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After years of hard work by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other groups, all Maryland public school students will now have access to comprehensive environmental education, and will graduate with environmental literacy. This comes after a unanimous state board ruling to add the Maryland Environmen

While Time Magazine's current cover might be merely seen as a cheap attempt to connect tragedy with withdrawal (which it is), or to grab attention (which it does), I have to praise them for reaching so deeply to determine what kind of effect the photo would have. In addition, I applaud them for re-e

I drive on I-95S through the Baltimore clusterfrack every morning to go to work at a solar energy company. From my passenger window, I have been noticing a buildup of garbage in a canal by the Waste Management's facility across from the Greyhound terminals.

Let me make an important distinction between porn and erotica. Pornography is derived from the Greek word "pornae," a term for the lowest class of street whores. Erotica is derived from the Greek word "Eros," or the name of the Greek god of sexual love and beauty. Whores and love/beauty - try not to

How to even begin... Richmond High, Richmond High. I'm not clawing at the stars, begging God for a reason why - I know the answer. In fact, there are many reasons why something like this happens, even in America. It's so sad, but it's our fault. Yes, it is yours, and it's mine. It's everybody's faul

Welcome to VLF's Blog Action Day 2009 Post! I hope you're browsing the blogosphere, checking out what web writers everywhere are talking about: climate change. From UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Google, everyone is talking about it.But not everyone today is talking about women and climate change

You know that saying, "Put your money where your mouth is?" Well I don't have money. And this is a blog. So tonight, I put my time where my blog was... or something like that. Tonight, my boyfriend and I attended the volunteer orientation at Women for Women, Int'l, as featured on Oprah.

It’s called “The Girl Effect” – what happens when you invest in a young girl in a developing nation. She multiplies the dividends. You buy her a sewing machine, and next thing you know, she’s the local fashion tycoon. Then her husband stops beating her, there’s no more talk about a second wife to be

There is a Chinese proverb that goes, “women hold up half the sky.” While one may be tempted to feel that women indeed do contribute to our world in such a communally large way, you might want to consider the following. Nicholas Kristov and Sheryl WuDunn, a married couple who have received numerous