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'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave

By David MoyeApr 22nd 2010 – 9:54AM
Elizabeth Fournier

Elizabeth Fournier

(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth...

Opinion: Earth Day 2010 -- Celebrating 40 Years of Being Wrong

Apr 22nd 2010 – 12:01AM

(April 22) -- For the millions of people gearing up for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, there's a lot to celebrate. Forty years after experts in ecology, sociology, demographics and economics predicted the Earth would be uninhabitable in 40 years, we can happily point out that we are still here and we are doing better...

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