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Posted 7/8/2008

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
By Chris Ayres
The Times
June 14, 2008
Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum.' Some diesel fuel is produced by genetically modified bugs.
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Oil blame game keeps us hooked
By Arnie Dill
For the Journal-Constitution
June 26, 2008
The first step in overcoming addiction is for both the addict and his enablers to admit the problem. As long as there is denial, there is addiction, pity parties and the blame game. However, if the addict has the capacity to be honest and a strong leader intervenes with the truth, he can recover.
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Posted 6/13/2008

Brookings report: Area ranks in top third on carbon emissions list
By Julia Malone
Cox Washington Bureau
May 29, 2008
Washington —- Metro Atlanta, with its far-flung suburban neighborhoods, has a larger per person "carbon footprint" than denser cities, including Los Angeles and New York, a study by the Brookings Institution concludes.
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Wake up, America. We're driving toward disaster
By James Howard Kunstler
Washington Post
May 25, 2008
The public, and especially the mainstream media, misunderstands the "peak oil" story. It's not about running out of oil. It's about the instabilities that will shake the complex systems of daily life as soon as the global demand for oil exceeds the global supply.
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Posted 1/11/2008

Felling water's best friend: Forested land under the ax from tax policy
By Steve McWilliams
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jan. 8, 2008
If we do not soon bring a measure of sanity to the rapidly escalating property taxes on forestland, Georgia's water management policy will continue to resemble someone using a sieve to bail water from a sinking ship.
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Posted 9/13/2007

The great plastic bag plague
By Tara Lohan
AlterNet
September 5, 2007
Each year across the world some 500 billion plastic bags are used, and only a tiny fraction of them are recycled. Most of them will have a short lifetime with a consumer -- and then they're thrown away.
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The world's fourth-largest city outlaws billboards, calls it 'visual pollution'
By David Evan Harris
Adbusters
Posted August 21, 2007, on AlterNet
In 2007, the world's fourth-largest metropolis and Brazil's most important city, São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising.
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Posted 8/14/2007

Analysts see 'simply incredible' shrinking
of floating ice in the Arctic
By Andrew C. Revkin
New York Times
August 10, 2007
The area of floating ice in the Arctic has shrunk more this summer than in any other summer since satellite tracking began in 1979, and it has reached that record point a month before the annual ice pullback typically peaks, experts said yesterday.
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Posted 4/12/2007

Fuel economy gains momentum in Washington
Public Agenda Alert
March 22, 2007
The question of raising fuel economy standards seemed to gain momentum this week in Washington, with President Bush touring auto plants to promote his plan to cut gasoline use and former Vice President Al Gore calling on Congress to act on global warming.
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Public favors international cooperation on global warming
Public Agenda Alert
Special Edition
April 6, 2007
The American public clearly sees climate change as a problem that requires global cooperation and U.S. leadership, according to the latest edition of the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index.
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Posted 12/6/2006

Supreme Court hears global warming case
Public Agenda Alert
November 30, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court entered the debate over global warming for the first time this week as it heard arguments on whether the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
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Georgia can't leave transit in the dust
Opinion by Jay Bookman
Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 4, 2006
Developer Wayne Mason wants to build two residential towers of almost 40 stories each on property adjoining Piedmont Park, but his plans have been frustrated by Atlanta land-use regulations against high density in that area.
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Posted 9/1/2006

Plenty of Ga. counties have commutes among nation's longest
By Kevin Duffy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 31, 2006
Those long commutes you hate so much? Take heart, your endurance has made Georgia a national leader. No other state can boast as many counties in the U.S. Census' new top 100 list for commute times. The data, collected in the annual American Community Survey for 2005 and released this week, show 15 Georgia counties among the leaders in piling up the minutes spent going to work. Second place New York has just 12.
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Posted 8/15/2006

ARC: Regional population rises to 3.93 million
Atlanta Business Chronicle
August 10, 2006
The 10-county metro Atlanta region grew at its fastest rate in more than five years in 2006, while Gwinnett County overtook DeKalb County a the second-largest metro county. The region added 111,700 new residents to push the population to 3,925,400, according to estimates from the Atlanta Regional Commission released Aug. 10.
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Posted 7/17/2006

Atlanta's strange formula:
23 lanes of "congestion mitigation"
By Neal Peirce
Washington Post
July 2, 2006
For Exhibit A of the perils, check what's happening in fast-growing Atlanta. First, there's the sheer immensity of what the Georgia Department of Transportation favors. Top example: widening of I-75 in fast-growing suburban Cobb County, as it heads into the city, to include an incredible mile-long section of no less than 23 lanes.
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Posted 5/15/2006

Federal study says Earth's atmosphere warming
Public Agenda Alert
May 4, 2006
A federal study on climate change concluded that the Earth's lower atmosphere is growing warmer as well as its surface. Skeptics of global warming had cited different surface and atmospheric temperatures as a reason for doubting climate change. But this is only the first of 21 studies commissioned by the Bush administration to examine the issue.
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Posted 12/20/2005

HIV Study: Rate Down for Blacks: CDC Warns that Progress Elusive
By M.A.J. McKenna
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nov. 18, 2005
The rate at which African-Americans are diagnosed with HIV has declined slightly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. But the health agency hedged the announcement with warnings, cautioning that blacks remain the hardest hit of all population groups – with a rate of new diagnoses more than eight times higher than the white rate.
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Goodbye, New Orleans
By Mike Tidwell
OrionOnline.org
Posted Dec. 9, 2005
Katrina destroyed the Big Easy -- and future Katrinas will do the same – not because of engineering failures but because one million acres of coastal islands and marshland have vanished in Louisiana in the last century due to human interference.
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Posted 7/18/2005

Birds On the Brink
By Mark Clayton
Christian Science Monitor
Posted on AlterNet April 15, 2005
When R. Given Harper set out to understand why North America's migratory birds were declining, he set a unique course. While other researchers zeroed in on habitat loss as a key problem, he decided, on a hunch, to look at an old culprit -- the pesticide DDT -- and its specific effects on songbirds.
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Posted 5/20/2005

> Can Both Sides of the Sprawl Debate Find Common Ground on Property Rights?
By Ronald D. Utt
The Heritage Foundation
April 25, 2005
One of the great myths spread by opponents of suburban development is that the land-use patterns we have today are the result of free-market forces, greedy developers, and unregulated property rights. Contrary to urban legend, gaudy strip malls and tacky subdivisions are more often a consequence of over half a century of zoning and land-use planning conducted under the guidance of professional planners in cooperation with elected officials. What repel us today are not the unintended consequences of free enterprise, but planning concepts from the 1960s that have dropped out of fashion.

> Heading South: Population Boom Shows Region's Clout
By Bob Dart
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
April 21, 2005
Look out, y'all! Within three decades, nearly four in every 10 Americans will be Southerners, the Census Bureau estimates in a report to be released today…. Growing like kudzu, the South is expected to have a population of about 143.3 million in 2030. In percentage terms, that means 39.4 percent of the U.S. population will live in the South. With another quarter in the West, that leaves just over a third in the once dominant Midwest and Northeast.

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