We Can Now Map Everything — from Illness to Endangered Species
By Jessica Clark, In These Times
Thanks to Google and others, you can plug in your zip code and find out if the flu is in your neighborhood. But where is all this mapping taking us?
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Here’s a small change of plans on our end — the Enviro newsletter will now be sent out on Tuesdays — same great content, just a different day.
This week we’ve got more on the water justice movement from water guru Maude Barlow. We’ve also got info on the new mapping revolution; Democratic ties to Nuke energy; McCain’s dismal enviro record; Fox’s promotion of global warming deniers; and a whole lot more.
*And, a correction from last week: Richard M. Frank’s article, “Can We Save California’s Water?” was incorrectly sourced as AlterNet but it is really from the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Thanks for reading,
Tara Lohan, Managing Editor 

The Corporate Threat to Water and the Water Justice Movement’s Fight to Protect it
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
An interview with international water guru Maude Barlow and clips from the new documentary Flow: For Love of Water.
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The Democrats’ Dirty Secret: Presidential Candidates Backed by Nuclear Powerhouses
By Jessica Lee, Indypendent
A hidden conflict over nuclear issues is simmering, pitting Obama and Clinton against many indigenous communities.
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GM’s Dark Ages Approach to Global Warming
By Laurie David, Huffington Post
GM’s vice chairman’s stance on global warming could explain why the company is doing so dismally.
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Is Corn Leading Us Towards Social Change or Ecological Disaster?
By George Naylor, Movement Vision Lab
Understanding corn could be the key to social change that saves the planet and helps us create democratic communities and local food supplies.
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The Bush Administration’s War On Science
By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
Our government is waging a war against science, endangering millions of lives in the U.S. and beyond.
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Can You Profit from Global Warming?
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Christian Science Monitor
Global warming is becoming a big theme for investors, but not all care about solutions, just the bottom line.
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A Reformer Tackles Texas’s Water Woes
By Joe Nick Patoski, Texas Observer
With an environmental lawyer newly installed at the helm, the Lower Colorado River Authority charts a course between growth and good sense.
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Fox News Promotes Global Warming Deniers, Says US Should Fear “Cooling”
By Ali Frick, Think Progress
This staged conference “proves” little more than that a group funded by Big Oil can easily attract sham scientists to tout the industry’s line.
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John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record
By Josh Dorner, Sierra Club
At least two Congress members who died during the term outscored McCain.
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