Via News Unfiltered, My Good Deed—a social action campaign started by 9-11 survivors and their family and friends—is asking both candidates to temporarily suspend their campaigns on 9-11 and obser
Foreign Policy and the Center for American Progress have released their authoritative Terrorism Index, a survey of 100 bipartisan foreign policy experts to determine the direction of U.S.
Writing from Nevada, site of the National Clean Energy Summit, Alex Bandza reports on Bill Clinton's remarks about charting a clean energy future:According to Clinton, energy is at the heart of ec
On Day One, I'd like to see our next president talk to local people, in both the U.S. and around the world, and think of ways to actually gather good ideas to build local communities online. We need to look beyond big global issues and think about ways that people are trying to deal with problems like graffiti, crime, health care, and the environment on local levels. People usually think about these issues locally, but solutions can be shared, so I want to see the next president bring people together.
Promote and encourage a vegan/vegetarian diet:
- End subsidies and tax breaks for meat producers/distributors.
- Put more vegan/vegetarian options on taxpayer-funded menus - i.e., in schools and prisons.
- Encourage vegan/vegetarian diets by allowing those on government assistance to purchase locally-grown and organic fruits and veggies and meat substitutes such as faux meats and tofu.
- Do not allow animal agriculture companies exemptions from environmental regulations.
