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Media
The Activist [Book review of "Why I Came West."] (Washington Post, July 6) Free site registration required
 Wall-E is Hollywood's new star, so why is he causing an eco row? (Guardian UK, July 6)
Together, We Can Do Anything [Celebrity public service announcements.] (WildAid, July 2008)
Green Living & Social Trends
How far will you go? [Effect of extreme travel on the planet.] (Guardian UK, July 9)
Green worker [Dressing down.] (Guardian UK, July 7)
Eco-friendly Car Wash (ENN/Earth 911, July 7)
Tenn. College Eyes Squeezing Classes Into A Day (NPR, July, 7)
'Stop wasting food', urges Brown [British families throw away over 4 tons of food annually.] (BBC News, July 7)
Are you being green washed? [Travel.] (Guardian UK, July 6)
Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy (L.A. Times/AP, July 3) Free site registration required
Water Use Habits Get a Splash of Fresh Ideas (Washington Post, July 3) Free site registration required
Business & Economy
Prius 'to be part solar-powered' (BBC News, July 7)
A Matrix for Mapping Ecosystem Service Markets (GreenBiz, July 7)
New Way To Land Planes May Save Fuel (NPR, July 3)
A Second Life for Cookie Wrappers (GreenBiz, July 3)
Commentary
Climate Change Economics (Washington Post, July 9) Free site registration required
100 months to save the Earth (Guardian UK, July 8)
Iran and Brazil Can Do It. So Can We. [Energy independence.] (Washington Post, July 6) Free site registration required
Go sustainable to survive the crunch (Guardian UK, July 3)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Scientists Discover New Reefs Teeming With Marine Life In Brazil (TerraDaily/SPX, July 9)
Instances Of Mass Die-Offs In Wild Lions Precipitated By Extreme Climate Change (TerraDaily/SPX, July 8)
Corals, Already in Danger, Are Facing New Threat From Farmed Algae (N.Y. Times, July 8) Free site registration required
Nature Reserves Attract Humans, But At A Cost To Biodiversity (ENN/UC Berkeley, July 7)
Hard-Shell Tactics: In Clean-Water Quest, Neighbors Become Oyster Ranchers (Washington Post, July 7) Free site registration required
Arctic foxes at risk as polar ice recedes (Guardian UK, July 6)
Orang-utans 'on fast track to extinction' (Independent UK, July 6)
Africa's Oldest National Park In Crisis [Virunga.] (NPR, July 5)
Narragansett’s ecosystem shake-up [Rhode Island.] (Christian Science Monitor, July 3)
Some species could be wiped out 100 times faster than feared (Guardian UK, July 3)
Tigers Vanish in Nepal (Yahoo!/LiveScience, July 2)
Technology
A Cloth to Cut the Mercury Risk From Light Bulbs (N.Y. Times, July 8) Free site registration required
Process Used By Microbes To Make Greenhouse Gases Uncovered (TerraDaily/SPX, July 8)
Pollution
Beijing 'failing pollution test' (BBC News, July 8)
Decades Later, Toxic Sludge Torments Bhopal [India.] (N.Y. Times, July 7) Free site registration required
China to Shut More Factories for Olympics (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 7)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Park Service seeks to reach changing population (AP, July 7)
Survey: Most Americans Make Lifestyle Changes to Fight Rising Energy Costs (redOrbit, July 7)
Green Building
Queen and Charles join race to build government-sponsored ecotowns (Guardian UK, July 9)
India's temples go green (Time, July 7)
Hospitals struggle to get green-friendly (San Francisco Chronicle, July 5)
U.S. & Government
Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony On Warming (Washington Post, July 9) Free site registration required
NYC to spend billions to cut greenhouse gases (Reuters, July 7)
Gigs and Gas Prices Aren't Playing Well Together (Washington Post, July 6) Free site registration required
American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot (N.Y. Times, July 6) Free site registration required
Thieves Find Easy, Lucrative Work In Siphoning Fuel From Cars, Stations (Washington Post, July 6) Free site registration required
At $100 for Tank of Gas, Some Choke on ‘Fill It’ (N.Y. Times, July 6) Free site registration required
International
In the Gardens of Versailles, A Horticultural Revolution (Washington Post, July 9) Free site registration required
EU, greens urge Bush to back 2050 emissions target (ENN/Reuters, July 7)
African 'wall of trees' gets underway (SciDevNet, July 7)
Cars, Toilets Go Green at Eco-Friendly Summit [G8) (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 7)
FACTBOX - Australia's Plan for "Diabolical" Climate Change (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 7)
Indigenous people ask G8 for climate talk inclusion (Reuters, July 4)
Japan Sees a Chance to Promote Its Energy-Frugal Ways (N.Y. Times, July 4) Free site registration required
Report: Putin wants Olympics changes [Complex ecology of site in southern Russia.] (Yahoo!/AP, July 3)
At $9 per gallon, British driving habits change (Christian Science Monitor, July 1)
Climate Change
Middle Age lessons for the modern struggle against climate change (Guardian UK, July 8)
Some European Grasslands May Resist Warming (Nat'l. Geographic News, July 7)
Global warming threat to climbing (BBC News, July 4)
Why Canada is the best haven from climate change (Independent UK, July 4)
Seasonal Factor Seen in Melting and Ice Shifts in Greenland (N.Y. Times, July 4) Free site registration required
Energy
How Jungle Rot Could Power the Future (Yahoo!/LiveScience, July 9)
G8 urged to cut down on biofuels (BBC News, July 7)
Why Fly When You Can Float? [Airships.] (N.Y. Times, July 5) Free site registration required
Biofuels to blame for 75 per cent increase in price of food (Telegraph UK, July 4)
Maker's Mark Fuels Operations with Bourbon Waste (GreenBiz, July 3)
Solar Power Heats Up the Southwest (GreenBiz, July 3)
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