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When choosing a “green” printer, it pays to look beyond the obvious, such as the use of recycled paper (even postconsumer content), digital printing, and FSC-certification. Look for deeper, philosophical commitments to environmental sustainability — and you’ll find them.
The transition has ended; a new U.S. government is in place with a new economic agenda.
The streets of Washington D.C. were filled this morning with hopeful Americans who came to witness a great moment in history, the moment that America’s first African-American president took office. As Americans gathered together in perhaps the largest crowd that has gathered in America and as others gathered around TV screens elsewhere in the country, they were conscious of watching their savings dwindle, their jobs disappear and their ambitions turn to despair. More than ever, the American people seek a new era highlighting the change that President Barack Obama has promised.
Senators Schumer, Durbin, Representative Brad Miller (D-NC) and others are introducing bills to allow homeowners to have their mortgages reduced by a bankruptcy judge.
“Tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy SealtestWonder Bread.” Martin Luther King told milk. Tell them not to buy–what is the other bread?– the parishoners of Bishop Charles Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, the Sunday before his assasination. Martin Luther King is remembered today, even [...]
President-elect Obama has detailed his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. Among other efforts in the plan, major initiatives include the intention to create 3 million jobs in the United States by doubling the production of alternative energy; investments in public transit infrastructure, and the weatherization of 75% of federal buildings and aiding up to two million low-income American homes to do [...]
