Green-News: Monday 10.27.08
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- Climate change is scary! But it’s also depressing. Quercus has designed this SAD video on global warming awareness. It might upset kids; via GreenDaily.
- Global warming is also THREATENING the Netherlands 120-mile speed-skating marathon across local frozen rivers and canals; the Associated Press reports.
- California wants a 177-MEGAWATT solar-thermal plant in Bakersfield. Currently a 5-megawatt facility serves as a showcase for the technology; from greentechmedia.
- Towns in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Orleans are growing community gardens to help REBUILD small towns and inner-cities; via TreeHugger.
- Recent research has determined MANY pesticides used in European Union may harm the brain of fetuses and young children; ENN reports.
- Rolls-Royce has developed a new propeller-driven engine that could CUT an airline's fuel bills and greenhouse gas emissions by 30%; The Guardian explains.
