Posted on February 27, 2009 by brandibratrude
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1. Rethinking Our Waste Policies
Examining modern garbage, researchers found that people wasted much more food than they realised, claimed to cook from scratch more often than they really did and ate more junk food and less virtuous stuff than they admitted. The Economist 02/27/2009
2. Wind Farms Provide Energy — and Work
A new crop of wind turbines in Solano County will be generating not only electricity but steady income for people like Anthony Perales, a 28-year-old father of three from Stockton, who was squeezed out of jobs framing houses and detailing new cars. He’s now a “windsmith” trained to climb the 262-foot-high towers and maintain the turbines. Sacramento Bee 02/27/2009
3. She Made the Switch from SUV to Transit
Raichel will not tell you she changed her lifestyle to spare the world of her carbon emissions. She was tired of high gas bills and sitting behind the wheel. Since then, however, gas prices have tumbled, and yet Raichel and many other new riders have stuck with the mass transit habit. Oregonian 02/27/2009
4. BC Moves to Recognize Native Resource Rights
In 1859, BC proclaimed that all the lands in the province – and all minerals below the surface – belonged to the Crown. This year, Premier Gordon Campbell has pledged his support for a new law to enshrine aboriginal rights to resources. With it, he hopes to create “partnerships and prosperity” through shared decision-making and revenue-sharing. Toronto Globe and Mail 02/27/2009
5. Portland Mayor Talks Green Job Creation
Adams will announce three environmental initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, bringing energy efficiency to Portland homes and creating a tax credit for businesses that install solar power systems. Oregonian 02/27/2009
6. What are Canadian Oilsands Projects Doing to Biodiversity?
The lower Athabasca region in Alberta remains unaltered by human development, says a new report. But some question trends that could point to deterioration of key species and overpopulation by other “colonizing” species — like crows. Vancouver Sun 02/27/2009
7. Obama’s Cap-and-trade System Funds Research, Families
Obama’s budget assumes that by 2012, auctions will generate revenue averaging $15 billion a year to go toward renewable-energy research. Revenue beyond that “will be returned to the people, especially vulnerable families, communities and businesses to help the transition to a clean-energy economy,” his blueprint says. Los Angeles Times 02/27/2009
8. BC Energy Map Scopes Region’s Power Future
The provincial government has scoped out nine regions for large-scale wind and hydro development in British Columbia, part of an international plan to build and export renewable electricity across western North America. The Tyee 02/26/2009
9. Bush ‘Conscience’ Rule on Abortions to be Overturned
The Obama administration today will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows healthcare workers to deny abortion counseling or other family planning services if doing so would violate their moral beliefs. Los Angeles Times 02/27/2009
10. Coen brothers’ TV Ad Ridicules ‘Clean Coal’
Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen, known for their grimly comic portrayals of human nature, are poking fun at a new target. The filmmaking brothers have directed a TV spot for an environmental coalition that’s trying to demolish the notion that there’s anything clean about so-called clean coal. Los Angeles Times 02/27/2009
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