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BECOME A BIOGEMS DEFENDER When you take action you’ll become a BioGems Defender. We will keep you informed with the latest alerts and progress reports. Learn more » Dear Reader, I am passing this e-mail on just as I have passed on many other e-mails that I have received. For those who have already joined the fight-Thank You: for those who have yet to join the fight--Welcome aboard; You know what feels good? Winning. And that’s just what we’re doing. We’ve just learned that yet another major Heartland Institute contributor, LKQ, has pulled its support. With the loss of LKQ, which Heartland expected to contribute $150,000 this year, the Heartland Institute has lost over a million dollars in expected support -- nearly half of its total expected funding for this year. Thanks to your work, this hateful group of climate change deniers -- the same ones who compared those of us concerned about climate change to serial killers and terrorists -- has been seriously crippled. Let’s take a moment to celebrate our incredible victory. Can you share the great news with friends and family, to up the pressure on the dwindling list of companies that remain? For decades, climate change denial has been funded by the corporate world, aiming to confuse the public about the overwhelming scientific consensus around global warming in order to protect its profits. Your efforts represent a massive turning point -- not just for the Heartland Institute, but for the entire climate change denier industry. Together, we are telling these corporations that they can’t simply keep funding this work without people like us holding them accountable. Before last week’s conference, SumOfUs.org and our allies at Forecast the Facts and 350 tried to get Clear Channel -- the same company that ran Heartland's billboard -- to run our response ads calling on Pfizer and others to quit funding Heartland. When Clear Channel refused, you came to the rescue. You helped fund a rally outside the conference and people-powered bike billboards that circled the conference venue, exposing Comcast, Pfizer and Microsoft, which continue to support Heartland’s extremism. The rally got so much attention that even a couple of notorious climate change deniers came out to see what the commotion was about. All the attention we’ve brought to Heartland’s anti-climate crusade over the past few months culminated in this moment: In his closing remarks, Heartland President Joseph Bast admitted that his group is running out of resources -- because we’ve gotten so many corporations to flee -- and he announced that, due to a lack of funding, this would be Heartland’s last planned climate change denial conference! Let’s keep the momentum going, and up the pressure on the rest of Heartland’s funders. Click here to share the graphic above on Facebook. Thanks for all you do, -- Taren, Kaytee, Emma, Claiborne and the rest of us After all, there truly are other ways--other than destruction-to make money. Oh, Yes, there is nothing like a Good Job of Doing Good!!!    Make Money the Miracle Minded Way I was recently interviewed for a story called Meaning is the New Money, featured in the May 2012 issue of Women’s Health magazine. The story is about ... The Links Between Uncertainty, Faith, and Authenticity "I have been thinking a great deal lately about showing up in life as my authentic self. I have been working lately to achieve greater confidence in my..." This is so true I know because I lived and once worked it. One of the many things that I will never forget is how much of yourself you can lose when you have to bite your tongue to keep your job.   It is indeed true that a brave hero dies once, but a coward (a working mother/head of household with young dependent children) dies a thousand death or more--being to dependent on Pay Check to afford to stand up for Truth and Justice = Against the Holy Ghost Filled Pain in the A$$ = The Christian Taliban- Supervisor, who was the Bully given too much authority.