More than 15,000 pounds of cat food were donated to the Southeast Louisiana areas, struck bt the oil spill. Thanks to Marc Petcare U.S., the gesture will help initiatives put together by the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LA/SPCA) to help the Gulf Coast.
Doing your part to protect the environment extends beyond your home. It is important to take steps to protect our environment even when you are not at home. Of course, the environment benefits from this, but there are other benefits as well. We are a society that likes to do the ‘in’ or ‘popular’ thing. [...]
This water contamination story falls in the midst of all of the coverage of the BP oil spill, and in the wake of all of the coverage of Hurricane Katrina, it’s very probable that many of you have never heard of a town called Mossville, Louisiana.
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Hurricane season is upon us with current hurricane Alex affecting the Gulf oil spill cleanup efforts. Somewhere around 2.5 million barrels of oil have already spilled into the Gulf. The rough seas from the hurricane have pushed parts of the slick closer to shore and other sensitive areas. Generally speaking, rougher seas hinder cleanup efforts [...]
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Each day it seems the tales of horror surrounding this calamity continue to increase into a deafening crescendo of atrociousness that threatens to render our ability to even absorb such information ineffective as our brains seek to dampen the impact in an attempt at mental self preservation. As for myself, I am torn between my [...]
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(Cary, NC) Tutus are the latest trend for babies and little girls to wear, and they are not just for ballet class anymore. A recent February 2010 issue of “In Touch Weekly” magazine featured an article titled “These Little Darlings Just Want To Dance; It’s All The Rage For Celeb Kids.” Yes, they were talking [...]
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In the first strike at a US passenger airline in close to five years, hundreds of pilots walked off the job early Saturday morning after salary negotiations hit a stalemate. The pilot union and airline management have been battling over contracts for more than three years. They seemed to be close to reaching an agreement [...]
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Nike is the official sponsor of nine of the FIFA World Cup teams, including the US, Brazil and Portugal. The jerseys these athletes are wearing are made of fabric created almost completely from plastic bottles taken out of landfills in Japan and Taiwan. These recycled jerseys are part of a growing effort by Nike to [...]
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Last year, the annual Glide benefit auction for lunch with Warren Buffett was won by a Canadian investment firm, Salida Capital. The President and CEO, Courtenay Wolfe, paid $1,680,300 for the privilege of herself and 7 guests to meet and eat with Buffett. This year’s auction, which ends tonight, look likely to top the million [...]
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As a result of the huge growth of social media, some small companies are taking the next step: selling directly to consumers via social media sites. Fan pages on Facebook and MySpace are littered with e-commerce stores, with merchants hoping that users will scan lists of for sale items and services. Merchants say they’ve only [...]