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‘We Are Winning’: ‘Bat Signal’ Projection Appears on NYC Skyscraper During Mass Nighttime ‘Occupy’ March

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Gawker : As thousands marched across the Brooklyn Bridge tonight in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, someone put on a pro-OWS guerrilla projection show on the side of the Verizon building. BoingBoing called the projections a “bat signal”: Here’s another more complete video — So — Why the Verizon building? New York Observer : Was it the bat signal in the night sky? Was the Dark Knight truly a… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 18/11/2011 02:12 Number of articles : 2

‘We Are Winning’: ‘Bat Signal’ Projection Appears on NYC Skyscraper During Mass Nighttime ‘Occupy’ March

11 Cartoons With Surprisingly Green Messages (Video Slideshow)

Image via babs886.files.wordpress.com While some of your favorite childhood cartoons came with a pretty obvious green message — “Captain Planet,” anyone? — other animations go for a more subtle impact. From the animal testing in “The Secret of NIMH” and the vegetarian undertones in “Charlotte’s Web” to “The Simpsons'” environmentalism, here are 11 fantastic animated features sending surprisingly green messages to kids (and adults).

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National Soda Tax Would Make Americans 4% Less Fat

Photo via City Pages The USDA has recently been delving into the potential benefits of enacting a tax on sugary beverages like sodas and fruit juices. Clearly, there’s plenty to debate about such a tax — whether it would raise soda prices enough to discourage consumption, whether it would unfairly impact the poor, how much revenue it would raise, and whether it would actually make anyone healthier. Well, according to the USDA’s just-released study, it would at least do the latter — the projections show that a sugar tax on sweet drinks would reduce caloric intake from beverages by 13% in adults. For the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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National Soda Tax Would Make Americans 4% Less Fat