Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World.&#226;&#8364;&#157;
Zoe contends that &#226;&#8364;&#339;there&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s no better way to cut through the crap and get right to the point than with some simple stat...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:35:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1001</link>
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      <title>Drug Abuse</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I chose to write about this topic because it&amp;#8217;s becoming too much of a big issue. Not only that, but I&amp;#8217;ve seen too many people I know take the path of the &amp;#8220;drug world&amp;#8221; and end up broke, homeless, and without an education. This is my issue of passion because I was once introduced to this world and too many people get caught up in it making it their whole life. We need to stop the transport and selling of these drugs that are affecting families, neighborhoods, communities, and the world.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:43:20 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/968</link>
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      <title>New comment - The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too   By: Andrew W. Savitz with Karl Weber</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This book was so good, I decided to join the author&amp;#8217;s consulting practice!  Seriously, I work on what I believe in, and the private sector is so powerful today &amp;#8211; working to move companies toward sustainability is a key challenge of our time.  I also agree wholeheartedly with Philip about the concept behind DragonTHINK &amp;#8211; if companies are motivated by their stakeholders, then we as stakeholders (consumers, investors, voters, etc) have a responsibility to steer them straight.  I&amp;#8217;m working on a book with this theme now, and any thoughts from the awesome Rethos communi...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:12:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Lakota Declare Independance from USA</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lakota Declare independence from United States&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I first saw this on myspace but wanted to double-check it before posting it here &amp;#8211; and I found confirmation here: http://www.republicoflakotah.com/about.html
&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The Lakota Nation has officially withdrawn from treaties that allowed the United States to annex their land and have declared themselves an independent nation. They are currently seeking international recognition and waiting for an official acknowledgment from the United States federal government.
&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
And, the very best part, they&#226;&#8364;&#8482;re completely...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:24:06 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/966</link>
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      <title>Halliburton Victim Twice Over - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:53:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Check out this important message from our Partner, Public Citizen:
http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22031

    &#226;&#8364;&#339;No one &#226;&#8364;&#8220; especially a victim of a heinous, violent crime &#226;&#8364;&#8220; should be denied access to a judge and jury because of a binding mandatory arbitration clause in an employment contract.

    &#226;&#8364;&#339;Unfortunately, this is what is happening to Jamie Leigh Jones, who recently told ABC&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s 20/20 that she was gang raped while working for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq. Now, she is being victimized twice over.  Halliburton is denying her constitutional right to tak...</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/inbox</link>
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      <title>Big Oil lets sun set on renewables</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Shell, the oil company that recently trumpeted its commitment to a low carbon future by signing a pre-Bali conference communique, has quietly sold off most of its solar business.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The move, taken with rival BP&amp;#8217;s decision last week to invest in the world&amp;#8217;s dirtiest oil production in Canada&amp;#8217;s tar sands, indicates that Big Oil might be giving up its flirtation with renewables and going back to its roots.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Shell and BP are among the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in the world, but both have been keen to paint themselves green through a series of cle...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:39:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>CSRwire Reports Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2007</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;CSRwire Reports Top Corporate Social Responsibility News of 2007&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Al Gore&amp;#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize helps validate business case for addressing climate crisis, Sudan divestment progresses, Starbucks agrees to Ethiopian coffee trademarks, and much more&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;In 2007, corporate social responsibility (CSR) continued the momentum of the past several years, shifting this year from mainstream recognition to widespread action. The scale and scope of business-led solutions is rising to meet the severity of the monumental environmental and social challenges facing us, from the...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:08:04 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/943</link>
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      <title> Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Tens of thousands of Somalis are living in camps like this one north of the capital, Mogadishu, suffering from a lack of water, food, and access to medical treatment.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The violence in Somalia escalated this year to some of the worst levels in over 15 years, causing an unknown number of civilian casualties and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from the capital. Many of those remaining in Mogadishu are staying in makeshift camps with little more than ripped cloth and plastic sheeting for shelter and are exposed to a high degree of violence&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:18:50 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis
enlarge image&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Somalia 2007 &#194;&#169; Jehad Nga&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Tens of thousands of Somalis are living in camps like this one, north of the capital Mogadishu, suffering from a lack of water, food, shelter, and access to medical treatment.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;As violence in Somalia escalated this year to some of the worst levels in over 15 years, both assistance for and attention to one of the most challenging and acute humanitarian situations in the world seemed to wane. Ethiopian troops and Transitional Federal Government forces, supported by...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:16:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/939</link>
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      <title>Re: Re: Peace... - Ings</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:12:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>yep yep.</description>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Wow&amp;#8230;I was a vegetarian for a while, but I stopped because I found it hard to get enough protein. I think I&amp;#8217;ll stock up the cupboard with some extra peanut-butter and start vegging again. Thanks for the post, I had no idea little decision that I make could have so much impact on the earth!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:49:54 -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>New comment - On Nonviolence</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;ah, well that makes sense, I&amp;#8217;m out of school now and had forgot that it&amp;#8217;s finals season.  good luck with your tests!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Pacifism as Pathology is a good read, Ward Churchill has been a big influence on my thinking.  I can&amp;#8217;t give him 100% credit for my deciding to stop calling myself a pacifist, but he definately gave me a swift kick in that direction.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;cheers man -
lynx&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:20:05 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - On Nonviolence</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lynx,&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I acknowledge my absence from this debate. My incompetence can be partly blamed on college finals&amp;#8212;and a scorched memory. I actually just bought a book called &amp;#8220;Pacficism as Pathology&amp;#8221; which makes the same argument against nonviolence (I think). I plan on giving that an honest read, and coming back when my mind is healthy to spark this much needed discussion.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the delay, and keep fighting the good one brotha,
Eli&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:23:23 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Uday Rosario</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:20:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - On Nonviolence</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;well, it&amp;#8217;s been 4 months and elias never came back to refute my arguments as promised, so let the public record show that the points were conceded.  too bad, i was looking forward to a good debate&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:01:03 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Peace... - Ings</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:19:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Just wanted to reach out and say hey neighbor(kind of im in Prospect Heights). And it's dope to see that you're on some real shit!! I love NY but I need to find more of that realness...hehe. People that are about something more that just clothes, elitism,  and consumerism; and I'm not judging I allow myself to be a victim of those things too!
Anyways what's up? Who's your pick for Pres. so far?</description>
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      <title>Peace... - Ings</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:43:52 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Just wanted to reach out and say hey neighbor(kind of im in Prospect Heights). And it's dope to see that you're on some real shit!! I love NY but I need to find more of that realness...hehe. People that are about something more that just clothes, elitism,  and consumerism; and I'm not judging I allow myself to be a victim of those things too!
Anyways what's up? Who's your pick for Pres. so far?</description>
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      <title>Peace... - Ings</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:42:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Just wanted to reach out and say hey neighbor(kind of im in Prospect Heights). And it's dope to see that you're on some real shit!! I love NY but I need to find more of that realness...hehe. People that are about something more that just clothes, elitism,  and consumerism; and I'm not judging I allow myself to be a victim of those things too!
Anyways what's up? Who's your pick for Pres. so far?</description>
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      <title>Simplify the Holidays and stay away from Credit Card Traps - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:13:44 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>As you consider how to celebrate the holidays responsibly, take some time to protect yourself from credit card tricks &amp; traps. Read AFFIL&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s Holiday Credit Card Tips before you break out the plastic this season, at http://www.affil.org/consumer_rsc/holiday-credit-card-tips.

1. Don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t get tricked, trapped or suckered into a card with bad terms. If you want a credit card, get one with a long-term low interest rate (APR). If you get a low introductory rate, chances are it&#226;&#8364;&#8482;ll start at 0% and then jump to 20% with one almost-on-time-but-didn&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t-quite-make-it payment. Still want a credit ...</description>
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      <title>Overdraft Abuse:  Tell Your Story - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:05:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Congress needs to hear your story:  A message from the Center for Responsible Lending

Jennifer Rakowski of Oakland, CA had been with her bank 
for 15 years when, before she knew what hit her, she accumulated a series of overdrafts in quick succession that put her over $300 in the red.

Has something like this happened to you?

Consumers are catching on to the ways in which banks artificially increase overdrafts, costing their account holders billions per year in unfair fees.

When the House Financial Services Committee was debating H.R. 946 this month, Congresswoman Carolyn Malone...</description>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Alliance of Students Against Poverty</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:20:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - elysabeth</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:20:58 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>New comment - The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too   By: Andrew W. Savitz with Karl Weber</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Another good read in the realm: The Sustainable Company by Chris Laszlo &amp;#8211; similar ideas and just as intriguing. The Triple Bottom Line will definitely by my next read. Thanks for the informative post.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:12:09 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/148</link>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m not a vegan, and I do eat some fish, though I understand how this taxes the environment.  So here&amp;#8217;s me being hypocritical to some degree and just saying that there is no such thing as sustainable meat, from my point of view.  Thought I don&amp;#8217;t believe everything he says, I reccommend reading Daniel Quinn.  We need to figure out some kind of nouveau agricultural idea, because the way we do it now just isn&amp;#8217;t working.  One more thing I often consider is how many billion people there are in the world.  First world countries eat more meat, because people residing the...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:58:46 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is no matter how it is produced meat requires the suffering and killing of a sentient being.  Cows, pigs etc have as much emotion and sensation as any house pet.  The free-range definition is a deceiving one.  many free frange animals are slaughtered in the same facilities used by factory farms, and often the conditions on free range farms, while &amp;#8220;cageless&amp;#8221; are just as inhumane.  Check peta.org for the scoop&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:20:48 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/134</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Steve King</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:20:59 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Yea yea, nice nit-picking Christopher.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;You could make twice the contribution by investing in a bicycle.  It also will do a number on your health too, believe it or not.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Meat is good for you, and the fact that people are suggesting we exchange diets for the sake of the environment is ridiculous.  Stop driving, it&amp;#8217;s unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:10:24 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/134</link>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I hear these facts about livestock production. I did not realize the amounts of wastage that occurs in this industry.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;As for going veggie, I have my reservations. for starters, &lt;span class="caps"&gt;I CANNOT&lt;/span&gt; live without meat for a single day! I mean I could have it with vegetables, but I need my meat. I do not yet understand the moral aspect of consuming meat. The plants and crops that we feed on are also living beings.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:54:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;truely a tatamount problem.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;however there is a perfectly viable alternative out there. coming soon. hopefully.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;with your support.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:35:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/134</link>
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      <title>EcoEverest Expedition 2008 - Interested in participating? - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:02:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Sorry to all the schools and organizations that asked for a presentation about the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol... something very important that may help nudge the tipping point to Sustainable Thinking has arrived.

...and the Rethos.com community is the FIRST to hear about it!

I'm off to Nepal to help with the EcoEverest expedition -  

if you are interested in participating, enjoying an amazing adventure, and helping bring a "three finger focus" to this area of the planet where climate change and global warming are having a measurable and devastating effect RIGHT NOW... please se...</description>
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      <title>New comment - By This Time Next Year</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In a society full of &amp;#8220;dittoheads&amp;#8221;, and a lack of education about being an informed free-thinker, your mission is very much welcomed and supported!
Thank you for the work you all do as mentors, educators and seekers.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:28:10 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/245</link>
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      <title>New comment - Domestic Violence</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I think the reasons men abuse their partners are numerous.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I was in an abusive marriage for years.  I&amp;#8217;ve been out of it for about three years now and I&amp;#8217;m still trying to figure things out.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;My parent&amp;#8217;s stayed together when they shouldn&amp;#8217;t have.  I do think that had something to do with why I stayed so long.  I had no one to show me or tell me that it was ok to leave.  That I could survive on my own with my children.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t think this question can be answered with &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ONE&lt;/span&gt; study.  My ex wasn&amp;#8217;t an alcohol...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:49:19 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/58</link>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I love this post.  I hate it when people litter.  It&amp;#8217;s stupid considering there&amp;#8217;s probably a trash can of some sort just a short walk away.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I especially hate it when people throw litter out of their cars.  My car may look like a tornado hit it, but at least it will make it to the trash eventually rather than on the side of the highway!  The trash of course, not my car!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:43:35 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/141</link>
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      <title>Echoing Green Fellowship</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;What is the EG Fellowship?&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Through our two-year Echoing Green Fellowship program, we provide start-up capital and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity.   We offer:&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&#226;&#8364;&#162;    A grant of up to $90,000, paid in four equal installments over two years
&#226;&#8364;&#162;    A health insurance stipend
&#226;&#8364;&#162;    Conferences led by organizational development experts
&#226;&#8364;&#162;    Access to technical support and pro bono partnerships to help grow your organization
&#226;&#8364;&#162;    A community of like-minded social entrepreneurs and public service leaders&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;W...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:45:41 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/36</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Kristen Fields</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:16:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Richard Treadwell</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:16:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>credit union</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;HELP&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;really knack&amp;#8217;d at the mo, so will post when rested.  thought best to start now, or it will never happen ha ha ha&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;peace and love Exxx&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;here is the official posting of what roles need filling:
Bath and North East Somerset Credit Union (formally South West Bath Credit Union) was established in 1997 operating in the South West Triangle of Bath.  In October 2006, it was authorised to offer its service to anyone living or working in the Bath and North East Somerset Local Authority area.  It is registered and regulated by the Fi...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:21:23 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/33</link>
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      <title>New comment - On Nonviolence</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lynx, I&amp;#8217;m afraid of that day to be honest. Because I know I couldn&amp;#8217;t look at myself in the mirror if I didn&amp;#8217;t get out there and fight back. What does everyone think would happen if a massive uprising took place that threatened to take away the power and privilege of the few. If we marched and took control of our natural resources, and our mass communications. If we had a plan as to how to use them efficiently and democratically. They would find any and every excuse to use violence&amp;#8230;.you better believe it. Pacifism works fine right up to that point, then you&amp;#8217;v...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:44:37 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/162</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Sarah Byrnes</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:08:01 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Emma</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:41:10 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - War Child Canada</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:09:14 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>Senior Manager, Youth Programs</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;War Child Canada Senior Manager, Youth Programs&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;War Child Canada, a registered Canadian charity providing 
humanitarian assistance to children affected by war, is currently looking for a qualified individual to fill the position of Senior Manager, Youth Programs. This individual will be responsible for overseeing, developing, managing and implementing War Child Canada&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s highly successful youth programming &#226;&#8364;&#8220; a cornerstone of our education, outreach and fundraising activities. &lt;span class="caps"&gt;WCC&lt;/span&gt; works with thousands of young people from across Canada and the United...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:43:17 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/31</link>
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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>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Eric</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:09:09 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:09:02 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone for all of your great comments. I was not expecting a debate to kick off here.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The soybean issue is also bothering me. I do not feel like we should need to choose between animals and trees. Someone obviously needs a kick in the balls. No one should be messing with our rain forests. They are already more than half eliminated&amp;#8230; I&amp;#8217;m sure there is a more sustainable way to go about growing the damn beans.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:59:51 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/134</link>
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      <title>New comment - Are Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich CraZy?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Spot on comments &amp;#8230; but, I suggest to you that moderation, which I see as the outcome of honest discussion and debate from the extremes IS radical. It is a pipe dream, I fear, but it is my dream.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;This is in response to what you said about it taking something radical (and I am curious what you had in mind there), but what I am suggesting is that moderation, which leads to a nation of one people who all agree on one thing &amp;#8230; that we are a people &amp;#8230; is radical for our times. This means that we would become a single unit of people, a country. This, together with a ge...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:32:32 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Frank Miller</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:35:40 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/Christine/allies</link>
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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>
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      <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>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8221; 
Diet for a New America&amp;#8221; by John Robbins &amp;#8230; was that mentioned ? Also, as a veggie I must say one of the things u never want to face as a carnivore is the suffering u cause another sentient being. It honestly &amp;#38; simply takes a certain level of dishonesty &amp;#38; detachment to be a carnivore. If you were truly honest with yourself you could no longer eat meat. I believe it was Shaw who said it best: Until we stop being the graves for dead animals we as a species shall never live in Peace. (major paraphrasing!)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hey chirrens!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Firstoffly, let me say that I love this post. Sometimes a firm statistical slap in the face is just enough to make someone consider a- how shall I put it- greener diet. Its what made me go Vegan.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Now before some of you carnos out there cringe, I have no bad feelings towards you. Everyone I know is a carno, save for my flat-mate. And I know that &#226;&#8364;&#732;vegan&#226;&#8364;&#8482; looks like some sort of contraction between &#226;&#8364;&#732;vegetarian&#226;&#8364;&#8482; and &#226;&#8364;&#732;crazy person&#226;&#8364;&#8482; to some of you, but Its my environmental views that drove me to that point.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The fact is, that if you consum...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:57:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - On Nonviolence</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m still really intrigued by this, and look forward to hearing what Elias and Christine come back with. I do agree that non-violence alone can&amp;#8217;t succeed, at least not in the current state of civillisation, but I also feel it is a vital element.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Just watching the news over the last few days of Burma, and it&amp;#8217;s so incredible to see the crowds trying to push for change. Their efforts are not without vain, however I also feel that repressive governments will only be swayed when there is a strong enough international pressure, and by strong enough this must include...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:47:12 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Richard Jones</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:26:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I study Chinese Medicine, nutrition, herbology, and general health sciences. If anybody needs help on learning to eat a healthy vegetarian diet that your body can stick with message me.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:24:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I understand that many (myself included) learned about &amp;#8220;Animal Rights&amp;#8221; from Peter Singer, but he is a utilitarian and not actually opposed to using animals. If you want to learn about abolition (which is what AR used to be before it was co-opted by animal welfare), read Professor Gary Francione&amp;#8217;s work. His website, www.abolitionistapproach.com, has very accessible flash presentations that explain the differences between animal rights and animal welfare, what animal rights actually is (contrary to what &lt;span class="caps"&gt;PETA&lt;/span&gt; might say), and why property rights ar...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:16:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s nice when people seek to ignite a debate, and one actually ensues, rather than everyone just confirming their original beliefs. I think I&amp;#8217;m going to like rethos.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m with Krista et al at the moment; I think that what is needed from an ecological perspective is a fundamental change to food culture, but not necessarily one that cuts out meat. It&amp;#8217;s similar (but not directly linked) to the kind of change which one has affect in one&amp;#8217;s diet when changing to full vegetarianism, engaging in a whole new approach to food, recipes and ingredients rather ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:05:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;thank you for posting the info. realizing the effect that our food choices have on the environment is crucial. becoming a vegetarian is one of the easiest things a person can do to decrease the impact they have on the environment as well as decrease the amount of suffering that farm animals are subjected to. 
i have been a vegetarian for over four years and really cant imagine eating meet again, but lately i have struggled with whether or not my choices really are the least impactful on the environment. in the january 2007 issue of national geographic there is an article attributing the ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:53:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Jesse Smale</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:04:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - "Facebook Generation- Will Social Networks Change the Nature of Philanthropy" </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As those votes will affect the rest of the world eventually I hope you also get some coverage from other parts of the world&amp;#8230;I offer someone from Southern Africa&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:54:38 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Why You Shouldn't Wear Wool</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s just near impossible to tell what you&amp;#8217;re buying and supporting. The world is a scary place. Thanks for posting this.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:50:19 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Josh Cohen</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:04:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Nathan Rothstein</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:32:14 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Media Bistro</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:32:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I am having such an authentically difficult time responding to this. I was a vegeterian for about five years and then transitional (fish and poultry) for another two years (approx.). I can feel how fired up people get regarding this subject. I did too. Then I studied further and lived out some of my education at several sustainable ag. projects. Even gardening for a site leased by the old administrator of the Findhorn Garden. Get real, All of us.
There is no short cut solution to this whole thing. If everyone is not on board, the boat isn&amp;#8217;t gonna float.
I feel healthier a...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:09:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I am having such an authentically difficult time responding to this. I was a vegeterian for about five years and then transitional (fish and poultry) for another two years (approx.). I can feel how fired up people get regarding this subject. I did too. Then I studied further and lived out some of my education at several sustainable ag. projects. Even gardening for a site leased by the old administrator of the Findhorn Garden. Get real, All of us.
There is no short cut solution to this whole thing. If everyone is not on board, the boat isn&amp;#8217;t gonna float.
I feel healthier a...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:08:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:32:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Claire Moore</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:32:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Let's build the Rethos community</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you know any bloggers or read any blogs regularly that touch on your issues of passion&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8217;d love to have the whole community benefit from those bloggers&amp;#8217; passion and energy as well.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;So this is a call to action to comment on any blogs you read, and include a link to your rethos.com profile. Ask bloggers and blog readers to come join you here to take action and build change!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:49:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Progresswear</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:42:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Don Omar</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:42:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - JAM</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:11:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Hannah</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:11:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - My Challenge to Al Gore and Global Warming Celebrities</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sort of creepy way to make a good point. But right on, anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:00:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - WHAT RETHOS.COM HAS BEEN UP TO</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;7.) Have a &amp;#8216;buy nothing&amp;#8217; Christmas and what you save invest in Kiva.org for the rest of the year.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:47:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:11:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Stand Up against Poverty</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;October 16 + 17, 2007
Stand Up and Speak Out is the growing movement of people no longer prepared to stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and inequality. On October 16th and 17th, Stand Up and Speak Out for the Millennium Development Goals. Help us break the world record. So we can break the record of broken promises.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8217;ve tried to make it as simple as possible for you to get involved in Stand Up and Speak Out.  You can find events and see if any are planned near you.  Hosting your own event is easy when you know the &amp;#8220;Three Rs&amp;#8221; of Stand Up and Speak O...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:01:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Cause of Severe Hunger</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I love the quote by Ghandi:  &amp;#8220;Be the change you wish to see in the world.&amp;#8221; 
From here on out, I&amp;#8217;ve decided that I will always be an advocate for something.  The first step towards making a difference of any kind, is to get involved.  Get involved with this organization or any organization/charity which you feel drawn to.  Then Pass It On! ;)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:31:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:08:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve been told I look damn fine in tutu. I think I could make a great litter fairy. I would probably also carry a whip. Everyone would fear my tutu..&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:13:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wacks Krista with a bushel of chard!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:07:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Jonathan Levin High School for Media &amp; Communications</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:08:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:07:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#8217;t mean to alienate anyone. As you can see from my previous comment I am supportive of those who take a step in the right direction. Your proposal would be such a step if it could be implemented in a wide spread fashion. Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely considering the massive demand for cheap meat. Oh, and I didn&amp;#8217;t mean that all meat lovers are McDiers. Long before I stopped eating meat, I gave up fast food.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;If you are eating meat sustainably and humanely then cudos to you. Perhaps, you will show people how to eat meat responsibly and in moderation&amp;#823...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:19:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hmm&amp;#8230; well I think essentially we agree.  You see, my scenario never &amp;#8211; ever &amp;#8211; included eating anything, from McDonald&amp;#8217;s.  Because I would like to point out that not all of us who eat meat are guilty of patronizing McDonalds.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Certainly, I agree that that kind of meat consumption is completely unsustainable.  I was thinking more along the lines of eat what you, or your neighbour, can grow.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;When I lived in England pretty much all of my friends and neighbours had their own chickens.  Even a friend who lived in a terraced house in the middle of the c...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:32:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Krista,&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;No I am not going to try and flame baste you. I would just like to say that your scenario would work if there weren&amp;#8217;t 6 billion McDonald&amp;#8217;s loving meat eaters out there. That&amp;#8217;s a lot of &amp;#8220;free range&amp;#8221; animals. I guess it would intorduce a whole new level of urban sprawl, that dedicated to the &amp;#8220;local&amp;#8221; livestock we would eat. Yikes, I can just imagine what north america would look like if we didn&amp;#8217;t import our meat from south american nations.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I agree with your assessment if we were a smaller more moderate global popul...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:54:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have been a vegetarian for 2 and half years now and it really isn&amp;#8217;t that hard. At first I craved meat but now I don&amp;#8217;t even look at the stuff. It&amp;#8217;s as if it&amp;#8217;s not food! Good luck to anyone who decides to take the step towards becoming a more morally responsible and environmentaly friendly person.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:26:38 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Arthur Cohene</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:22:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Benjamin Silver</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:32:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - steph</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:46:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - DanRose</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:05:20 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#8217;t it be great if every city had a team of &amp;#8220;Litter Maids&amp;#8221;, like metre maids who could roam the city all day, ready to give tickets to litterers they catch in the act??&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Since we don&amp;#8217;t have those (yet) one of the best ways to illustrate the enormity of the problem is to join in, or initiate community clean-ups.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Here in Calgary, there&amp;#8217;s a riverbank cleanup every spring.  The city organizes it, and gets companies or groups to gather their members to volunteer.  My boyfriend and I did it this spring with his company, and it was great.&lt;/p...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:50:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, before you whack me with the spinach too (and by the way, chard would make a much more useful weapon) I would like to make one suggestion for those considering vegetarianism.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Leaving ethical reasons out of it, it is possible to eat meat fairly sustainably.  The environmental detriment comes from commercial livestock production, not the existence of the animals (ruminants and their pesky methane excepted), or the consumption of them.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Switching our meat consumption to free range or wild game, and getting it locally can mitigate just about all of the ecological footp...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:17:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Brief Tribute to Anita Roddick</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Anita was a courageous pioneer and visionary -we will miss her dearly.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Many people theorize about a social-values led economy -few like Anita have dedicated much of their life and resources to showing us all what is possible.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the post Christopher.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;-George&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:13:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Benjamin Ackerman</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:47:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too   By: Andrew W. Savitz with Karl Weber</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for posting this Nour&amp;#8230; an opportunity to introduce DragonTHINK &amp;#8230;a grassroots approach to what Savitz is talking about &amp;#8211; He&amp;#8217;s trying to show businesses how to make money (and stay in business) by finding balance &amp;#8211; DragonTHINK is an effort to get &lt;span class="caps"&gt;CONSUMERS&lt;/span&gt; thinking in ways that encourage those companies to find the balance between Society Environment and the Economy. If consumers stop being as lop-sided as the companies&amp;#8230; (the weight of decisions always falling only on Economic factors) .. there is a good chance we can ach...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:47:44 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Make the Connection - Nature - Animals - Humankind  </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Great post&amp;#8212;thanks for finding it!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:21:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Pablo actually, he told me about it!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:30:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Make the Connection - Nature - Animals - Humankind  </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/5575&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:53:38 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m sad to say it, but welcome to America man. I agree with you completely, serious changes are needed to get this country in the right direction, but it&amp;#8217;s hard to convince people to go in a different direction when they are blind to everything that&amp;#8217;s happening. 
I disagree with you on one point, it&amp;#8217;s not that Americans don&amp;#8217;t have the time, but that most simply don&amp;#8217;t care. What we need is for people look beyond themselves and find the candidate that good do some real good to our country.
Don&amp;#8217;t get me started on the media, that kind of rant wouldn...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:40:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:51:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m going to have to check this out as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:59:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:13:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attacks you with a spinach salad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;lol- &amp;#8220;get the f*ck off my planet, litter bug!&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:48:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Laine</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:13:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;You can download a copy of the report via the Food and Agriculture Organization website &amp;#8211; http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm &amp;#8211; and it certainly makes for interesting reading. I must admit I have always been a meat eater, although I am certainly now revising my opinion. I agree that it&amp;#8217;s the responsibility of the more economically developed countries to also show greater social awareness, and if by changing our eating habits we can have a positive effect then this is vital.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The report doesn&amp;#8217;t promote a complete change, or indeed an anti-livestock ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:09:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Michael Poku</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:07:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - james emmans</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:45:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - The Meat Industry and the Environment</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Can you post a link to this study? I&amp;#8217;d be interested to learn about how &amp;#8220;livestock&amp;#8221; was defined. For example are fish livestock? In Asia and parts of Africa where wet rice (vs dry rice) is farmed (think rice paddies vs just fields with dry dirt at the bottom) it is common to raise fish in the water simultaneously. This helps to fertilize the rice, reduce insects which the fish feed on, and provide additional food with nearly no human effort when the rice is harvested and the field drained of water. It is an extremely environmentally friendly form of farrming.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:31:13 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment! - An Entrepreneur That CARES....</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is a great post. I believe that over the next decade, we will see 100 of entrepreneurs like Skoll come out of the woodwork. We are fortunate to be a part of this generation of social revolution.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:56:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Cause of Severe Hunger</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;after an earthquake it may be very hard to get aid to remote areas and many people die. This will always happen no matter how much money people throw at the problem.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:12:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - lynx</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:59:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Ending Urban Poverty</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:47:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - JwtoneyIII</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:53:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Rachel </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:50:20 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Gregory Powers</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:11:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - plentymagazine</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:45:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - On Nonviolence</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lynx,
The debate is an important one certainly. I think we should talk about the extent to which nonviolence is a tactic, and the extent to which it should be the only tactic. However, I disagree completely with your facts. I will address them point by point when I have more time, but I think your painting of history is not only inaccurate but more or less propaganda. I mean no offense by my accusation, which of course, is but an accusation until I back it up. I plan on doing so very soon, and hopefully we can have a very meaningful debate.
Until then,
Eli&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:03:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Ally Request - Andrea Borod</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:19:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Ally Request - Smush Parker</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:19:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Travis</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:38:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - LifePrints</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:32:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Joseph Pela</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:43:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:52:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:21:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:24:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:17:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:18:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:34:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:03:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:30:22 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:22:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:22:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:58:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Pablo Salzman</title>
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