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Any goodwill that John McCain had built up in the environmental community was destroyed when he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.

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The Democratic Party has hoisted a great spoof website called Exxon-McCain 2008 that uses the guise of an Exxon/McCain presidential ticket as a way of talking about John McCain’s connections not just to that one oil company but to the oil industry in general. Did you know, for instance, that right after John McCain […]

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John McCain, for example, has started calling up foreign leaders and declaring that he speaks for “all Americans”, and stating that the USA is completely on the side of the Georgians against the Russians. The Georgians are seeking to defend their nationalist pride, and the Russians are seeking to prove their own greater nationhood again too.

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To drive a car is to sit, and to follow the roads that others have set down for you. To walk is to set off on a long-forgotten way. It is a method of re-exploring the Earth and ourselves, a four mile per hour revolution.

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Riding a bicycle is a political act, a statement of the rededication of the USA to sustainable energy, such as the energy contained in our own leg muscles. Celebrate the bicycle, and your own power.

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Barack Obama understands the importance of environmental protections. He also has called for a restoration of the integrity of the scientific process in government institutions. Obama’s opponent, John McCain, has just offered to continue the apathy of the Bush years. That’s why Ichthyologists are for Barack Obama, and it’s why this year, for the first time ever, a political campaign button with Barack Obama pictured in front of a school of fish makes perfect sense.

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can’t link to all the environmentalists that are endorsing Barack Obama for President. Go see the list for yourself. The point is clear - Barack Obama is the choice of American environmentalists.

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People who own Hummers are not deep people. They’re not philosophical people. They’re not sophisticated, and they don’t waste much time with high minded ideals. So, arguing with a Hummer owner about the environmental harm their vehicles cause, or about how damaging to the American economy and foreign relations their wasteful, gas-guzzling ways are won’t do much good.

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How is the Green Man connected to the Oak King and the Holly King? Some say that it’s the Oak King who is the Green Man, whereas others say that the Holly King and the Oak King represent two aspects of the Green Man. Whichever version you prefer, it’s clear that the Green Man is a symbol of the time of year which is soon to come. The snows still fall. The nights are still cold. The branches of northern trees still hold quivering sap within swelling buds, but those buds soon will burst.

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The presidential primary gives Democrats in Pennsylvania the chance to choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. That’s important, but the observance of Earth Day on the very same day gives people all over the world a more important choice: Will they dedicate themselves in the year to come to the responsible stewardship of the Earth, or will they just go on as if it’s simply another day, and pretend that there’s no issue

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