 Organizers plan for second big climate change protest
(The Addison Independent: Thu, 18 Oct) 10/18/07 By MEGAN JAMES ADDISON COUNTY — Before moving to East Middlebury last year, Jeff Jones lived in the Caribbean, where he ran a food distribution company for the Turks and Caicos. It was there, a stone’s throw from the main island’s electricity plant, which ran on low-grade diesel fuel, that he first started tracking the peak oil crisis. “The plant was a mile and a half away and ...
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 Not 'Peak Oil,' but Lots More Oil
(Accuracy In Media: Tue, 16 Oct) There was an interesting news item out of Moscow in late September, to which most people probably paid little heed.
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 Environmental film fest comes to Davis
(The Daily Democrat: Thu, 18 Oct) Join Tuleyome and the Sierra Club Yolano Group as they host the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Tour at the Veteran's Memorial Center at 7 p.m. Thursday.
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 Flavell:
(Driver Licensing: Thu, 18 Oct) I am told that down town in Papatoetoe, there's a project called Street Talk which is literally getting out on the streets, helping people to be safe. We're not talking sexual health, we're not talking child welfare; the safety brand that Manukau Urban Maori Authority is promoting, is road safety.
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 Local News
(Owen Sound Sun Times: Wed, 17 Oct) Green Party candidate Shane Jolley's strong showing in Owen Sound is a "vote of confidence" that city residents believe greening initiatives should be a priority, according to a city councillor.
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 Jobs fight to the death
(Asia Times: Tue, 16 Oct) As MarketWatch.com reported, "The dollar rallied against major counterparts early on Friday, after the September employment report showed an in-line gain of 110,000 and large upward revisions of previous months."
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 Time to debate political policing
(Scoop.co.nz: Tue, 16 Oct) The public can and must debate the scope of political policing in the wake of the “anti-terrorism” Operation O-desk, says Dr Warwick Tie, sociologist with the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Massey University.
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Peak-oil conference to spotlight state of supply
