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Monday, October 5, 2009

E85 Ethanol no Cure for Gas Emissions: Report

Winnipeg Free Press - By: David Akin - 3/10/2009

Feds warned of promoting its use...

Please also read "Bursting the Ethanol Bubble" here.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Don’t Squeeze the Old Growth Forest

Worldwatch Institute - 2009-09-25

Yesterday, the Washington Post drew attention to a battle being waged to shift how we wipe our...

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Climate Change Will Hit Agriculture in Developing Countries - UN

CP - ONLINE EDITION - By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - 30/09/2009

ROME - A U.N. agency warns that the climate change will badly affect agriculture and hit developing nations hardest, leading to...

Lions at Risk

Winnipeg Free Press - Se 30'09

In this photo taken last week, a male lion is seen in Masai Mara National Park in Kenya. Kenyan wildlife officials say the country's 2,000 lions are at grave risk because of recurrent drought and a pesticide that conservationists blame for 76 poisoning deaths of the predator since 2001.

RICCARDO GANGALE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feds' Biofuel Fund Backs Husky, Methes Plants

MB Co-Operator - 9/29/2009

A federal biofuels incentive fund has

followed through on its contribution agreements to support one of the Prairies' major ethanol...

Wheatfield.
l.p. photo

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Editor's note: Once again, you and I are shelling out our taxpayer dollars for the privilege of exacerbating world hunger, diverting ever-more food from human beings into machines! Way to go, Stephen! l.p.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

US Inertia Could Scupper World Climate Deal in Copenhagen - Expert

David Adam, environment correspondent - guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 Se. '09

Leading climate scientist criticizes Bush administration & points to general ignorance of global....