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- Environmental movement: First It Takes, Then It Gives
  Posted by Jeff from Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal today writes about the economic resurgence in Hayfork, California created by companies like Jefferson Forest Products, a sustainable timber company acquired a couple of years ago by Upstream21. Upstream21 is a holding company that buys small to medium-sized businesses and operates them in a socially responsible manner with regard to its employees, the environment, customers and other stakeholders. I invested in Upstream21 after researching social investing for my article in the Seattle Weekly, Investing for Change. It's possible to be profit-oriented and do well by our communities. In fact, that's a rule that Upstream has written into its bylaws.
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- Maria Shriver In Surprise Obama Endorsement At Rally With Oprah In LA on The Huffington Post
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  Shriver reportedly was waiting backstage wavering over whether she should make her support public, and then finally strode out on stage. Her husband, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, earlier this week announced his endorsement for Sen. John McCain.
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- Puget Sound orcas feeding in California -- again
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  In what a leading orca researcher calls an ominous sign, a group of the killer whales that frequent Puget Sound and nearby waters has turned up feeding off the coast of California for the sixth winter in a row. L pod, one of three orca families that frequent Washington waters, was spotted Sunday off Monterey Bay.
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- Rethinking Fire Policy in the Tinderbox Zone
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  The long-term battle is one that fire experts suggest cannot be won, even with the better building codes and evacuation plans that have become a staple of government here and across much of the West. As the events of this week illustrate — at least 480,000 acres burned, 1,575 residences destroyed and 7 people killed — the cycle roars on with higher stakes, greater risk, and the grim certainty that it will happen again.
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- FEMA workers masquerade as reporters
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  At the news conference itself, some FEMA employees played the role of reporter, asking questions of Johnson - queries described as soft and gratuitous.
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- Calif. fires overwhelm firefighters - Weather
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  It's another Katrina-sized disaster. The Bush administration isn't ready. The National Guard isn't at full force. The Pentagon has few resources to offer. This is the cost of fighting a war overseas without investing in our own infrastructure at home.
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- California Republicans seek to rig 2008 presidential vote
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  In a transparent effort to rig the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, the California Republican Party has launched a petition drive to place a referendum on the ballot in June 2008 that would split the state’s huge bloc of electoral votes rather than awarding them based on the traditional winner-take-all formula.
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elizabeth3405 comments on:
Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay marriage ban

I see, thanks for enlightening me… maybe I’m just glad Apple could help the cause on one level or another… ;)

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7:17 pm 10/31/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay marriage ban

it’s because apple has a high percentage or homosexual employes and a ceo that is. makes sence they would stick up for their human rights against this mormon financed campain.
mormons are some suck ****s.
other wise apple is a dispicable company that engages on protectionist monopolization and acult practices while at the same time being a better windows PC than a OSX intel box ;)

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4:27 pm 10/30/08
elizabeth3405 comments on:
Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay marriage ban

Apple is the cherry pie, those who oppose are the pits.

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10:59 am 10/26/08
pongpong comments on:
Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay marriage ban

Big brother G, bravo!!

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12:06 am 10/26/08
srebrenicagenocideinfo comments on:
Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay marriage ban

Oh WAIT! I misunderstood this news… They are doing a GOOD THING! They are NOT opposing gay marriage, but they are opposing BAN on gay marriages! Ok! I am buying MacBook!!!!!

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11:47 pm 10/24/08
srebrenicagenocideinfo comments on:
Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay marriage ban

Wow! Unbeliavable. I can’t believe it. Damn you Apple. I am not buying MacBook! Purchase cancelled!

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11:46 pm 10/24/08
Jeff comments on:
Social Investing: The Golden State's not-so-golden goose

These cash differences are quite small for investment funds of this size. The costs of investing in smoking may be even higher. Investing responsibly isn’t free. Investing in damaging industries is also not free, the costs are just externalized and borne by taxpayers and the environment later. This article is very poorly written.

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4:24 pm 7/16/08