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(Spooner Advocate: Thu, 06 Mar) The one-day forum “Bio-Energy and Beyond: Local Solutions in our Backyard” will be held on Saturday, March 29 in Rice Lake. The forum will feature a keynote speaker and a two-track breakout session system: an agricultural track and a community solutions track.

10 Plus: Megan Quinn Bachman
(Greensboro News & Record: Sun, 02 Mar) Megan Quinn Bachman came to Greensboro on a crusade of sorts last week, to talk about peak oil, the notion that the world's supply of oil is dipping toward empty. But the 25-year-old Ohio native is not all doom and gloom as she talks to Jeri Rowe. (Credit: "")

Heralding The End Times
(The New York Sun: Wed, 05 Mar) James Howard Kunstler is very much a man of his time — a crankish autodidact with a deep and abiding distaste for all things newfangled, who also happens to be a blogger, and a very entertaining one at that. If you've ever felt plagued by the profound stupidity of others, you'll find a kindred spirit in Mr. Kunstler, who is one of the most gifted "haters" you'll ever have the good fortune to ...

Shootings partly stem from modern culture
(The Daily Beacon: Tue, 04 Mar) Tell me that school shootings and campus area violence have nothing to do with car smashing events and fraternity boxing nights. I’m convinced there is a link between pleas for gun-carry laws and smash-fests (double meaning intended).