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Wash Your Organic Produce. No, Really.

▲0 Votes 0   Submitted By Carl   This summer I've been on a blueberry tear. I buy a little container from the farmers market or supermarket and open it up as soon as I get home, popping the sweet little orbs into my mouth as I'm putting away my groceries. Only occasionally do I give rinsing them more than a passing thought. After all, I usually splurge for the organic kind. How bad could a little chemical-free dirt really be? Do I really have to wash my innocent-looking blueberries?According to Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst wi 
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There is still time to enter EarthEcho’s Defend Your Drain Contest Submitted By Carl

▲34 Votes Comment  EarthEcho is so excited about the excellent youth video submissions for Seventh Generation Foundations Campaign for a Toxin-Free Generation and we know there are more coming very soon. We want to f... 
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Sean Russell, Stow It Submitted By Cameron

▲24 Votes Comment  Sean Russell is a twenty year old senior at the University of Florida who is an advocate for service-learning, youth leadership, community service, and environmental education. He is currently a me... 
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EarthEcho & Seventh Generation Foundation Launch Campaign for a Toxin-Free Generation Video Contest Submitted By Ferris

▲31 Votes Comment  -- Campaign and Contest Provide Opportunities for Youth-Focused Earth Day Activities --WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- EarthEcho International (www.earthecho.org), a leading e... 
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Philippe Cousteau answers your ocean questions Submitted By Andrew

▲16 Votes Comment  Check out the videos below to see environmental advocate Philippe Cousteau, Jr. answering four questions about oceans asked by Global Conversations: Our Planet fans from around the world.Question #... 
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EarthEcho International Attends 2nd Annual White House Women and the Environment Summit Submitted By Carrie

▲18 Votes Comment  Follow the conversation on Twitter using #shegoesgreen and view the event at www.whitehouse.gov/live. Facebook, Tweet and Blog about your experience. You can also follow @whitehouse @EPAgov. 
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Banking On Youth Offers Support for New Youth Ventures Submitted By Ed

▲7 Votes Comment  Youth Venture and the Consumer Bankers Foundation are giving away prizes such $1,000 seed money, a trip to the Ashoka Future Forum, and two grand prizes of $5,000 and $15,000!! Its a great opportun... 
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Philippe Cousteau to appear on CNN at 1220ET on 12/12 Submitted By Elaine

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EarthEcho is proud to present a thought leader session at the National Service Learning Conference Submitted By Frank

▲23 Votes Comment  Join EarthEcho International at the National Service Learning Conference March 13-16 in Denver, Colorado. EarthEcho is hosting a thought-leader session on March 14.Join us March 13-16, 2013 at the ... 
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Philippe Cousteau featured on Last Call with Carson Daly Submitted By Brian

▲26 Votes Comment  Click to watch EarthEcho President and Co-Founder Philippe Cousteau, Jr. discuss his most important influencers and work 
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Defend Your Drain Webinar with Philippe Cousteau and Seventh Generation Foundation’s John Replogle Submitted By George

▲31 Votes Comment  Did you realize that everything you send down the drainincluding things that you wash off your body or that first pass through your bodycan end up back in local waterways, the ocean, and even the w... 
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Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought. Submitted By Ed

▲7 Votes Comment  Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday. 
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No evidence global warming spawned twister. Submitted By Carl

▲19 Votes Comment  Yes, climate change is happening. But it's hard to say that the tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma or any given tornado, for that matter was influenced by climate change. 
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Oyster shells are an antacid to the oceans. Submitted By Newman

▲3 Votes Comment  How does the Chesapeake Bay spell relief? O-Y-S-T-E-R-S, a new study finds. Like ocean waters around the world, the Chesapeake has become more and more acidic. But oysters particularly their shells... 
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Isle of Man sets new climate change target. Submitted By Richard

▲15 Votes Comment  Tynwald has unanimously approved a move by Environment Minister Phil Gawne to abandon its green energy target in favour of a new one. 
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Rebuilding the coastline, but at what cost? Submitted By Morty

▲34 Votes Comment  When a handful of retired homeowners from Osborn Island in New Jersey gathered last month to discuss post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding and environmental protection, L. Stanton Hales Jr., a conservati... 
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Pete McMartin: British Columbia exporting the future for todays gain. Submitted By Richard

▲25 Votes Comment  In the last eight years, corporate donors most notably, a group of mining, gas and oil companies have inundated the provincial Liberals with $46 million in donations. That buys a lot of attention. 
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Abraham: Heartland Institute wastes our time, again. Submitted By Claire

▲30 Votes Comment  Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where armchair experts gave up fighting over whether climate change is occurring? 
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Louisiana wetlands experts search for answers in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Submitted By Cameron

▲6 Votes Comment  The Louisiana-based Americas WETLAND Foundation and Vietnam National University are holding the Deltas 2013 Vietnam conference this week in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 
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Warming to take longer in reaching forecast levels. Submitted By Ed

▲27 Votes Comment  The rate of global warming caused by rising greenhouse gas levels could be slower than previously thought, but will still result in the same eventual higher temperatures as earlier forecast, new re... 
www.smh.com.au |  17h ago
 

Fish migration charts climate change in the oceans. Submitted By Richard

▲4 Votes Comment  Although oceans are warming, and the chemistry of the seas gradually changing, William Cheung and colleagues at the University of British Columbia report in Nature that it has not been easy so far ... 
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