 Pacific students screen 'Crude Awakening'
(The Hillsboro Argus: Tue, 27 Nov) FOREST GROVE - On Nov. 18, Pacific University's Students for Environmental Activism club and the group Washington County Peak Oil showed the film "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" on the Pacific campus.
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 Special Reports
(Online Journal: Fri, 30 Nov) The Safe-World is somewhere in the suburbs, ringed with layers of defense: lawns, fences, homeowners associations, bands of strip malls, interstate highways, contract security, cops, the oceans, the aircraft carriers and nuclear armed submarines . . .
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 Panel will discuss oil Wednesday
(The Daily Star: Fri, 30 Nov) A regional environmental group is sponsoring a panel discussion on energy issues at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta.
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 Get out of your box alternative calendar
(Asheville Citizen-Times: Fri, 30 Nov) Out of the Box is a calendar of alternative events. Want to submit an item? Send information at least two weeks before publication to Communitynews@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Sorry, we can't take information over the phone.
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 HopeDance Marks 10 Years
(Santa Barbara Independent: Thu, 29 Nov) In the first essay of Sustainability: Radical Solutions Inspiring Hope , environmental writer Derrick Jensen makes an urgent comparison between the Holocaust and the death — by dams — of salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
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 Commodity prices leap in October
(Investment Executive: Wed, 28 Nov) This year has turned out to be a favourable one for resource producers, with overall commodity prices up 17.1% year-over-year in October and 10.6% in the year-to-date.
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 Never enough gold jewelry
(Asia Times: Wed, 28 Nov) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph.co.uk reports that the US Academy of Sciences calculates that "some 26% of all the copper and 19% of all the zinc that ever existed in the earth's crust has already been lost to mankind, mostly wasted in milling or smelting or buried in landfills."
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Renewable energy expert sees room for improvement
