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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF077E">Greenspiration News</font></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A95FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">'The things we call "cars" may have been fun to drive, but they are like a million daggers into the heart of Mother Nature. To continue to build them would only lead to the ruin of our species and much of the planet''. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 36, 255); font-family: Arial; ">–</span> Michael Moore</span></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6424FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">“I act on the assumption that we’re always making a difference. Simply by consuming resources and space makes a difference. It is what kind of a difference that is up to each of us.” – Fran Peavey</span></font></font></font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4FBB2F">Wow - a MUST see film, online, free - it will blow your mind, the cinematography and the message.</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4FBB2F">-a</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 19px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#26753B">HOME - A hymn for the planet</font></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A0A0A" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; line-height: normal;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">HOME is an ode to the planet's beauty and its delicate harmony. Through the landscapes of 54 countries captured from above, Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on an unique journey all around the planet, to contemplate it and to understand it. </span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A0A0A" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">But HOME is more than a documentary with a message, it is a magnificent movie in its own right. Every breathtaking shot shows the Earth - our Earth - as we have never seen it before. Every image shows the Earth's treasures we are destroying and all the wonders we can still preserve. "From the sky, there's less need for explanations". </span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/homeproject">http://www.youtube.com/homeproject</a> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF059C"><b>Michael Jackson - RIP - Earth Song </b></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Catch this exquisite 7 min. music video produced by Michael Jackson - Earth Song</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOnL5c8LMqM&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOnL5c8LMqM&feature=related</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Do we all need to be starkly and perennially reminded of the potentially toxic nature of drug interactions that happen with commonly-used prescription drugs?</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://blogs.consumerreports.org/health/2009/06/michael-jackson-death-possible-prescription-drug-interactions-.html#more">http://blogs.consumerreports.org/health/2009/06/michael-jackson-death-possible-prescription-drug-interactions-.html#more</a> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1190CF">Ontario hits pause on nuclear</font></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br></b></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Minister George Smitherman today announced that the province has indefinitely postponed any decision on building new nuclear units until the federal government decides what it will do with the troubled Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL). <br> <br> The Minister also noted that unless he sees a better price than what was offered in the first round of proposals, Ontario will not purchase any new nukes. <br> <br> These statements and actions are to be commended as they hint at a more enlightened approach to Ontario’s energy future – one that favours plentiful green and clean alternatives over high cost, high risk nuclear power (for more on these, see our <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>Powerful Options report</u></font></a>). <br> <br> Now it is time for the federal government to get sensible and say no to throwing more money at the <a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/649629"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>“dysfunctional sinkhole” of AECL</u></font></a>. Using federal money to pay for Ontario’s nuclear plants is just taking money from taxpayers’ right pockets instead of their left – the bottom line is still more wasteful bailouts for yesterday’s technology.<br> <br> Please congratulate <a href="http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=88"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>Energy Minister George Smitherman</u></font></a> on his sensible move to postpone any decision on costly nuclear, and please tell <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/send_a_message"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>Prime Minister Stephen Harper</u></font></a> that you do not support further subsidies for AECL.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div></span></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2EAD2A"><b>Auto-ban: German town goes car-free</b></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Georgia" color="#212121" style="font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #212121"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">In Vauban, a suburb of the university town of Freiburg, luxuriant beds of brilliant flowers replace what would normally be parking outside its neat, middle- class homes. Instead of the roar of traffic, the residents listen to birdsong, children playing and the occasional jingle of a bicycle bell.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#212121" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#212121" face="Georgia"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Georgia" color="#212121" style="font: 13.0px Georgia; color: #212121"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Being virtually car-free is only the start of what has been hailed as one of Europe's most successful experiments in green living and one which is viewed increasingly as a blueprint for a future and perhaps essential way of living in an age of climate change.</span></font></font></p></font><p></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=470&Itemid=1">http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=470&Itemid=1</a> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></span></div></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; line-height: 28.0px"><font face="Arial" size="6" style="font: 24.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8E16FF"><b>SSRI Antidepressants Linked To Male Infertility</b></font></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">A new study just published in the online edition of the journal </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Fertility and Sterility</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> concludes </span></font><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">as many as fifty percent of all men taking the antidepressant could have damaged sperm and compromised fertility.</span></font></i></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><i></i></b></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><b><i><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The study, one of the first scientific investigations into the effect of SSRIs on sperm quality, also confirmed that </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">paroxetine impairs sexual function</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">. More than a third of the research subjects reported significant changes in erectile function and about half had difficulty ejaculating. </span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/026483_SSRI_fertility_DNA.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/026483_SSRI_fertility_DNA.html</a> </span></font></span></p></i></b></font></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930112"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b>Deadly Roads Are Not Just a Metaphor</b></span></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.0px"><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">What kills 1.3 million people worldwide each year, 90% of them in developing countries? It's not a disease, pandemic, or plague. Rather, it's traffic accidents.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Why doesn't road safety garner the same kind of developed-world sympathy - and aid dollars - that infectious diseases do?</span></font></font></font></div></span></font></p></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://globalhealth.change.org/blog/view/deadly_roads_are_not_just_a_metaphor">http://globalhealth.change.org/blog/view/deadly_roads_are_not_just_a_metaphor</a> </span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1A057A">The Disappearing Male</font></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" color="#333333" style="font: 11.0px Arial; color: #333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">An investigation into the worldwide decline in the male birthrate and the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The cause? Chemicals used in everyday plastics, from drinking bottles to soft toys for infants</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/docplayer2.html?playlistId=playlistId=f21067aaabfdece3076458e7e035e69febe7cfe7&id=911913844">http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/docplayer2.html?playlistId=playlistId=f21067aaabfdece3076458e7e035e69febe7cfe7&id=911913844</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#166FBD" face="Georgia" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 25px;">Welcome to Meat Free Mondays</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#26753B">A site dedicated to helping people have at least one day a week totally free of meat</font></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#166FBD" face="Georgia" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 25px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; ">So why have a meat-free day?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">- Variety is the spice of life, try something new.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">- Take advantage of all those delicious vegetables which are currently in season and make them the champion of a meal rather than a companion.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">- To boose your 5 a day.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">- To reduce your red meat intake.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b>Carnal knowledge The meat industry</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">* Meat is a "major stressor" on the world's ecosystems, according to a UN report</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">* Meat makes 1.4 per cent of global GDP but 18 per cent of greenhouse gases</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">* Forty calories of fossil fuel energy go into producing a calorie of beef, but 2.2 calories for one calorie of plant protein</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">* Livestock production uses 8 per cent of the world's fresh water</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">* One billion people are overweight, mostly in the West, where meat consumption is higher. Vegetarians tend to be slimmer</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial">* The World Cancer Research Fund recommends eating no more than 500g red meat a week</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.meatfreemondays.co.uk">http://www.meatfreemondays.co.uk</a>/ </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">--------------------------------------------------------</div></span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF059C">Withdrawing from anti-depressants - looking for testimonials</font></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I am writing a piece for </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Chatelaine</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> magazine on withdrawing from antidepressants, and am interested in hearing from women in their thirties living in Canada who would be comfortable describing their own experience withdrawing from an antidepressant. You can do this using a pseudonym, and I am happy to review all quotes with you etc. If you are interested, please feel free to e-mail me at </span></font><a href="mailto:rickdi@rogers.com"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">rickdi@rogers.com</span></font></u></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">. I am hoping to connect with women before the end of this week, as I am on a tight deadline.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Please know that this article will not be making any judgments about why women are on antidepressants. (I am on them myself.) The purpose is to provide information about what women can expect to experience when and if they are ready to go off their medication, and how they can do so safely.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Thanks so much for considering this request.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Diana Ballon</font></font><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="mailto:rickdi@rogers.com"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: rgb(0, 47, 215); "><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">rickdi@rogers.com </font></u></font></a></span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 32px/normal Georgia; "><u style="text-decoration: none;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><b style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AD0F08" style="">The Uprising in the Amazon Is More Urgent Than<span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;text-decoration: none; "> Iran's: </span></font></b></span></font></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 32px/normal Georgia; "><u style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AD0F08">It Will Determine the Future of the Planet</font></b></span></font></span></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AD0F08" face="Georgia" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AD0F08" face="Georgia" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; "><b style=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; "><font face="Georgia" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the poorest people in the world have taken on the richest people in the world to defend a part of the ecosystem none of us can live without. They had nothing but wooden spears and moral force to defeat the oil companies -- and, for today, they have won. The Peruvian Congress repealed the laws that allowed oil company drilling, by a margin of 82 votes to 12. Garcia was forced to apologize for his "serious errors and exaggerations". The protesters have celebrated and returned to their homes deep in the Amazon.</font></span></font></font></p></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-uprising-in-the-amazo_b_219836.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-uprising-in-the-amazo_b_219836.html</a> </font></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></div></span></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and Stories of ecology and activism</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org">http://www.greenspiration.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Join our email list by emailing us at:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:greenspiration@web.ca">greenspiration@web.ca</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Write "subscribe" in the subject line</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and tell us what city/country you live in</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</div></div></div></div></span></span></font></p></div> </body></html>