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Worth every minute and then some.. I enjoyed William McDonough’s intelligence, vision, and humor. I believe you will too. He is addressing real design solutions that is more then than just recycling.
The video above is 1/2 of the actual talk. The entire 20 minute talk can be viewed by clicking on the title of this post.

I still have a choked feeling , and tears of fear for our future after watching the following film. Scientists, concerned with the amount of plastic in our oceans, trawled sections of the Pacific in various places, to quantify what there. What they found will wake you up. The big plastic pieces are ugly and create environmental problems as is. But it’s when the plastic breaks down to the size of plankton, that they enter the food chain. What these scientists found will hopefully inspire you to use nonpetroleum biodegradable plastics and take reusable cloth bags shopping:

Below is a Green Peace interactive video map from
Love your planet.

showing how the currents flow in Pacific:
Click here for Green Peace video.

The following list was put together by cooamerica.org. Clicking on the title above will take you to the site, where the article contains active links.. I’m posting this here now to stimulate Ideas for stuff management. We are making our oceans enormous junk yards, with two major trash “islands” west and east of Hawaii.
By some estimates, the combined affected marine area, just in the Pacific Ocean is larger then the continental United States

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Keith Olbermann, the host of Countdown, gave a particularly rousing commentary on Bush’s posturing on the FISA that he insisted should include retroactive prosecution immunity for the phone companies and members of his administration for participating in spying on Americans..
Listen carefully to points Keith makes:

I wish I could take credit for this creation, but it was sent to me by a good friend. (I added a few visual embellishments):

Right!

A Japanese company ( Toyota )
and an American company (General Motors)
decided to have a canoe
race on the Missouri River Both teams
practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.

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President George W. Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion spending package that would increase military funding while protecting tax cuts,1 and Wal-Mart announced an economic “stimulus plan” that offers steep discounts on thousands of items, including a five-pound bag of Tyson frozen chicken wings ($8.88) and two Hillshire Farms Cocktail Smokies or Ropes ($5).

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