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Debra Grant: Payday lenders prey on women, families

Debra Grant: Payday lenders prey on women, families

Published by the Virginian-Pilot I had a relative who needed to borrow $150, so I took out a payday loan to help. Every month, I would have to roll the loan over until the next mo ...

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Care for our Earth: Preventing Water Scarcity

Care for our Earth: Preventing Water Scarcity

How careful are we in our use of one of the Earth's most precious resource, water? If we were to experience a high category hurricane where our drinkable water supply would no lon ...

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Supporting Green Products with Our Purchases

Supporting Green Products with Our Purchases

Do we realize that our purchases shape the world? When a dollar leaves our hands, it goes to work, work that can support life and wellbeing or degradation and destruction! Even th ...

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A Flood of Voices

A Flood of Voices

Virginia Organizing, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and the Sierra Club of Virginia have teamed up to raise awareness about the flooding in the South Hampton Roads area. South ...

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Caring for our Earth with Technology

Caring for our Earth with Technology

Some people argue that wind turbines are not acceptable because a number of birds are killed by them. Unfortunately, wind power does have that disadvantage at the present time, th ...

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Addressing Climate Change with Urgency

Addressing Climate Change with Urgency

How urgent and critical is the climate change issue for Virginia? Before giving an answer I refer to Stephen Nash, a journalist, who conducted intensive research on climate change ...

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Offshore drilling – make your voice heard

Offshore drilling – make your voice heard

Not long ago I wrote about offshore drilling. This is a huge and very critical issue which cannot receive too much attention — especially since one of the proposed sites is the At ...

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Care for Our Earth

Care for Our Earth

Recycling, along with reusing, reducing, and repairing, were among the practices we were initially encouraged to adopt to preserve our environment. Though some would think recycli ...

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Virginia Organizing Applauds Governor McAuliffe’s Decision to Remove Barrier of Court Costs and Fees as Condition of Restoration of Civil Rights

Virginia Organizing Applauds Governor McAuliffe’s Decision to Remove Barrier of Court Costs and Fees as Condition of Restoration of Civil Rights

Virginia Organizing leaders were present as Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that formerly incarcerated individuals will no longer need to satisfy all court costs ...

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More on the Magnificent Monarch

More on the Magnificent Monarch

First, it is important to note that without the help of the Monarch Butterfly, a key pollinator, our food production could be damaged beyond repair. Our efforts, then, to bolster ...

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