The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

World's Oil Supply May Be Past Peak
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608EA.shtml
In People and Planet, Lester Brown writes: "Globally, oil discoveries peaked in the 1960s. Each year since 1984, world oil production has exceeded new oil discoveries, and by a widening gap. In 2006, the 31 billion barrels of oil extracted far exceeded the discovery of nine billion barrels."

The World's Rubbish Dump
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608EB.shtml
Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden, of The Independent UK, report, "A 'plastic soup' of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said."

To Save a Forest: Grand Plan to Preserve Trees, Protect Climate
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020608EC.shtml
Michael Casey, of The Associated Press, writes: "For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash."