The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Occupy Monsanto Protesters Push Labeling Resolution at Annual Shareholder Meeting
For the first time ever, Monsanto shareholders convened to vote on a resolution to support GMO labeling.
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TransCanada Pipeline Explosion Shuts Off Gas For 4,000 Residents In Sub-Zero Temperatures
As TransCanada has been pushing for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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As British Public Shuns Fracking, Many See a Turn Toward Tidal Energy
Both the economic and ecological arguments against fracking undermine the government’s goal of igniting a "British Shale Gas revolution" – especially with forecasts projecting tidal energy to become a £6 billion industry that creates 19,000 jobs.
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E.U. Citizens Initiative Launches Water Rights onto European Agenda
Water and who should provide it – the public or private sector – has become the first issue pushed onto Brussels' policy agenda via a new mechanism, the E.U. Citizens' Initiative, meant to involve ordinary people in decision-making.
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Pipeline Resistance Movement Sets Sights on TransCanada's Energy East Project
TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline was originally celebrated as the project that would connect the East and the West. Then, proponents said it was the project that would allow the Canadian petroleum industry to access new international markets. Next, it was known as the project that would provide oil for Eastern Canadians.
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Crashing the Party at Davos: It's Time to Seize Power on the Mountaintop
Humanity does have a chance at survival: it just lies at much lower altitudes in the social hierarchy than the crowd now patting themselves on the back at the World Economic Form in Davos.
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Wake Up Before It Is Too Late: Lessons From a U.N. Sustainability Report
Last year's UN Conference on Trade and Development study offers a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and strategic approaches to deal with hunger and poverty, poor health and nutrition, climate change and environmental sustainability.
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Suppressing Science, Supporting Monsanto: An Academic Journal Retracts
Scientific journal publishing reached a low point in November, when the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology
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Media Coverage Or No, The Winds of Climate Change Are Upon Us
The extreme storms recently battering Britain and Europe suggest you don't need to look as far as the Arctic to see climate change’s onset. Why does the media still refuse to cover this crisis?
