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Wildlife Brings £4.8 Billion to the UK Economy - Study
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LA's Ballona Wetlands Now Protected (CA)
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Historic Waterford, VA, Farm Protected
The Trust for Public Land
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ACEEE's Tips for Gifts that Keep on Giving
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
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Prestigious Getty Prize Awarded to Five Conservation Leaders
WWF-US Communications
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How to Reduce the Psychological Source of our Disturbed and Disturbing Relationships
Project NatureConnect, Institute of Global Education
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Green Business Network Translates Its Small-Business Guide into Spanish
GreenBiz.com
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Science into Policy: GreenFacts releases 2003 Conference Proceedings
GreenFacts Foundation
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Wanted: Records Related to Lobbying Blitz Hatched by Bush Administration and Energy Industry Officials
Natural Resources Defense Council
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NWF Takes Legal Action to Ensure Wolf Recovery in the Northeast
National Wildlife Federation
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Trout Unlimited Releases Fish Hatchery Reform Report
Trout Unlimited - Western Conservation Office
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Lomborg's Vindication Improves Chances for Sound Science to be Heard in Policy Debate
Competitive Enterprise Institute
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TPL Works With Potential Gardens Buyer (FL)
The Trust for Public Land
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Agreement to Protect Brainerd Lakes Forests (MN)
The Trust for Public Land
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Donation Helps Protect MN Bluffland
The Trust for Public Land
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New Study Uncovers Long Term, Unanticipated Damage from Oil Spills
Natural Resources Defense Council
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New Hybrid Vehicle Will Enable US Scientists to Reach Deepest Parts of the World Ocean Floor
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Friends of the National Zoo Names Thomas D. LaRock Executive Director
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- posted by Daniel @ 2:33 AM

 
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Consumers prefer locally grown food, survey says
Three-quarters of respondents in a new survey say they reach for locally grown foods first. The study, conducted by researchers at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, polled consumers in 10 U.S. states.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11550.asp

Green cotton and green cameras: ask EarthTalk
This week in EarthTalk: how to identify organic cotton, and the environmental difference between digital and analog cameras.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11549.asp

In Asia, pollution spreads as economies boom
Every two years, Indonesia loses about 15,500 square miles of forest, an area roughly the size of Switzerland, to rapacious logging.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11557.asp

Major earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city
More than 5,000 people were killed and up to 30,000 others injured Friday in a devastating dawn quake in southeast Iran. The government rushed to provide assistance to the thousands of people who were left without shelter in the winter cold.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11555.asp

Australians urged to try kangaroo for holiday meals
Forget turkey and mince meat pies. This season, Australians are being urged to serve native foods such as smoked kangaroo with wild lime and brandy sauce and wattle seed pavlova.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11552.asp

Four dead in California mudslides; rescuers search for missing
Searchers slogging through waist-high muck found four people dead Friday and looked for at least 12 others missing after mudslides engulfed two camps in the San Bernardino Mountains.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11556.asp

Bush paves way for logging in Tongass
The Bush administration opened 300,000 more acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest on Tuesday to possible logging or other development.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11545.asp

EPA sets new pollution standards for two-wheelers
The Environmental Protection Agency set the first new emission standards for highway motorcycles in 25 years, and the first standards for small scooters and mopeds.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11546.asp

Cactus moth eating its way across South
Native to South America, the gray-brown moth is a minor pest in the Southeast, dining on ornamentals and a few native species. But it could cause economic and environmental havoc in the American Southwest and in Mexico, which is where it is headed.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11548.asp

Parched South Africa sets plan to fight drought
South Africa has drawn up an emergency program to help farmers and rural poor cope with a drought which is expected to slash key crops such as corn and sugar cane, a government ministry said Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11551.asp
- posted by Daniel @ 2:22 AM

 
Last Breath:

The Oil Demons breathed their last breath,
It was thunderous rejoicing,
Children need not die in the sands,
In the streets or in the far countryside,
Winter could someday come back home to stay,
Poison could leave the land and lakes and seas,
In the silence of golden sunlight,
In the peace wrought of whirling white blades,
In the bountiful cascade of rolling waters,
In the field of golden harvests,
The treasures of gold and heart,
Home again to stay, to stay,
And once the people finally believed,
That was when the monsters were no longer needed,
And we could all walk closer to what God gave us,
Even though it took so much horror and filth to understand,
Cleanliness IS next to Godliness,
Just expand the concept,
Because the entire world is your home.

AquarianM

By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 12/24/2003

Author's Comments:
My biggest Christmas wish is that people will truly see what oil is doing
to us and add their voices to the clamor for a clean life and world. It's
worth it!
- posted by Daniel @ 4:54 AM

 
New from Wired News: Nuclear Fusion Plant; But Where?
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61685,00.html
- posted by Daniel @ 9:02 PM

 
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Great Lakes Daily News: 23 December 2003
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Northland waterways added to pollution list
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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has added seven lakes and portions of
nine Lake Superior basin rivers and creeks to its list of 912 polluted state
waters. Source: Duluth News Tribune (12/23)


Environmentalists, officials concerned about U.P. drilling plans
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The prospect of an Upper Peninsula mine generating dangerous acids has state
regulators and activists hustling to learn about a mining method rare in
Michigan. Source: Detroit Free Press (12/23)


State of progress
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States are moving ahead on renewable energy reform, and Minnesota is one of
the leaders. Source: Earthwatch Radio (12/23)


EPA rules could increase smog from cars 50%
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Smog from cars would grow by more than half in Chicago under a newly
proposed USEPA clean-air standards, according to the Washington-based
advocacy group Environmental Defense. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (12/23)


Soot on snow plays a role in global warming, study says
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Soot produced mostly from diesel engines may have caused up to 25 percent of
global warming over the past century, with its biggest effect in northern
climates, top NASA scientists said Monday. Source: Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel (12/23)


Drop-off on Duluth docks
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The former EVTAC plant is expected to shortly resume generating taconite
pellets for loading at Duluth Harbor, but the the benefits for the facility
may be short-lived. Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press (12/23)


Uncertain future in changes
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After two years of malaise in many areas of the northern Minnesota's
economy, recent events and data point to positive change. But behind the
numbers, residents have varying views on the region's challenges and
opportunities. Source: Mesabi Daily News (12/23)


Bankruptcy court OKs Rouge sale to Russian steelmaker
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A federal bankruptcy judge on Monday approved the sale of Rouge Industries
Inc.'s assets to Russian steelmaker Severstal. Source: Detroit Free Press
(12/22)


EDITORIAL: Stop soaking Ontario
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Ontario is finally acting to get a handle on large-scale giveaways of water,
with the enactment of a moratorium on new commercial water-taking permits.
Source: The Toronto Star (12/22)


Wisconsin weather will match Arkansas
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A retired UW-Madison professor predicts that Wisconsin summers will be an
average of 18 degrees warmer than they are now, unless steps are taken to
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Source: The Capital Times (12/22)


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- posted by Daniel @ 4:20 PM

 
From ENN Environmental News Network
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Wind energy investment options are starting to fly
As the fastest-growing energy source in the world, abundant, safe, reliable and renewable wind power seems like a very promising investment opportunity. But no U.S.-based wind power companies are publicly traded.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_9206.asp

Diesel soot is big factor in global warming
Soot mostly from diesel engines is blocking snow and ice from reflecting sunlight, which is contributing to "near worldwide melting of ice" and as much as a quarter of all observed global warming, top NASA scientists say.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11529.asp

U.S. government considers new fuel economy standards for SUVs
The Bush administration is looking at making larger SUVs, such as the Hummer H2, Ford Excursion and GMC Suburban, and large pickup trucks comply with federal fuel economy standards for the first time.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11528.asp

Germans turn waste to energy
Germany has only a small amount of its own natural oil reserves, but an enterprising power plant chief believes it has found an alternative source of energy with a bright future in an aging nation: used incontinence pads.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11525.asp

World Bank tells Thailand to clean up
Thailand can save millions of dollars in collection and disposal costs if it produces less garbage, but the country's booming economy is likely to result in more trash, according to a World Bank report released Monday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11531.asp

Creating new wetlands not so easy to do
But critics say that while it's not that hard to create a wet patch of ground, duplicating the biological richness and productivity of a natural wetland is difficult. And often, the manmade wetlands are far from the natural sites they were designed to replace.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11532.asp

Fishing for a low-mercury dinner
Fish are heart-healthy, and most people should eat more. But fish also can contain mercury, and too much mercury can harm brain cells, especially in the very young.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11530.asp

Philippine mudslide death toll rises, hope fades
Heavy rain threatened to trigger more mudslides and floods in the central Philippines on Monday, compounding a disaster that has buried villages and killed scores of people in an area stripped of trees by illegal logging.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11526.asp

Earthquake rocks California coast
A powerful earthquake struck central California Monday, crushing two women to death in a cascade of rubble and causing high-rise buildings from San Francisco to Los Angeles to sway ominously.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-23/s_11527.asp

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

The Trust for Public Land:
LA's Ballona Wetlands Now Protected (CA)

The Trust for Public Land:
Historic Waterford, VA, Farm Protected

IUCN - The World Conservation Union:
Wildlife Brings £4.8 Billion to the UK Economy - Study
- posted by Daniel @ 4:08 PM

 
Great Lakes Daily News: 22 December 2003
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Toronto kickstarts recycling initiative
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Ontario appears to be ready to take more steps to protect the environment,
diverting 60 percent of the province's garbage from landfills within the
next five years. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (12/22)


Michigan bill targets invasive fish species
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People who release invasive aquatic species such as bighead carp or
snakefish into state waters could go to prison for five years and pay as
much as $250,000 in fines, under a bill approved last week by the Michigan
House. Source: The Detroit News (12/22)


North Bass Island braces for change
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Some on Ohio's North Bass Island fear that a state initiative to preserve it
by purchasing most of the land there will alter their lives for the worse.
Source: The Toledo Blade (12/22)


EDITORIAL: Toronto Port Authority adrift in a storm
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Toronto is Canada's largest city, but as a commercial port, it's a minnow.
So why does it need a federal port authority? Source: The Toronto Star
(12/22)


Creating new wetlands not so easy to do
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Newsday (12/22)
Wetlands mitigation is gaining popularity as a way to promote development
while protecting the environment, but critics say artificial wetlands are
poor substitutes for the natural ones they are built to replace. Source:


Worrisome fish find raises spectre of invasive species in Great Lakes
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A species of Asian carp discovered in Lake Ontario has again raised the
spectre of invasive species in Canada as authorities across the country
struggle to keep various imported pests at bay. Source: Canadian Press
(12/21)


Selective mooring measure proposed
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A Michigan lawmaker is proposing legislation to benefit lakefront property
owners by banning others from mooring boats in Great Lakes waters off their
land. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (12/21)


The greening of Ontario
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The Ontario Liberals are working overtime on painting their government green
in an attempt to return the province to the days when its environmental
reputation was recognized around the world. Source: The Toronto Star (12/20)


Town officials sound off on fringe development
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A proposal to limit development within a fringe area around La Crosse, Wisc.
will prevent farmers from retiring and selling their farms for development,
town officials have said. Source: La Crosse Tribune (12/19)


EDITORIAL: Firm position protecting lake is right approach
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A resolution passed unanimously by the Ohio House of Representatives shows
that state lawmakers are standing firm in their opposition to siphoning
water from Lake Erie. Source: The Fremont News-Messenger (12/19)

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- posted by Daniel @ 2:22 AM

 
***** International Conference- Water India 4- Water Resources Development- Flood
Control, Irrigation, Drinking Water, Waterways, Hydro Electric Power and its
Transmission System *****
February 3- 4, 2004; Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi. INDIA.

www.IndiaCore.com announces the International Conference- 'Water India 4
- Water Resources Development - Flood Control, Irrigation, Drinking Water, Waterways,
Hydro Electric Power and its Transmission System'.


>>>> Conference Topics <<


- Sustainable Water Resources Development- Especially in Developing Countries
- Inter-State Water Resources Development Schemes- Problems and Solutions
- Drinking Water, Ground Water & Waste Water Management Issues
- Water Quality & Health Aspects
- Navigation, Inland Waterways Transport
- Flood Control Management, Irrigation & Role of Dams
- Necessity of Storage/ Large & Small Dams- Their Design and Management
- Hydro Power Potential Development & Opportunities
- Role of Private Sector in Various Development Projects
- Developer's Responsibilities and Government Role
- Environment & Social Aspects- Rehabilitation & Resettlement
- Legal and Legislative Issues
- Role of Satellite & other Communication equipments
- Financing Issues and Role Of Financial Agencies
- Restructuring Of Power System, Privatization Of Transmission & Distribution
System


>>>> Participation <<


The Conference would offer a unique opportunity of two days full of informative
and innovative conference sessions, and many networking opportunities. It would
provide direct access to policy makers, decision taking authority, planners and
senior executives in the Water Industry and various utilities as also manufacturers
& consultants.

The earlier Conferences in the biannual series on Water India were well received.
Delegates from both developed and developing countries participated in these
conferences and discussed technological advancement that had taken place in the
area of water resources development.

The Hon'ble Union Minister of Power and Union Minister of Water Resources, Government
of India have been invited to address the delegates. Hon'ble Minister of State
for Power, Government of India- Smt. Jayawanti Mehta has confirmed her participation.
Several leading players have already confirmed their participation. Some of the
prominent speakers are:

- Prof Raymond Lafitte, President, International Hydro Power Association, Switzerland
- Ms Alison Bartle, Editor, Hydropower & Dams, UK
- Mr Francois Lemperiere, Chairman, Hydrocoop (Hydro-Cooperation), France
- Dr. H.R.Sharma, Adviser on Water & Energy, Ministry of Public Utilities, Mauritius
- Mr C V J Verma, President, ICOLD & Member, CIGRE

IndiaCore.com invites your participation in the Conference. The participation
fee is Rs 7500 per participant for participants from India & SAARC Countries
and US$ 300 per participant for participants from other Countries. Registered
Users of www.IndiaCore.com & some other categories are eligible for discounted
Delegate Registration Rates. All participants including authors have to register
to attend the Conference. Please note that funds are not available to sponsor
participation, travel or lodging expenses.

For further details & online registration, please visit

http://www.indiacore.com/ic-conf/10-feb2004-cpu-water-india/index.html

To confirm your participation please send us your contact details alongwith your
registration fee through Cheque/ Draft drawn in favor of 'International Publications
& Information Services' payable at New Delhi, India. International delegates
can send the fees through SWIFT transfer (electronic transfer) in our Bank account
or through draft or through Western Union transfer. In case of a SWIFT transfer,
please contact us for our Bank Account details.

We would request you to confirm your participation at the earliest. For any clarifications,
please feel free to write to us at ipis@vsnl.net or contact us at
Tel: +91- +11- 2554 2551/ 5158 9329. We look forward to your participation in the Conference.

Thanks & Best Regards

Priya Kapoor (Ms)
www.IndiaCore.com
email: ipis@vsnl.net / ipis@bol.net.in / info@IndiaCore.com
Address: International Publications & Information Services
114 B, Jaina Tower II, District Centre, Janak Puri,
New Delhi 110 058. INDIA.

PS: Please help circulate wherever appropriate. If you know of other people who
would be interested in this Conference, please forward them this email or send
them the following website address for details: www.IndiaCore.com.

Thanks!!!
- posted by Daniel @ 2:02 PM