Monthly Archives: January 2007

Private Stewardship Grants Program

The Private Stewardship Program provides grants and other assistance on a competitive basis to individuals and groups engaged in local, private, and voluntary conservation efforts that benefit federally listed, proposed, or candidate species, or other at-risk species. Deadline: February 15th,

Report: Conservation efforts offset land lost to sprawl

54% increase in acres protected since 2000 Growing efforts to save privately owned farms, ranches and forests from industrial and residential development now preserve about as much open space each year as is lost to sprawl, according to a report

DOE Admits CO2 Sequestration Years Away In Coal-To-Fuel Plant Study

A new supplement to a Department of Energy (DOE) draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for a proposed Pennsylvania coal-to-liquid-fuel plant acknowledges that technology to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) is years away, highlighting a major flaw in the rush to develop

Want to Find a Sludge Pond?

Thanks to coalimpoundment.org youre in luck! Better find the sludge pond before it finds you!

Federal Court Orders for the First Time a Halt to New Field Trials of Genetically Engineered Crops

[Washington, DC] In a decision broadly affecting field trials of genetically engineered crops a federal district judge ruled yesterday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must halt approval of all new field trials until more rigorous environmental reviews are

Federal Court Orders for the First Time a Halt to New Field Trials of Genetically Engineered Crops

[Washington, DC] In a decision broadly affecting field trials of genetically engineered crops a federal district judge ruled yesterday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must halt approval of all new field trials until more rigorous environmental reviews are

Cool Cities Press Conference – 01.24.07 – 11AM – YMCA

COOL CITIES PRESS CONFERENCE Public came to cheer for Blacksburg! Wednesday, January 24th – 11AM YMCA Thrift Store – 1000 North Main Street ALTERNATIVE FUEL RALLY Wednesday, Jan 24th – 10:30 AM Started @ Old Annie Kays, rode to YMCA

Another Sludge Dam Breaks

This time in England At 9.24am everything was OK; at 9.25am it wasn’t. A slurry dam had burst and it just came through the village. “I should think it was at least 18in to 2ft of mud which really badly

China Releases First National Report on Climate Change

At the close of 2006, the warmest year in China since 1951, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the China Meteorological Administration, and the Chinese Academy of Science released the country’s first-ever National Assessment Report on Climate Change. The assessment,

Guitar makers band together to save vital timber

This group of guitar makers has come together in an effort to preserve the threatened Alaskan forests that provide the timber for a crucial part of their instruments. At the current rates of cutting, they say, the Sitka spruce, in

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