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Your Community Spirit 2007-03-02

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May 6, 2018
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Happenings include a feminist teach-in Friday and Saturday; Vagina Monologues this weekend; maternal health speaker next week; Big Muddy Film Fest finale; Sierra Club film series coming soon; feminist symposium next week; art opening at Rosetta; Hans Blix speaking at the SIUC campus; and the Vote Solar initiative. News includes the local elections; western states form regional climate-change alliance; honeybees disappearing; Oscars for Inconvenient Truth; Shutdown Day coming up on March 24; new report ranks U.S. cities on eco-social issues; and a new campaign starts to end incandescent bulb use.

Your Community Spirit 2007-02-23

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May 6, 2018
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Happenings include the Big Muddy Film Fest; 80s party at Hangar 9; Irish Fest fundraiser at Glassy Junction; Vagina Monologues; local elections; two Black History Month happenings; and the Greenest and Meanest Vehicle List. Editorial includes the ecological merits of Britney Spears’ newly shaven head. News includes the momentum of climate change news coverage; legislators demand climate-change action; questions about eco-value of organics; Tesla Motors to build electric car plant in New Mexico; and Australia to outlaw incandescents. Also, a book review of Little House on a Small Planet.

Your Community Spirit 2007-02-16

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May 6, 2018
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Happenings include the International Cultural Show; Big Muddy Film Fest; Mayoral Candidate Forum; local elections; wildlife photographer presentation; and a bluebird workshop. News includes dating sites for eco-sexuals; MBA students studying sustainability; criticism of Bush alternative fuel plans; Super Bowl goes greener; California may outlaw incandescent bulbs; rich guy offers atmosphere-scrubbing prize; and Norway to build doomsday seed vault.

Your Community Spirit 2007-02-09

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May 6, 2018
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Happenings include Free Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; International Coffee Hour; International Student Council’s food fair and culture show; Mini-Health Fair at In Synch; For the Love of Chocolate at Neighborhood Co-op Grocery; WDBX Ball at the Civic Center; Primary Elections on February 27; and National Day of Climate Action on April 14. News includes the BBC Climate Challenge game; controversy over U.S. nuclear security policy; food imported by air may lose organic status in Britain; pluses and minuses of oil companies; electric cars go faster and farther; White House responds to climate change with proposal to block out the sun; green group produces list of eco-vehicles; and IPCC report says humans are very likely causing global warming.

Your Community Spirit 2007-02-02

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May 6, 2018
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Happenings include a presentation on cave creatures; international food fair; international culture show; Carbondale candidates present views to Shawnee Green Party; Souper Bowl during Super Bowl; and SIUC campus showing of An Inconvenient Truth. News includes Americans who have never heard of global warming; condoms turn students on to global warming; climate change could foment terrorism; Congress talks about climate change; and BBC offers climate change game. We missed the last 8 minutes or so due to technical difficulties.

Your Community Spirit 2007-01-26

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May 6, 2018
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Aur is on the road. Happenings include 3 Course Meal on a Budget class today at the Co-op; Faithfully Pro-Choice lecture next week; Who Killed the Electric Car? tonight at the Big Muddy IMC; Peace Vigil and special peace group photo Saturday; the Dorians at Mugsy on Saturday; SEC meetings every Thursday; and Imbolc. News includes coalition-building between green groups and major corps; Inconvenient Truth nominated for Best Documentary Oscar; Canada brings back green program and announces rainforest fund.

Your Community Spirit 2007-01-19

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May 6, 2018
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Happenings include Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; Carbondale reading initiative; Neighborhood Alliance meeting; Shawnee Audobon meeting with guest Jim Jung; new exhibit at African American Museum of Southern Illinois; and Who Killed the Electric Car on the horizon. News includes extension of federal solar tax credits; climate change legislation pending in Congress; scientists and evangelicals form climate alliance; US Forest Service gets female chief; unions and conservationists join forces; and solar powered monitors emerge.

Your Community Spirit 2007-01-12

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May 6, 2018
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Happenings include Aur’s recent trip to the Inconvenient Truth training and Treesong’s interview with Margie Parker of the Peace Coalition. News includes a report questioning Kyoto targets of U.S. cities; a Washington school board putting a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth; 2006 the hottest year on record for the U.S.; China assesses its eco-successes; downloadable toys and games reducing the use of fuel for transportation; New Zealand develops a vegan Green Man beer; India, England, and U.S. argue over climate change; and the Gates fund invests in destructive companies that contradict its otherwise benevolent mission.

Your Community Spirit 2007-01-05

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May 6, 2018
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Aur offers an extended call-in report from the Inconvenient Truth training he attended in Nashville. Happenings include WDBX Ball. News includes proposed listing of polar bears as threatened; loss of ice shelf linked to climate change; and U.S. decides not to sell toxic mercury to other nations.

Your Community Spirit 2006-12-29

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April 15, 2018
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Happenings include Sierra Club’s Stone Soup; a call for art for the WDBX Ball; and Who Killed the Electric Car showing soon at the Big Muddy IMC. News includes the Coast Guard ceasing target practice at Great Lakes; and EPA sued over particulates.