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We belong to the "American Solar Energy Society", and the following is an urgent article that everyone needs to know about:
Climate Change News 
 
by Martin Hodgson, The Guardian for America, October 26, 2007
"The future of humanity has been put at risk by a failure to address environmental problems including climage change, species extinction and a growing human population, according to a new UN report". More>
 
This is a fresh look of support for the Green movement - Google To Enter Clean-Energy Business
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Search giant Google on Tuesday pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.  more info 
 
And here is even more support - Grand Rapids Becomes Largest Customer Of Consumers' Green Program
GRAND RAPIDS - The City of Grand Rapids has pledged to obtaining 20 percent of its electric supply from Michigan-based renewable sources by the end of 2008, becoming the largest participant in Consumers Energy's Green Generation program. 
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Here is an article from Environment Michigan: Hope for global warming solutions - Congress on the Move http://www.environmentmichigan.org/newsletters/winter08
 
The State of Michigan might be taking a major step toward saving electricity - New Michigan Legislation To Ban Light Bulb
LANSING - Legislation to ban the incandescent light bulb - invented by Michigan's own Thomas Edison more than a century ago - has been introduced by Senator John Gleason. Senate bill 578 bans the use of incandescent light bulbs. Why would the legislature want to ban something like a light bulb that everyone uses? Find out by listening to this special edition of News Maker Interview with Brandon Ringlever, with BL Government Affairs' Lansing office. 
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DTE Energy Signs Wolverine Power Supply For Wind Energy
DETROIT - DTE Energy has signed an agreement with Cadillac-based Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative to provide wind energy supply for the company's GreenCurrents renewable energy program.  more>>
 
Lime.com always has very interesting articles, and a recent one on the reality of Global Warming was particularly interesting.  Here is a link to that article:
The Fog Around Global Warming
from Planet - Posted By savasthi

Newsweek's cover story on global warming details how and why the climate change issue has long been shrouded in doubt.  
 
Also from Lime.com:
UK Tourism Dept. to Establish Green Ratings for Hotels
from Business - Posted By jjackson

Amid evidence that British tourists would rather their hotel be sustainably run than have five-stars, the UK tourist board
VisitBritain is aiming to establish a green marque which will establish which have genuinely green credentials. Read on
 
Check out what's new for vehicle fuel predictions (from the MiTechnews.com):
David Cole: Politicians In Fantasyland On CAFE Standards
TRAVERSE CITY - David Cole, the host of the Management Briefing Seminars, kicked off Friday's Powertrain program by praising bio-diesel, ethanol and other cellulose-based gasoline brews. Such new fuels "don't need invention," Cole says, "they need aggressive investment and development." He criticizes CAFE standards as misconceptions of "politicians in fantasyland."   more>>