State of Maryland
News
City
Hall garden flourishes: Vegetables feed
homeless at Our Daily Bread (By Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun, 6/28/09)
Urban
farmers on the rise: More grow own food to save money or control what goes into
it (By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun, 6/28/09)
Experts:
Climate change will harm bay: Some changes already apparent, politicians told (By Pamela Wood, The
Capital/Hometown Annapolis, 6/24/09)
Lawmakers
get lesson on global warming and the bay:
With House vote looming, Chesapeake serves as site for hearing (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
6/24/09)
National and
International News
Betraying the
Planet (By Paul Krugman, The New York Times - Op Ed, 6/28/09)
Obama
implores Senate to pass climate bill: House narrowly OK'd first
legislation meant to curb global warming gases (By The Associated Press as reported on
MSNBC.com, 6/27/09)
Iraqi
oil contracts to be auctioned in live TV 'game show': More than 30 energy companies, including
BP, Shell and ExxonMobil will be forced to tussle for contracts worth billions. (By Rowena Mason, The [UK] Telegraph, 6/26/09)
Auto-ban:
German town goes car-free: Vauban hopes to forge a model community
without that great staple of modern life - the car. Now the sound of birdsong
has replaced the roar of traffic and children can play in the street
(By Tony Paterson, The [UK] Independent, 6/26/09)
Climate
bill showdown: Obama, Dems pressing hard (By H. Josef
Herbert and Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press as reported on Yahoo News,
6/25/09)
Japan
Backpedals on Emissions Targets
(By Noah Buhayar, The Wall Street Journal - Blogs - Environmental Capital,
6/25/09)
Limits
on Emissions Have Wide Support (By Steven Mufson and Jennifer Agiesta, The Washington Post, 6/25/09)
Eco-Friendly
Bamboo Bicycles Ready To Take Off: CSU Grad Students Say They've Created The Bicycle
Of The Future (By
Christin Ayers, The Denver Channel - KMGH Channel 7 News, 6/24/09)
Air
has elevated cancer risk in 600 neighborhoods (By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press as reported on Yahoo News,
6/24/09)
GE
to bring research center, 1,200 jobs to metro Detroit (By John Gallagher,
The Free Press, 6/24/09)
Microsoft
Offers To Monitor Your Home Power Usage (By Preethi Dumpala, The Business
Insider, 6/24/09)
Climate Bill Set
for Vote After Deal Is Reached (By Ian Talley and Siobhan Hughes, The Wall
Street Journal, 6/24/09)
Deep
in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears (By James Glanz, The New York
Times, 6/23/09)
Energy
Bill Unfinished, but Vote Nears (By John M. Broder, The New York Times,
6/23/09)
The Green
Revolution(s) (By Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times - Op Ed, 6/23/09)
Powerful
Ideas: Miles-High Kites Could Generate Electricity (By Charles Q. Choi,
Live Science as reported by Yahoo News, 6/22/09)
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