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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 -
Germany Debates Subsidies for Solar Industry
5/17 -
Environmental and Public Interest Groups Condemn Plans to Hand Record-Breaking Subsidies to Nuclear Energy
5/17 -
World's Wildlife Already Hit Hard By Climate Change New Study Reports
5/17 -
Prius Sales Top 1 Million Unts
5/17 -
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
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Mohawk Grandmother Sara Smith May 5th and 6th, 7:00 PM Franklin, NC
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In the mountain moonlight
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Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Releasing the Spirits Ceremony, April 15th, 2008
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Wall St. Journal: Consume Less! (GASP!)
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Please Oppose this Assault on the Gwich'in People -- TODAY!
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Rebirth
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"Behold, my brothers and sisters, the spring has come.
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The Boy Who Lived With the Bears
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May the Total Eclipse of Grandmother Moon awaken your spirit!
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May your Path with Heart continue on forever!
- Paul
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