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What's Happening Today - Saturday, May 17, 2008
5/17 - Intergenerational Earth Kinship Classes
5/17 - Blue Ridge Hydrangea Society Annual Plant Show
5/17 - Asheville City Market: Local Food Local Farmers
5/17 - Eco-Friendly Cookout for Appalachian Offsets

A Look Ahead:
5/18 - Farm Tour Benefit and 100 Mile Diet Event
5/22 - Photovoltaics with Sharp Solar

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Sustainability News
5/17 - new Germany Debates Subsidies for Solar Industry
5/17 - new Environmental and Public Interest Groups Condemn Plans to Hand Record-Breaking Subsidies to Nuclear Energy
5/17 - new World's Wildlife Already Hit Hard By Climate Change New Study Reports
5/17 - new Prius Sales Top 1 Million Unts
5/17 - new Progress Energy - Measurable Progress
5/15 - Citizen intimidation in MTR coal mining dispute
5/15 - Barcelona forced to import emergency water
5/15 - Isreal Ministry: Desalination can't meet water needs
5/15 - Prince Charles urges forest logging halt
5/15 - 2 Billion Trees Planted
5/15 - In Juneau Comfort Recalibrated for 30% electricity cut
5/15 - Kohl’s Distributed Solar Power Program Becomes World’s Largest Among Retailers
5/14 - Busy bees worth €2.6bn a year
5/14 - Norway island stores wind power for still days with Hydrogen backup
5/14 - US Energy Dept. says wind power could be savior
5/14 - Nissan Plans Electric Car in U.S. by ’10
5/14 - McCain Breaks with Bush on Climate Change, but falls short on rivals
5/14 - Get Ready to Spend $6,000 a Year on Gasoline, Natural Gas, and Heating Oil
5/14 - The True Cost of Fossil Fuels
5/13 - World's giants to alter food equation
5/13 - Duke CEO grilled by shareholders
5/13 - World CO2 Levels At Record High, Scientists Warn
5/13 - Air Pollution 'ups blood clot risk'
5/12 - Smart(ish) Cities - A Grist special series on unexpected urban progress
5/12 - It Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth
5/12 - Tightening of immigration laws means farmers face losing 50,000 tonnes of fruit
5/12 - The Elusive Negawatt
5/12 - Nanoparticles scrutinized for health effects
5/11 - How the world's oceans are running out of fish
5/11 - The Dangers of the Deltas
5/11 - Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm
5/11 - White House vs white bear: Judge says Bush must decide whether to save the polar bear as the ice melts
5/11 - Scientists plan to bury CO2 in Kern County, CA
5/11 - Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit
5/10 - THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS: summary of causes
5/10 - MONSANTO'S HARVEST OF FEAR
5/10 - Opinion:Global Poverty: More Big Business Is Not the Solution
5/10 - Solar Thermal Plants Could Supply U.S. Energy Needs
5/10 - Full report PDF: Solar Thermal could supply US energy needs
5/10 - Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction
5/10 - Solar industry needs workers
5/10 - A crash course in true political science
5/09 - Green groups urge upholding U.S. tar sands fuel ban
5/09 - Sierra Club threatens suits over coal power plants
5/09 - Essay: Drive 1,000 Miles or Feed a Person for a Year? The Biofuels Dilemma
5/09 - Obama: World wants to see U.S. lead in green, not war
5/09 - Americans rated least green
5/09 - Why 'Yawns' live below their wealthy means
5/09 - 6 stupidly simple steps to save billions of gallons of gas
5/09 - Nevada Group sees very large promise in solar power
5/09 - Latin American food summit blames crisis on tyranny of global capitalistism
5/08 - Just how 'green' is that shirt?
5/08 - Nuclear Energy Heats Up US Presidential Race
5/08 - Women face tougher impact from climate change
5/08 - Environmental Destruction Adds to Devastation in Myanmar
5/08 - The great organic myths rebutted
5/08 - Essay: Will Democracy Make You Happy?
5/07 - Senate GOP Wants Halt To Ethanol Expansion
5/07 - Environmentalists divided on burying CO2
5/07 - FALSE HOPE: Why carbon capture and storage won’t save the climate
5/07 - THE OCEANS FEEL IMPACTS FROM ACID RAIN
5/07 - Amory Lovins: FORGET NUCLEAR
5/07 - AUTISM RISK LINKED TO DISTANCE FROM COAL POWER PLANTS
5/07 - Algae May Solve Ethanol vs. Gas Dilemma
5/07 - Carbon Trading Blasted by Indigenous Groups
5/06 - Air Pollution Impedes Bees' Ability to Find Flowers
5/06 - Sinking without trace: Australia's climate change victims
5/06 - Freezing to show warming trend
5/06 - Alaskan Legislature funds "academic based" conference that highlights contrarian scientific research on global warming.
5/06 - Americans grow up reject gas tax holiday
5/05 - Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake
5/05 - The Roof Is On Fire - Innovative ways to finance home solar
5/05 - Uranium claims spring up along Grand Canyon rim
5/05 - Fighting Global Warming Block by Block
5/05 - Airtravel - Trying to lighten the carbon footprint
5/05 - Backyard farming: Chickens adopting urban lifestyle
5/05 - Farmers face climate challenge in quest for more food
5/04 - Essay: The Gospel of Consumption
5/04 - Indigenous people demand say in climate change policies
5/04 - Corn Ethanol Loses More Support in Washington
5/04 - Water: Streams of Blood - Streams of Peace
5/03 - Desertec - Harness the Sahara's desert for European electricity
5/03 - Utilities, Plug-In Cars: Near Collision?
5/03 - Making a Killing From Hunger
5/03 - As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars
5/03 - Auto Industry Execs: High gas prices needed to sell fuel-efficient cars
5/03 - Kansas Lawmakers fail to override coal plant veto
5/03 - Oxygen-Poor Ocean Zones Are Growing
5/03 - Dawn of an Energy Famine
5/03 - It’s the meat not the miles
5/03 - Dingell to probe why EPA official leaving job

• Mohawk Grandmother Sara Smith May 5th and 6th, 7:00 PM Franklin, NC - Paul
• In the mountain moonlight - Paul
• Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Releasing the Spirits Ceremony, April 15th, 2008 - Paul
• Wall St. Journal: Consume Less! (GASP!) - Paul
• Please Oppose this Assault on the Gwich'in People -- TODAY! - Paul
• Rebirth - Paul
• "Behold, my brothers and sisters, the spring has come. - Paul
• The Boy Who Lived With the Bears - Paul
• May the Total Eclipse of Grandmother Moon awaken your spirit! - Paul
• May your Path with Heart continue on forever! - Paul
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