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What's Happening Today - Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008

A Look Ahead:

10/03 -	Asheville Green Drinks
10/03 -	SE Women's Herbal Conference
10/03 -	Chocolate Friday: Climate Change
10/04 -	2008 Grassroots Media Tour
10/04 -	Fruit Cocktail with a Twist
10/04 -	Biofuels Workshop
10/04 -	3rd Annual Neighborhood Congress
10/04 -	Microhydro
10/04 -	3rd Annual Asheville Neighborhood Congress
10/04 -	"Thoreau's Walden and Our Weakening Web" ~ Environmental Conservation Exhibit

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Spotlight on:

The US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction

Sustainability News

9/30 -	Scotland to build world's first 'wind farms under the sea'
9/30 -	Demonstration homes to use zero net energy
9/30 -	Waste Not, Want Not: A New Approach to Solar
9/30 -	Europe warms faster: Med drier, north even wetter
9/30 -	Queen tackles climate change by buying world's biggest wind turbine off coast of Britain
9/30 -	Wind power is blowing towards NY
9/30 -	USA First CO2 Auction Off to a Strong Start
9/28 -	FLOW: The Film that Will Change the Way You Think About Water
9/28 -	Citing cost, USDA kills pesticide-testing program
9/28 -	Climate change may be sparking new and bigger "dead zones"
9/28 -	Scientists thinking algae are fuel of the future
9/28 -	No Time to Idle
9/28 -	Meet Dave, the Man Who Never Takes Out the Trash
9/27 -	GLOBAL OVERSHOOT DAY JUST PASSED
9/27 -	UN to buy emergency food stocks from poorer farmers
9/27 -	A fragile balance - Millions of snow geese imperil fragile ecosystem
9/27 -	In Arkansas - No new coal plants until technology improves, government panel recommend
9/27 -	Bleak outlook for European Amphibians
9/26 -	Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
9/26 -	Carbon dioxide emissions rise to record again
9/24 -	Is the financial crisis more dire than the climate crisis?
9/24 -	What Kind of Return Might a $700 Billion Green Investment Deliver?
9/24 -	Worldwide Survery - Companies Must Lead Climate Change Fight - Consumers
9/24 -	Portugal Opens Pioneer Commercial Wave Power Plant
9/24 -	Gov . EASLEY ANNOUNCES STATE RECEIVES FEDERAL ENERGY GRANT
9/24 -	Energy efficiency through NC SAVE$
9/24 -	The Four Horseman of the Apocolypse - On the Threshold of Abrupt Climate Change
9/24 -	The Methane Time Bomb
9/24 -	Greenland: roar of melting glacier sounds climate change alarm
9/24 -	House passes Great Lakes Compact
9/22 -	How green is your four-day work week?
9/22 -	In India, the Nano, the 'People's Car', Stirs Popular Ire
9/22 -	For good neighbours, live in a quiet, car-free street
9/22 -	Big culprit for allergies? Evidence points to global climate change
9/22 -	Pesticides falling out of sky into our waterways
9/22 -	Catastrophic fall in numbers reveals bird populations in crisis throughout the world
9/21 -	CORALS JOIN FROGS AND TOADS AS WORLD'S MOST ENDANGERED
9/21 -	COULD THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC BE DOWN TO POLLUTION?
9/21 -	HIGH PCB EXPOSURE TIED TO DIABETES RISK
9/21 -	POLLUTION LINKED TO OBESITY, NEW STUDY FINDS
9/20 -	Hopeful Chemistry for the Climate
9/20 -	New Study - Warming World Already In Range Of Dangerous Consequences
9/20 -	Homeless Polar Bears Take to the Streets in D.C. - Global Warming Refugees Have Arrived
9/20 -	New evidence of Kimberly-Clark’s shocking mismanagement of forest resources
9/20 -	Nature Conservancy Buys Slice of Adirondacks
9/18 -	Environment: Tar sands - the new toxic investment
9/18 -	TN'S Senator Alexander: Power plants need to cut emissions further
9/18 -	Arctic Ice Melts to Second-Lowest Level - Scientists
9/18 -	Opinion: McCain-Palin Health Plan Relies on the Very Marketplace Strategy That's Crippling Our Economy
9/18 -	UK seeking CO2 trading increase- allowing more CO2 pollution
9/18 -	Sinking feeling: Hot year damages carbon uptake by plants
9/18 -	Physicists: US Could Cut Oil Use With Better Houses, Cars
9/17 -	North Eastern States Aim to Cut Gases by Making Polluters Pay
9/17 -	U.S. Judge Reverses Plan to Expand Snowmobile Access in National Parks
9/17 -	The next little thing - homes!
9/17 -	Mud, glorious mud, - homes made of earth the perfect solution for green building
9/17 -	Food Safety's Dirty Little Secret
9/17 -	EPA Lets Electronic Waste Flow Freely, GAO Report Says
9/17 -	Sustainability - A marriage of conservation, justice and sound economic policy
9/16 -	Wi-Fi electromagnetic fields pose health risk, controversy continues
9/16 -	Los Angeles Dept of Water & Power is poised to deliver energy-efficient light bulbs to every household in LAbulbs
9/16 -	New Climate Bill, Compromise Needed- Essay
9/16 -	With federal disagreement over bisphenol A, what's a parent to do?
9/16 -	Health facilities flush estimated 250M pounds of drugs a year
9/16 -	Oceans are 'too noisy' for whales

•	CIDER PRESSING AT LONG BRANCH SUNDAY SEPT. 21 1030AM! - Paul
•	Hands-on Workshop: Building a Solar Water Heater, Sept. 6-7 - Paul
•	“Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest." - Paul
•	"all true paths lead through mountains" - Paul
•	In honor of the Full Moon, an Elder's Meditation of the Day - Paul
•	Organic Red Raspberries at Long Branch are now RIPE! - Paul
•	Maitreya Speaks on Universal Law of movement and balance - Paul
•	Warning: Composting can lead to.... - Bill
•	Who Owns The Air? Who Owns the Atmosphere? - Richard
•	Message from the Whale Nation - Paul

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