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		<title>Child Slave Labor Still Taints the Chocolate Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[child slave labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cocoa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferrero]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Child slave labor on cocoa farms in West Africa is still a big problem. West Africa supplies 70 percent of the world’s cocoa supply. In a previous article, The Child Slave Labor In Most Chocolate Bars I cited a Tulane University report that found 25 to 50 percent of the children in households in the [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>We Need To Reduce Carbon Emissions ASAP</title>
		<link>http://behindcurrentevents.com/archives/124</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is already suffering from the effects of climate change as a recently published study in the Journal Nature Climate Change reveals. The study, conducted by Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Research, says that extreme weather events over the last decade have increased and are “very likely” caused by human-induced climate change. Climate change [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>Don&#8217;t Count Cleantech Out Despite the Solyndra Debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clean tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial buildings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ali_pk /Free Photos Solyndra has become a rallying cry for those opposed to clean technology. However, clean tech critics miss several key points, according to the report, Clean Edge Trends 2012. One of the key points critics miss is that fossil fuel industries (oil, gas and coal) still receive massive subsidies. Other key points include: [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>Minnesota Based Think Tank Wants To Gut Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Air Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While posting a status update on Facebook, an ad for Intellectual Takeout caught my attention. I clicked on the ad because the title sounded interesting. What I discovered is that Minnesota-based Intellectual Takeout is a right-wing think tank that wants to gut government as a glance at the description of the group on its website [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>Obama’s Proposed Budget and the Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal year 2013]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fr Antunes /Free Photos How does President Obama’s proposed congressional budget for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 stack up when it comes to the environment. Honestly, it’s a mixed bag.  The Environmental Defense Fund lists two proposed funding cuts: $105 million for the EPA and $600 million for Farm Bill conservation programs in FY 2013. [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>The SEC Needs To Stop Dragging Its Feet Over Conflict Minerals Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict minerals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1996, over 5.5 million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from war-related causes. Many women and children have been raped. Though the wars officially ended in the DRC in 2003, over 2.5 million people live as refugees. Armed groups earn millions of dollars every year by trading conflict minerals, that [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>Macy’s Needs To Stop Selling Dirty Gold</title>
		<link>http://behindcurrentevents.com/archives/47</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gold mining is one of the most polluting industries on the planet. Gold is commonly extracted through “heap leaching,” which crushes the ore, piles it into heaps and sprays the heaps with cyanide, and the run-off cyanide is stored in artificial ponds for re-use. This process can take decades, and contamination of the environment around [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>New EPA Regulations Will Create Many Jobs</title>
		<link>http://behindcurrentevents.com/archives/34</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Clean Air Act (CAA), enacted in 1970 and amended in 1990, provides $4 to $8 in benefits for every $1 spent on compliance. The CAA has also reduced emissions of the most common air pollutants by 41 percent while the GDP increased by 64 percent. A new report looks at the employment impacts of [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>Not Investing In Clean Tech Will Increase Carbon and Cost Big Bucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clean tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For every $1 of investment in cleaner tech that is avoided in the power sector before 2020, an additional $4.30 would need to be spent after 2020 to compensate for the increased emissions, according to International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook(WEO). The WEO presents a 450 Scenario, which traces an energy path consistent with [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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		<title>Increased Recycling Rates Mean More Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina-Marie Cheeseman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions reductions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[epSos.de /Foter Increasing recycling rates will create a significant amount of jobs and reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a report produced by a coalition of labor and environmental groups. Titled More Jobs, Less Pollution the report looks at both the Base Case Scenario which represents a business-as-usual approach, and the Green Economy [...]<h3>Share and Enjoy</h3>

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