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Higher Education
1. Lake Land College Receives 2 Renewable Energy Grants
2. Stanford U Dedicates Green Building
3. Wesleyan U & U Vermont Students Renounce Kimberly-Clark Products

U.S. & International News
4. Southern Baptists Fight Climate Change
5. EU Report Cites Climate Change Threats
6. Japan denies shooting anti-whaler in clash
7. InkJet-Printed, Flexible, Organic Solar Cells?
8. Senate Approves Consumer Safety Overhaul That Bush Opposes
9. Imperial’s oil sands approval needs details: court
10. OECD: World must act on climate change
11. Bus-sized batteries may help efficiency of US grid

Higher Education
1. U Minnesota Morris to Install 2 Wind Turbines & a Steam Turbine
2. Whitman C to Establish $100,000 Revolving Loan Fund
3. Princeton Announces Sustainability Plan and GHG Commitment
4. U Buffalo Switches to 100% Recycled Paper
5. Harvard To Create Climate Task Force

U.S. & International News
6. New Proposal for Canada Lynx Habitat
7. California Sues US Over Forest Plan
8. Gordon Brown may legislate against free plastic bags
9. ‘Black Cars’ Are Destined to Turn Green
10. Japan may invest $1.93 bn in climate fund
11. Is “Green” Power Money Misguided? Market is Booming, but Dot-Com Memories Make Some Worry Business of Green.
12. Banks say in talks to shape U.S. climate policy
13. Conti’s lithium-ion cell to power Mercedes hybrid
14. Indonesia forest loss killing climate, endangered animals: WWF
15. AMD, Intel, Levi Strauss Among Big Calif. Companies Joining Green Power Buying Group
16. Investors Warned Against Coal-Fired Power Plants

With recent news coming out of Japan that not only will the country’s whale-hunting continue but will include humpback whales for the first time since 1966, there has been quite a bit of uproar coming from some in the environmental community. While Japan intends to land up to 1,035 whales for what it calls scientific research, critics have often scoffed at that claim saying that their intentions are from scientific.

Whenever news stories pop up about oceans and the environment, it seems to me like Greenpeace always gets a mention. I’m not sure if they have a particularly good public relations department or they have become the de-facto voice when the news media is looking for a quote with an environmental perspective. There are doubts by some though whether this is necessarily a good thing because Greenpeace’s tactics are often dismissed as being too radical, which marginalizes the voice of the environmental community.

However, Greenpeace is far from being the most radical group patrolling the seas in the name of environmentalism and animal rights. Paul Watson and the Sea Shepheard Conservation Society, which has been denounced as being a terrorist group, admit that their tactics are much more militant. Not surprisingly, they are outraged by the Japanese governments recent announcements and have pledged to do what they can to disrupt the whaling.

To get an idea of what Paul Watson’s ship is like, the New Yorker did an excellent profile of Paul Watson and his crew. I really encourage you to check out the video here.

Higher Education
1. CU Boulder Works with City to Promote Off-Campus Conservation
2. UNC and NC State Compete to Save Water
3. Furman Receives $1.5 Million Gift Boost Energy Efficiency, Sustainability
National and Internationl News
4. U.N. Chief Seeks More Climate Change Leadership
5. Britain Publishes Climate Change Bill
6. 2007’s word of the year? That would be “locavore”
7. Japan Fleet Sets Off to Hunt Humpbacks
8. From car-borne to carbon
9. OPEC summit to back fight against climate change
10. Emissions pact wins backing: 6 Midwest governors to sign accord
11. China set to beat renewables target – Worldwatch
12. At Wal-Mart, ‘Green’ Has Various Shades: Environmental Push Earns Mixed Results
13. Monkeys rampage in Indian capital

14. New Carbon Standard Guarantees Environmental Integrity and Transparency for Global Offset Market

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