Every year more than 750,000 American teens become pregnant, and over 80 percent of these pregnancies are unplanned. That may be about to change. If teens take to the latest wave of birth control technologies the way they’ve taken to cell phones, unplanned pregnancy could go the way of landlines and stretchy handset cords. On…

CarbonWA Sustainable Ballard 2014 – initiative for a carbon tax!

Join us in our #BoycottMicrosoft Black Friday Mourning Picket! The Badass Teachers of WA are calling on everyone who cares about the future. Come prepared to: Carry a light for every child who didn’t get the attention their teacher wanted to give them because of criminal underfunding of schools. Mourn the learning opportunities lost in…

Someone on another site said he doesn’t know any liberals who WANT to vote for Hillary in 2016 other than the fact that she’s less objectionable to any Republican candidate.I am a liberal, and I will happily pull the lever voting for Hillary in 2016. And I’ll tell you why. Because she is a woman,…

We didn’t get our candidate through the primary, and because of that, we are stuck with an impossible choice. Three impossible choices to be exact. 1. Refuse to vote, in the hopes that out of tens of thousands of votes, your protest vote makes a statement…to whom, I have no idea, since we have a…

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Edwin Lyman is Senior Global Security Scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). He specializes in nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism,and nuclear power safety and security  He spoke to Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility and other sponsors in Seattle October 6 2014 at Common Good Cafe. Dr. Lyman, with a PhD in Physics from Cornell…

Click here to sign the Change.org petition End BNSF railroad’s dependence on hauling and burning fossil fuels. Partner with Gov. Inslee to electrify, increase track speeds, and run your trains on 100% renewable energy from Seattle to Chicago. Backbone Campaign