• Mapping the Development Process
  
  
• 3-D: Looking at a New Dimension
  
  
• The Environmental Liability
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• GPS System Makes the Grade
  
  
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• Also with articles about regulations,
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• Sustainable Reality Sets In
  (September 2007) Universities are staying ahead of the curve when it comes to teaching sustainable development techniques.
  By SLDT Senior Editor Rob Kundert

• Governor Keeps them Guessing
  (October 8, 2007) Environmentalists and industry officials are holding their breath, waiting for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to act on environmental bills that would do everything from require green building standards to ban controversial chemicals in children's toys. Source: San Jose Mercury News

• Smog Traps California Community
  (October 8, 2007) This small farming community at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley has a distinction that often brings tears to the eyes of its residents. It is the smoggiest place in the United States.Source: The Washington Post

• Manipulating the Climate Message
  (October 8, 2007) President Bush's change of the title of his recent international climate gathering from the "big emitters" conference to the "major economies" conference reveals the exquisite sensitivity of global climate politics. Source: BBC

• Lawmakers will Proceed on Climate Plan
  (October 4, 2007) Legislative leaders in the House and Senate said yesterday that they plan to press ahead with proposals to limit U.S. emissions linked to global warming, focusing on mandatory, economy-wide caps of the kind that President Bush explicitly rejected last week in a climate conference he hosted.Source: The Washington Post  

• Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age
  (October 4, 2007) Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records. Source: Terra Daily

• Climate Warming Skeptics: Is the Research too Political?
  (August 24, 2007) Some say findings of human-caused global warming say more about politics than about science. But scientists who contributed to UN reports on climate say that's wrong.Source: Christian Science Monitor

• Want to Stop Global Warming? Stop Coal
  (October 1, 2007)  Today, at the conclusion of Climate Week, Architecture 2030 delivered the 'silver bullet' for solving the global warming crisis in a full-page ad in The New York Times. According to Edward Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030, the only way to stop global warming is to stop coal.Source: Environmental News Network

• Back to Nature: £12m Plan to let Sea Flood Reclaimed Land and Recreate Lost Habitats in UK
  (October 8, 2007) Conservation experts are to reverse five centuries of British history and deliberately allow rising sea levels to flood a huge stretch of reclaimed Essex coastline. Source: London Guardian  

• Forests in Peril
  (October 7, 2007) The pressure of development, the exploding deer population, the proliferation of invasive plants and insects, and climate change on the region’s native species is threatening the woodlands of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.Source: The New York Times   

• Release of Reservoir Water puts Drought to the Test
  (October 8, 2007) In an extraordinary measure aimed at determining whether the DC region truly is in a drought, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a torrent of water from a dam in far Western Maryland to test how long it will take the water to reach this region.Source: The Washington Post   

• Using Source Protection Planning to Identify Source Vulnerabilities
  (October 2007) Coca-Cola is finding that source water protection is an effective business continuity strategy that can reduce costs, improve ecosystem health, and benefit the communities where it operates.Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development  

• Coal Fired Plants, a National Catch-22
  (September 29, 2007)Coal-fired power plants are the powerhouse of our power grid, but they're also a major source of the country's air pollution. Source: The Beaver County Times   

• Majority of Retailers Taking Sustainability to Heart, Survey Finds
  (October 2, 2007) The Retail Industry Leaders Association's new Sustainability Initiative aims to develop cleaner and greener business practices while making sure customers and policymakers recognize the progress made by the group. And a new survey finds that 66 percent of retailers have already begun the transition to green.Source: Green Biz News  

• Most Americans and Canadians Say 'Green' Labeling Just a Marketing Tactic
  (October 2, 2007) Most Americans and Canadians view green product labels as just a sales tactic and are reluctant to pay for such products, according to a recent study.Source: Green Biz News   

• Eco Wal-Mart Costs Marketers Green
  (October 2007) For Wal-Mart stores, green marketing isn't just about the color of trees and grass -- it's also about the color of money. The retailer's heralded sustainability initiative, labeled a "win-win-win" for the companies, the environment and consumers, is turning into less of a victory lap than expected for brand marketers. For example, the push could cost Procter & Gamble Co. $200 million alone by one estimate. Source: Advertising Age

• Battle of Forest Certification StandardsRages
  (October 4, 2007) A report that describes the Forest Stewardship Council as the gold standard in certification for sustainable forestry practice could add fuel to a controversy pitting forestry companies and environmentalists. Source: The Gazette

• Introduction to Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-based Products
  (October 2, 2007) Decisions regarding the purchase and use of wood and paper-based products can have far-reaching, long-term impacts for the forests where they are harvested, the communities supported by wood-using industries, and the places where those products are purchased and used. Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

• Kohl’s Installs First of 63 Solar Power Systems
  (September 27, 2007) Kohl's has flipped the switch on a rooftop solar energy system at its Laguna Niguel store that it says is part of the largest planned U.S. photovoltaic solar rollout to date. Source: Environmental Leader

• Weyerhaeuser Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index, North America
  (October 3, 2007) Weyerhaeuser is the only North American forest products company in the industry category of basic materials to be named. Source: CNN Money

• Biomass - Growing Renewable Energy
  (September 25, 2007) As the world expands its reliance on renewable energy sources to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to shore up available sources of energy supply, various forms of renewable energy are being examined. Source: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development

• Americans Get It Wrong, Point To Cars & Trucks As Largest GHG Source
  (October 4, 2007) Thirty-five percent of Americans think road transportation is the single largest consumer of energy in the U.S, according to John Manville's Energy Awareness Month Survey (via Building Green TV). Source: Environmental Leader

• Once Red-hot Demand for Ethanol runs into a Cold Spot
  (October 2, 2007) Dreams of a vehicle fuel from American farms - not Mideast oil fields - fewer global-warming emissions and a booming new industry, as well as government incentives, set off a wave of ethanol plant construction in the last couple of years.Source: Recordnet

• Energy Farms are Increasingly Dotting Kansas' Landscape
  (October 7, 2007) The potential of wind power in Kansas is obvious to anyone sticking a wet finger in the air, especially in the western half of the state. But other states have done a better job at promoting this indigenous resource.Source: Topeka Capital-Journal

• Michigan Counties Ban Fertilizer
  (October 7, 2007) Bay County, Mich. officials are mulling a countywide ban on phosphorus lawn fertilizers. A neighboring county has already outlawed phosphorus, and landscapers say the ban should be instituted on a statewide level if it must arrive at all.Source: Landscape Online

• Businesses Seize Green Initiative
  (October 6, 2007) While some businesses worry that regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will drive energy prices higher as utilities build costly nuclear or next-generation coal plants, other businesses see an opportunity.Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

• Tapping Tidal Energy: The Wave of the Future
  (October 7, 2007) The future of clean power in the Northwest may look like the 75-foot-tall yellow buoy now bobbing like a cork in the waves off the Oregon coast. Or maybe it will more closely resemble a gargantuan red snake, riding the swells and capturing their energy.Source: Seattle Times

• Ecotourism May Benefit India's Environment, Economy
  (October 3, 2007) Recent assessments of the state of the environment in 32 states across India indicate that the country's rising economic prosperity is putting the environment under stress.Source: Worldwatch Institute

• Trees Offer Superb Erosion Control
  (September 28, 2007) Recently, over 500 people traveled to a symposium in Sacramento, Calif. A parade of scientists summarized findings that trees landscaped on levees can improve the levees’ strength and aid in flood safety. Federal officials, however, maintain every mature tree must be cut down on the levees.Source: Landscape Online

• Georgia turns a Cold Shoulder to Global Warming
  (October 5, 2007) Although a growing number of states are taking steps to slow global warming, setting new limits on cars or industry leaves Georgia lawmakers cold.Source: The Telegraph

Editor's Note: SLDT News Service may feature press releases submitted directly by organizations in SLDT's network. This content is not specifically endorsed or supported by SLDT and is not subject to SLDT's editorial process.

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