Due to the New Year holiday, Friday Linkfest appears this week on Sunday. Hope you had a pleasant start to 2009. We will be back on Friday in the week ahead!
Good News
- California implements global warming ratings for all new cars sold in 2009, providing information on the cars' smog and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Beijing is banning highly polluting cars from the inner city.
- Shade grown coffee is beneficial for the genetic diversity of native tree species and acts as a focal point for tropical forest regeneration.
- Human hair can be a good fertilizer for plants.
- Awesome: a Utah activist successfully disrupted a drill lease auction, bidding up parcels by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Bad News
- The economic crisis and low oil prices are threatening the green revolution, stalling renewable energy initiatives.
- A coal ash spill from a power plant in Tennessee is polluting nearby water sources with heavy metals and other dangerous chemicals.
- Meanwhile, over a 100 million Americans are breathing sooty air, living in 46 metropolitan areas that failed EPA's air pollution standards.
- Coral growth on Australia's Great Barrier Reef has reached the lowest rate in 400 years, threatened by climate change and pollution.
- And speaking of Australia, climate change isn't moved by koala cuteness, threatening the marsupials with extinction.
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