<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Hoefler Text" size="6" color="#741f21" style="font: 28.0px Hoefler Text; color: #741f21"><b>Greenspiration News</b></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="Comic Sans MS" size="5" color="#732725" style="font: 16.0px Comic Sans MS; color: #732725">"The job of the peacemaker is to stop war, to purify the world, to get it saved from poverty and riches, to heal the sick, to comfort the sad, to create joy and beauty wherever you go, to find God in everything and everyone."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5" color="#732725" style="font: 16.0px Comic Sans MS; color: #732725">Muriel Lester</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: 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="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Toronto: The </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A2021B"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Ralph Nader </span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">event I'd advertised for this Friday is postponed till Sept. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#236725" style="font: 24.0px Arial; color: #236725"><b>Increased & Safer Cycling in London (UK)</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"> London has aggressive targets for increasing the number and safety of cyclists. It looks like this plan is working.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">As reported in CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling & Walking, "...there has been a 91% increase in cycle use on the capital's main roads since 2000, and a 33% reduction in cycle casualties in roughly the same period." Wow!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">More info <a href="http://www.ecf.com/3436_1"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#103b62" style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #103b62"><b>here</b></font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; min-height: 11px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#4a2b9f" style="font: 26.0px Arial; color: #4a2b9f"><b>Wind, water and sun beat other energy alternatives, study finds</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">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, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/power-010709.html"><u>http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/power-010709.html</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 28.0px 0.0px; line-height: 32.0px"><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#29289e" style="font: 28.0px Arial; color: #29289e"><b>Build transit — don't bail out cars</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 28.0px 0.0px; line-height: 32.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial"><b>The new road forward might well be on rails.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 28.0px 0.0px; line-height: 32.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><i>by Albert Koehl, Jan. 20, Straightgoods</i></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">General Motors and Chrysler are facing some angry public criticism after pleading for and receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer aid. There's no need to be too hard on them. After all, auto corporations produce and promote products, and lobby legislators for an easier ride — that's their business. Our political leaders are the ones who (are supposed to) make (intelligent) transportation policy — that's supposed to be our (the public's) business.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Can we do better than perpetuating our grossly inefficient and expensive car-centred system for getting around? This is a good time to ask that question.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Full article: <a href="http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=39"><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><u>http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=39</u></font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"> </font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#a4282a" style="font: 24.0px Times New Roman; color: #a4282a">FREEDOM FROM DIRTY OIL: ONTARIO'S TAR SANDS DECISION</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(164, 40, 42); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #333333">Enbridge announced in mid-January 2009 that it was shelving the "Trailbreaker" project. Enbridge may decide to introduce the project again at a later date.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #333333">This report, written before the "Trailbreaker" project was shelved, highlights the environmental harm caused by the tar sands, and what Ontario can do to make sure it isn't held hostage to tar sands oil.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#002bc8" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman; color: #002bc8">Environmental Defence</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://goto.rabble.ca/t?ctl=163C6AE:6A2512C072D42216AC90350C27010C2860A0614370F1CFFE&"><u>http://goto.rabble.ca/t?ctl=163C6AE:6A2512C072D42216AC90350C27010C2860A0614370F1CFFE&</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#a42936" style="font: 24.0px Arial; color: #a42936">FROM TAR SANDS TO GREAT LAKES</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">In this 23 minute audio podcast, Maggie Hughes investigates the growing concerns over the impact of the tar sands beyond Alberta's borders. S</font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#3f3f3f" style="font: 14.0px Arial; color: #3f3f3f">he investigates growing concerns over the transport through pipelines of tar sands oil through Central Canada and United States, and its potential impact on the largest source of fresh water in the world.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: 14.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/citizenshift/81-tar-sands-great-lakes"><u>http://www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/citizenshift/81-tar-sands-great-lakes</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</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="6" color="#4a2b9f" style="font: 24.0px Helvetica; color: #4a2b9f">Green Jobs, Yes We Can</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="6" color="#4a2b9f" style="font: 24.0px Helvetica; color: #4a2b9f">Tar Sands, No We Can’t</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="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">In the near future President Obama will make his first foreign visit to Canada. One of the significant items of discussion will concern energy and climate change.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Let’s make sure that President Obama doesn’t give Stephen Harper a free pass on the Tar Sands.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">In the build-up to President Obama’s visit individuals and groups in Canada and the United States will be standing up and speaking out against the Tar Sands and its many social, environmental and economic costs.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Right now, Canadian mayors across the country are signing a letter to President Obama urging the United States to confront Tar Sands dirty oil and ensure that energy security and climate security go hand-in-hand.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Take Action Now!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Ask your local mayor if they have signed the letter, and if they have not, encourage them to sign on by emailing <a href="mailto:joecressy@polarisinstitute.org">joecressy@polarisinstitute.org</a>. You can find the letter at <a href="http://www.tarsandswatch.org/canadian-mayors-letter-obama"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://www.tarsandswatch.org/canadian-mayors-letter-obama</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Thanks,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">The Tar Sands Watch Team</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; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">January 22, 2009 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: 13.0px Verdana; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090122.wPOLenvi0122/BNStory/politics/home"><u>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090122.wPOLenvi0122/BNStory/politics/home</u></a></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">OTTAWA — The NDP says it has obtained a copy of proposed Conservative legislation that would gut federal environmental regulations.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">The New Democrats says the draft bill would kill environmental assessments for any project on federal lands, or using federal dollars – or any federal infrastructure project worth less than $10-million.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">It would also reportedly exempt any project from federal environmental assessment at the request of a provincial government.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">The NDP and environmental groups say the changes would undo major parts of the Environmental Assessment Act, enacted by the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney in 1992.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 21px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#357034" style="font: 20.0px Times New Roman; color: #357034"><b>OCEAN POWER FARMS ARE CATCHING THE WAVE IN EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"> Nov/08. Calgary Herald</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman">Imagine that 15% of the world’s energy is just waiting to be harnessed from the constant ebb and flow of the ocean. Engineers, entrepreneurs, physicists, oceanographers and now eager investors are getting behind some truly innovative technologies that are powering homes, factories, universities and hospitals. More than 50 wave technology companies around the globe are using almost 60 years’ experience with deep-sea oil platforms as they hurry to deploy wave farms. There are currently more than half a dozen such farms generating electricity in Europe and Australia. Another dozen much larger wave farms will be operational within two years. Canada’s Department of Energy has not spent a dime on ocean wave technologies, yet has committed over a billion dollars to fund nuclear fusion and space-based power, with no tangible results.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#29289e" style="font: 24.0px Arial; color: #29289e"><b>Critics say Canada enabling India's military nuclear program</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">The Canadian Press, January 23</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">OTTAWA — The Conservative government has tarnished Canada's long-standing stature as a non-proliferation advocate in its pursuit of the rich commercial possibilities of nuclear trade, say critics.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Now it must ensure it doesn't compound the problem.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Having lost the main battle over allowing India back into the global nuclear fraternity, peace activists hope Canada drives a hard bargain on sales to the nuclear-armed state. <snip></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">But activists argue that no matter what safeguards Canada puts in place, civilian nuclear aid to India, by definition, frees up domestic Indian capacity for its military program.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#002fd7" style="font: 10.0px Arial; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090123.wcanind0123/BNStory/International/home"><u>Full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090123.wcanind0123/BNStory/International/home</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Changes in doctors' diagnoses cannot explain the sevenfold increase in autism since 1990, a new California study shows. Environmental factors are probably to blame. </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 13.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">The scientists who authored the new study advocate a nationwide shift in autism research to focus on potential factors in the environment that babies and fetuses are exposed to, including pesticides, viruses and chemicals in household products.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Full article: <a href="http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/autism-and-environment"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/autism-and-environment</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><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; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="6" color="#236725" style="font: 24.0px Helvetica; color: #236725">Ontario Grows new Market from Industrial Hemp</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> Ontario will be home to the first North American commercial</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">bio-processing plant for industrial hemp.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> Ontario's Stonehedge Bio-Resources Inc. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">announced today it will receive a $2-million investment by a group of</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">investors from the United Kingdom. Starting in spring 2009, Stonehedge expects</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">to build a new bio-refining facility in eastern Ontario that will employ up to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">27 people by 2011. The company expects to produce more than $17 million per</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">year in renewable hemp fibre, wood-like chips, and pellets, as well as matting</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">and seed products. <a href="http://www.stonehedgebio.ca/"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://www.stonehedgebio.ca/</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(227, 146, 108); min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">--------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="6" color="#236725" style="font: 24.0px Helvetica; color: #236725">Hemp refiner expected to provide new income for 200 farmers</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">Some of the products and co-products are aimed at the automotive, energy, agriculture, construction material, and pulp and paper markets. This fibre separation facility (decortication plant) is expected to provide new farm income for about 200 farmers, putting more than 12,000 acres into cultivation, said John Baker, president and founder of Stonehedge. <a href="http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1400766"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1400766</u></font></a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Times New Roman">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></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></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></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">Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker</font></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">and Stories of ecology and activism</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002fd7"><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org/">http://www.greenspiration.org</a></font></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></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">Join our email list by emailing us at:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#002fd7" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #002fd7"><a href="mailto:greenspiration@web.ca">greenspiration@web.ca</a></font></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">Write "subscribe" in the subject line</font></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">and tell us what city/country you live in</font></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></div><div><br></div></body></html>