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Green votes for bill to create more education jobs and Medicare assistance

Congressman Al Green voted in favor of the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act in a special session of Congress on Aug. 9. The measure, which passed the Senate on Aug. 5, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 247-161.


GREEN CANDIDATE CRITICIZES COURTNEY ON WAR VOTE

Scott Deshefy, the Green Party candidate running for Congress in the 2nd District, issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing the district's representative, Democrat Joe Courtney, for voting against


Green food output near 100 million tons in China

The output of green food, referring to organically produced foods, was near 100 million tons in China, the domestic sales of green food reached 316.2 billion yuan and gross exports reached 2.16 billion dollars, said Chen Xiaohua, the vice minister of China's Ministry of Agriculture, at the third round congress of the Green Food Association in Beijing. With the development of agricultural brands ...

WSJ.com – Even Boulder Finds It Isn’t Easy Going Green

As Congress considers how to encourage Americans to conserve more energy, this well-to-do college town in Colorado stands as a cautionary tale about the limits of good intentions.


The Week in Pictures: Elephants Extinct by 2025, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Green Home Improvement, and More (Slideshow)

From the news that all 600,000 African elephants will be extinct by 2025 at current rates of poaching, according to figures from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to Congress' approval of a bill that will allow three wheelers to get funding from the Department of Energy, a lot happened this week in green. Our Best of Green winner Chris Jordan visited the Midway Atoll, right in the heart of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and photographed sobering pictures of albatrosses stuffed with pla


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