The New York Times says that consumers are rejecting the possibility of massive energy savings by refusing to adopt cold water clothes washing.

Software Freedom Day celebrates the massive contribution of Free and Open Source Software in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere!

CNN: ‘Weather experts: U.S. summer hottest in past 75 years’

Mario Masuku, leader of the Swaziland liberation movement calls for an end to the monarchy

Al Jazeera: Millions affected by floods in Pakistan

This why they're rioting. An interview with Darcus Howe, a West Indian Writer, that the BBC will never play again.

Summary: food, the symbiosis between food and the environment, particularly regarding climate change and pollution, how to reduce the burden your diet has on the environment, our fat friend.

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein

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Changing your diet

Reducing Meat Consumption

• UN says eat less meat to curb global warming

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Summary: WikiLeaks, who are the protagonists? What are the leaks about? How are the US government and it’s friends fighting back? Who are WikiLeaks’ allies? What are Anonymous Cyber Attacks and what is the Cyber Info War? Who are these Cyber Warriors, “Anonymous”? Where can I find them and how do I get involved?

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“Philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways, the point however is to change it.”
– Karl Marx

News

Leaks

• US helicopter slaughtering Reuters journalists and Iraqi children
• Obama administration handed over Iraqi detainees despite reports of torture
• WikiLeaks exposed hidden logs of the Afghanistan war
• U.S. forces killed hundreds of innocent civilians at checkpoints in Iraq
• The truth behind Iceland’s 2009 financial crisis

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Summary: In this episode we will be talking about the Kyoto Protocol. What is the Kyoto Protocol all about? Where did it come from? What does it say? Who has signed up to it and why? Who has not signed up to it and why not? What has happened since?

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“I think that the European Union saved the Kyoto Protocol here, it could have died completely, any prospect of any legally binding outcome could have died, it has survived, whatever it means we will see later[.]”
– Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action, COP16 Cancun 2010

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Summary: Children living on rubbish tips, drug barons, gang warfare, disappearances, marked and unmarked graves, a concentration camp, an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, another oil spill in the Amazon, extreme poverty, a communist enclave, a socialist paradise and the worlds largest rainforest at risk of going up in flames.

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“If you switch from taxing work and taxing savings to taxing pollution overall wellbeing would actually be enhanced, we would do less of the bad things and more of the good things and societies would be better off.”
– Nobel Prize Winning Economist, Joseph Stiglitz

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