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Media
The Carnivore’s Dilemma [Books about beef.] (N.Y. Times, Oct. 19) Free site registration required
How to Navigate the Green Seas [Interview with author of "Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business."] (GreenBiz, Oct. 17)
Saving America Through Energy Innovation [Review of "Hot, Flat, and Crowded."] (NPR, Oct. 14)
Green Living & Social Trends
A Chef's Plot Thickens [Going green at Alexandria's Restaurant Eve.] (Washington Post, Oct. 22) Free site registration required
New tool for ‘green’ Christians: ecofriendly Bible (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 19)
A Lesson In Changing Light Bulbs (ENN/Triple Pundit, Oct. 19)
Is shade-grown coffee the drink of the day? (Guardian/Observer, Oct. 19)
How To Be Conversant About Climate Change (NPR, Oct. 17)
Eiffel Tower cuts twinkling time to save energy (Reuters, Oct. 17)
Business & Economy
Yielding to Conservationists, eBay Will Ban Ivory Sales (N.Y. Times, Oct. 21) Free site registration required
Opportunities seen widening for clean tech investors (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 20)
Argentina Makes Environmental Insurance Mandatory (GreenBiz, Oct. 20)
 Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria Announced (ENN/Worldwatch Institute, Oct. 20)
Green Policies in California Generated Jobs, Study Finds (N.Y. Times, Oct. 19) Free site registration required
Google's chief of environmental policy explains strategy (Int'l. Herald Tribune, Oct. 17)
Special report: How our economy is killing the Earth (New Scientist, Oct. 16)
Commentary
Maybe “Joe the Plumber” Should Become “Joe the Solar Guy” (techimoto, Oct. 21)
Saving the Desert Southwest (Washington Post, Oct. 18) Free site registration required
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Going, going ... Britain's vanishing woodland (Guardian UK, Oct. 22)
Earth In Midst Of Sixth Mass Extinction: 50% Of All Species Disappearing (ScienceDaily, Oct. 21)
Mapping The Boreal Forest (ScienceDaily, Oct. 20)
UGA Study Reveals Ecosystem-Level Consequences Of Frog Extinctions (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 20)
Rising water in Florida's Everglades threatens wildlife (Guardian/McClatchy, Oct. 20)
Putting a price on nature can save forests, rivers (ENN/Reuters, Oct. 20)
Not so common: scientists raise alarm as Britain's seals disappear (Guardian UK, Oct. 20)
Billions of fish, fish eggs die in power plants (Yahoo!/AP, Oct. 18)
EU steps up battle to halt deforestation by 2030 (Reuters, Oct. 17)
African chimps decline 'alarming' (BBC News, Oct. 17)
Beluga whales in Alaska listed as endangered (Reuters, Oct. 17)
Technology
Sparse plug-ins for electric cars spark creativity (Yahoo!/AP, Oct. 19)
Ion jelly could satisfy appetite for greener batteries (New Scientist, Oct. 17)
Eyes in the sky to help convict Amazon vandals (New Scientist, Oct. 16)
Pollution
SRNL's Microbes Useful For For Environmental Cleanup And Oil Recovery (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 21)
Beijing offers cash to curb capital's pollution (Reuters, Oct. 19)
U.S. moves toward new dumping rules for mining waste (Yahoo!/Reuters, Oct. 18)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
“Latter-day Saints and the Environment” Survey (The Millenial Star, Oct. 20)
US election: Presidential candidates get low ratings from US environmental group (Guardian UK, Oct. 17)
Green Building
China's invisible eco city (New Builder, Oct. 20)
Green architecture: 12 designs of the future (Guardian UK, Oct. 16)
U.S. & Government
Palin’s Hand Seen in Battle Over Mine in Alaska (N.Y. Times, Oct. 22) Free site registration required
Alaskans reap boom – and bust – from oil (Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 21)
Together, We Can Keep Moving Mountains [Mountaintop-removal mining.] (Grist, Oct. 20)
Environment will wither whoever wins US election (ENN/Times UK, Oct. 20)
Obama or McCain: environmental voting records in Congress (Guardian UK, Oct. 20)
America's richest energy magnates (Int'l. Herald Tribune, Oct. 17)
Al's well that ends well [Comedian Al Franken & the Minnesota Senate race.] (Grist, Oct. 16)
International
Organic farming 'could feed Africa' (Independent UK, Oct. 22)
Brazil Tests Carbon Reduction In Amazon Forest (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 20) First world must help poor nations on climate change [U.N. meeting.] (Yahoo!/AFP, Oct. 18)
China to boost Pakistani energy (BBC News, Oct. 18)
Mongolia Gold Rush Destroying Rivers, Nomadic Lives (Nat'l. Geographic News, Oct. 17)
European states plead poverty as credit crisis threatens 'son of Kyoto' agreement (Independent UK, Oct. 17)
Climate Change
Scientists Go Cloud-hopping In The Pacific To Improve Climate Predictions (ScienceDaily, Oct. 21)
Global Warming Threatens Australia's Iconic Kangaroos (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 20)
Climate change outracing EU targets, WWF warns (ENN/Euobserver, Oct. 20)
Tropical cyclones can bury greenhouse gases (Reuters, Oct. 19)
Arctic autumn temperature hits record high (TerraDaily/AFP, Oct. 17)
Forest Peoples' Rights Key To Reducing Emissions From Deforestation (TerraDaily/SPX, Oct. 17)
Substantial Loss Of Carbon, Nitrogen From Burned Soils -- And Connections To Warming Climate (ScienceDaily, Oct. 16)
Energy
How Oil Drilling Could Power the Future (Yahoo!/LiveScience, Oct. 22)
UK overtakes Denmark as world's biggest offshore wind generator (Guardian UK, Oct. 21)
Second Canadian Pipeline Damaged In Explosion (Planet Ark/Reuters, Oct. 20)
As Fuel Prices Fall, Will Push For Alternatives Lose Steam? (Washington Post, Oct. 20) Free site registration required
Green energy is not a middle-class conceit, more the only way forward (Independent UK, Oct. 19)
New-generation Finnish nuclear reactor hit by fourth delay (Guardian UK, Oct. 18)
'Saudi Arabia' of marine energy [U.K's Pentland Firth.] (BBC News, Oct. 17)
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