ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS PICKS
AMAZON: Images of Brazil’s uncontacted indigenous tribes
ANIMAL WELFARE: Bred for edge, greatest race horses may have handicaps
AUTO INDUSTRY: GM to close four truck plants, shift output to cars, GM shareholders frustrated with executive compensation but defeat proposal for say on pay
BIOFUELS: Some biofuel crops are considered invasive species
BIOMIMICRY: Biomimicry solution for ocean power
CAPE WIND: Cape Wind CEO: Common sense will prevail in wind turbine campaign
CLIMATE CHANGE: Global warming: Forge new path, urges Nobel winner, Chances dim for climate-change legislation, Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” becoming an opera, Senate votes to begin global warming debate, Comments on U.S. climate change bill, Bush would veto U.S. climate change bill
DESERTIFICATION: Sahara dried out slowly, not abruptly
ENERGY: Speed up bathing and save energy
ENERGY MIX OF THE FUTURE: Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: Calif. fuel law to benefit some foreign automakers
FUEL PRICES: Airlines may start treating passengers like freight: “Imagine two scales at the airline ticket counter, one for your bags and one for you. The price of a ticket depends upon the weight of both.”, Small, efficient auto designed to be sold anywhere
GARDENING: Build a square foot garden
GAS TAX HOLIDAY: Cheney knocks McCain’s gas tax holiday
LANDFILLS: New trend in biofuels has new risks
NEW GENUS: New killifish genus and species described
PLASTIC BAGS: China limits use of plastic bags out of environmental, energy concern
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: It’s a bus. It’s a train. It’s both!
SCIENCE: Scientists find ice on Mars, The stunning fossil of a fish giving birth that proves animals had ’sex for fun’ 380 million years ago
SOLAR: On southwest Florida coast, college going solar, New Jersey parking garages to get solar power, Expect new drugs to treat aging, researchers say
WIND POWER: Could wind help save water?, Wind power could make Norway “Europe’s battery”, Want 20 Percent Wind Power by 2030, Get to Work!, DOE report says more wind than coal planned for US grid
WTF?: Buy American and get free gas or free gun, Environmentally friendly bombs planned
Written by Buck Denton
June 5, 2008 at 1:56 am
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with Environmental News Picks
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