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Tar Sands – Pushing Back

I’ve written about the environmental devastation inherent in the development of Canada’s tar sands a few times, so here’s a quick update:  ForestEthics is effecting change in getting some big companies to tell their fuel suppliers they don’t want gasoline that uses tar sands oil.  Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond are on board.  […]

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Just Say No

For Pete’s sake, even the last US President, a man not highly praised for his environmentalism, said America was addicted to fossil fuels.  If fossil fuels are an addiction, then Canadian tar sands oil are crack.  Put it another way, using the same metaphor:  the US causes the massive drug violence and corruption in Mexico […]

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