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2011/01/252011/01/25

Public Health Advocates Pressure on EPA Flouride Reduction

EPA to Bar Fluoride-Based Pesticide Decision aims to protect children’s health CONTACT: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982 leeann@ewg.org; Beyond Pesticides: Jay Feldman, 202-543-5450; Fluoride Action Network: Ellen Connett, 315-379-9200 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 10, 2011 Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to grant three environmental groups’ petition to end …

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2011/01/24

Event Listings from the Magazines Metropolis & Yes! (Includes Cradle to Cradle Festival)

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/events.php January 26 For the Greener Good: Inspired by Nature Washington, D.C. In its seventh season, For the Greener Good—one of the National Building Museum’s most popular public education forums—culminates with four panel discussions about the state of sustainability in our nation. The first panel, Inspired by Nature, will discuss how architects, builders, and engineers …

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2011/01/22

Are Undergraduates Learning Anything?

Drawing on survey responses, transcript data, and results from the Collegiate Learning Assessment (a standardized test taken by students in their first semester and at the end of their second year), Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa concluded that a significant percentage of undergraduates are failing to develop the broad-based skills and knowledge they should be …

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2011/01/212011/01/21

2011 Food Crisis, Urban Gardening, Social Systems

Dear friends, Food is basic. Lester Brown — founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, author of over 50 books on environmental issues, recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, and (according to the Washington Post) “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” — has just published a cogent …

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2011/01/202011/01/20

INDICATIONS & WARNING: Political Violence Forecasts

Predictive Societal Indicators of Radicalism In collaboration with our academic partners Prof. Cingranelli at the Political Science Department, SUNY Binghamton University and Profs. Sam Bell and Amanda Murdie at the Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, we developed a Domestic Political Violence Model that forecasts political violence levels five years into the future. The …

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2011/01/19

Soil Mapping

A global consortium has been formed that aims to make a new digital soil map of the world using state-of-the-art and emerging technologies for soil mapping and predicting soil properties at fine resolution. This new global soil map will be supplemented by interpretation and functionality options that aim to assist better decisions in a range of …

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2011/01/18

Review (Guest): Winner-Take-All Politics–How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned its Back on the Middle Class

Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker 5.0 out of 5 stars Political Economy January 17, 2011 Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews This book is an effort by two political scientist to explain how in the last thirty years or so wealth in the U.S. has become concentrated in the hands of …

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