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The National History Museum announced the winners of the 2009 Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the year awards. In this international competition of 43,135 entries Jose Luis Rodriguez of Spain took the top prize with his image The Storybook Wolf. Much maligned and feared throughout the western world as the villain of fairytales, the wolf is an endangered species Rodriguez believes will be hunted into extinction if not better understood and appreciated.
"Good and bad are too arbitrary. The value of philanthropy and other investments we make in our society need to be measured in terms of smart and dumb." Robert Egger ~ Philanthropist and founder of the DC Central Kitchen, author of Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All Profound statement Egger made following his address to donors and borrowers of Forward Community Investments, a Madison-based Community Development Financial Institution that lends money to nonprofits for strategic fiscal improvements...
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Showing one night only, a documentary film on the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race premieres tonight in Madison. Tickets for “Race Across The Sky” have already sold out and outdoor enthusiasts are eager to watch Tour De France cycling hero Lance Armstrong slug his way through a totally different event.[youtube]vYGcIhNGSIY[/youtube]
This video appears on the Huffington Post accompanied by a story written by Sam Stein. In it monkey wrench prankster Andy Bichlbaum poses as an official of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the National Press Club. Claiming the Chamber had reconsidered its views on climate change Bichlbaum compelled a room full of reporters to ask tough questions about why the corporate interests of the country continue to resist legislation that might reverse negative human impact on the environment.
It was all an elaborate hoax. The idea was to embarrass the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to do what many believe is the right thing: stop lobbying against The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. This bill proposed by Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer aims to curb industrial pollution while creating green collar jobs in the production of renewable energy. Apparently Bichlbaum wanted to point out that the Chamber of Commerce is one of the bill's leading opponents.
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