<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/87800394-3a61-4469-96d2-76b7493c152d/5E31DEAB-7685-43F9-8596-2A8F47FAD9A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-hill/the-antidote-to-bad-media_b_124994.html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-hill/the-antidote-to-bad-media_b_124994.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.huffingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-hill/the-antidote-to-bad-media_b_124994.html"><P><A href="http://treehugger.com/"><IMG align="right" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/33813/original.jpg" /></A>Following the daily news, and especially in the realm of climate and environment, can be and frequently is a big bummer. Sarah Palin's <A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/sarah-palin-office-design.php">bear-draped office sofa</A> can make you either want to laugh or weep, but her views on polar bears do only the latter. And trying to figure out McCain's about-face on his formerly more encouraging climate views is just confusing; one <A href="http://www.cleantechblog.com/2008/08/mccain-palin-is-energy-cleantech-dream.html">clean tech pundit</A> is convinced he and Palin are the dream ticket. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-hill/the-antidote-to-bad-media_b_124994.html"><P>Fortunately, though when politics and the media fail us, one of the few antidotes for the gray clouds amassing over our happy green dream world is thoughtful action.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-hill/the-antidote-to-bad-media_b_124994.html">If you are already a social investor you may have heard of some of these non-profit organizations - <A href="http://www.kiva.org/">Kiva</A>, <A href="http://www.opportunity.org/Page.aspx?pid=193">Opportunity International</A>, <A href="http://www.accion.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=191&srcid=-2">ACCION</A> - which funnel your donated money to microloans for entrepreneurial small-business people the world over.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5E31DEAB-7685-43F9-8596-2A8F47FAD9A3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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