Al Gore to issue important challenge

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Dear Daniel, Something important is happening tomorrow. In a speech in Washington, DC, Nobel Laureate and Former Vice President Al Gore will issue a major challenge, essentially pressing the "reset" button on how we think about energy and climate, and how we can create prosperity in America. His speech will generate a great deal of attention. Since you are a We campaign member, we wanted to make sure you heard about it in advance. We'll email you when we've posted the video highlights, action steps and other resources -- so stay tuned for breaking news! Sincerely, Cathy Zoi CEO www.wecansolveit.org   WeCanSolveIt.org |  Privacy Policy |  Subscribe |  Contact Us |  About

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New EPA rules to target invasive species
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At a 2002 conference in Cleveland, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared invasive species the No. 1 threat facing the Great Lakes. For the first time anyone can recall, the top issue was something other than what people traditionally think of as pollution. Source: The Toledo Blade (7/14)


Pollution rules need revision
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Indiana may soon have a revised set of rules for when industrial and municipal facilities are allowed to discharge more pollution into Lake Michigan and other state waters. But so far, the rewritten rules aren't solving all the problems they were set out to solve, a critic says. Source: The Merrillville Post-Tribune (7/14)


COMMENTARY: Though the Compact is signed, Great Lakes are still at risk
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The clock is ticking. Water is the resource that will bring economic opportunities to the Great Lakes region. The lakes contain 95 percent of U.S. and 18 percent of the world's surface fresh water. It makes no sense to sell them off in boatloads or truckloads of bottles. Source: The Toledo Blade (7/14)


Chicago area reaching limit on fresh water supply
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With an estimated 2.2 million more people expected to live in Northeastern Illinois by 2030, the bottom-line question becomes not mortgage availability or zoning densities or commuting expenses but whether there will be enough water to go around and at what cost. Source: Chicago Tribune (7/14)


U.S. Energy Co. to face trial in Canada
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On July 7, the Ontario Court of Justice in Canada set a trial date in the prosecution of DTE Energy Co. The Michigan-based coal-fired power plant operator faces charges for polluting the St. Clair River, according to a press release from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Source: Environmental Protection (7/14)


Governor Doyle urges Congress to act on Great Lakes Compact
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Governor Doyle, Chair of the Council of Great Lakes Governors, today called on Congressional leaders to act swiftly to ratify the historic Great Lakes Compact. On July 9, 2008, eight Great Lakes States completed their ratification of the compact. To become law, Congress must now provide its consent. Source: Daily Kenoshan (7/12)


Wind on the water series
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As the push for clean, renewable energy sources intensifies, wind power advocates are focusing more attention on just how much more wind is available in the lake -- and how to overcome the challenges to harnessing it. Source: iStockAnalyst (7/12)


Intense storm leaves beaches contaminated, homes flooded
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The effects of Tuesday's intense storm are still rippling across Toronto, with six of the city's 11 beaches closed today, four days after the Humber River belched a plume of E. coli-contaminated water into Lake Ontario Thursday afternoon. Source: The National Post (7/12)


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GREENBUZZ: The Rise of TelePresence, the Skinny on Green Consultants, the Inside View of Certification, and More

July 14, 2008   » Featured News: Navigating the Wilderness of Green Business Certifications   » The Latest News on Green Business Practices   » Expert Insight from our Columns & Blogs   » GreenBiz Radio: Selling Small, Thinking Big: P&G's Sustainable Innovations Sign Up Now for our FREE Newsletters »Subscribe Here THIS ISSUE'S SPONSOR Taking Care of Business By Joel Makower How's your travel budget these days? If you're like just about everybody I talk to lately, your budget ain't what it used to be. Sky-high fuel prices have grounded many road warriors, as companies seek to ease the bite of rising travel costs during a time of economic uncertainty. And yet there's a need to be face to face, if not actually press the flesh. And so "telepresence" -- the term for what used to be called "videoconferencing" -- is taking off so that we don't have to. It's not just fuel costs that have given telepresence a lift.... ... Read the rest on GreenBiz.com    The Latest News on Green Business Practices GE Pumps $4 Billion Into Renewables By GreenBiz Staff Putting $100 million into three New York wind farms pushed renewable energy investments past the $4 billion mark this week for GE Energy Financial Services.... Read More Rolls-Royce, British Airways to Test Alternative Airline Fuels EU Votes to Include Airlines in Cap-and-Trade System Deloitte Looks to Telepresence to Cut Costs and Carbon Renault, Nissan Plan to Electrify Portugal Sixteen Climate Change Consultants Evaluated in New Report Investment Funds Sink Money in Oil-Waste Sector Renewable Energy Jobs Growing Worldwide: Study New Cars in California Must Display Global Warming Score Green Investing Saw 'Robust' Growth in 2007: Report    Featured Article Navigating the Wilderness of Green Business Certifications By Tilde Herrera Getting your business labeled green though a certification program has many benefits, but as companies are discovering, the simple act of choosing which program opens up a world of complications.... Read More    GreenBiz Radio Selling Small, Thinking Big: P&G's Sustainable Innovations By Matthew Wheeland Peter White, the head of sustainability at Procter & Gamble, speaks to GreenBiz Radio about how the company is using product design and marketing to reduce energy and water use across its products' life cycles, and how the company couples its environmental goals with social responsibility goals.... Listen    Columns and Blogs Sum-Sum Chan and Jenny Joy Logistics and Transportation: Key Steps to a Greener Supply Chain > Read more... Glenn Hasek How the Lodging Industry Can Help the Environmental Movement > Read more... Marc Gunther My New (Green?) Car > Read more... Nicola Acutt The Qualities of a Sustainable Leader > Read more...       FEATURED RESOURCES G8 Climate Scorecards 2008 The G8 Climate Scorecards 2008 found that the U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming. The study also said none of the eight countries are making significant enough improvements to prevent temperature increases that would cause catastrophic climate changes. Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting 2008 This Ethical Corporation Institute report gives an overview of the many protocols that companies are using to report greenhouse gas emissions, pointing out inconsistencies and providing insight into what stakeholders want to see. BROWSE BY TOPIC » All News » Energy and Climate » Business Operations » Design and Innovation » Resource Efficiency » Marketing » Small Business » Events & Tools FEATURED JOBS Program Officer(s) San Francisco, CA Green Building Consultant San Francisco, CA (Bay Area) Sustainable Business Accounts Manager Portland, OR Field Engineer-Los Angeles based Foster City-HQ, CA (Arizona/Oregon) Special Projects Coordinator Lawrence, MA Green Connection Assistant Program Officer San Francisco, CA » Browse All Jobs FEATURED EVENT UBC/UW Summer Institute in Sustainability Date: July 20, 2008 - 12:00am Location: Vancouver , This UBC/UW Summer Institute in Sustainability will provide the intellectual perspectives and practical skills necessary to integrate sustainability as a core value within an organization, and develop programs that represent best practices in sustainability planning. Wanna Write for GreenBiz.com? GreenBiz.com is looking for guest and regular columnists and feature writers. We're seeking contributions from business leaders as well as the journalists who write about them. If you're interested, send a brief query to managing editor Matthew Wheeland, at editor@greenerdesign.com. Read our editorial guidelines. Become a GreenBiz.com Sponsor Reach tens of thousands of businesses every month by placing your ad here. Contact us to receive more information. © Greener World Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

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UW-Madison News Release--State Forest Response to Climate Change

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/14/08  CONTACT: David Mladenoff, (608) 262-1992, djmladen@ wisc.edu  SCATTERED NATURE OF WISCONSIN'S WOODLANDS COULD COMPLICATE FORESTS' RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE  MADISON - If a warmer Wisconsin climate causes some northern tree species to disappear in the future, it's easy to imagine that southern species will just expand their range northward as soon as the conditions suit them.  The reality, though, may not be nearly so simple. A model developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison forest ecologists Robert Scheller and David Mladenoff suggests that while certain northern species, such as balsam fir, spruce and jack pine, are likely to decline as the state's climate warms, oaks, hickories and other southern Wisconsin trees will be slow to replace them.   Why? Not only is warming expected to outpace the speed at which southern trees can migrate northward, but barriers to dispersal - particularly agricultural lands - will also likely delay their progress, says Mladenoff.   "The result is that northern forest biomass in the future - that is, the standing amount of forest - could decrease, because the trees that are there now will be experiencing less than optimal conditions," he says. "And the southern species aren't going to fill in as quickly as we'd like." He and Scheller report their findings in the current issue of Climate Research.  Mladenoff explains that trees "move" into new areas by producing seeds, which are then carried over short distances by wind, birds or mammals. Under the right conditions, dispersed seeds then grow into seedlings and eventually mature trees, which produce their own seeds to start the process all over again.  Already a slow process, dispersal becomes even slower when forests are broken up by farmland and urban areas - or fragmented - like they are in Wisconsin. Not only is less suitable habitat available overall, but patches of it can also be widely scattered, making it tough for seeds to cross the gaps. In particular, Mladenoff points to the wide band of agricultural land that runs across the middle of the state as a major obstacle to the northward migration of southern trees.  To arrive at their conclusions, Scheller and Mladenoff fed current satellite classification and forest inventory data for a 1.5 million-hectare area of northwestern Wisconsin into a model, LANDIS-II, that's designed to predict how landscapes will respond to climate shifts. Using two well-established sets of future climate predictions, they then examined changes in parameters such as forest succession, seed dispersal and tree growth during the next 200 years.  In the face of the scientists' predictions, is there anything woodland managers can do now? Mladenoff cautions people not to make any drastic management changes. But one thing managers might begin to try is assisted migration: testing how certain southern Wisconsin species - or even different genetic stocks of the same species - do when planted up north on a trial basis. A prime candidate for experiments like this might be sugar maple, says Mladenoff, which is already widely distributed across Wisconsin and is projected to "do OK" on moist soils in the north when the climate warms.   The state might even consider bringing back the field trials that used to go on routinely in the 1950s and '60s, he says, in which researchers would collect genetic variants of individual tree species all over the state and then plant them in many locations to see where they did best. Although time-consuming, an approach like this could help ease some of the uncertainty we're facing now.  "A lot of this is about our incomplete knowledge of how genetically diverse some species are," Mladenoff says, "and how adaptable they may be in different climates." ### - Madeline Fisher, (608) 890-0465, mmfisher@wisc.edu    **************************************************** For questions or comments about UW-Madison's email news release system, please send an email to: releases@news.wisc.edu  For more UW-Madison news, please visit:  http://www.news.wisc.edu/  University Communications University of Wisconsin-Madison 27 Bascom Hall 500 Lincoln Drive Madison, WI 53706  Phone: (608) 262-3571 Fax: (608) 262-2331   

GM to build world's biggest rooftop solar station in Spain

GM to build world's biggest rooftop solar station in Spain

US automaker General Motors said Tuesday it will equip the roof of its factory in Zaragoza in northeastern Spain with solar panels to create the world's largest rooftop source of power from the sun.

The electricity produced by the 10 megawatt installation will be used by the plant, GM's biggest in Europe, and also be sold to the local power grid, a company spokesman said.

"GM's Zaragoza plant will become home to the biggest roof-top solar power station worldwide. This has significant potential to...(Full Story)

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It fascinates me how a "US" company can do things like this to increase plant efficiency overseas, but close plants in the US and repeatedly kill the economies of small cities and towns in their own country. Why isn't this being done here? Why aren't the gas hog plants in the US being re-tooled to build fuel-efficient vehicles? They might as well be giving every US citizen the finger behind their backs. If I were Janesville's City Manager (Mayor?) or the one in charge of any of the other towns affected, I would lead a charge to seize the plant via eminent domain and then have the local citizens start up a community-owned competitor to make vehicles and other heavy equipment that are highly efficient and make sense.

Dan

My New song - saxophone - Pacha Mama Prayer

It's kind of New Age Blues with a Native American beat, I'm really pleased with the way it turned out. (Of course, there's no way it could be performed live - it's all recorded in three separate tracks on the computer)

I play a 1966 Selmer Bundy. The below song was recorded using the sax and my laptop. Percussion is my hands on the table, and I'm doing vocals. The software used is Audacity & LAME MP3 encoder, both of which are free. I recorded this in three separate parts, first the saxophone, then the vocals, then the percussion. Time from melody concept to full recording was one hour. (Pacha Mama = South American equivalent to Gaia, the Earth Mother Goddess.)

http://www.whizzyrds.com/Pachamamaprayer.mp3

I call my sax "Bello".

Live Tonight

In "Live", The Sundance Channel's "Big Ideas For a Small Planet" series tackles one of the largest segment of materials and energy use in the global economy - housing and building.

Beginning with the "E-House," an experimental laboratory that a family actually lives in, new ideas for efficiency are continually explored. There may be a new super-clean, super-efficient fireplace design one month, or home cooling that uses ground water and a fan, and anything else that could be dreamed up.

Following with Michael Gainer's deconstruction vs. demolition wonder business, we see how old housing currently fill landfills at the end of its useful life, and how it can be disassembled and re-used in home improvement projects, sustainable furniture, and myriad other ways. A shining jewel of this method is that the character, charm, and intricate design of many earlier architectural features is preserved and even showcased. Additionally, new jobs are added to the local economy through this effort.

Finally, we wrap up with with modular recycling; housing built from used steel cargo containers. Add a room? No Problem! Lift off the roof and set a couple down next to your existing home, add in some wiring, plumbing, glass and other odds and ends, you just doubled your living space. Stack them on top of your existing house to build up. Start off with a multi-family dwelling such as a two-or three flat. Love wide-open views and a super-strong structure? Love leaving our forests standing and breathing in CO2? Here you go - check out the cool finishes and "skins" you can put on the exterior.

Living large definitely gets a smaller footprint in this uplifting, hopeful documentary entitled simply "Live." Runtime is 30 minutes, airs Tuesday, June 3rd at 9pm Eastern & Pacific on the Sundance Channel.

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Dan Stafford
Publisher,
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05/11/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Oil powered Norway gradually turns into the wind
AFP -
... which are less than half the size of the largest models, are also part of the world's first full-scale system for converting wind power into hydrogen. ...
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Turning on the light
Southtown Star - Chicago,IL,USA
"I've learned that there's a lot more to think of (in terms of wind power)," said Ray Davis, a Bloom junior who was showing off the wind exhibit.
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President Bush - new national goal to stop the growth of ...
Right Side News - Kennesaw,GA,USA
Today, we have a different incentive for different technologies – from nuclear power, to clean coal, to wind, and solar energy. ...
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05/12/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

The [Annotated] McCain Climate Speech
New York Times - United States
Wind power is one of many alternative energy sources that are changing our economy for the better. And one day they will change our economy forever. ...
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Energy guru to discuss oil alternatives
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
Eventually, he wants to see technology developed to use hydrogen as a backup to solar and wind power. He also wants Detroit to start turning out plug-in ...
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A Photovoltaic Battery - Charge Controller
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Fortunately, though, it's much more predictable than wind! Seasonal changes and weather notwithstanding, we receive about six hours of productive sunlight ...
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05/14/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Norway island stores wind power for still days
AFP -
Surplus wind-generated energy is passed through water and, using electrolysis, the hydrogen atoms are separated from the oxygen atoms that make up water ...
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Exploring renewable energy
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
The basis for this technology could not be simpler - the wind rotates causing the turbine blades to generate power. The generators require an inverter to ...
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Q&A: 'We're becoming active choreographers of nature'
Times of India - India
(When I say solar hydrogen power, I include everything from solar cell to geothermal energy to wind to hydrogen, etc.) Beyond 30 years, the goal of the ITER ...
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Hydrogen Engine Center Hosts Governor Culver of Iowa for Signing ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Iowa has been a leader in utilizing wind power and ethanol production, positioning the state as the “Renewable Energy Capital of the US” The state has set a ...
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Alternative energy key to powering America’s future
University of Delaware - Newark,DE,USA
Willett Kempton, associate professor of marine policy at UD, discussed the potential of offshore wind power. The largest offshore wind farm in the world has ...
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05/16/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Wind power report is sample of energy diversification
Moultrie Observer - Moultrie,GA,USA
Wind power is not a savior It might very well be a viable component, however, of a multi-faceted energy initiative. Solar power, bio fuels, hydrogen power ...
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The Biggest Economic Opportunity of This Century
Motley Fool - USA
Second, Doerr called for the adoption of renewable sources such as solar, wind power, and fuel cell technology. The first two are hardly bold calls, ...
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Thirst for energy
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
Current technologies for power generation, with some exceptions such as wind turbines and photovoltaic solar cells, rely heavily on the availability of ...
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05/16/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Norwegian island runs on wind power, even when all is still
Petroleumworld.com - Caracas,Venezuela
The facility currently supplies 10 local households with electricity produced with wind power and hydrogen. When the wind blows strongly, the windmills ...
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Fuel cell is 169 years old
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Factor in the ability to produce hydrogen from renewable energy sources such as the sun, wind, water and biomass, and its use as a source of energy is very ...
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Students find nuclear energy is a safe option for Alberta
Gauntlet - Calgary,AB,Canada
"Four thousand megawatts of wind power are waiting to come online. I know you can't just have wind power, but there's a huge potential for wind power in ...
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05/17/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Nuclear power is the logical choice
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
This can be compared to onshore wind power, the next nearest low-carbon electricity generation technology, which has an estimated abatement cost equivalent ...
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05/18/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Report of the Renewable Energy Committee
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Sources of energy that count toward the standard include solar, wind, small-scale hydroelectric, hydrogen (from renewable resources), and certain biomass.16 ...
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Graham pitches NB opportunities in Big Apple
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
Graham said public support for wind power has been overwhelmingly positive. He said polls show that public support for the second reactor at Lepreau is more ...
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05/19/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Suzuki slams NDP, Tories, backs Dion's carbon tax
CTV.ca - Canada
If we develop a marketable hydrogen car, the third world would jump at the chance. Time for everyone to stop whining about what China or India is doing and ...
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05/20/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Agreement set to accelerate the arrival of hydrogen vehicles
Materials Handling World Magazine - Leeds,England,UK
It can produce hydrogen from water and either off-peak or 'renewable' energy – electricity generated by wind, wave or solar power. Unlike petrol or diesel, ...
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TOWN OF LOCKPORT: Student project prompts town plasma research
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal - Lockport,NY,USA
Lieber said the Belknap team picked plasma conversion as most efficient/least disruptive after ruling out better-known alternatives including wind power ...
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How to solve oil crisis? Elect more 'green' legislators
USA Today - USA
... a greater use of wind and solar power, and experimenting with more controversial alternative energy sources — such as hydrogen or nuclear power. ...
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05/21/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Shell 'selling suicide' by preferring tar sands to wind
guardian.co.uk - UK
Van der Veer pointed out that "we are not just active in wind, but also in hydrogen, thin-film solar and, of course, biofuels". He did not convince everyone ...
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Elemental as Anything
Sail World - Mandalong,NSW,Australia
But one day batteries will be replaced by fuel cells so energy will be stored as a proton in Hydrogen as opposed to an electron in a battery. ...
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Read all 'Fuel Cells and Hydrogen' posts in Green Tech
CNET Blogs - Cupertino,CA,USA
A British wind mogul wants to build a "wind-powered sports car." Two top requirements are that it's not "crap" like today's electric cars, has a range of ...
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Congressional candidates discuss oil, energy
Dothan Eagle - Dothan,AL,USA
We should also look at new technologies in wind and solar power and new coal-burning technology. We should also explore new sources of fuel like switch ...
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Robot to Dig Martian Arctic
Space.com - USA
The most common form of hydrogen has no neutrons, but one of its isotopes, deuterium, has one neutron. Oxygen commonly has eight neutrons (this is called ...
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05/24/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Farmers' green harvest
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
And sales doubled last year for Third Sun Solar and Wind Power, also based in Athens, which sells and installs wind generators and solar equipment for ...
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CNN Student News Transcript: May 22, 2008
CNN - USA
Shell is boosting investment in wind-energy in Texas, though it recently announced plans to pull out of a major wind power plant off the British coast. ...
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Democrats and Oil
PoliGazette - Netherlands
The latter is particularly important because of nuclear energy’s potential use as a driving force behind a hydrogen-based energy system. ...
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Macomb, IL - Ideal Sustainable City Model?

Worth a look, in my opinion.

Dan

Daniel Miller wrote:

Dear Mr. Stafford,

 

I would like to share my "Model Sustaianble Cities" website with The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal.  I believe that Macomb, IL would be a great place to develop a model sustainable and/or hydrogen or ammonia city.  Please see my website at www.modelsustainablecities.weebly.com for my initial thoughts on this topic.  Please feel free to contact me.

 

Sincerely,

Daniel Miller

Colchester, IL

machwing38@hotmail.com

UW-Madison News Release--Annual Ride to Farm fundraiser

UW-Madison news wrote:
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 5/23/08
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> CONTACT: Dick Cates, (608) 588-2836, rlcates@mhtc.net
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> BICYCLISTS PEDAL FOR PLEDGES TO SUPPORT BEGINNING DAIRY AND LIVESTOCK FARMERS
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> MADISON - Friends of the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers (WSBDF) will be pedaling for pledges when they roll out Friday, June 13, in the Fifth Annual Ride to Farm.
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> A group of determined cyclists will make a three-day trip from a farm near Nichols in Outagamie County to a farm at Elkhorn in Walworth County. Their goal is to raise endowment funds and visibility for the school and its mission of supporting the next generation of Wisconsin farmers.
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> The riders are collecting pledges and making a series of stops along the route to highlight the achievements of the school's graduates.
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> WSBDF is a University of Wisconsin-Madison program that offers classroom instruction, on-farm internships, business planning and lifetime mentoring. More than 270 students have attended the program and more than 80 percent of graduates are farming.
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> The school is led by Dick Cates and Jennifer Taylor of the UW-Madison's Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. The curriculum is offered as part of the university's Farm and Industry Short Course. Teachers include UW-Madison faculty, graduates of the program and other farmers, farm lenders and other agribusiness professionals.
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> "Our graduates are successful business people and productive, contributing members of their communities. The Ride to Farm is an opportunity to communicate how necessary and important it is to support a next generation of bright, innovative farmers on our working lands," says Cates, organizer of the event.
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> The public is encouraged to meet the riders at any of the stops in the three-day itinerary:
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> - Friday, June 13: The ride begins at 8 a.m. on the farm of Aaron Barclay (WSBDF '04), N8849 Grandy Road, Nichols. From there, the ride heads to Culvers of Appleton for lunch with Rollie and Sue Stephenson of Town & Country Electric, and ends with a picnic supper at the Saxon Homestead Farm, 15621 S. Union Rd, Cleveland, home of WSBDF graduates Joe Heimerl ('01) and Rambr Emrich ('00).
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> - Saturday, June 14: Riders will pedal west and south to join the Kewaskum FFA for lunch and tour an organic dairy farm, continue southwest to Hartford, and end the day with Ike and Shelly Mayer, Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW), hosting a picnic supper with local agricultural youth at their farm near Slinger.
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> - Sunday, June 15: Riders will journey southwest, stop for an early lunch at Culvers of Oconomowoc, and continue south toward Elkhorn for a BBQ at the farm of Altfrid and Sue Krusenbaum, W3194 County Road D, with WSBDF graduates, local graziers and agricultural youth.
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> Ride to Farm sponsors include American Transmission Company, Culvers Restaurants, Farm Credit-Wisconsin, FCS-Financial Services, Organic Valley Family of Farms, Town & Country Electric, We Energies, Wisconsin Farmers Union, Wisconsin Cattlemen's Association, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, and UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
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> For more information about collecting and submitting pledges, contact Jodi Wickham at (608) 263-2027, jodi.wickham@uwfoundation.wisc.edu; or Carol Chapa at (608) 265-4049, carol.chapa@uwfoundation.wisc.edu; or visit the UW Foundation Web site at www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu; or the WSBDF website at www.cias.wisc.edu/dairysch.html
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