Greenspirational News -- meds, peace, docs

Angela Bischoff greenspi at web.ca
Sun Jan 11 22:37:24 EST 2009


Greenspirational News

"What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless  
and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic.  
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice." -  
Martin Luther King Jr.

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Leaders of Countries that suspended Government to avoid a non- 
confidence vote:

Adolph Hitler-  Germany 1933
Francisco Franco-  Spain 1936
Benito Mussolini -  Italy 1939
Augusto Pinochet-  Chile 1973
Stephen Harper -  Canada 2008

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FOREVER PLASTIC

Premiering On: Thursday January 15, 2009 at 9 pm on CBC TV
Repeating on: Saturday January 17, 2009 at 10 pm on CBC Newsworld

Durable, high-tech, sexy and see through…we just can't seem to resist  
its glossy appeal. It seems so modern, it's hard to believe it's been  
around for 100 years. The early days of plastics were explosive: the  
first synthetic billiard balls blew up on impact! Over the years  
plastics have quietly permeated all parts of our lives. But what do  
we do with something that doesn't go away when we throw it way? Our  
oceans and dumps are filling up with the stuff, and yet inventive  
ideas for single use plastics just keep rolling out.

Forever Plastic focuses on our struggle to live more responsibly with  
plastic. At the heart of the documentary is a "plastics recycling  
challenge" which shows how hard it is to know what plastics really  
are being recycled. And those seemingly green containers that are so  
tempting? A closer look reveals that environmentally friendly  
plastics aren't always what they seem to be.

A new documentary from CBC TV's in-house documentary production unit.  
For more information please visit the website at www.cbc.ca/doczone.

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Tennessee Sludge Spill Estimate Grows to One Billion Gallons

  Estimates for the amount of thick sludge that gushed from a  
Tennessee coal plant last week have tripled to more than a billion  
gallons, as cleanup crews try to remove the goop from homes and  
railroads and halt its oozing into an adjacent river.

At least 300 acres of land has been coated by the sludge, a bigger  
area than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

http://www.truthout.org/122908F

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A collection of  videos on mental health issues

http://peerspecialist.vodpod.com

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Pathologizing your Period

Despite a lack of evidence, the psychiatric establishment has made  
extreme premenstrual distress a recognized disorder—and a boon to Big  
Pharma.

By Paula J. Caplan, published in Ms. Magazine

Are you unhappy? Bloated? Is it hard to concentrate? Do you have food  
cravings? Breast tenderness?

If you read the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders  
(DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, you will  
find your symptoms listed under “premenstrual dysphoric  
disorder” (PMDD). In other words, because of those symptoms, a  
therapist or doctor could label you as having a mental disorder.

Full article: http://www.msmagazine.com/Summer2008/ 
pathologizingyourperiod.asp

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Generation RX

Filmmaker Kevin Miller has just launched a shocking new documentary  
that exposes the crimes and deceptions of modern psychiatry and the  
drug companies that now control the industry. His film, entitled  
GenerationRx sheds light on the shadowy practices of psychiatric  
doctors who are increasingly drugging children with mind-altering  
drugs. Trailers and DVDs are available at www.GenerationRxFilm.com

http://www.generationrxfilm.com/

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Create Peace Video Collection - Win $1000 - deadline approaching

The Peace Support Network is sponsoring a YouTube video contest.   
Create a short film based on the theme, "Create Peace". Show us your  
creativity and you could be given the grand prize of $1000 or three  
runner-up prizes.

All ages, school classrooms, not-for-profit groups, as well as  
individuals are urged to participate!

For complete details please see http://celebratingpeace.org/videos.cfm

Post your vision of peace right away, but no later than February 28,  
2009. Thank you!

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Feed-In Frenzy
A simple green tariff has transformed Germany. Why isn’t Canada  
following suit

Published in The Walrus, by Chris Turner

... The engine of this radical transformation is the single most  
effective climate policy measure yet devised: a straightforward law  
called a feed-in tariff that obliges power distributors to purchase  
electricity from renewable sources for a fixed time, at fixed rates  
above market prices. The German FIT (the Renewable Energy Sources  
Act, by name) sets the price for green power far higher than market  
rates — as much as seven times higher in the case of solar energy.

Although Germany is not particularly windy and is kissed each year by  
about the same amount of sunlight as southern Alaska, it is now a  
global leader in the generation of energy from sun and wind, and in  
the production of solar panels and wind turbines. Its renewable  
energy industry employs about a quarter of a million people, and  
brought in almost $40 billion in revenue in 2007, up 10 percent from  
2006 and nearly four times the figure for 2000.

Full article: http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.01- 
environment-solar-panel-energy-chris-turner/

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Welcome to Walk and Bike for Life’s video library!

 From Bogota to New York City, from Paris to Melbourne, cities across  
the globe are changing the way we look at streets and public spaces  
by making people, not cars, their priority.

Click to browse through our videos and watch as some of the world’s  
brightest minds, and most innovative cities, tackle our generation’s  
most pressing transportation and urban planning challenges.

http://www.walkandbikeforlife.org/walkandbike_videos.html

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Health Canada is reminding Canadians who are taking, or
considering taking, the smoking-cessation aid Champix of
important safety information for this product. Health Canada is
also informing Canadians that it is in the process of further
strengthening the labelling for the drug with respect to the
risk of serious psychiatric adverse effects.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis/_2009/index-eng.php

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Mood-boosting drugs make unhappy fish

Drugs called antidepressants find their way into lakes and streams,  
affecting the behavior of fish living there in unexpected ways

The researchers found that antidepressants affect fish species in  
numerous ways, from diminishing their response to predators to  
slowing down their prey-hunting techniques. One unexpected result  
even showed that a type of antidepressant called fluoxetine (Prozac)  
acts like estrogen, a primarily female hormone, when in the bodies of  
adult male fathead minnows.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39637/title/FOR_KIDS_Mood- 
boosting_drugs_make_unhappy_fish

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Making a Killing
The Pharmaceutical Industry

The sales and marketing of psychiatric drugs has exploded in the last  
ten years.
Who benefits? Who decides what's approved, and how? What are the  
results?

3 ten minute videos
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/527.html

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Alzheimer's drugs nearly double death risk in elderly: study

  January 8, 2009

Anti-psychotic drugs commonly used to treat Alzheimer's disease may  
double a patient's chance of dying within a few years, suggests a new  
study that adds to concerns already known about such medications.

"For the vast majority of Alzheimer's patients, taking these drugs is  
probably not a worthwhile risk," said Clive Ballard of the Wolfson  
Centre for Age-Related Diseases at King's College London, the paper's  
lead author.

Full article: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/08/alzheimer- 
drugs.html

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DEFENDERS OF THE LAND TAKE ACTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Right across the nation many call Canada, Natives are standing up and  
fighting for their rights and for Mother Earth.

> by Carmelle Wolfson, Rabble.ca

> http://goto.rabble.ca/t? 
> ctl=163B756:6A2512C072D42216262FB9C351F54E4B60A0614370F1CFFE&

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