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Are GM Crops Killing Bees?

A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.

Monbiot: Biofuels A Lethal Solution

If we want to save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels Oil produced from plants sets up competition for food between cars and people. People - and the environment - will lose. By George Monbiot.

Hansen: Don't build coal plants

WASHINGTON - One of the world’s top climate scientists called for an end to building new coal-fired power plants in the United States because of their huge role in spewing out greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

Video: Speech of Economic Hit Man John Perkins

Wants to make corporations democratic, uses Rain Forest Action Network as examle.

Portland Peak Oil Task Force urges strong and immediate action

86 page pdf dated March 2007 by the City of Portland, Oregon.

Climate change chaos closer

 

Environmental Toxicants and Developmental Disabilities

American Psychologist, June 2005 Susan M Koger, Ted Schettler, Bernard Weiss

Long Range Transit Open Houses

Several events

Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Introduced

Bill would forever ban logging, oil exploration and other development on 23 million acres across the Northern Rockies

Arctic sea ice melting faster than most scientists project

Arctic sea ice is melting three times faster than many scientists have projected, U.S. researchers reported Monday, just days ahead of the next major international report on climate change.

Wasatch Community Gardens trying to buy land

Here is a html version of the press release which their web site has as a microsoft word document.

Westminster College Climate Commitment

Westminster has become a Charter Signatory of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, and will work toward carbon neutrality in the college’s operations.

Socialist Position on Climate Change

From Socialist Alliance, Australia

Design Cities for People

Chapter of downloadable book by Lester Brown

Volunteers needed to call Wasco County

Here is a call from the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.

Utah joins Climate Registry

 

California Rebate Rules Chill Sales of Solar

Solar panel installers penalized by utility rate structure

Global Warming Suspicions and Confusions

 

Ethanol Demand Drives up Price of Tortillas in Mexico

 

Energy Alternatives for Today and Tomorrow

Report by the Salt Lake League of Women Voters

Transition to arid climate imminent

Water Scarcity in South West

Who Killed the Honeybees?

Informative roundtable discussion

Protect Wind Power

call your rep Bishop/Cannon/Matheson

Global warming 3 times faster than worst predictions

Article in the Independent, UK

Sign Avaaz Petition for G8+5 Summit

The number of signatures is already phenomenal, this initiative promises to make a difference. Signatures from US citizens are especially valuable. "Let's make their jaws drop."

America's great drought

In the South-West of the United States, the movement towards perpetual drought by the middle of the century is already underway.

Army to triple germ war tests in UT

Dramatic expansion of biological warfare testing.

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance needs volunteers

Sort documents for legal briefs agains coal mining

Action Alert Nevada Coal-Fired Power Plants

 

National Renewable Energy Standard

How to express your opinion

Did you get sick living near oil or gas wells or compressors?

 

Plumus Disappearus

Letter to the Editor sent by Ivan Weber to the SL Tribune

Support Governor Huntsman's Climate Change Efforts

Certain state legislators are working to oppose Governor Huntsman's recent decision to join the Western Climate Initiative. They are considering plans to pass a resolution negating his action in the 2008 legislative session.

Salt Lake City Council considering new stream ordinance

 

Forecast for Solar Power: Sunny

 

One Million Trees for One Million People

Tree planing initiative in SL County

Arctic Ice Loss Shattered Records

 

Concentrating Solar for All US Electricity

 

Write Letters and Emails for Tree Utah

 

Post-Doc for Western Water Assessment

 

Quagga Mussels Invade the Colorado River

Glen Canyon Institute Newsletter

UNLV Launches Urban Sustainability Initiative

 

Unsustainable Development puts Humanity at Risk

 

CO2 sequestration project in Utah

SLC Tribune article Nov 15 2007

Utah on forefront of 'CO 2 sequestration' project

Putting a lid on global warming Salt Lake Tribune article by By Brian Maffly and Judy Fahys Nov 16 2007

Google to invest in renewable energy

In a move to shake up the nascent renewable energy industry, Google announced Tuesday it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing new solar and wind technologies while investing in green tech startups.goog

U of U Study about West Bench Development

 

Rachel: All Eggs in CCS Basket

Energy Bill contains "no plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to any substantial degree. Obviously we are painting ourselves into a corner -- the longer we delay making the needed reductions, the more drastic the required reductions become. When Congress finally acts, it will be in response to an emergency that the U.S. has intentionally created."

Lovelock, Prophet of Climate Change

Rolling Stone article about Climate Catastrophe and James Lovelock

Big Oil Blog by University of Utah Student

Debunking Green Advertising and Press Releases by the Oil Companies.