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Indigenous peoples gather for climate summit 1%

Anchorage Daily News 04/20/2009 On Monday morning, hundreds of delegates -- some wearing traditional clothing with long underwear underneath -- listened to Native leaders from Greenland, ...

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Offshore wind energy blows in to NW coast 1%

Oregon Public Broadcasting 04/20/2009 When you stand on the beach on a nice day like this and gaze out into the ocean, you can see maybe ten miles. Right about there on the horizon is where a ...

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Seattle's new light rail line to open July 18 1%

Seattle Times 04/20/2009 After decades of wrangling over mass transit and worsening traffic congestion, a light rail line between downtown and a spot near Seattle-Tacoma International ...

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BC's surge of female candidates 1%

The Tyee 04/20/2009 At the annual convention in November, members passed a motion requiring the party to nominate women in 30 per cent of seats not currently held by the NDP. The ...

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Makers of plastic bags to use 40% recycled content 1%

USA Today 04/20/2009 The plastic bag industry has an Earth Day surprise: less plastic. Under pressure from consumers, environmental advocates and retailers, the companies that ...

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Canada's greenhouse emissions soaring 1%

Vancouver Sun 04/20/2009 Canada's greenhouse emissions are back on a "significant" growth trajectory despite bold promises from federal and provincial leaders to get serious about ...

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Views: use energy, get rich and save the planet 1%

New York Times 04/20/2009 When the first Earth Day took place in 1970, American environmentalists had good reason to feel guilty. The nation’s affluence and advanced technology seemed ...

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Thousands Could Lose WA State-Subsidized Health Care 1%

Seattle Times 04/20/2009 Thousands of people could be kicked off the state-subsidized Basic Health Plan under a bill approved by the state House. It's one of the changes needed to ...

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Michelle Obama's Fresh Food Revolution 1%

The Nation 04/20/2009 Shifting to a greener diet would be good not only for the health of America's children and families but the health of the planet. The American diet, and the ...

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Views: Obama's rail plan not so high-speed 1%

Oregonian 04/20/2009 President Barack Obama wants America to move swiftly to a system of high-speed rail travel, but his plan for doing so looks anything but fast-track. Instead, ...

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Electric scooters hope to gain traction 1%

CNN 04/20/2009 Much has been made of the electric car driving to the rescue of ailing automobile manufactures and saving the planet at the same time. But what if that ...

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Climate fueling grizzly bear deaths? 1%

Seattle Post-Intelligencer 04/20/2009 Hunters are killing grizzly bears in record numbers around Yellowstone National Park and researchers say the once-endangered predator is expanding across the ...

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Views: More climate tools pending in WA 1%

Seattle Times 04/20/2009 The state Senate will take up legislation that has passed the House on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Despite disappointment in some circles over the ...

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Documentary's wake-up call for Puget Sound 1%

Seattle Times 04/20/2009 A Q-and-A with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith, who examines ecological distress in the nation's estuaries in a two-hour documentary called ...

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Views: A new wave of service 1%

San Francisco Chronicle 04/20/2009 All over the country, volunteering is up as laid-off workers and others coming out of retirement, many of them Baby Boomers, flock to nonprofit organizations ...

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Old growth logging with a green approval? 1%

Toronto Globe and Mail 04/20/2009 It used to be easy to know who was on which side in British Columbia's environmental wars. But the political landscape has changed dramatically and now ...

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Views: California's proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard 1%

Los Angeles Times 04/20/2009 California is trying to do something that hasn't been tried before: regulate not just the direct "life-cycle" emissions from producing, transporting and using ...

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Record number of Montanans collecting food stamps 1%

Missoulian 04/20/2009 A record number of Montana households are relying on food stamps. April was the first time food stamp benefits in the state topped $10 million in a month, and ...

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Coast Salish say ferry is an important link 1%

Indian Country Today 04/20/2009 For millennia, big cedar canoes regularly plied the waters between British Columbia and mainland Washington state. With today's ferry route threatened by state ...

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Losing two jobs in one month 1%

Ashland Daily Tidings 04/20/2009 Twelve months was all it took for Oregon's unemployment rate to double. Two months was all it took for Delaine Due to lose both of her jobs.

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Canada's green and growing roofs 1%

Vancouver Sun 04/20/2009 The West Coast has long had a reputation for green, thanks to lush coastal forests, a vibrant environmental movement and the country's longest growing season. ...

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Views: Tapping wild rivers can't fix climate change 1%

The Tyee 04/20/2009 In pressing for run-of-river, environmental leaders pushing for green energy are accelerating us down a doomed path that will destroy precious natural ...

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Natural gas: Cleaner, but still a fossil fuel 1%

Oregon Public Broadcasting 04/20/2009 One of the most pressing questions in today's power market is how Oregon can be weaned off polluting fossil fuels, and onto the developing renewable sources. ...

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Poll doesn't bode well for a WA tax vote 1%

Crosscut 04/20/2009 A poll taken in Washington State last week amid tax protests and tax-paying day shows soft support for boosting the sales tax to pay for health care and softer ...