Monthly Archives: February 2009

Dollar-stretching Spring Auto Maintenance Advice

By | Published: February 28, 2009
Learn the importance of Spring auto maintenance and of checking your vehicles tires on a regular basis. Original post by miscellaneous
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GM Mastercard Rebate Points Remain Safe

By | Published: February 28, 2009
GM bankruptcy not likely to wipe out rebate points accumulated on GM Mastercards. Original post by miscellaneous
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What You Need to Know Before Buying a Car

By | Published: February 28, 2009
Thinking about buying a new car? There are some great incentive packages being offered to new car buyers…but there are some financial and credit report questions you should ask yourself first! Original post by miscellaneous
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Gearing Up Your Truck for Summer

By | Published: February 28, 2009
You can protect your truck bed with a truck bed cover. Find out about the different types of covers, including the Access truck bed roll-up cover from ACI. Original post by miscellaneous
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What George Will should have written

By | Published: February 28, 2009
RealClimate: This column recently reported and commented on some developments pertinent to the debate about whether global warming is occurring and what can and should be done. It is no secret that I am a critic of sensationalism in the coverage of environmental issues and that I have a philosophical preference for reality-based policies [...]
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West: California: Drought Emergency Declared

By | Published: February 28, 2009
New York Times: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency because of three years of below-average rain and snowfall, a step that urges urban water agencies to reduce water use by 20 percent. Mandatory rationing is an option if the declaration and other measures are insufficient. The drought has forced farmers to fallow their [...]
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California in drought emergency

By | Published: February 28, 2009
BBC: California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency because of a severe drought. The governor said the drought was having "a devastating impact" on people, the economy and environment. He urged the state’s cities and towns to cut water consumption by 20%, or face the prospect of compulsory cuts. [...]
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United States: Wind farms provide energy – and work

By | Published: February 28, 2009
Sacramento Bee: Like the first blades of grass in scorched earth, a new crop of wind turbines in Solano County will be generating not only electricity but steady income for refugees of the ravaged housing and automotive industries. The beneficiaries include Anthony Perales, a 28-year-old father of three from Stockton, who was squeezed out [...]
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China: Benefit from going green

By | Published: February 28, 2009
China Daily: China can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent if it adopts green technologies. This in turn would help the country become a "green economy" by 2030, said a report released yesterday by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. The report also said China can reduce its oil imports by up [...]
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India: ‘Economic crisis no excuse for reducing climate change funds.’

By | Published: February 28, 2009
Indo-Asian News Service: India Friday stressed that the global economic crisis should not become a cause for developed countries to cut down spending on projects to counter climate change. "The economic slowdown should not be an excuse to reduce, but to re-double efforts on funding for climate change," prime minister’s envoy on climate change [...]
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Australia: Tim Flannery, eco-science’s great campaigner

By | Published: February 28, 2009
Financial Times: Tim Flannery kills the engine on his small white boat and lets it nudge up to a stony outcrop on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, on the northern fringes of Sydney. As the hull grinds softly against the bottom, the 53-year-old writer, explorer and climate campaigner clambers nimbly out to survey the [...]
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Climate change brings more birds to Alaska, bird society says

By | Published: February 28, 2009
KTUU: It took 34 years for Patrick Pourchot to perfect his bird call. Although he is too modest to admit it, it’s a sound even songbirds come to hear. Pourchot has seen all the birds Alaska has to offer, and now he’s scouting one trail for a familiar bird in unfamiliar territory — [...]
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ADB to intensify Asian water security study

By | Published: February 28, 2009
Malaysia Sun: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has commissioned a second edition of its Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) in the run up to the Asia-Pacific Water Summit in 2010. AWDO 2010 will focus on how countries in the region are coping with a wide range of water security issues that pose critical challenges [...]
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United States: Landings at LAX are growing safer, quieter

By | Published: February 28, 2009
LA Times: Up to half the aircraft that land at Los Angeles International Airport each day now use an arrival technique that saves fuel and reduces noise and air pollution in neighborhoods along the eastern approaches to the nation’s fourth-largest airport, the Federal Aviation Administration has announced. Officials said Thursday that the technique also [...]
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United States: Biden brings ‘green’ push to Philadelphia

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Vice President Biden convened the White House’s Middle Class Task Force in Philadelphia yesterday for a daylong inaugural hearing on the promise of prosperity in thousands of "green" jobs expected to be created by the drives to make the nation energy-independent and reduce global warming. The event, in the Irvine Auditorium at [...]
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