Buy a Small Gift for Kids with Incarcerated Moms

This holiday season, you have an opportunity to help a child with an incarcerated mother. Two groups, Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration and Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Moms, have set up an Amazon gift registry for the kids of women incarcerated at Logan Prison in Illinois. Most toys on the registry are less… Read more »

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Scotland’s Wind Energy Blows Nuclear Power Away

The World Wildlife Fund reported last week that wind turbines in Scotland produced enough energy in October to power every single home in Scotland — and at a time when some nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom needed to be temporarily shut down. Think Progress reports: “Wind energy has been thriving in the U.K…. Read more »

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Did Obama just save the Internet?

President Barack Obama called for the “strongest possible rules” to protect the open Internet on Monday, asking the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify it as a utility like traditional phone lines and prevent Internet service providers from charging different rates based on the websites people visit. Following reports that the FCC is preparing to ditch… Read more »

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