Author: Lani
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The Hudson Valley Green Festival
If you don’t have plans yet for the Labor Day weekend holiday, how about the Hudson Valley Green Festival? The event is sponsored by Rhinebeck’s Terrapin Resturant and will be on 04 September at the Staatsburgh State Historic Site. It is a one day festival celebrating alternative energy, local food and drinks, and other Hudson…
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Another Gulf Disaster?
From Environment New York: BP apparently has a new dangerous plan to drill eight miles under the ocean off the coast of Alaska to tap oil. Unfortunately, that’s not the only threat from BP: According to a whistle-blower, BP has another rig in the Gulf with the same faulty safety systems as the Deepwater Horizon…
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Save the Earth, Fight Cancer
DKMS, the world’s largest bone marrow donor center, has partnered with Cell Phones for Cancer in the fight against leukemia and lymphoma. CPC recycles electronic items and donates a portion of its proceeds to help fight cancer. They also accept laptops, digital cameras, ink cartridges, mp3 players, DVDs, among other things. If you have 10…
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Energy Plus
I got an email from Jet Blue encouraging me to switch to Energy Plus. The company supplies electricity in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Texas. True Blue members can be awarded a one way flight, as well as receiving 5,000 points after 2 months as a customer. They’re also offering 2 points for every $1…
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EPI
Bass had a fantastic sale going on (70 % off most items; buy one pair of sandals, get 2 free; buy 1 luggage, get 2 free) so my co-worker/friend Paige and I decided to check it out. I not only got some new footwear, but found out that their plastic bags has an “EPI” additive…
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Cleanse craze
In case you haven’t heard, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are doing the Master Cleanse. Instead of a detox, I heard that this is mostly just fasting and an easy way to lose weight. The danger is that you won’t be getting enough calories and nutrients. The pounds also pile back on pretty quickly because…
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Thank you card
From Environment New York: On June 10, New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand stood up to oil companies and other big polluters by helping defeat an attempt to roll back the Clean Air Act. The defeated resolution, sponsored by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, would have stopped efforts to hold oil companies and other…
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Save the turtles
From Credo: News has just emerged from the Gulf Coast that BP is burning endangered sea turtles alive. A boat captain who has been leading efforts to rescue the endangered turtles says BP has blocked his crews from entering the areas where the animals are trapped, effectively shutting down the rescue operation. BP is using…
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Hands Across the Sand
From Earth Day Network: “Yesterday afternoon, a Louisiana judge overruled President Obama’s suspension of offshore drilling. This decision leaves Big Oil free to resume operations off the Louisiana coast, despite the obvious risks. It’s more clear than ever before: offshore drilling will continue to expand unless we keep the pressure on government leaders and the…
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Address the mess
Comedy Central‘s Address the Mess campaign will donate $1 (up to $50,000) to the Gulf of America Fund each time you re-tweet Stephen Colbert’s tweet: “In honor of oil-soaked birds, tweets are now gurgles.” Go to Stephenathome now!