Entries for category "Print | Web"
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Sept. 19, 2009
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By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard - 09/19/2009 Kathleen Kennedy was admonished by her own school board for showing "The Story of Stuff," a film about the environmental costs of rampant consumerism, but the biology teacher persisted. The teacher from Big Sky High School in Missoula held firm and…
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May 24, 2009
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May 24, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — An Indianapolis Star article on efforts to make the Indianapolis 500 more environmentally friendly notes that the race recently switched to biodegradable latex balloons for the traditional balloon launch. "But any time you disperse massive amounts of waste randomly with no way to get…
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March 25, 2009
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A veteran volunteer shares 4 ways families can make a difference on vacation by Melissa Gaskill My family discovered the singular satisfaction of blending vacations and volunteering one summer afternoon on a remote Mexican beach. For two hours, Holley, Collin, and Bridget (then ages 15,12, and 9), my husband, Corey,…
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Oct. 23, 2008
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October 23, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - Wallace J. Nichols, a research associate at California Academy of Sciences and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, "plans to petition the Mexican government to create an ocean preserve limiting fishing in the waters off Playa San Lazaro, similar to the reserves in place off…
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Oct. 22, 2008
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By Genevieve Bookwalter SANTA CRUZ -- Two Santa Cruz scientists have pinpointed a Baja California beach as the sandy graveyard of more dead sea turtles than anywhere else in the world, and they blame poor fishing practices for the deaths. Next week one of the researchers plans to visit Mexico…
