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Ten Tips for Taxpayers Making Charitable Donations

Posted by Editor on Monday, August 23, 2010, In : Must read

Courtesy of the IRS via email - Summertime Tax Tip 2010-21

Did you make a donation to a charity this year? If so, you may be able to take a deduction for it on your 2010 tax return. Here are the top 10 things the IRS wants every taxpayer to know before deducting charitable donations.

1. Charitable contributions must be made to qualified organizations to be deductible. You can ask any organization whether it is a qualified organization and most will be able to tell you. You can also check ...
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Steve Schneider, 1945 - 2010

Posted by Ana M on Saturday, July 24, 2010, In : Must read

Via Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University

Our colleague and good friend Steve Schneider, the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, died on July 19, 2010, while traveling from a meeting in Stockholm to London. Steve was not only a man of formidable intellectual depth and breadth, but also a committed and compassionate advisor, mentor, teacher and friend. ...

Water Scarcity in Southern Africa

Posted by Editor on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, In : Must read

By Rose Anderson

Providing access to safe water is a priority for all nations, as water is a limited resource essential to human health and economic activity. For many people in Africa, there is little or no access to safe drinking water. Water scarcity in Africa is expected to increase in the near future due to economic growth and increasing populations. By 2025, 45% of the populat...

How clean is the electricity I use? - Power Profiler Tool

Posted by Editor on Thursday, June 10, 2010, In : Must read

In the United States, electricity is generated in many different ways, with a wide variation in environmental impact. Electricity generation from the combustion of fossil fuels contributes toward unhealthy air quality, acid rain, and global climate change.

Many electricity customers can choose their provider of electricity or can purchase green power from their utility. In fact, you might now have the option of choosing cleaner, more environmentally friendly sources of energy.

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Celebrity? Need to save the world? Start here.

Posted by AC on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, In : Must read

by Scott Gilmore - May 21, 2010. Scott Gilmore is the Executive Director of Peace Dividend Trust.

I was sitting at the great Irish pub across from the office watching the Yankees game, when a clip of Sean Penn came on. Turns out he’s in Haiti now. (I thought he was in jail, but I don’t keep up like I should.) Sean has set up a clinic or a school, or something, and Haiti is doing much better now, thank you very much. Somehow this didn’t surprise me. I thought that’s ...

What do you think of our energy matrix?

Posted by Team on Saturday, March 20, 2010, In : Must read

This picture was tucked away in the FT website...

http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/files/2009/02/oil_and_alternatives_pricepoints_dec2008.gif

60 Million US Residents are Without a Bank Accounts.

Posted by Ana M on Saturday, December 5, 2009, In : Must read

Did you know that 25% of the US population doesn't have a bank account to begin with? This is a rather surprising and sad story from Ylan Q. Mui to the Washington Post... One-quarter of American households -- about 60 million people -- have limited or no access to banks or other traditional financial services, with low-income and black families among the hardest hit, according to a government report released Wednesday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR20091202...
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