‘One million jobs in wind power’ by 2010

One million people will be employed in the world wind-power industry by the end of the decade, despite the impact of the financial crisis, it was forecast today.
Amid predictions that the world would need to install one new turbine every 25 minutes to reach global renewables targets, energyexperts at a green summit in Abu Dhabi said [...]

Sweden’s Sweeping Green Roofed Hillside City

by Mike Chino

Nestled beneath an undulating series of rolling green roofs, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects New Heden project transforms a vacant city block is a self-contained sustainable city interspersed with cycling paths and walkways. Envisioned as a “green lung” for Gothenburg, Sweden, the development will introduce a beautiful expanse of fresh green space to an area currently consumed by parking lots and football [...]

Viewpoint: The Low-Carbon Diet. Change your light-bulbs? Or your car? If you want to fight global warming, it’s time to consider a different diet.

By Mike Tidwell
 I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. I worship slow-cooked, hickory-smoked pig meat served on a bun with extra sauce and coleslaw spooned on top. My carnivore’s lust goes beyond the DNA level. It’s in my soul. Even the cruelty of [...]

The Wick | She Will be Missed |Two Stories, Video & Poll | LFP | POV

Today’s LFP Poll: In your view which describes the Brunswick Hotel?  (The Wick)
1-Shabby old eyesore that needs to be knocked down
2-Historic property that deserves protection
http://www.lfpress.com/newsstand/News/Local/
Thanks to Barry Wells for all of his hard work on trying to save our Wick.
She will be missed.
VIDEO: [Features Musician | Artist Andy Paquet of 'The Disgusticons' & other Wick [...]

Reminder | Reverse Trick or Treat | This year – they are free …

Second Annual
Reverse Trick-or-Treating in Canada
This Halloween, it is young people who will be giving treats to adults!
Join us!
A pleasant surprise will greet nearly a quarter million people distributing candy at their door, when youth reverse the Halloween tradition to hand adults a sample of Fair Trade chocolate.
The chocolate will [...]

zero waste community | the guardian

waste community means sorting the rubbish 34 ways Japanese village’s strict recycling regime looks to a future free of incinerators and landfill
·    Justin McCurry in Kamikatsu
·    The Guardian
It was not that long ago that life in Kamikatsu revolved around the state of the rice crop and the number of tourists arriving to soak in the [...]

THE MORAL CLIMATE

http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_moral_climate.080901.htm
By Carl Safina
What most distresses me is the thirty years we’ve wasted by asking people to live sustainably. In high school in the early 1970s, having grappled with terrible air pollution, oil embargoes, and the tyranny of Big Energy, we knew we needed more economical and efficient cars, we knew we were vulnerable to unsavory [...]

The drowning child and the expanding circle | Peter Singer

As the world shrinks, so our capacity for effective moral action grows.
Peter Singer indicates how this may change our lives.
To challenge my students to think about the ethics of what we owe to people in need, I ask them to imagine that their route to the university takes them past a [...]

Break the Bottled Water Habit

On average, tap water costs U.S. taxpayers 0.2 cents per gallon – which is roughly 750-2,700 times cheaper than bottled water on a per gallon basis, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA has also found most of this water to be very safe. Over 90 percent of U.S. municipal [...]

We must green the market | true environmental costs

We must green the market
Everywhere we look, the prices of goods don’t reflect the  of their production

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THOMAS HOMER-DIXON AND STEWART ELGIE
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
August 6, 2008 at 8:13 AM EDT
Modern capitalist markets are among the most amazing institutions humankind has ever created. [...]