Find these stories and much, much more at: ENN.com

Consumer products start and end with nature
Christmas season means advertising season. Local mailboxes and newspapers laden with flyers. Children pleading for the latest toys they've seen on television. Awash in consumer products and commercials, it's easy to forget where all this stuff comes from and where it goes.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11496.asp

Battle rages with Ecuador Indians over jungle oil
In a steamy jungle of winding laurel trees and sprawling palms, a battle is raging between Ecuadorean Indians trying to protect land rights and oil companies who want to drill in the Amazon.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11468.asp

Cruise ship engineers indicted on charges of hiding dumping
Three cruise ship engineers were indicted Thursday on charges of falsifying log books to conceal the dumping of waste oil at sea.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11495.asp

Nevada prepares case against nuclear waste dump
Nevada's legal team will tell a federal appeals court that the government is trying to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain even though it does not meet the original legal requirements for a dump, lawyers said.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11491.asp

Amnesty says Miami police may have broken UN laws
Police in Miami may have violated various international laws and covenants on civil rights and use of force when they crushed protests against a free trade meeting last month, rights group Amnesty International said.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11493.asp

Federal scientists say Missouri River flow hurts birds
Government-controlled flows along the lower Missouri River, relied upon by farmers and barge operators to get grain to markets, threaten the endangered pallid sturgeon, federal biologists report.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11490.asp

European fishery officials inching toward agreement
Following all-night negotiations, European Union talks on protecting both dwindling fish stocks and fishing fleets entered a third day Friday, with fisheries ministers slowly moving toward consensus, officials said.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11492.asp

Judge calls for investigation into U.S. 'ghost ships'
A High Court judge has called for an "urgent investigation" into how to deal with the four so-called "ghost ships" currently docked in northeast England and facing an uncertain future.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11489.asp

Biologists hopeful most fish survived burned aquarium
After waiting two days to find out the fate of nearly 5,000 fish caught in a fire that swept through a building housing Europe's second biggest aquarium, biologists said that more than they had expected survived.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11467.asp

Today's Press Releases (Become an Affiliate)
Direct from non-profit environmental and educational organizations.

Competitive Enterprise Institute:
Lomborg's Vindication Improves Chances for Sound Science to be Heard in Policy Debate

The Trust for Public Land:
TPL Works With Potential Gardens Buyer (FL)

The Trust for Public Land:
Agreement to Protect Brainerd Lakes Forests (MN)

Trout Unlimited - Western Conservation Office:
Trout Unlimited Releases Fish Hatchery Reform Report

The Trust for Public Land:
Donation Helps Protect MN Bluffland

GreenBiz.com:
Green Business Network Translates Its Small-Business Guide into Spanish

GreenFacts Foundation:
Science into Policy: GreenFacts releases 2003 Conference Proceedings

National Wildlife Federation:
NWF Takes Legal Action to Ensure Wolf Recovery in the Northeast

Project NatureConnect, Institute of Global Education:
How to Reduce the Psychological Source of our Disturbed and Disturbing Relationships
- posted by Daniel @ 6:27 AM

 
Great Lakes Daily News: 19 December 2003
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Residents to keep fighting dock fees
----------------------------------------
The battle continues over whether homeowners along the Chicago River's North
Branch should have to pay costly fees for the right to keep the boat docks,
decks and patios that have been built on what is technically public land.
Source: Chicago Tribune (12/19)


Coho site to be sold today
----------------------------------------
The 540-acre Coho site along the Lake Erie shoreline in western Erie County
will have a new owner by the end of the day, the first step to making it
public land and perhaps a new state park. Source: Erie Times-News (12/19)


Officials happy with penalties imposed in ash borer case
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Officials battling the highly destructive emerald ash borer said they are
thrilled that a Michigan judge recently imposed the maximum sentence on a
landscaping firm found to be in violation of that state's quarantine for
shipping infested trees to Maryland this year. Source: The Toledo Blade
(12/19)


EDITORIAL: Preventing toxic trash
----------------------------------------
Trash haulers in Michigan must abide by state laws before dumping their
trash in our landfills, so the same laws should apply to out-of-state trash
haulers, whether they are from Canada or any neighboring state. Source: The
Macomb Daily (12/19)


Gala to mark Christmas tree ship fate
----------------------------------------
A celebration of the historic significance of the Christmas Tree Ship
sinking in Lake Michigan on Nov. 23, 1912 will take place this Saturday at
11:45 am. Source: Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter (12/19)


Ontario government turns tap off
----------------------------------------
The Ontario government announced Thursday it will consider legislation that
would force companies such as bottled water producers to pay a royalty fee
on the water they use. Source: The Globe and Mail (12/18)


US Steel submits bid for Rouge Steel
----------------------------------------
U.S. Steel Corp. said Thursday it has submitted a bid for assets of Rouge
Steel Co., a move that challenges a nonbinding letter of intent
Dearborn-based Rouge signed with Russian steelmaker Severstal. Source:
Detroit Free Press (12/18)


Niagara Falls survivor sentenced for stunt
----------------------------------------
A Michigan man who survived an unprotected plunge over Niagara Falls was
fined $3,000 ($2,260 U.S.) Thursday and ordered to stay out of Niagara Park
for a year. Source: Detroit Free Press (12/18)


High pesticide levels wash up in Ohio waters
----------------------------------------
Some of the nation's highest pesticide levels have turned up in streambed
sediment and fish in southwest Ohio waters, a U.S. Interior Department
official said Wednesday. Source: Dayton Daily News (12/17)

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News for December 18, 2003 archive from ENN...

Take a chemical inventory of your home

Are you feeling tired most of the time? Does your spouse have a continuous cold
and your child a mysterious rash? Chemical sensitivities could be responsible
for these ailments.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_9205.asp

Soybeans: the new threat to Brazilian rainforest

Brazilian scientists have developed a new variety of soybean to flourish in this
punishing equatorial climate. Brazilian farmers are rushing into the jungle to
take advantage of cheap land and cash in on the bumper crop.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11441.asp

European Parliament backs polluter-pays rules proposal

The European Parliament has backed proposed legislation designed to force industry
and others in the European Union that pollute the environment to pay for the mess
they make.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11442.asp

Air quality in Asia is still bad, but it's improving

Pollution in the skies over Asia's booming cities is responsible for 500,000 deaths
every year and the working lives of many are shortened by health problems from
breathing filthy air, experts said Wednesday.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11438.asp

Judge rules for Puget Sound orcas

A federal judge ordered the government to rethink its finding that Washington state's
struggling orca population is not significant and does not warrant protection under
the Endangered Species Act.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11440.asp

E.U. nations are near compromise on fishing crisis

Italy presented new proposals Wednesday to break deadlock between European Union
nations seeking stringent controls to protect threatened fish stocks and those
demanding more leeway for their fishers.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11443.asp

Loss of habitat endangers reindeer in Norway

As children count down to the arrival of Rudolph, scientists warned that the
remaining wild reindeer in Norway are under threat as construction projects have
encroached on their natural habitat, forcing them into smaller areas with poor
food supplies.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11444.asp

Putting penguins in cold storage

The venerable California Academy of Sciences is shutting its doors on Dec. 31, and
its 18 million specimens, alive and long, long dead, are being moved. The old cement
building, a fixture in Golden Gate Park since 1916, will be razed to make way for a
new $370 million structure, a marvel of eco-friendly design.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11439.asp

St. Martin whale beachings remain a mystery

Blood tests taken to determine why three dozen whales beached themselves in St. Martin
last month were insufficient to determine the cause of their deaths, a French official
said Wednesday.
FULL STORY: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11466.asp


Direct from environmental organizations, lobbying groups, universities and businesses:

Green Business Network Translates Its Small-Business Guide into Spanish
GreenBiz.com
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1364B000000F9857FDAEE61F5A4AB

How to Reduce the Psychological Source of our Disturbed and Disturbing Relationships
Project NatureConnect, Institute of Global Education
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1366D000000F9887507A46F709969

Science into Policy: GreenFacts releases 2003 Conference Proceedings
GreenFacts Foundation
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1364B000000F989C6E1C26E2E1F28

NWF Takes Legal Action to Ensure Wolf Recovery in the Northeast
National Wildlife Federation
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1366D000000F989EE4578EB3103FB

Trout Unlimited Releases Fish Hatchery Reform Report
Trout Unlimited - Western Conservation Office
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1364B000000F98AC2D8246E2E23FF
- posted by Daniel @ 11:14 PM

 
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Earth Policy news: Wakeup Call on the Food Front
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:47:26 -0500
From: Reah Janise Kauffman rjkauffman@earth-policy.org
To:


Eco-Economy Update 2003-11 Please share with a friend!
For Immediate Release
Copyright Earth Policy Institute 2003
December 16, 2003

WAKEUP CALL ON THE FOOD FRONT
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update31.htm

Lester R. Brown
(This piece first appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday, December 15,
2003, entitled "Dry, With a Chance of a Grain Shortage.")


While Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Bush discussed Taiwan,
currency rates and North Korea on December 9, a more important and
far-reaching development in U.S.-China relations was going on far from the
White House.

Under the North China Plain, which produces half of China's wheat and a
third of its corn, water tables are falling by 3 to 10 feet per year. Along
with rising temperatures and the loss of cropland to non-farm uses, this
trend is shrinking the Chinese grain harvest, which has fallen in four of
the past five years. To get an idea of the magnitude, the harvest dropped by
66 million tons during that period, an amount that exceeds the total annual
grain harvest of Canada, one of the world's leading grain exporters.

Thus far China has covered its growing grain shortfall by drawing down its
once-massive stocks. It can do this for perhaps one more year before those
stocks are depleted. Then it will have to turn to the world market for major
purchases. The odds are that within the next few years the United States
will be loading two or three ships per day with grain destined for China.
This long line of ships stretching across the Pacific will function like a
huge umbilical cord between the two countries.

This isn't only a question of U.S.-China relations, but also one of the
relationship between the Earth's 6.3 billion people and its natural
resources, especially water. Food production is a water-intensive process.
Producing a ton of grain requires a thousand tons of water, which helps
explain why 70 percent of all water diverted from rivers or pumped from
underground goes for irrigation.

The tripling of world water demand over the past half-century, combined with
the advent of diesel and electrically driven pumps, has led to extensive
overpumping of aquifers. As a result, more than half the world's people now
live in countries where water tables are falling and wells are going dry.
Among these countries are the three that account for half of the world grain
harvest: China, India and the United States. In India, water tables are
falling in most states, including the Punjab, that nation's breadbasket. In
the United States, aquifers are being depleted under the southern Great
Plains and throughout the Southwest, including California.

If the world is facing a future of water shortages, then it is also facing a
future of food shortages.

To be sure, it is difficult to trace long-term trends in food production,
which fluctuates with weather, prices and the spread of farm technology to
developing countries. In one of the major economic achievements of the last
half-century, China raised its grain output from 90 million tons in 1950 to
392 million tons in 1998. Since then, though, China's production appears to
have peaked, dropping by 66 million tons, or 17 percent. (See data
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update31_data.htm.)

As a result, it seems likely that China will ultimately need to buy 30, 40
or 50 million tons of grain a year, and then it will have to turn to the
United States, which accounts for nearly half of the world's grain exports.
Imports on this unprecedented scale will create a fascinating geopolitical
situation: China, with 1.3 billion consumers and foreign exchange reserves
of $384 billion-enough to buy the entire U.S. grain harvest eight times
over-will suddenly be competing with American consumers for U.S. grain, in
all likelihood driving up food prices.

For the first time in their history, the Chinese will be dependent on the
outside world for food supplies. And U.S. consumers will realize that, like
it or not, they will be sharing their food with Chinese consumers.

Managing the flow of grain to satisfy the needs of both countries
simultaneously will not be easy because it could come amid a shift from a
world of chronic food surpluses to one of food scarcity. Exporters will be
tempted to restrict the flow of grain in order to maintain price stability
at home, as the United States did 30 years ago when world grain stocks were
at record lows and wheat and rice prices doubled. But today the United
States has a major stake in a stable China because China is a major trading
partner whose large economy is the locomotive of Asia.

The pressure on world food markets may alter the relationship between
exporting and importing countries, changing the focus of international trade
negotiations from greater access to markets for exporting countries such as
the United States to assured access to food supplies for China and the 100
or so countries that already import grain.

The prospect of food and water scarcity emerges against a backdrop of
concern about global warming. New research by crop ecologists at the
International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture indicates that a 1-degree-Celsius rise in
temperature (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above the optimum during the growing
season leads to a 10 percent decline in yields of rice, wheat and corn. With
four of the past six years being the warmest on record, grain harvests are
suffering. High temperatures lowered harvests last year in India and the
United States and scorched crops this year from France to Ukraine.

The new combination of falling water tables and rising temperatures, along
with trends such as soil erosion, has led to four consecutive shortfalls in
the world grain harvest. This year production fell short of consumption by a
record 92 million tons. These shortages have reduced world grain stocks to
their lowest levels in 30 years.

If we have a shortfall in 2004 that is even half the size of this year's,
food prices will be rising worldwide by this time next year. You won't have
to read about it in the commodity pages. It will be evident at the
supermarket checkout counter. During the fall of 2003, wheat and rice prices
rose 10 percent to 30 percent in world markets, and even more in some parts
of China. These rises may only be the warning tremors before the earthquake.

We can, however, take measures to improve world food security. We could
recognize that population growth and environmental trends threaten economic
progress and political stability just as terrorism does. Since the
overwhelming majority of the nearly 3 billion people expected to be born
during this half-century will be in countries where water tables are already
falling and wells are running dry, filling the family planning gap and
creating a social environment to foster smaller families is urgent.

The situation with water today is new, but similar to that with land a
half-century ago. Coming out of World War II, we looked toward the end of
the century and saw enormous projected growth in population but little new
land to plow. The result was a concentrated international effort to raise
land productivity; boosting the world grain yields from just over one ton
per hectare in 1950 to nearly three tons today. We now need a similar global
full-court press to raise water productivity, by shifting to more
water-efficient crops, improving irrigation and recycling urban water
supplies.

As it becomes apparent that higher temperatures are shrinking harvests and
raising food prices, a powerful new consumer lobby could emerge in support
of cutting carbon emissions by moving to a hydrogen-based economy. It is a
commentary on the complexity of our time that decisions made in ministries
of energy may have a greater effect on future food security than those made
in ministries of agriculture.

# # #

For a more detailed discussion see Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress
and a Civilization in Trouble.

Additional data and information sources at www.earth-policy.org
or contact jlarsen@earth-policy.org
For reprint permission contact rjkauffman@earth-policy.org
- posted by Daniel @ 5:38 PM

 
Great Lakes Daily News: 17 December 2003
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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2004 could be Year of the Lakes
----------------------------------------
At an Albany news conference Tuesday, a coalition of state and national
environmental groups said that 2004 will be the most important year for the
Great Lakes since the 1972 passage of the Clean Water Act. Source: Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle (12/17)


EDITORIAL: Mercury in fish
----------------------------------------
It's time for Michigan to advise its residents on high mercury levels in
some fish, including tuna. Source: Detroit Free Press (12/17)


Ice Mountain gains a reprieve
----------------------------------------
With support from Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration, a controversial
bottling plant won an emergency appeal to continue pumping spring water.
Source: Detroit Free Press (12/17)


Green law curbs sprawl in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe
----------------------------------------
Development will be banned for a year on more than 243,000 hectares of
agricultural and rural lands in Ontario ranging from Niagara Falls to Lake
Scugog while debate on the permanent greenbelt takes place. Source: The
Toronto Star (12/17)


EDITORIAL: Tug of war on Minnesota's watersheds
----------------------------------------
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is catching flak from the state's major farm
organizations over a proposal to protect soil and water in three of
Minnesota's important watersheds. Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (12/17)


COMMENTARY: Don't retreat on steel tariffs
----------------------------------------
The worst thing about the domestic steel industry collapse is how blind
we've become to the way our economic openness is being used against us.
Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press (12/17)


Minnesota hopes to waive mercury-cleanup plans for waterways
----------------------------------------
Hoping to cut costs and lessen future restrictions on developers, the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is trying to persuade the federal
government to waive potentially elaborate cleanup plans for state lakes and
rivers contaminated by mercury. Source: Duluth News Tribune (12/17)


Wolverine makes history in Ontario
----------------------------------------
A ongoing project to study wolverines in Ontario has produced the first
live-trapped and radio-collared wolverine in the province's history. Source:
The Thunder Bay-Chronicle (12/16)

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In from Earth Technology Digest on Yahoo! Groups:

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:24:36 -0600
From: "Ed Blume" eblume@renewwisconsin.org
Subject: Excellent Web video on global warming

An excellent short (~3min.) powerful video is now available via the
Web as the launch of a campaign on global warming put together by
Leonardo Dicaprio.

Just open the link and then launch the movie.
http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/globalwarninglaunch.html
- posted by Daniel @ 4:35 PM

 
Lost Fijian bird still singing and other stories
This week in California Wild: a bird scientists thought was extict sings again; an insight into the mysterious death of Alexander the Great; and the power of collective begging.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-17/s_11036.asp

E.U. insists its support for Kyoto policy unwavering
European Commission President Romano Prodi insisted the European Union's support for the Kyoto Protocol was unwavering Tuesday, after a commissioner said the E.U. must prepare for the possible failure of the global warming treaty.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-17/s_11386.asp
- posted by Daniel @ 8:38 AM

 
Great Lakes Daily News: 16 December 2003
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EPA offers 2 options on mercury
----------------------------------------
The EPA is presenting two options for reducing mercury emissions from
coal-burning power plants: one through national emissions caps and selling
clean-air "credits," the other through uniform reductions at every plant.
Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer (12/16)


Conservationists to restore major Illinois wetland
----------------------------------------
The largest wetland restoration project in the United States outside the
Florida Everglades is under way on the Illinois River, in a 10,000-acre area
known as Emiquon. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (12/16)


Cleveland Port Authority wants out of fun business
----------------------------------------
When it comes to North Coast Harbor, the Port of Cleveland would prefer to
manage all work and no play. Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer (12/16)


Wisconsin builders hope to wriggle out of protecting snake
----------------------------------------
An association of building contractors from the Milwaukee area is urging the
state to consider removing the rare Butler garter snake from a list of
species that receive special protection in Wisconsin. Source: Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel (12/15)


Ice Mountain appeals to continue water withdrawals
----------------------------------------
A Nestle subsidiary that makes Ice Mountain bottled water on Monday asked
the Michigan Court of Appeals for emergency relief from a judge's order to
stop tapping springs that are its sole water source. Source: Booth
Newspapers (12/15)


COMMENTARY: State's head-on approach will help phase out mercury emissions
----------------------------------------
While the debate continues on what is the best way for the nation to reduce
mercury emissions, Michigan is working on its own solution. Source: Detroit
Free Press (12/15)


Ferry plies uncharted waters in lake travel
----------------------------------------
A futuristic catamaran ferry now being built will whisk passengers and their
cars across Lake Michigan at speeds of 40 m.p.h., beginning in June. Source:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (12/14)


$900,000 grant a letdown for dune advocates
----------------------------------------
Hopes for a $10.7 million state grant to bring 161 beachfront acres near
Saugatuck, Mich., into the public fold mostly fizzled last week as the state
offered just a fraction of the total. Source: The Grand Rapids Press (12/11)


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World Economic Forum creates global greenhouse gas register
The World Economic Forum is creating a Global Greenhouse Gas Register to facilitate the disclosure and management by companies of their worldwide climate emissions.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-16/s_11339.asp


Russia's delay prompts E.U. to review Kyoto policy
The European Union must review its strategy of backing the Kyoto Protocol on global warming as Russian hesitations over the accord have put its implementation in doubt, the bloc's top energy official said Monday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-16/s_11332.asp


EPA goes soft on heavy metal power plant emissions
Days after a scientific panel urged the government to strongly warn pregnant women and children about mercury levels in certain fish, the Bush administration is proposing to give power plants up to 15 years to install technology to reduce mercury pollution.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-16/s_11330.asp


Supreme Court takes Cheney energy task force case
The Supreme Court said Monday it would decide whether Vice President Dick Cheney must release White House papers about the energy policy task force he headed two years ago.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-16/s_11331.asp


Clean Air-Cool Planet:
DVD to help individuals, groups take action to fight global warming


- posted by Daniel @ 8:28 AM

 
Incoming e-mail looking for help connecting with hydrogen producers:

Hello, I have developed a method that can dramatically improve
efficiency of H2 production via electrolysis.

Is anyone involved in offshore commercial hydrogen production?

Is anyone involved in residential hydrogen production units?

I need to establish contact with an organization or company involved in these endeavors.

Thank you, and please contact me at:

Steve Wait
caractacus@charter.net
- posted by Daniel @ 6:27 PM

 
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* Updated Exhibition Floorplan & List of Exhibitors
* - space is selling quickly! Sponsorship Information
* - great sponsorship opportunities still available! Registration Details
- everything you need to know to register for the conference.

Do you need more information or have questions?
Registration Questions & Sponsorship Opportunities - contact Stefanie Brown at sbrown@awea.org or (202) 383-2512
Exhibition Opportunities - contact Stephen Miner at sminer@awea.org or (202) 383-2504
Conference Program Questions - contact Sakura Emerine at semerine@awea.org or (202) 383-2540

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago, Illinois on March 28 - 31, 2004!

Stefanie Brown
Conference Manager
American Wind Energy Association
122 C Street NW, Suite 380
Washington, DC 20001

(202) 383-2512 - direct
(202) 383-2500 - main
(202) 383-2505 - fax

Web: http://www.awea.org/
Email: sbrown@awea.org

The World of Wind Energy is coming together at Global WINDPOWER 2004!
Global WINDPOWER 2004 Conference & Exhibition
March 28 - 31, 2004
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois USA
www.awea.org/global04.html
- posted by Daniel @ 6:00 PM