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My long held fantasy of a car-free Market Street became just a little closer to reality today. A transit improvement report was just approved by the SF County Transportation Authority that...
If you are not lucky enough to live in one of the Genesee County suburbs that offers curbside recycling you might be wondering where you can take products for recycling.
The answer: C.B.C...
Occidental Petroleum Corporation announced they have made the largest natural gas and oil discovery in California for 35 years.
The current assessment shows there could be between 150 million...
So close but no curbside recycling.
If I lived two or three miles to the west, in Flushing, I’d have curbside recycling, but no I have to collect all my stuff and haul it to downtown Flint to...
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Pete Seeger has been an incredibly important inspiration not only in my life, but also for countless others throughout the...
One of my friends recently attended the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco and texted me about their awesome green initiatives. From the show. Yes, I’m sort of a nerd for this kind of thing.
We’re all about musicians lightening...
Recently I have been reading very disturbing research about how Diet Coke can possibly cause cancer and kill you. The artificial sweetener that is used in most diet beverages, aspartame, once ingested, becomes a lethal poison called methyl alcohol....
For anyone who has seen the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, they might get that same feeling of “us” versus “them” that fills the truly indie 9500 Liberty. Body Snatchers grabbed its content and texture from the red scare, the McCarthy...
CNN highlights the Billionaires for Wealthcare enthusiastically singing the praises of a public option, as they entertained unsuspecting attendees at a health insurance conference in Washington DC last week. Wolf Blitzer and Jeanne Moos discuss the...
Sigourney Weaver narrates “Acid Test“, an illuminating and terrifying NRDC documentary that explains how quickly our planet’s oceans are acidifying due to all of the carbon dioxide that we are pumping into our air. This pollution is causing rapid...