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Lowenthal joins climate change rally at Capitol

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release)– Congressman Alan Lowenthal (D-California) on Wednesday, May 21,  joined more than a dozen members of Congress in a Capitol Hill rally to raise awareness to Congressional inaction on climate change. The event, coordinated through the House of Representatives’ Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), was labelled the “Time to Wake Up […]

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Empathy of animals and moral imperatives of man

By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel  CHULA VISTA, Calidfornia — Jewish tradition has long taught that if God had not given the Ten Commandments, man would have had to learn ethics from nature. Obviously, some animals exhibit cruel behavior, but many higher animals show a profound ethical regard for their species and sometimes even other species!

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Israel boasts a beautiful park carved from trash

By Steve Kramer TEL AVIV — Did you know that metropolitan Tel Aviv has a park that is bigger than New York’s Central Park? Or, that the park’s most unique feature is a mountain of trash? That’s what you’ll find at recently opened Ariel Sharon Park, almost 2,000 acres of reclaimed land, located in Israel’s

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Earth Day prompts calls for action on climate change

BURLINGTON,Vermont (Press Release) – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate environment and energy committees, said today’s (April 22’s) observation of Earth Day is a reminder that dramatic action is needed to curb the carbon and methane emissions responsible for the planetary crisis of global warming. Sanders cited a warning this month

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Gonzalez announces for Bloom bill on Orcas

SACRAMENTO  (Press Release) – California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) made the following statement about Assembly Bill 2140  by Richard Bloom in anticipation of the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife’s consideration of the bill on Tuesday morning: “Upon learning a few weeks ago that Assemblyman Bloom would be authoring Assembly Bill 2140, I told the

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