In California, Demand Is High For Solar Energy, While Overall Housing Market Languishes

Evidence is coming in lending further wait to TDG’s predictions back in June: while the nation’s housing market continues to struggle, green building features may provide sellers with a leg up over competition. “Those builders are seeing that they’ll get more buyers coming to their developments when they have solar. They sell like hot cakes,” Bernadette del Chiaro, an energy specialist at the advocacy group Environment California, told the Los Angeles Times.

Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ban Ki-moon: The Axis of Action

Former Vice President Al Gore, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had a unifying message for the largest summit on global warming ever convened: Do something. And do it now.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Creating “national parks of the sea” may be the only effective way to reverse trends that have left 76 percent of world fish stocks fully- or over-exploited and marine biodiversity at severe risk, according to the new report, Oceans in Peril: Protecting Marine Biodiversity, released today by the Worldwatch Institute.

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
Sun Sep 23, 2:35 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Climate scientist Michael Mann runs down the list of bad global warming news: The world is spewing greenhouse gases at a faster rate. Summer Arctic sea ice is at record lows. The ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica are melting quicker than expected.

While studies to date have been less than definitive, critics say that the increases in electronic magnetic "pollution" have been coupled with an insufficient knowledge of the health risks over the long term. (Frank Polich/Bloomberg)

By Doreen Carvajal
Published: September 23, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A trio of climate change meetings in the United States this week will focus attention on how Washington can deliver on its pledge to play a lead role in combating global warming.
The central issue is how to curb the emission of climate-warming greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants and petroleum-fueled vehicles, and whether to make the goals mandatory or "aspirational" as the White House has proposed.

An iceberg melts off Ammassalik Island in eastern Greenland, part of a record retreat of Arctic sea ice.

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Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada: Vegetarian Diets
J Am Diet Assoc. 2003 Jun;103(6):748-65.

In their 2003 Position Paper on vegetarian diets, the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada state:

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LAFAYETTE, La. -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide within six months whether the Louisiana black bear needs 3 million acres of "critical habitat" to further protect the species listed as threatened.

The agency proposed doing so in 1993, but landowners and politicians opposed it as a needless layer of red tape that would violate landowner rights.