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globalshift.org - 7 hours ago
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Most are aware of the role major chemicals,
like carbon dioxide and methane, play in climate change....
What you might not know about are the other chemicals that contribute to warming.
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The Forgotten Chemicals In Global Warming
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greenmuze.com - 7 hours ago
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As a possible solution to minimizing plastic and
e-waste, OrigAudio (The Origami of Audio) has created recycled,...
self-powered paper origami stereo speakers that fold-up when not in use. Designed by two college students, OrigAudio speakers are available in five funky modern art designs on ...
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Recycled Paper Speakers
greenmuze.com - 8 hours ago
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Waste cork is upcycled into stylish contemporary furniture
for the DMFD line of cork furniture. The upcycled...
cork chair offers a backrest feature that allows the chair to tilt, providing enhanced support and comfort. Read more...
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Upcycled Cork Furniture
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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We are talking about snow levels here and
how changes in the climate will affect our ski...
weather for the next ninety years; we are not looking for global warming solutions or going near the politics. Forgive the pun, but whether we like it or not, there’s no doubt the world is warming up ...
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Warming Facts – Will Snow Levels Fall?
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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This isnt actually a brand new car I
am talking about here, but a scooter which at...
least means that technology is moving forward. It would seem that this scooter which was shown at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show was actually a major hit. Intelligent Energy are actually the brains behind all of this ...
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Fuel Cell Power For New Audi?
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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One of the first things homeowners need to
consider when deciding whether to install a solar power...
system for the home is just how many solar panels they need Even a small number of panels will make a big difference when it comes to your monthly electricity bills. Those who would like to forget ...
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Solar Power Generation
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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This article will deal with the cost of
solar panels. There are two important things to take...
into consideration: the cost of a single solar panel, and the cost of enough solar panels to power a house. Solar Panels are the part of the system that does the actual conversion of sunlight to current ...
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How Much Do Solar Panels Cost?
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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With the increasing costs of electricity derived from
fossil fuels such as oil and coal, people are...
thinking about alternative energy sources. One excellent way to reduce your reliance on fossil fuels is to produce your own power with a wind turbine. However, more and more people are finding out ...
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Wind Power Generator
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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A grid tie inverter is a specific type
of inverter that will let you take the electricity...
you generate with installations like solar panels or wind turbines and sell it back to the power company. US citizens have the right, as stated in the 1978 Federal Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act ...
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What is a Grid Tie Inverter?
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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A solar power system for your home is
a great option if you want to lower or...
even eliminate your monthly electricity bill. The most recent solar power systems are very affordable, extremely efficient, and easy to install. Recently, something called a micro inverter has been incorporated in some ...
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Micro Inverters
mindzle.com - 8 hours ago
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Since the invention of the modern silicon solar
cell, the effectiveness of solar cells has improved significantly....
The first silicon solar cell was developed by Bell Labs and shown to the public for the first time on April 25, 1954. It had an efficiency of about 6%, meaning that it converted ...
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Solar Cell Performace
alternativeconsumer.com - 10 hours ago
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Use these little (4″x4″) handmade lavender-filled sachets in
place of chemical dryer sheets in your laundry or...
to freshen a clothes drawer. Made only from used t-shirts these cute messengers of the 3R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) are filled with Washington State lavender buds. ...
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recycled t-shirts become fragrant sachets
ecorazzi.com - 10 hours ago
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“I’m not perfect by any stretch. I have
a big footprint, I fly a lot. But it’s...
not so hard. You get some solar panels, you live in a place where there’s sun. You try to not go in and get a new paper or plastic bag every time ...
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Woody Harrelson On Living Green: “I’m Not Perfect By Any ...
organicmania.com - 11 hours ago
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. No gifts to
buy, no religious differences to divide us. Simplicity reigns....
A delicious meal, a gathering of family and friends, and an aura of gratitude for all we’ve been given — that’s Thanksgiving. This year I did something almost as an after ...
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A New Thanksgiving Tradition
greenmuze.com - 11 hours ago
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Australian actress and activist Cate Blanchett has recently
narrated a new video supporting citizen action at the...
Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. In the video, I Speak Earth , Blanchett explains about the consequences of climate change if a binding global climate ...
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Cate Blanchett Earth Video
greenmuze.com - 12 hours ago
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Human flesh forms a living memorial of endangered
and threatened species at the ExtInked project in Salford,...
England. Read more...
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Human Extinction Memorials
alternativeconsumer.com - 12 hours ago
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Hey all you boneheads at Fox News, this
is actual science…Oceans Absorbing Carbon Dioxide More Slowly, Scientists...
Find – sciencedaily Excuse me. Who’s wielding those chainsaws? Brazil: ‘Gringos’ Must Pay to Save Amazon – msnbc Another ‘not in my ...
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a post-holiday doggie bag of green news
borganic.org - 13 hours ago
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(www.Borganic.org) There's a drugless and side effect-free way
to reduce inflammation in the body, restore the body's...
natural defense system, lose weight, possibly increase lifespan and improve or prevent diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease. What's more, you can get the benefits ...
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Stop eating processed and fried foods and you'll restore ...
supereco.com - 13 hours ago
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Prepare yourself: The holiday season is a full
contact sport. Packed shopping malls, family gatherings, bustling airports,...
hectic grocery stores, the party circuit ... No matter how you look at it, you're going to be in close proximity to the unwashed masses over the next month or ...
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Give yourself a hand at staying healthy
globalshift.org - 13 hours ago
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Simple ways to avoid food waste.
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Scrape Your Plate and Squander Your Planet?
greenmuze.com - 13 hours ago
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Green Projects II: Three Dimensional City: Future China
is a new exhibit opening November 28th at the...
Beijing Centre For The Arts. The centrepiece of the exhibit is a scale model of an alternative urban mountain environment created by Paolo Soleri and MVRDV entitled China Hills: A Dream For ...
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Chinese Hills Urban Vision
ecosalon.com - 13 hours ago
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Using up all your leftovers is a green
thing to do, and this recipe will take care...
of all that turkey. You likely have some cream and some vegetables leftover from the holiday, too. If you don’t have the vegetables called for, use what you do have. You can add blanched greens, squeezed ...
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Leftover Turkey? Make a Pot Pie with Olive Oil Pastry Crust
ecochildsplay.com - 14 hours ago
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This year many people are trying to be
more earth conscious but one major problem that many...
come up against during the holidays is how to wrap gifts in an eco-friendly manner. According to Gift Bags Gone Green every year Americans spend more than $5 billion dollars on gift wrap, bags, and ...
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Your Guide to Wrapping Green This Holiday Season
alternativeconsumer.com - 15 hours ago
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Is there a sadder sight than a shivering
pooch at the end of his/or her leash, hurriedly...
searching for a spot to do their business? The weather’s gone bad, forcing canine’s with short hair (like myself, photo at right) to consider adding another layer of insulation. One, both ...
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eco friendly alpaca dog sweater
momgoesgreen.com - 15 hours ago
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Black Friday… I NEVER shop Black Friday! Instead,
I celebrate “ Buy Nothing Day “. Every year....
Period. I know, I know… the sales, the excitement, the tradition. I simply choose to spend the day NOT spending. It’s a great reminder that we DON’T need to spend obscene ...
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It’s “Buy Nothing Day”… so how ‘bout a FREE ...
alternativeconsumer.com - 15 hours ago
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Too much of anything is usually not a
good thing — case in point: over-consumption. Life generally...
works best when things are in balance. Today has been deemed, Buy Nothing Day, which may be the yin to Black Friday’s yang. I like the idea of Buy Nothing Day, especially since ...
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Buy Nothing Day 2009 meets Black Friday
moreeco.co.uk - 20 hours ago
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The team at EcoTrendSpotter have trawled through all
the eco shops listed on MoreEco and have come...
up with their top ten eco Christmas gifts for under £10
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Top 10 Eco Christmas Gifts for Under £10 - MoreEco -The ...
crunchgear.com - 20 hours ago
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Sanyo is in the news today, and again
it's about the company's green tech power. The company...
today announced [JP] it will do everything to become Japan's top player in the domestic solar industry by 2012 and eventually one of the top three solar ...
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Sanyo develops solar cell that’s thinner than hair
easyecoblog.com - 23 hours ago
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World Wildlife Fund had a recent study states
that a big increase in online shopping, and the...
use of electronic transactions and documents to replace paper billing, magazines, and publications could eliminate nearly a billion tons of greenhouse gases a year. Some easy changes: Buy more products ...
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Green Online shopping and Electronic Transactions and ...
7gen.com - 26 hours ago
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You are missing some Flash content that should
appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or...
maybe it did not initialize correctly. It's thanksgiving day, 2009. I am thankful for my life, the work I'm doing, the ...
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TechnoSanity #35: Buy Nothing Day
globalshift.org - 33 hours ago
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I know that there are plenty of children
in this world who could use a safe place...
to live, medicine, clean water and good food. But I believe that it’s also important to nourish a child’s soul, not just his body and there’s nothing better for the soul than the ...
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Glee Holiday Single Aids Grammy in the Schools
fakeplasticfish.com - 34 hours ago
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. This post is not really
about today but tomorrow: the day the media insists...
on calling “Black Friday.” I’m choosing instead to honor “ Buy Nothing Day .” And to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, I am not going to replace my lost travel mug. ...
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Thanksgiving, Buy Nothing Day, & My Travel Mug
mindzle.com - 35 hours ago
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Electricity-generating wind turbines have been around for about
a century now, and they’re still evolving. Perhaps more...
importantly, their prices have gone down steadily. Each basic category of wind turbine, of which there are a few, has its own specific attributes and is suited to certain ...
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Wind Turbines Cost
mindzle.com - 35 hours ago
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Asociación Empresarial Fotovoltaica (ASEF), Asociación de Productores de
Energías Renovables (APPA), and Asociación de la Industria Fotovoltaica...
(ASIF) met in Madrid to reveal “Set for 2020” a paper by the European PhotoVoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) and A.T. Kearney articulating the ...
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Sector consortiums state that Spain will lose her ...
mindzle.com - 35 hours ago
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For centuries now, people have been using wind
turbines to generate energy. Even now, the basic principle...
behind this type of device remains the same, but design aspects of the blades used have undergone major changes over the years. The basic advantage of modern blade design is that it allows ...
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Different Wind Turbine Blade Designs
adbusters.org - 36 hours ago
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BND at Wal-Mart Buy Nothing Celebration 2 Comments
This BND, join Reverend Billy & the Church of...
Life After Shopping at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart where Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death by Black Friday bargain hunters in 2008. Damour was a tragic ...
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Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
borganic.org - 38 hours ago
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(www.Borganic.org) Tissue salts, also known as cell salts,
are minerals - the same minerals that are found...
in the earth`s rocks and soil. Gentle, safe and non-toxic, tissue salts can be bought in pill form from virtually any pharmacy or health store and can provide the help the body needs in ...
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How to Combat Colds and Flu with Tissue Salts
alternativeconsumer.com - 40 hours ago
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Reduce your carbon footprint AND avoid seeing Uncle
Billy – a win-win. Tight Economy Forces Some to...
Stay Home for Thanksgiving – yahoo! news Save these guys some stuffing…Thanksgiving Last Full Day in Space For Shuttle – myway What does this mean? 25 Hand Print Art ...
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turkey day green news
greenmuze.com - 40 hours ago
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Old cassette tapes take on an eerie second
life at the hands of American artist Brian Dettmer....
The Atlanta-based artist transforms the unwanted cassette tapes into haunting sculptural animal skeletons and human skulls. Read more...
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Cassette Tape Skeletons
greenmuze.com - 41 hours ago
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Just in time for Buy Nothing Day ,
a faux Amazon.com site called Amazero has appeared online....
The incredibly detailed spoof site encourages consumers to buy, well, nothing. Created by Green Thing , a UK-based environmental organization, the doppelgänger site was launched to highlight the ...
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Buy Nothing Amazon Site
greenmuze.com - 41 hours ago
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The future of our warming world with rising
seas levels is the focus of a series of...
illustrations by New York-based designers Studio Lindfors. In the striking and serene images, the designers explore what New York will look like in a few hundred years time. Read more...
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Rising Water World Images
ecofriend.org - 44 hours ago
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Eco Factor: Parking system generates renewable energy for
power. With the number of cars on the road...
on a constant rise, designers are thinking hard about developing parking systems that can be used without crowding the streets with cars. ...
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Eco Tech: Green P decentralized parking system gets ...
ecofriend.org - 44 hours ago
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Eco Factor: Offshore car parking to generate renewable
energy. Of the various ways architects and designers try...
to capture the sun for energy, concentrating solar power systems seem the most practical and efficient. Designers Klaud Wasiak and ...
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Eco Architecture: Solar parking lot uses your car’s ...
globalshift.org - 46 hours ago
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Earlier this week, I was writing the traditional
‘count your blessings’ Thanksgiving post when I got an...
email notice about a new article on Lifehack.org. The post by Dustin Wax was called Rethink the Season of Giving and when I read it, it changed everything I had to say. Wax talks ...
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Giving Thanks and Giving Back
easyecoblog.com - 47 hours ago
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A reminder that there is a 30% Federal
Tax Credit on Qualifying Geo-Thermal Heat Pumps, with no...
cap. If you have been thinking about replacing these items, you might as well upgrade now and save some money. Geothermal heat pumps are similar to ordinary heat pumps, but use the ground instead of ...
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Federal Tax Credit on Geo-Thermal Heat Pump
retrohousewife05.blogspot.com - 48 hours ago
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This seems to be the season of spending
so why not let your gifts give twice? Watch...
this video. Here are some of my favorite fair trade products/stores: Beads For Life I have a necklace sitting next to me from here. My husband got me it and a bracelet. I love them and wear them often. ...
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Buy Fair Trade
greenmuze.com - 2 days ago
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The White House has announced that President Obama
will travel to Copenhagen on December 9th to participate...
in the United Nations Climate Change Conference where he is reportedly ready to work towards a comprehensive and operational Copenhagen accord. Read more...
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Obama To Copenhagen
globalshift.org - 2 days ago
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Three months out of high school I told
my parents I wanted to travel to Latin...
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Finding the Perfect Program: How to Scope out an ...
globalshift.org - 2 days ago
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On December 2, USA Network will present the
first ever Characters Unite National Town Hall meeting. This...
ground-breaking high-level discussion will focus on how America’s increasingly diverse and divided population can find common ground on today’s complex social issues. The event, which will ...
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USA Network Announces Live Webcast of National Town Hall ...
globalshift.org - 2 days ago
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There are only three weeks left until leaders
across the globe converge in Copenhagen to consider reshaping...
how the world uses energy. The stakes are higher than ever, with scientists everywhere agreeing that now is the time to act before really bad things happen. Despite the the urgency, ...
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Shouldn’t President Obama be Going to Copenhagen?
