Word: environmentalism
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Ogden wouldn't speculate as to why national childhood overweight trends appear to have stalled. It could be that kids have hit the fat ceiling - they've gotten as heavy as they're ever going to get. Or, perhaps the most obvious answer is the nationwide effort to combat obesity...
All of which sounds great - we clean up the environment, control global warming and create an entirely new sector of employment while we're at it. Academics have released lots of studies trumpeting the potential for green jobs - one report by the RAND Corporation and University of Tennessee found that...
Phil Angelides has the answers - or at least one of them. A venture capitalist and the 2006 Democratic candidate for governor of California (he lost to the political world's best-known Austrian-American), Angelides is the chair of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of business, labor and environmental groups championing green employment. Here's how he defines a green job: "It has to pay decent wages and benefits that can support a family. It has to be part of a real career path, with upward mobility. And it needs to reduce waste and pollution and benefit the environment." (Hear...
We all have the choice to eat in a way that protects the environment, our communities and our animals. In so doing, we are advocating for a more sustainable food system and reducing our own individual contributions to global warming.
If diplomatic efforts continue to look unlikely to produce an outcome acceptable to the Administration, would President Bush consider military action? The odds have to be against it, given the domestic environment. But the tone among some of his allies abroad is very different. As he often does on such...