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Canada: This is the dirtiest oil in the world
Posted by Jeff from therealnews.com
The Guardian: What happens when the world's biggest oil companies target a northern wilderness?
The Brick Works - nature in the heart of the city
Posted by dragonden
The old Toronto Brick Works factory has been turned into a nature preserve. It\\\\\\\'s a great place to spend a few hours hiking the trails and looking at scenery. Here\\\\\\\'s some photos and information about our recent visit.
Weyerhauser: Logging and landslides - What went wrong?
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
Those fears came true last December when a monster storm barreled in from the Pacific, drenching the mountains around the Chehalis River basin and touching off hundreds of landslides. Little Mill Creek, filled with mud and debris, turned dark like chocolate syrup. More than three months passed before nearly 3,000 valley residents could drink from their taps again.
Local Nestlé water plant? Not in our town, Enumclaw says
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
For now, Nestle has taken its show down the road to Orting. There, Mayor Cheryl Temple is keeping an open mind. In her humble opinion, Enumclaw jumped the gun. "I always believe that if someone comes to town to do business, we should at least give them the respect of letting them pitch to us, and see where we go from there," she said. Her town of 6,000 needs all the jobs it can get. As for Nestle sucking it dry, and staining its landscape, Temple is not having any of that. There are laws in place to prevent that from happening. And what's this resistance to the idea of a big corporation, as if the very word were dirty to say? "Multinational?" she said. "Starbucks is multinational."
Boeing, SkyHook to build 'blimp on steroids' - for remote resource extraction
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Under the plan announced Tuesday by Boeing, based in Chicago, and Skyhook, a privately held business in Calgary, the Jess Heavy Lifter, or JHL-40, a helium-filled dirigible powered by four large helicopter-style rotors, would be designed to carry up to 40 metric tons of steel, trucks and other goods nearly 200 miles without refueling. Earth-moving equipment, steel and other cargo would be slung from the belly of the blimp-like device, intended for use in roadless areas such as northern Canada for use in petroleum, gas, diamond and metal exploration and development.
Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution
Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
On July 7, 2008, the Ecuador Constitutional Assembly - composed of one hundred and thirty (130) delegates elected countrywide to rewrite the country's Constitution - voted to approve articles for the new constitution recognizing rights for nature and ecosystems. "If adopted in the final constitution by the people, Ecuador would become the first country in the world to codify a new system of environmental protection based on rights," stated Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy
Posted by Jon from CNN
Shorter workweeks save energy.
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