Offshore oil-drilling ban halfway lifted

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bush-lifts-ban-on-offshore-drilling/20080714140209990001

Orangutans and solar panels

brought to you by Sasha Paris  

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.  

Human Ecology in Action.

Could orangutans be the first apes headed for extinction?
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/orangutan-populations-declining-sharply/20080705090009990001

For afficionados, a debate on solar power: environmental impacts, big vs. small, rooftop vs. open-desert etc.
http://grist.org/news/2008/07/03/BLM/