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G8 to Poor Women: Let Them Eat Dirt
by Yifat Susskind
Last week, leaders of the world’s richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan. While President Bush and his colleagues discussed world hunger over a six-course […]

Solar Power From Saharan Sun Could Provide Europe’s Electricity, Says EU
by Alok Jha
A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe’s carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun.
Dwarfed by any of the north African nations, it represents an […]

Commercially Engineered Bees Spread Disease to Wild Bees
by Will Dunham
WASHINGTON - Disease spread to wild bees from commercially bred bees used for pollination in agriculture greenhouses may be playing a role in the mysterious decline in North American bee populations, researchers said on Tuesday.
Bees pollinate numerous crops, and scientists have been expressing alarm over their […]

A Generational Challenge to Repower America
by Al Gore
This speech was given July 17 at the D.A.R. Constitutional Hall
Ladies and gentlemen:
There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a present danger. In such moments, we are called upon to […]

Climate Report Calls For Green “New Deal”
by Jeremy Lovell
LONDON - The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to tackle the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, a British think-tank said on Monday.
“A New Green Deal“, a report issued by the New Economics Foundation, uses the […]

Destroying Wetlands Could Unleash “Carbon Bomb”
by Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON - The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon […]

Lina Newhouser, CommonDreams.org Co-Founder, 1951-2008
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Lina Jeanne Newhouser, 56, of Seal Cove Lane, died at her home Friday evening from complications following an April stem-cell transplant as part of the treatment in her defiant 3-year stand against non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Lina wrote of her long struggle on her blog - www.tellthebees.org
Lina was an […]

Texas Approves a $4.93 Billion Wind-Power Project
by Kate Galbraith
AUSTIN - Texas regulators have approved a $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project, providing a major lift to the development of wind energy in the state.
The planned web of transmission lines will carry electricity from remote western parts of the state to major population centers like Dallas, Houston, […]

Your Challenge: Eat Locally
State, county officials encourage consumption of area’s produce
by Tim Ebner
The heat did not stop Gov. Martin O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown from throwing a party yesterday on the lawn of the Governor’s Mansion. Mr. O’Malley opened his front yard to host a barbecue banquet of foods produced by Maryland’s farmers.The event […]

Voices Too Often Missing In Op-Ed Land: Women’s
by Carol Jenkins
As newspapers struggle for readership, publishers seeking to expand their market need look no further than their opinion pages to see who is missing: women.
The absence of women as op-ed writers is perhaps the most telling marker of the status of women in media. The opinion […]