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SERVE AMERICA WITH SERVICE NATION
Join MyNation. Plan or attend events, connect with fellow volunteers, and change people's lives by working in your own community.
GREEN AMERICA
Choose how would you like to help and take action by volunteering for a just and greener planet!!
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
Volunteers Needed! Protect and Support Healthy Wildlife & Habitat in Your Community. Please sign up!
TRAVEL4SOULS
Travel4Souls is seeking ambassadors to serve in developing countries. Help distribute and collect shoes for children and families in need. Various trips are planned, get involved now.
KIVA: BECOME A FELLOW
Serve on the ground, working directly with Kiva's microfinance institution (MFI) field partners in over 60 countries around the globe. Apply today!
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It's Time to End the Vicious Cycle of Hunger and Poverty. Help address the G8 summit members in this petition that asks them to implement a bold global plan to eliminate poverty.
GLOBAL BEE EMERGENCY
Quietly, globally, billions of bees are dying, threatening our crops and food. But a global ban of one group of pesticides could save bees from extinction.
GREEN AMERICA
Tell Hershey to Go Fair Trade
Hershey is a laggard in the chocolate industry for failing to take any steps to eliminate child and forced labor in their supply chain.
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND
Stop buying Paseo and Livi toilet paper until APP stops clearing natural forest. Help us ensure a future for Sumatra's forests and the tigers, elephants, and communities they support.
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CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT
Help the Climate Reality Project spread the truth about the climate crisis – and the importance of implementing solutions together. Make a donation today to support our upcoming events.
GREEN AMERICA
Support Green America's work to promote social justice, environmental sustainability, and healthy communities worldwide through economic action.
ASHOKA
Each donation to Ashoka is an investment in social change. Your contribution will help us to identify exceptional social entrepreneurs around the world, support them in their work.
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JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO END POVERTY BY 2015
This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
TRAVEL WITH THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND
See the planet's most dynamic wildlife – and help protect it. A portion of your tour cost is directly contributed to WWF's general fund,to support conservation work around the world.
SOLES4SOULS
Have gently worn shoes that you want to get rid of? Soles4souls is desperately seeking shoe donations. Help give the gift of shoes to those in need.
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EPA: Protect Yourself from the Sun this Summer!
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The warming temperatures will bring many people out into the sun to get a little color on their skins. The sun, while being the source of all life on Earth, is also quite lethal if exposed for too long. As summer approaches, it is good to remember a few things about protecting your skin from the great ball of fire in the sky. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has teamed up with the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Park Service (NPS) in a joint effort to spread the word. They have designated the Friday before Memorial Day as "Don't Fry Day" to highlight the important message.
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New Jersey Takes Slow, Steady Approach to Offshore Wind
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The international wind power industry is watching Washington, DC to see if lawmakers will extend the federal production tax credit (PTC) for wind power. But their eyes are also focused on Trenton, the state capital of New Jersey, to see if state regulators there will help launch America's long-awaited offshore wind energy industry.
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Tropic Atmospheric Circulation
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An University of California - Riverside led team has identified black carbon and tropospheric ozone as the most likely drivers of large-scale atmospheric circulation change in the Northern Hemisphere tropics zone. While stratospheric ozone depletion has already been shown to be the primary driver of the expansion of the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere, the researchers are the first to report that black carbon and tropospheric ozone are the most likely primary drivers of the tropical expansion observed in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Paper or Plastic?
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Cities in a number of Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan, are currently on the warpath against plastic shopping bags.
The cities have passed local laws that ban such bags, on the basis that they clog sewers and drainage canals, cause street flooding, choke animals and are responsible for other forms of environmental damage.
China and Taiwan, for example, impose heavy fines on violators. Other countries are appealing for a switch to the production and use of biodegradable bags.
But this misses the point. People do not object to using biodegradable bags, and consider them a welcome return to the traditional practice of using shopping baskets and bags made from locally available materials — such as jute, abaca and cloth — that are less harmful to the environment.
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Taste and Temperature
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Some people like food or beverages hot and some like them cold. What's the difference? Can the temperature of the food we eat affect the intensity of its taste? It depends on the taste, according to a new study by Dr. Gary Pickering and colleagues from Brock University in Canada. Their work shows that changes in the temperature of foods and drinks have an effect on the intensity of sour, bitter and astringent tastes but not sweetness. Their work is published online in Springer's Chemosensory Perception journal. Humans receive tastes through sensory organs called taste buds concentrated on the top of the tongue. Taste is sensed through taste cells, which are known as taste buds. There are about 100,000 taste buds that are located on the back and front of the tongue. Others are located on the roof, sides and back of the mouth, and in the throat.
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Water Crisis in Asia
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As the contradictions of Asia’s water challenges have been laid bare this summer—with millions affected by flooding while others are hit by droughts—one thing has been made clearer: the coming water crisis could exacerbate already simmering domestic and regional tensions.
Heavy monsoon rains have produced the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history, ...
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LEED Building Standards Fail to Protect Human Health
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The LEED program — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — is playing an increasingly important role in the drive to make buildings in the United States greener and more energy efficient. LEED is now the most prominent and widely adopted green building certification program in the country, with architects and developers striving to earn LEED’s coveted platinum or gold rating, and an increa...
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OPINION: Sanitation Too Often Overlooked in Developing Nations
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For most of us, finding a bathroom or toilet isn't hard. Chances are it's not more than a short walk away - you may even be there now. For 2.5 billion people around the world, however, it isn't that easy. Their bathroom is likely shared, has no running water and is a walk from their house. And you thought port-a-potties were bad. The lack of access to sanitation is a huge challenge to the 1 billio...
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Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles
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The new generation of electric cars that are set to hit the market promise to help end the world's dependence on fossil fuels and clean the air. However, they are not without flaws. One particular flaw in their charging system may even make them less environmentally friendly than the most fuel efficient conventional cars. A new technology by the company Evatran, uses induction charging to automa...
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Here Come the Electric Cars: "Leaf" and "Volt"
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Here's an article from Triple Pundit talking about the launch of two new electric cars: the Nissan "Leaf" (eco-friendly name, huh) and the GM "Volt." Read the article and let us know - would you buy either of these two vehicles?
The Plug-In 2010 Conference in San Jose was the site of major announceme...
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