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Media
Six New Documentaries to Air As Part of Sundance Channel's THE GREEN Presented by Robert Redford (CSRWire, Oct. 1)
Climate for Change [Green movies at Vancouver International Film Fest.] (The Tyee, Sept. 28)
Recasting Big Oil's Battered Image: Ads by Chevron and Others Aim to Send Positive Messages (Washington Post, Sept. 28) Free site registration required
Legal battle on Gore climate film ["An Inconvenient Truth"] (BBC News, Sept. 27)
Green Living & Social Trends
 Top 10 'gas guzzlers' (Guardian UK, Oct. 1)
Turning Your Office Wasteland Into A Recycling Haven (ENN/Environmental Grafitti, Oct. 1)
Human Behavior, Global Warming, and the Ubiquitous Plastic Bag (N.Y. Times, Sept. 30) Free site registration required
Families bond over green choices (Vancouver Sun/CanWest, Sept. 29)
'Green' Burials Try To Preserve Cycle of Life (Washington Post, Sept. 29)
Sea change: Surfing used to be an environmental disaster, now it's cleaning up its act (Independent UK, Sept. 27)
Nation's Capital Seeing Green [Festival to be held Oct. 6 & 7] (CSRWire, Sept. 27)
Business & Economy
State of the Paper Industry Sees 'Green Wave' Changes Coming Quickly (GreenBiz, Oct. 3)
Fair Trade in Bloom [Coffee.] (N.Y. Times, Oct. 2)
Wicked Complexity and False Certainty [Environmental modeling.] (GreenBiz, Oct. 2)
Most Americans and Canadians Say 'Green' Labeling Just a Marketing Tactic (GreenBiz, Oct. 2)
"Green" Fabrics For High Fashion (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 1)
The Promise and Perils of Taking Green Products Mainstream (GreenBiz, Oct. 1)
Tourism set to suffer from the climate change it generates: UN (Yahoo!/AFP, Oct. 1)
Toys join the battle to save the planet (Guardian UK, Sept. 29)
Al Gore's Fashion Forecast (N.Y. Times, Sept. 29)
The Climate Change Peril That Insurers See (Washington Post, Sept. 27) Free site registration required
Carmakers' race to go green fuels rivalry at the top (Guardian UK, Sept. 27)
Commentary
Vandana Shiva: How to Address Humanity's Global Crises? (ENN, Oct. 2)
The Race Against Warming (Washington Post, Sept. 29) Free site registration required
Call of the wild (BBC News, Sept. 28)
Our Moral Footprint (N.Y. Times, Sept. 27)
A sampling of editorials relating the the environment. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Geographic.
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Protection a Shell Can't Provide [Box turtles.] (Washington Post, Oct. 3) Free site registration required
Amazon jungle could be lost in 40 years, say campaigners (Guardian UK, Oct. 2)
Dam Revives Aral Sea and Nearby Communities (NPR, Oct. 1)
Prehistoric lake is oasis of hope for California conservationists [Mono Lake.] (Yahoo!/AFP, Oct. 1)
Alien birds may be last hope for Hawaiian plants (News@nature.com, Sept. 28)
New Keys To Keeping A Diverse Planet (TerraDaily/SPX, Sept. 28)
New Greek forests will need 20 years after fires (ENN/Reuters, Sept. 27)
Massive Underwater Forests Found in Pacific (NPR, Sept. 26)
Eleven new species found in Vietnam's Green Corridor (Guardian UK, Sept. 26)
Technology
Biofuel trial flight set for 747 (BBC News, Sept. 28)
RWE to develop new process to cut pollution (Yahoo!/Reuters, Sept. 28)
People in the News
Nature Conservancy's President Abruptly Announces Resignation (Washington Post, Oct. 2) Free site registration required
Jane Goodall Institute Celebrates 30th Anniversary (ENN/CSRWire, Oct. 1)
Fish billionaire in plea to save wild salmon (Guardian UK, Oct. 1)
Bush climate plans spark debate (BBC News, Sept. 29)
Jane Goodall Says Biofuel Crops Hurt Rain Forests (Planet Ark/Reuters, Sept. 28)
On Warming, Bush Vows U.S. 'Will Do Its Part' (Washington Post, Sept. 28) Free site registration required
Gore-Clinton reunite on global issues (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 26)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Survey: Chinese environmentally concerned (PhysOrg, Oct. 1)
Poll shows big majority back gas-guzzler tax (Guardian UK, Oct. 1)
Americans consider global warming an urgent threat, according to poll (ENN/Yale Univ., Oct. 1)
Local Power Key to Fighting Global Warming: Poll (The Tyee, Sept. 27)
Poll: Many pessimistic about environment (Yahoo!/AP, Sept. 26)
Green Building
The Marriage of Prefab and Sustainability (GreenBiz, Oct. 3)
'Green roofs' could cool warming cities (New Scientist, Sept. 28)
U.S. & Government
Scientists See Politics in Spotted Owl Plan (Washington Post, Oct. 3) Free site registration required
The Pentagon's Eco-Leaders (Washington Post, Oct. 1) Free site registration required
Clean-air rule targets existing diesel-truck fleet (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 1)
Rice defends Bush's UN climate talks (Guardian UK, Sept. 28)
Climate change bill calls for 50-cent fuel tax (Yahoo!/Reuters, Sept. 27)
International
Deforestation Needs to be in Next Climate Pact (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 1)
Japan Wrestles with Kyoto Accord Promises (NPR, Oct. 1)
Advisers endorse tidal power plan (BBC News, Oct. 1)
Europeans angry after Bush climate speech 'charade' (Guardian UK, Sept. 29)
Beneath Booming Cities, China's Future Is Drying Up (N.Y. Times, Sept. 28) Free site registration required
Africa Climate Change Woes Aired at Clinton Summit (Planet Ark/Reuters, Sept. 28)
China Environment in Spotlight, But Can Leaders Act? (Planet Ark/Reuters, Sept. 28)
What is the Iraq war's carbon footprint? (Guardian UK, Sept. 27)
Switch off for traditional bulbs [U.K.] (BBC News, Sept. 27)
Bush Climate-Change Conference Has Doubters (NPR, Sept. 27)
Climate Change
Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts (N.Y. Times, Oct. 2) Free site registration required
Climate change will alter world travel patterns (Yahoo!/Reuters, Oct. 2)
Arctic ice island breaks in half (BBC News, Oct. 1)
Gallery: Climate Change and Old Masters [Studying sunsets depicted in paintings.] (Guardian UK, Oct. 1)
Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change (ScienceDaily/Georgia Tech, Oct. 1)
In Greenland, potatoes thrive as seal hunting wanes (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 1)
Teaming up with Thoreau [Using Thoreau's writing to measure global warming.] (Smithsonian, Oct. 2007)
Equality 'threatened by climate' (BBC News, Sept. 28)
Many Biofuels Have More Climate Impact Than Oil (Planet Ark/Reuters, Sept. 28)
Remarkable Drop In Arctic Sea Ice Raises Questions (TerraDaily/SPx, Sept. 28)
Are sunspots prime suspects in global warming? (Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 27)
Energy
Nuclear industry pushes for early approval of new plants by warning of bottlenecks (Guardian UK, Oct. 1)
Ethanol's Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price (N.Y. Times, Sept. 30) Free site registration required
Nanowire generates power by harvesting energy from the environment (ENN, Sept. 29)
Taiwan to Boost Windpower by More Than 5-Fold (Planet Ark/Reuters, Sept. 28)
Solar Power 2007 Dazzles Exhibitors and Visitors (SolarDaily/SPX, Sept. 27)
Pollution
Chemicals threaten wildlife in San Francisco Bay, scientists say (San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 1)
D.C. Area Outpaces Nations in Pollution (Washington Post, Sept. 30) Free site registration required
Ozone shuts down early immune response in lungs and body (ENN/Duke Univ., Sept. 30)
Mountain mining called "genocide" of Appalachia (ENN/Reuters, Sept. 27)
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