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These are the posts from June 2008

June 22, 2008
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Blogger arrested - blog him out of jail!!

Junichi Sato is not only a whale activist in Japan (and there ain’t many people who can put THAT on their business card), he’s also a blogger. And he’s been arrested for the crime of exposing the truth.
Greenpeace is asking bloggers around the world to band together and ‘blog him out of jail’. There’s a [...]

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June 19, 2008
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A stroke of insight

This video is a powerful, awe-inspiring talk by neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, who had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered [...]

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June 18, 2008
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Solid Energy sent greenhouse gas bill

Got a great release from Save Happy Valley today.
I couldn’t find it online so here it is :
The Save Happy Valley Coalition today sent Solid Energy a bill for $12 million dollars on behalf of the people of New Zealand.
Fugitive methane emissions from coal mining – where gases leak from the coal seam itself – [...]

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June 17, 2008
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New Zealand to ban the bulb

The traditional incandescent light bulb will soon be no more in the land of the wrong white crowd. As part of a strategy for more energy efficient lighting announced today by New Zealand’s Energy Minister David Parker and Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation Jeanette Fitzsimons the old inefficient bulbs will be phased out.
“The [...]

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McCain in the blogsphere

There’s a lot of McCain blogging going on out there. Surely he’s not that interesting … I wonder how many of them are part of the McCain google bomb.

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June 10, 2008
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Searching for John McCain

Want to influence the US elections? If you take part in this great example of Google activism you  can.
I’ve grabbed this in its entirety from OpenLeft:
Searching for John McCain is a massive, online activism campaign designed to make at least ten million non-partisan, poll-tested, on-message voter contacts that reveal the damning truth about John McCain [...]

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June 6, 2008
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Guerrilla Gardeners attack urban eyesores

They work under the cover of night, armed with seed bombs, chemical weapons and pitchforks. Their tactics are anarchistic, their attitude revolutionary. Their aim: to beautify.
An army of self-styled Guerrilla Gardeners is growing across the world, fighting to transform urban wastelands into horticultural havens. To document and encourage their victories, one of the movement’s top [...]

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