Early Monday morning dozens of concerned community members from Palm Beach County and all over the nation put their bodies on the line to halt construction of FPL’s West County Energy Center (WCEC), demanding energy efficiency, truly clean, renewable energy and a moratorium on development in south Florida. Everglades Earth… Continue reading
Starting at 10 this morning on the snowiest day of the year, five students at Ohio State began a sit-in to demand ethical standards for the purchase of wood and paper. The members of OSU Free The Planet!, a student group, vow to stay until President Gordon Gee signs an… Continue reading
http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=876 “The researchers estimated that there is a 10 percent chance that Lake Mead could be dry by 2014. They further predict that there is a 50 percent chance that reservoir levels will drop too low to allow hydroelectric power generation by 2017.” “Barnett said that the researchers chose to… Continue reading
Subject: Climate Change and Mountain Ecosystems From: “Nicky Phear” <nicky.phear@cfc.umt.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:53:41 -0700 Climate Change: Moving from Science to Solutions The Wilderness Lecture Series continues Tuesday, February 12th, from 7:00-8:30 pm in Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Dan Fagre, a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey,… Continue reading