http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040208R.shtml
Truthout's Kelpie Wilson writes: "On April Fools' Day, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming invited executives from the five biggest US oil companies to answer questions about high gas prices, oil company profits and the future of oil. Even the most hard-hitting questioners, however, failed to pin the execs down on the real issue, which is how to convince an oil industry that is running up against absolute supply limits to switch gears and invest resources in what Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Washington) called the 'clean energy revolution.'"
Roy Morrison | Renewable Energy Hedges
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040208EA.shtml
In Policy Innovations, Roy Morrison writes: "The pursuit of sustainability in the 21st century will equate economic growth with ecological improvement, not ecological destruction. The ecosphere is humanity's home, not a temporary hotel that we trash with impunity before moving on. Sustainability means equilibrating human conduct with the health and dynamics of the ecosphere, to maintain conditions favorable for life. Humanity's existence and future depend upon it."
Betting the Farm
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040208EB.shtml
According to Sam Hurst in Gourmet Magazine, "Late last autumn, Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was furious. After a year of hearings, staff work, and backroom bargaining, he had finally pushed a bipartisan farm bill out of committee. But before a single word had been spoken in debate on the Senate floor, President Bush had labeled the $286 billion proposal a budget buster and threatened a veto."
Women Rise Up to Tackle the Water Crisis
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040208EC.shtml
Rhyen Coombs, World Pulse, interviews Melinda Kramer, founding director of the Women's Earth Alliance in Berkeley, California. Coombs writes, "The Women's Earth Alliance unites environmental advocates working to solve problems like water access and sanitation in their communities, by providing connections, resources and training."
Truckers Disrupt Traffic to Protest Fuel Prices
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040208LA.shtml
Janet McGurty of Reuters reports: "US truckers caused minor traffic snags in parts of the country on Tuesday to protest soaring costs for diesel, according to members of a major trucking association and law enforcement officials."
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