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Photo via Shutterstock Washington D.C. has just announced a huge step forward in its quest to become America’s “greenest” city. The District of Columbia Department of General Services (DGS) has signed a...

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The recently finished green roof atop the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) headquarters in Washington, D.C. is the third largest in the nation’s capitol. The project involved replacing the original 24 year-old roof with a 27,750...

The Department of Energy’s innovative gingerbread house is fully weatherized, and includes solar panels and water recycling systems. If only it were also sugar-free, organic and locally made. Happy Kwanzaa to us all. This...

My mother just died last week, due, in part, to lack of access to any health care. Presently am making funeral arrangements, and these sock puppets actually made me laugh. Senator Joe Lieberman is such a total scrotum, and...

Where Did All of the Money Go? Ed Schultz interviews Florida Rep. Alan Grayson about Congress finally demanding more transparency from the Federal Reserve, and auditing their massive secret bank bailouts. The recently passed...

First Lady Michelle Obama talks straightforwardly about women and why we all so urgently need for health insurance reform. At the moment I know that I am existing in something of a self-absorbed cancer bubble of my own, but...

Florida Rep. Alan Grayson has just utterly transformed the health care debate in the United States with his speech from the House floor. “I’m just saying what everyone else is thinking,” explains Grayson. This...

GASP!     WOOT! YES! Signage in the Latona Community Garden in San Francisco. Bayview artist Malik Seneferu’s portrait of President Barack Obama.

Billionaires for Wealth Care has created this rousing anthem to satirically support our nation’s for-profit health care industries. The group was counter-protesting at last week’s tea-bagger anti-health care reform...

The White House has just released a new official video which profiles Michelle Obama’s hugely successful organic vegetable garden. The First Lady talks about the process of creating the victory garden, as well as the...