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Media
Live Earth shows aim to set new green standard (Yahoo News/Reuters, June 19)
The First Practical Guide To Green Living! [The Green Book (Crown)] (CSRwire, June 19)
Arctic Tale Puts Faces To Global-Warming Threat (ENN/Reuters, June 18)
Writers' Block [The current state of nature writing] (Conservation, June)
Green Living & Social Trends
Shutting Down Your PC at the End of the Work Day Will Have a Major Impact on Business Savings and Reducing CO2 (CSRwire, June 19)
 New Global Warming Scorecard Gives People Power to Make Climate-Based Buying Decisions (CSRwire, June 19)
Free wheeling [Myths and facts about biking to work] (Guardian, June 16)
Feeling the pinch of compact cities [Loss of green spaces] (BBC News, June 15)
Southern Baptists Question Human Role in Global Warming; Say Regulations Hurt Poor (ENN/AP, June 14)
Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet [Home electronics] (N.Y. Times, June 14) Free site registration required
Business & Economy
Google Aims To Go Carbon-Neutral by the End of 2007 (ENN/Reuters, June 20)
How green is valley? Not very (San Francisco Chronicle, June 20)
Citibank Chief Wants To Invest 50 Billion Dollars In 10-year Campaign For Better Environment (EnergyDaily/SPX, June 20)
Consumer Industry Quickly Embracing Sustainability, Study Finds (GreenBiz, June 18)
Offsetting chief warns of carbon cowboys (Guardian, June 18)
Gore to Bring Talk of Green to Ad Festival (N.Y. Times, June 18) Free site registration required
Exxon Says it Never Doubted Climate Change Threat (Planet Ark/Reuters, June 15)
DOE to Help Manufacturers Increase Energy Efficiency (GreenBiz, June 15)
Rental Car Companies Hertz, Avis Announce Plans To Boost Hybrid Fleets (ENN/AP, June 15)
Google, Intel Launch Energy Efficiency Program (Planet Ark/Reuters, June 14)
Harnessing the Power of Partnerships and Coalitions (GreenBiz, June)
Commentary
Energy Diet Makes Sense [Legislation on fuel economy and renewable energy] (Dallas Morning News, June 19)
Crunch Time on Energy [Evaluation of proposed energy bill] (N.Y. Times, June 19) Free site registration required
Coal-to-Liquid Boondoggle (Washington Post, June 18) Free site registration required
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Early springs bring problems for the creatures of the high Arctic (Guardian, June 19)
Ecuador Weighs Galapagos Turtles vs Tourists (ENN/Reuters, June 18)
UN Talks Help Eels, Elephants, Slow Extinctions (Planet Ark/Reuters, June 18)
Baby boom for endangered tigers (BBC News, June 17)
Wonder of nature under threat from illegal logging [Monarch butterfly] (Guardian, June 17)
Extinction fears for pink dolphin (Guardian, June 16)
Scientists Examine Cause of Bee Die-Off (ENN/AP, June 15)
Populations of 20 Common Birds Declining (ENN/AP, June 15)
India's Rivers Dying Due to Sewage, Say Activists (Planet Ark/Reuters, June 15)
Fiji's Mangroves, Coral Under Assault (NPR, June 14)
Arctic plants have adjusted to climate changes (International Herald Tribune, June 14)
Aliens Among Us [Invasive species] (Conservation, June)
Technology
Sifting the Garbage for a Green Polymer [Organic alternatives to petrochemical plastics] (N.Y. Times, June 19) Free site registration required
Norway, UK Subsea CO2 Storage Plans Gain Momentum (Planet Ark/Reuters, June 18)
EasyJet unveils low-carbon 'eco-plane' (Telegraphi, June 17)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Consumers distrust business on climate change (Guardian, June 19)
In nation of sprawl, we're all just single dots in our cars [77% of workers drive alone to work] (News Tribune/AP, June 14)
Green Building
Real Estate Industry Quietly Embracing Green Development, Progressive Investor Reports (CSRwire, June 19)
State may impose tougher green homebuilding rules [Oregon] (WorldLink.com, June 18)
U.S./Government
Maine Law Caps Carbon Dioxide Emissions (N.Y. Times, June 19) Free site registration required
Powerful Interest Groups Complicate Swift Action on Energy in Congress (ENN/AP, June 19)
Florida unprepared for looming water crisis (International Herald Tribune, June 19)
Only Wild Fish Matter in 'Endangered' Count, Judge Rules (N.Y. Times, June 14) Free site registration required
International
British goverment launches personal 'carbon footprint' calculator (Yahoo News/AFP, June 20)
China overtakes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter (Guardian, June 19)
European emissions trading scheme generates unexpected fallout (International Herald Tribune, June 19)
Expanding Deserts in China Forcing Farmers from Fields, Sending Sandstorms across Pacific (ENN/AP, June 19)
UN Secretary General Points To Climate Change As Partly Behind Darfur Disaster (TerraDaily/AFP, June 16)
Gore Calls G8 Agreement on Climate Change a Disgrace (ENN/Reuters, June 15)
The Global Impact Of Cities (TerraDaily/AFP, June 15)
World Desertification Day Puts Spotlight On Neglected Crisis (TerraDaily/AFP, June 15)
Red and Pink Corals Get U.N. Trade Protection (ENN/Reuters, June 14)
Climate Change
Freak winter is Europe's warmest for 700 years (New Scientist, June 20)
The Earth today stands in imminent peril [Sea level rises a major threat, say U.S. scientists] (Independent, June 19)
In a Cow's Stomach, Novel Approach to Warming [Cutting down on greenhouse gasses from animals] (Guardian, June 19)
Arctic spring's 'rapid advance' (BBC News, June 18)
Australian Cattle Ranch Welcomes Climate Change (NPR, June 18)
Dropping Ice Age Scenario, Researchers Discard Gulf Stream Catastrophe Scenario (ENN/AP, June 18)
Global Warming To Multiply World's Refugee Burden (ENN/Reuters, June 18)
Heading for Hills May Be Only Option on Fiji (NPR, June 16)
Human-Spewed Nitrogen Helps Forests Absorb Carbon (Planet Ark/Reuters, June 14)
Episode 2: Global Warming? It's All About Carbon [Cartoon explanation of warming] (NPR, June 14)
Energy
San Francisco To Explore Tidal Power Options In Bay (EnergyDaily/SPX, June 20)
World Clean Energy Awards Honors Alt-Energy Projects (GreenBiz, June 18)
Nuclear Power Can't Curb Global Warming - Report (Planet Ark/Reuters, June 18)
As utilities go green, some are seeing red (L.A. Times, June 15)
Swinging wave device to be tested [Wave power] (BBC News, June 13)
Pollution
Generations Later, Toxic Legacy of Agent Orange Lives on in Vietnam (ENN/AP, June 15)
Reducing Environmental Risks Could Save Millions of Lives Annually (ENN/AP, June 14)
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