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Peru: Forest activist murdered

Amazon environmentalist gunned down in Peru
Rhett A. Butler,
mongabay.com
March 14, 2008

After reporting a truck loaded
with mahogany
illegally logged
from the Amazon rainforest, Julio Gualberto García Agapito,
a Peruvian authority who worked to protect forests, was gunned down by Amancion
Jacinto Maque, an illegal timber operator, on February 26, 2008. He is survived
by his wife and children.

Video Footage of successful blockade of the World Biofuels Market in Brussels

Video Footage of successful blockade of the World Biofuels
Market in Brussels.

By imc gent

On Thursday March 13th, a group of international activists
successfully blocked the World Biofuels Market in Brussels.

It's On the Road!

Harnessing That Hot Pavement. By Arthur Max, AP, January 1, 2008. "If you've ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that asphalt absorbs the sun's energy.

Kyoto's Bali Successor May Be Little More Than a Carbon and Rainforest Market

Kyoto's Bali Successor May Be Little More Than a Carbon and
Rainforest Market
Paying nations to be green diverts attention from necessary
resolute actions based upon what is right and sufficient to
minimize climate change
Earth Meanders, http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/
By Dr. Glen Barry
November 12th, 2007
I have been an obstinate supporter of the Kyoto process; whose
weaknesses, including non-universal participation and

What Better Time? Issue One out now!

What Better Time? is a free news sheet from the
Scottish Climate Activist Network. Issue one is out now, get em while
they're hot (actually after the demo on Saturday they're a bit wet and
soggy).

AUST: New PM to ratify Kyoto immediately

Victorious Rudd to ratify Kyoto at once

By Peter Smith in Sydney

Published: November 25 2007 19:48 | Last updated: November 25 2007 19:48

Back to Basics in Transport Planning

This article describes how the car has come to dictate land use planning, and how getting back to our roots - where the street is about community, not speed, we can solve some other social problems too.
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Rediscovering our roots can solve 21st Century traffic woes

Gary Toth, the new Director of Transportation Initiatives at PPS and a veteran of 34
years with the New Jersey Department of Transportation, reflects on how we lost our
way in traffic planning and what we can do to get back on track.

I started at the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1973 right out of

AUST: hotter, drier future with CC

SYDNEY - Interactions between major oceans, triggered by climate change, will produce increasingly dry conditions in southern parts of Australia for decades to come, projections by the country's main science organisation show.

Further projected decreases in rainfall in southwest and southeast Australia could be arrested if carbon dioxide emission increases were halted, but a full recovery would take around 600 years, Dr Wenju Cai, a leading scientist with the government-backed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) said.

U.S.: All So You Can Have Cheap Electricity


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Three workers killed, six injured in Utah coal-mine rescue effort
[from Grist: text & comments at link]

U.S.: Blame the media for climate woes: analysis

Blame the media for climate woes: analysis

Mike De Souza
CanWest News Service

Sunday, August 05, 2007

OTTAWA - Mainstream U.S. media are to blame for stalled international efforts to reach an agreement to fight climate change, according to a new analysis released by a media watchdog group.

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