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Good news! This week we have a
whole collection of interesting local news items from the Desert Sun :
"Indian Wells starts new community garden"
"Water controllers given away free by
city, agency"
"Desert should lead the way in green
technology"
"Valley's farmer's markets able to take
food stamps"
"Organic Community Garden holds
ribbon-cutting party"
"Gov. Schwarzenegger pushes green jobs
- visit to valley"
"We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change"
Al Gore, the NYT
February 27, 2010
t would be an enormous relief
if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually
indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring
large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we
know it. I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an
illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting
has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the
thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"100 Percent of Fish in U.S. Streams
Found Contaminated with Mercury"
By David Gutierrez, staff writer Natural News
March 3, 2010
n a new study conducted by the
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), every single fish tested from 291
freshwater streams across the United States was found to be
contaminated with mercury.
"This study shows just how widespread mercury pollution has become in
our air, watersheds and many of our fish in freshwater streams," said
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
"New Way of Making Solar Cells Promises
Cheaper Power "
by Art Chimes, VOA News
February 19, 2010
New design produces flexible panels using only 1-2 percent as much
silicon. A new way of making solar cells promises a cheaper way to
generate electricity from the sun and new ways to integrate solar power
into other products.
Solar cells, or photovoltaics, are widely made using wafers of silicon
that are stiff and brittle. California Institute of Technology physics
professor Harry Atwater is making photovoltaics differently.