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Greening Your Cat: Easy as ABC
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Last week I wrote about a large scale local green project, and I am happy to report there is yet another eco-friendly company nearby. ABC Pet in Lewisburg, TN is making pet activity centers, toys, and other cat products from sustainable and recycled materials. They use sisal and carpeting made from recycled bottles, bamboo, and various other eco-conscious resources to make their cat climbers, scratching posts, toys and beds.
New Eco-friendly Community in Columbia, TN
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My hometown of Columbia, TN has been home to some decidedly environmentally unfriendly things in its lifetime, from carbon and phosphorus and other factories to this spring’s horrific flood. Teresa Beck aims to change some of that by building only green homes to a new eco-friendly subdivision she has created in the downtown area.
BP’s Money Is No Greener Than Their Oil
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While some are busy reporting that BP money is helping restore the Gulf of Mexico that was so recently devastated by BP oil, still other agencies are reporting that BP is in fact sending money to support U.S. politicians who are against environmental protection bills, politicians who continue to deny that global warming even exists. BP is not the only foreign company currently providing financial support to U.S. politicians, but perhaps the only one whose company had such a huge and harmful direct impact on the U.S. environment this year.
According to one report: “The European companies are funding almost exclusively Senate candidates who have been outspoken in their opposition to comprehensive climate policy in the US and candidates who actively deny the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and is caused by people.” President Obama himself has alluded to this big oil strategy in a recent speech quoted by the Guardian, stating: “Oil companies and the other special interests are spending millions on a campaign to gut clean-air standards and clean-energy standards.”
Sources: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/10/20/BP-money-not-oil-spilling-over-Gulf/UPI-17771287576039/
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/bp-funding-tea-party-favorites/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/tea-party-climate-change-deniers
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2010/10/24/climate.pdf
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/10/top-executives-favor-conservative-5.html
