xkcd: Sustainable (thanks Jaclyn)
Jan 27
“ We don’t send anything to the landfill anymore; we’re completely free of any trash collection. This is less expensive than having regular trash pickup. I have four children, and I don’t want to leave them a mess. And we wanted to be a more environmentally friendly restaurant. If a restaurant of our size — about 250 seats — could do it, just about anybody could do it.
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Harry Browne’s owner Rusty Romo from Annapolis Restaurant Sends Nothing to Landfill:
In 2009, the city began a free certification program for environmentally friendly businesses. This designation gives the businesses bragging rights, but also promotion through the Downtown Annapolis Partnership, which encourages people to shop at local businesses.
The list includes Rich Morton Lincoln Mercury of Annapolis, which uses a waste oil furnace to heat buildings in the winter; the Georgian House Bed and Breakfast for its use of biodegradable cleaning products and the Loews Hotel restaurant Breeze, which donates leftover food to soup kitchen. There are nearly 30 businesses on the list.
What is your city doing to care for the Earth?
(via ecoisrael)
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“ Human rights are not a prescription for national suicide.
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Milky Mirror | Auster-Skaftafellssysla, Iceland
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Jan 12
» High Court okays Citizenship Law, legalizing racial discrimination of Arabs
Israel’s High Court of Justice rejected yesterday (again) the petitions against the Citizenship Law, one of the first measures to make racial discrimination against the Arab minority not just common practice, but part of Israel’s legal codex.
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The practical meaning of the law is that Arab citizens of Israel who marry Palestinian non-citizens – something that happens quite often, since these are members of the same nation, and sometimes of the same communities – won’t be able to live with their wives or husbands. If they want to unite, they will have to leave the country. By doing so, the law achieves two (racist) objectives against members of the Arab minority: (a) it prevents non-Jews from entering the country and applying for permanent residency or citizenship and (b) it makes it harder for Israeli Arab citizens to build families in their own community or in their own country, thus encouraging them to leave Israel. Arab Palestinians comprise roughly 20 percent of Israel’s population.
It is important to note that it is not the right of the non-citizen wife or husband that is being violated (since the state has no legal obligation towards them), but that of the citizen, who should enjoy the possibility to form a family and live with his loved one in his own community.
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The High Court also rejected petitions against the Nakab bill, just last week. The new Nakba Law allows the state to penalize institutions that commemorate the Palestinian national disaster of 1948.
Jan 11
