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  • The Good Stuff — Episode 10: The People Have the Power

    Protecting our health from toxic pollution is too important a job to be left to scientists, govenment regulators or even professional environmental activists. Annie looks at two communities, half a world apart, where citizens showed that people on the front lines of pollution have the power to fight back against being poisoned.

     
    posted by nicole
    April 24, 2013
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  • Choose Family over Frenzy

    When I turned on my computer today, I had 8 emails from vendors announcing special low prices — Black Friday deals — available all week. I waded through the Black Friday junk mail, tapping away at my delete button, to find the one email I sought: the message from my neighbor with the menu, schedule and guest list for Thursday’s Thanksgiving gathering….

     
    posted by Annie Leonard
    November 19, 2012
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  • The Story of Change

    The Story of Change

    I used to think the truth would set us free. Like many who care about the environment, I spent years thinking that information would lead to change. So I wrote reports, gave speeches, even testified before Congress.

    Some things changed. Sadly, the big picture didn’t….

     
    posted by Annie Leonard
    July 17, 2012
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