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GRN GOES TO BONNAROO!

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee featured not only one of the most eclectic line-ups you were likely to find this summer (Sigur Ros! Kanye West! Metallica!), but it was also home to a veritable wonderland of non-profits and green resources aimed at heightening the global consciousness of concert goers. Among those …

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Mississippi Residents Stand Against Bad Energy Project

I just got back from a public hearing on the Richton Salt Domes project on April 10, and the turnout was incredible. Somewhere between 250 and 300 Mississippi coast residents turned out to speak out against this destructive pork project. There were landowners, fishermen, industrialists, scientists, environmentalists, and many more people who wouldn’t fit into …

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STUDENTS UNITED FOR A HEALTHY GULF: MARDI GRAS MADNESS

Friday 5:00 PM, the parades are lining up and the city becomes un-navigable.Of course, this is the time for our local and regional interns and student activists to coalesce at Tulane University to begin a weekend of grassroots organizing training. The local interns, Laney White, Mallory Domingue, and Megan Milliken, make it there along with …

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ETHANOL POLITICS

I just came across this study released last November by the University of Illinois on corn-based ethanol in Illinois and the United States. Some of the components of the report are quite wonky, but the section on ethanol politics and policy was very interesting.As the author of the report, David Bullock, writes: “This irreversibility of …

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THE YAZOO PUMPS AND THE CORPS’ DIZZYING RESPONSE

Our members who took action on the recent Yazoo Pumps alert have all received a surprise in the mail. It seems that the Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg is sending a response letter to everyone who took action, stating that “project opponents” have been publishing misleading information about the project, and that the Yazoo …

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