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50 Ways to Help the Planet: Aug 22, 11:36am 193 reviews environment
http://www.50waystohelp.com/; Good tips, like post-its.

Transportation by the Numbers - Environmental Defense Fund: Jul 30, 10:58am 0 review environment
http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentID=8161

Energy efficiency, electricity, power plants | Salon News: Jul 27, 10:14pm 3 reviews environment, energy
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/28/energy_efficiency/; Proud to be a Californian, at least from energy efficiency perspective. From the page: "While a few states have energy-efficiency strategies, none matches what California has done. In the past three decades, electricity consumption per capita grew 60 percent in the rest of the nation, while it stayed flat in high-tech, fast-growing California. If all Americans had the same per capita electricity demand as Californians currently do, we would cut electricity consumption 40 percent. If the entire nation had California's much cleaner electric grid, we would cut total U.S. global-warming pollution by more than a quarter without raising American electric bills. And if all of America adopted the same energy-efficiency policies that California is now putting in place, the country would never have to build another polluting power plant."

DWP drops 400,000 balls onto Ivanhoe Reservoir - Los Angeles Times: Jun 11, 4:14pm 2 reviews environment
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-balls10-2008jun10,0...; So wierd. Only happens in Los Angles. From the page: "The water needs to be shaded because when sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe's water, the carcinogen bromate forms, said Pankaj Parekh, DWP's director for water quality compliance. Bromide is naturally present in groundwater and chlorine is used to kill bacteria, he said, but sunlight is the final ingredient in the potentially harmful mix."

Why the Cyclone in Myanmar Was So Deadly: Jun 11, 4:11pm 1 review environment, meteorology
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080508-AP-the-perfect_2.html; Feeling partially responsible. From the page: " "The Irrawaddy Delta is huge, and the interaction of water and land lying right at sea level allowed the tidal surge to deliver maximum penetration of sea water over land," Reeves said. "Storms like this do most of their killing through floods, with salt water being even more dangerous than fresh water." The delta had lost most of its mangrove forests along the coast to shrimp farms and rice paddies over the past decade. That removed what scientists say is one of nature's best defenses against violent storms."

India Cow Killer Bagged, but Deaths Continue : NPR: Jun 10, 9:24pm 1 review animals, environment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91310904; Holy cows vs. plastic bags, plastic bags won! From the page: "A group of very ill cows was taken to a local veterinary hospital, anaesthetized and surgically examined. It turned out, says Indian journalist Subhash Mishra, that inside their stomachs was an extraordinary number of plastic bags. "More than 50, 60 bags," per cow, he recalls. "

Stay home, read, have sex / Will insane gas prices finally pummel us into evolvi…: Jun 5, 10:23am 1 review cars, environment, oil
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/04/notes060408.DTL&f...; From the page: "It's the massive, painful spike in gas and oil prices, that most wonderful/frightening harbinger of doom/change/turmoil known to modern society that is fast turning into a calamitous global hurricane, ready to wreak havoc on just about every aspect of modern life, and that includes food and transport and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll and just about everything else that makes America, America." Mark Morford always says everything better.

City dwellers produce less carbon, report suggests - CNN.com: May 29, 8:45pm 1 review environment
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/global.warming.ap/index.html; From the page: "Each resident of the largest 100 largest metropolitan areas is responsible on average for 2.47 tons of carbon dioxide in energy consumption each year, 14 percent below the 2.87 ton U.S. average, researchers at the Brookings Institution say in a report being released Thursday." Don't think it is news. Still...

High Gas Prices GOOD for America | The Wisdom Journal: May 19, 11:12pm 6 reviews environment, peak-oil, car, fuel-efficiecy
http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/high-gas-prices/; From the page: "1. High gas prices are causing America to rethink it's dependency on foreign oil. More than one person believes that our economic engine's dependency on foreign oil is a potential threat to our national security since we import nearly 60 percent of the oil we depend on. Back in 1985, that number was 20 percent."

EDGE :: EDGE Top 100 Mammals: May 18, 10:07pm 4 reviews animals, environment, endangered-species
http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/top_100.php; From the page: "Only a third of the top 100 EDGE mammals are receiving active conservation attention. The disappearance of these species would mean the loss of a disproportionately large proportion of the world's diversity because of the evolutionary history they represent. You can find out more about the top 100 Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) mammals by following the links below."