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Here's the latest in what ever i usually write about.
A federal appeals court overturned a previous federal desicion to ban mid range sonar testing of the California coast, siting time of war as reason for reversal. The sonar range they are working with is almost sure to mess with migrating whales, and will definitely be somewhat like audio torture, according to marine biologists. read nyt article here.

Good news from the judicial front, a federal judge in Nevada denied the water for testing Yucca mountain's potential as a spent nuclear storage facility. With so much solar and coal availble, and de-centralized generation the most efficient method I don't get the nuclear argument. Help me out here, do we really need deadly spent nuclear material around for the next 10,0000 years? Let me know why...

The National Park service recently decided to go against the 73% of public comments that wanted no snowmobiles in N ROckies parks. Why do they have comment periods? Reada about it in the bustling Billings Gazette here.

MOre bad news for China INc. Hooray for domestic manufacturing. Make sure your kids aren't playing with lead paint here.

On the solar/battery front we have a new player in battery technology, read about it
here. The article also has a nice interactive thing about different motors and how they work, except electric cars which is what the article is about hmmm....

Who's moving to Arkansas and why? Good luck greening the monster

Speaking of moving, Norway sounds good and I hear the skiing is un-believable, check out their initiative to curtail green double speak here.

On the straight solar tip I'll send you to the green wombat blog where 3 bits of good news await your hopeful eyes, though Business 2.0 has been officially canceled as of the october issue. boo-hoo hoo. Read about it here.

Lastly some good humor I scream you to the Onion.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a beautiful moment.