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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF"><br>Greenspiration News</font></span></font><div><br></div><div>“If you want peace, work for justice.”</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- HL Mencken</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF">Sock and Awe</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Objective: Hit President Bush in the face with a shoe - do it! You know you want to.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">After a few tries, I got 10 -- beat that!</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://play.sockandawe.com">http://play.sockandawe.com</a>/</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2A60D7">New Roads = New Pollution</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2A60D7">Keep the economic stimulus clean</font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #333333"><b><i>In order to substantially reduce transportation emissions, we must stop building the infrastructure that encourages more driving.</i></b></font></p></div><div><a href="http://www.foe.org/economic_stimulus/climate-impacts.html">http://www.foe.org/economic_stimulus/climate-impacts.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 35px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br></b></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 35px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: normal;"><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2A60D7">Wind, Water and Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear and Coal for Energy </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2A60D7">Generation, Study Says</font></b></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#111111" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #111111">The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><i>Best to worst electric power sources:</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">1. Wind power 2. concentrated solar power (CSP) 3. geothermal power 4. tidal power 5. solar photovoltaics (PV) 6. wave power 7. hydroelectric power 8. a tie between nuclear power and coal with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 230); "><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54292">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54292</a></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; 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line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #333333">The Green Budget Coalition, comprising 20 of Canada’s leading environmental and conservation organizations, released its recommendations this month for Budget 2009, which details the Coalition’s priority recommendations for the 2009 federal budget. </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #333333">These recommendations include recommendations on carbon pricing, renewable energy and energy efficiency, Great Lakes clean-up and nature conservation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #333333"><b>More information can be found at </b><font color="#1668a9" style="color: #1668a9"><b><a href="http://www.greenbudget.ca/">www.greenbudget.ca</a></b></font></font></p></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 28, 255); letter-spacing: -1px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Recession Relief Fund Declaration Launched</span></font></span></span></div></div></div></div></span></span></font></div></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 35px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: normal;"><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">The Federal Government Must Increase Spending on Supports for Canada's most Vulnerable</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060606">The Recession Relief Coalition is calling for a Recession Relief Fund, which will provide support for agencies, such as food banks, drop-ins, shelters and employment centres, providing essential services to our most vulnerable people. This fund should also provide money for a National housing Program.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060606" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060606" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Sign the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 28, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060606">on-line declaration here:</font> <a href="http://socialplanningtoronto.org/recession_relief_fund.html"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6">http://socialplanningtoronto.org/recession_relief_fund.html</font></a></font></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">December 17, 2008</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; color: #002fd7"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Worldwatch Institute </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; color: #002fd7"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Earth Policy Institute </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">At a time when major U.S. companies are announcing job layoffs almost daily, the renewable energy industry is hiring new workers every day to build wind farms, install rooftop solar arrays, and build solar thermal and geothermal power plants. The output of industrial firms that manufacture the equipment for these energy facilities is expanding by well over 30 percent a year. 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 35px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" style="font: 32.0px Trebuchet MS; letter-spacing: -1.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF">Greek protesters seek European support</font></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana">December 17, Globe and Mail</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana">ATHENS — Protesters hung two giant banners off the Acropolis Wednesday, with slogans calling for mass demonstrations across Europe and "resistance," after days of violent protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens...</font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana">The riots that followed the teenager's death are the worst Greece has seen in decades, feeding off widespread dissatisfaction with the unpopular conservative government and anger over social inequality and economic hardship...</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana">On Tuesday, a group of youths stormed their way into Greece's state television and radio studios, forcing broadcasters to put out anti-government messages.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana">Ten young protesters disrupted a state NET television news broadcast of the prime minister's speech, appearing live on national television carrying banners that read: "Stop watching, get out onto the streets" and "Free everyone who has been arrested."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Full article: <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081217.wgreece1217/BNStory/International">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081217.wgreece1217/BNStory/International</a> </span></p></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF"><br></font></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF">Green giant urges energy rethink</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Calls combo of wind, hydroelectric power `absolutely perfect'</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">Toronto Star, Dec. 18</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ontario could power itself exclusively on renewable energy one day if it thought</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">differently about the operation and design of its entire electricity system,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">says the chief architect of Germany's green-energy law.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">German legislator Hermann Scheer, largely credited for pushing through the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">policies that have turned his country into a renewable-energy powerhouse, said</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the biggest challenge is overcoming the belief that large, centralized power</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">plants based on nuclear fission and fossil fuels are necessary for an</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">electricity system to operate reliably.</div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Full article: <a href="http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/555638">http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/555638</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 28.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#661CFF">Toronto stood up to bottled water industry</font></b></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Dec 11, 2008 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana"><b>TONY CLARKE - Polaris Institute</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Toronto's decision last week to ban the sale and distribution of bottled water on city premises was a watershed moment for water justice advocates the world over. What was truly significant about Toronto's action was not that it banned an environmentally destructive product, but that it included a commitment to ensuring access to tap water in all city facilities...</font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">It's becoming clear that the recent love affair with bottled water has reached its limits. Bottled water's 15 minutes are up, the marketing scam is out of the closet and the tap is back. The simple fact is that there is no "green" solution to bottled water. While it might serve a function during natural disasters or other contingencies, it is no alternative to the tap.</font></p></font><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Full article: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/551909">http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/551909</a> </span></font></p></div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2742DE"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2742DE">Pedal Revolutionary Radio</font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Through the magic of moving parts, we transform RUSH HOUR death metal to the TUSH HOUR in the free air.</div><div><br></div><div>Listen to livestream</div><div>Hear past shows</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://pedalrevolutionary.blogspot.com">http://pedalrevolutionary.blogspot.com</a>/</div><div><br></div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2742DE"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">An Inconvenient Truth</span></font></font></div><div>CBC Documentary Special</div><div><br></div><div>Airing: Wed. 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