Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, Elise, ItsJessMe, dopper0189, grog and jennyjem with vcmvo2 editing.

The diaries up for rescue are:

• Muskegon Critic writes a beautiful paen to the Great Lakes in this week's environmental series: DK GreenRoots: My Lake Has Singing Sands. (grog)
• In a provocative diary Kaid at NRDC questions if the movement to "re-green" shrinking cities is ignoring the true problem, suburban sprawl: Village Green: Let's Be Careful What We Wish For on "Shrinking Cities". (dopper0189)
• Bruce Nilles presents the good and the bad news in a report from the EPA in DK Greenroots: Poverty Near The "High Hazard" Coal Ash Sites. (jennyjem)
• Captain Janeway illustrates the difficulties of caring for an aging parent in Passages for my mother, passages for me. (vcmvo2)
• Valtin explains that following the Army Field manual might not prevent all forms of torture, in Beyond Yoo: Army Field Manual Allows Torture with Drugs. (Elise)
• Roger Schuler continues his excellent reporting in The Cheating of Don Siegelman, Part IV. (vcmvo2)

• Vyan exposes Bagram AFB : America's OTHER Torture Chamber. (jennyjem)
• andrewmcleod opines on what it would take to get Universal health care. (vcmvo2)
• In A Place for Human Rights at the U.S.-Russia Summit, Paul LeGendre asks Obama to discuss the increase of hate crimes in Russia with President Medvedev. (vcmvo2)
• Vikingkingq believes we need to go further than the Waxman-Markey climate change bill and offers ideas, in Green Transit and Hybrids: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. (Elise)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: July 1, 2009.

Elise brings tonight's Top Comments: A DK GreenRoots Edition.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diary in this Open Thread.

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