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Media
 MLB to Roll out 'Green' Carpet for 2008 All-Star Game Red Carpet Parade [Baseball.] (MarketWatch/Business Wire, July 14)
SPACE CHIMPS Save the Day! [Campaign to aid endangered chimps.] (MarketWatch/Business Wire, July 14)
Papier mache pandas invade Paris [WWF campaign.] (Yahoo!/AFP, July 10)
Green Living & Social Trends
Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest (N.Y. Times, July 15) Free site registration required
Green Speed Dating: Finding Carbon-Neutral Love (NPR, July 15)
Do food miles matter? (GreenBiz, July 14)
Why Can't You Recycle Plastic Bottle Caps? (NPR, July 14)
Fresh Generation of Volunteers Takes Road to Organic Farms (ENN/Organic Consumers Assoc., July 14)
Keep Your Energy Dollars From Going Up in Smoke (Washington Post, July 13) Free site registration required
Living in a world without waste [Japan's "zero waste" town.] (BBC News, July 11)
Business & Economy
Car rental companies caught short as demand for smaller vehicles soars (L.A. Times, July 15) Free site registration required
Rolls-Royce, British Airways to Test Alternative Airline Fuels (ENN/WBCSD, July 14)
Microsoft Dangles Energy Efficiency Carrot to Workers (GreenerComputingNews, July 14)
Renewable Energy Jobs Growing Worldwide (GreenBiz, July 11)
Invest in water for farming, or the world will go hungry (ENN/Science & Development Network, July 11)
Commentary
The Whale Oil Economy (Washington Post, July 16) Free site registration required
Left in the Desert: The Environmental Fallout of the Iraq War (emagazine, July 15)
"The Bush Multi-Year Plan on Global Warming" [Cartoon by Tom Toles.] (Washington Post, July 15) Free site registration required
EPA: Your life is now worth 11 percent less (Christian Science Monitor/Bright Green Blog, July 14)
Bridging the Gap on Climate Change (Washington Post, July 14) Free site registration required
An Energy Policy We Can Stick To (Washington Post, July 13) Free site registration required
Where the eagles still dare, there's a chance for us all (Guardian UK/Observer, July 13)
Launching a spiritual war on global warming (Vancouver Sun, July 5)
We must act for the bottom billion's sake [By U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-Moon.] (Globe & Mail, July 2)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Fishing ban brings seas to life (BBC News, July 16)
Greatest Value Of Forests Is Sustainable Water Supply (ScienceDaily, July 14)
Preserving endemic animals in mountainous areas (VietNamNet Bridge, July 13)
Forests to fall for food and fuel (BBC News, July 13)
Report: 2nd oldest US wildlife refuge in jeopardy [Barrier islands not far from New Orleans.] (Yahoo!/AP, July 11)
Conservation areas 'attracting human settlement' (ENN/Science & Development Network, July 11)
A third of reef-building corals threatened with extinction (TerraDaily/AFP, July 10)
Some 1.5 bln people may starve due to land erosion (Reuters, July 2)
Technology
Ocean floor could store century of US carbon emissions (Guardian UK, July 14)
Solar dyes give a guiding light (BBC News, July 11)
Pollution
US floods to create record 'dead zone' (New Scientist, July 15)
Beijing Orders Pollution to Vanish (TIME, July 14)
Tainted African Dust Clouds Harm U.S., Caribbean Reefs (Nat'l. Geographic News, July 14)
Contaminated US site faces 'catastrophic' nuclear leak (New Scientist, July 14)
Southeast Asia At High Risk For Arsenic Contamination In Water (Science Daily, July 14)
Air Quality Alerts Likely to Occur Throughout Summer [California wildfires.] (KTVN Reno, July 14)
Destroying old airliners and protecting the environment (Int'l. Herald Tribune, July 13)
Flat-Screen TVs May Be Worse For Environment [Nitrogen tri-fluoride.] (NPR, July 10)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Top 15 Green Social Networks Ranked in Special Report (PRWeb, July 16)
Sixteen Climate Change Consultants Evaluated in New Report (GreenBiz, July 14)
All is Green in Love and Dating [90% of women surveyed said they’d prefer guys driving hybrids.] (Seattle Examiner, July 13)
Green Building
Green Olympics Yield Mixed Record on Green Building (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 14)
In Search of Better (and Greener) Building Blocks (N.Y. Times, July 13) Free site registration required
To Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Start by Shrinking Buildings (Washington Post, July 12) Free site registration required
U.S. & Government
Diary: Colorado River drought (BBC News, July 16)
Schwarzenegger Weighs Post Under Obama [Possible energy and environment czar.] (N.Y. Times, July 14) Free site registration required
Bush lifts offshore drilling ban in symbolic move (Yahoo!/Reuters, July 14)
Bush climate action now? "Bogus": Schwarzenegger (ENN/Reuters, July 14)
Gulf Coast States Mull Over Oil Drilling Ban (NPR, July 14)u
Decisions Shut Door on Bush Clean-Air Steps (N.Y. Times, July 12) Free site registration required
Earth Systems on Go [Idea to combine NOAA & USGS to tackle climate change.] (emagazine, July 11)
EPA strengthens controls on 5 common pesticides (Yahoo!/AP, July 10)
International
EU Executive to Tackle Eco Impact of Consumerism (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 15)
Ontario Sets Plan to Protect Northern Boreal Forest (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 15)
Greenpeace Climb Eiffel Tower in Nuclear Protest (Planet Ark/Reuters, July 14)
China demand for ivory tops talks [UN's Convention on Endangered Species.] (BBC News, July 14)
Environmentalists block Australia coal port (ENN/Reuters, July 14)
Putin faces green Olympic challenge (Christian Science Monitor, July 10)
The Island in the Wind: A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissions (New Yorker, July 7)
Climate Change
Climate science: The long summer begins (Nature News, July 16)
Who owns these greenhouse gas emissions? (ENN/Triple Pundit, July 15)
Explorer bids to kayak to 'melting' North Pole (Yahoo!UK/AFP, July 15)
In Namibian desert, the heat is on to address climate change (Yahoo!/AFP, July 14)
Pope To Focus on Climate Change (TIME, July 13)
Russian ice camp in rapid shrink (BBC News, July 11)
Energy
First Renewable Energy Plane To Fly Around The World (SolarDaily/SPX, July 16)
Good News About Four Dollar Gas. Fewer Traffic Deaths (EnergyDaily/SPX, July 16)
Energy from Waves (Technology Review, July 14)
Russia Becomes Major Uranium Supplier (EnergyDaily/UPI, July 14)
The Man Who Dared to Question Ethanol (N.Y. Times, July 13) Free site registration required
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