Ideas Sought To Protect The Broads

Families and business leaders could hold the key to protecting the environment on the - and officials are seeking new ideas which could be backed up with a share of a ï¿¡200,000 grant.

The Broads Authority has today called on local people, companies and organisations to come forward with solutions which could help protect wildlife and reduce the carbon footprints of the tens of thousands of tourists who visit the Broads every year.

Each year since 2002 the government has provided ï¿¡200,000 to each of the UK’s National Parks to inspire communities to come up with bright ideas which will benefit the area.

The Broads Authority has used the money to form a , helping promote , with green business, boating, biking and canoeing projects, education programmes and projects to help disadvantaged people.

Funding has also now been given for a study and carbon audit of the Broads to be carried out by the Cred programme, based at the .

The study will provide a picture of where come from and how much is produced, so the Broads Authority can draw up a plan to comply with government targets.

In the past the cash has helped launch the ’s Go Electric! campaign which gave grants for eight from diesel to electric.

Subsidies have also been given to help fund the only Green Boat Show in the UK, held on Salhouse Broad in September last year.

The in Norwich has also been given an ï¿¡8,000 grant to pilot a project, landscaping the grounds and building , an amphitheatre and a .

A spokeswoman for the Broads Authority said: “The projects we fund are wide-ranging but have several things in common. They are all innovative, sustainable, and improve the life of people living in and working in the area. The Broads Authority is keen to help young people and which do not qualify for other public funding. No project is too large or too small.”

Some of the organisations which have benefited from funding in the past include the Norfolk Schools Sailing Association which was awarded a ï¿¡15,200 grant to buy five new Wayfarer dinghies to help introduce schoolchildren to sailing.

The boats will replace 20 year old boats which were beyond repair.

David Wrenn, commodore of the association, said: “The help and support we have been given from the Broads Authority is brilliant. It is fantastic that they are helping projects like ours that bring a benefit to the community.

“Everyone who works here is a volunteer and gives their time for free so having the grant and being able to upgrade the boats has been a big boost for us.”

A leaflet, Bright ideas wanted, explains who and what qualifies for funding. It is available from the Broads Authority office at 18 Colegate, Norwich and at information centres.

The project follows the launch of the Broads Tourism Forum 2008 A Day in the Broads campaign with Visit Norwich, supported with funding from the Broads Authority’s sustainable development fund.

The focus of the campaign this year is to encourage green tourism with prominence being given to activities such as cycling, walking and nature spotting.

In December last year, the Evening News revealed how The Broads Authority had been awarded an extra ï¿¡1.3m of government funding over three years to be spent on important conservation projects.

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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Sculpture Honors Logging Legacy In Enumclaw

Power, strength and danger. Retired logger Michael sees all these qualities in the larger-than-life bronze figures recently installed at the new Logging Legacy in downtown Enumclaw. A with his goad stick and a joined by a are all bent forward, their backs and their shoulders straining atop a huge slab of sandstone.

and hobnail boots push forward as one.

Still to be installed is a 20-foot long, 5-foot- diameter bronze log that will connect to the oxen by bronze chain. A Tacoma foundry is putting the log pieces together.

“I think it is a great thing,” said of the memorial in his hometown.

“For some of us, growing up with those men – dads and stuff – they were our heroes,” said , 61. “They need to be remembered. The military has its memorials.”

The park will pay tribute to the more than 8,000 dead and 65,000 injured in the in the state in the last 100 years, according to Tom Poe, president of the Logging Legacy Foundation. It has raised close to $550,000 since 2002.

, who grew up in a logging family and worked in the industry for nearly 26 years until his knees gave out, knows the toll the woods can take on bodies and lives.

He was injured a couple of times. He also remembers a hot July afternoon in 1984 when his best friend died in his arms on a hillside in the woods after being run over by a tractor.

is a jeweler, not a logger, but he has a of community and the history of Enumclaw. He also had the vision for a memorial.

Enumclaw isn’t the it once was, especially with the closure of ’s White River Mill in 2003. But said there’s still a of logging in the surrounding woods.

He took his idea for a memorial to Enumclaw Dan Snider. The artist came back with the stylized oxen and dragging a log, the same kind of logging that cleared the plateau in the 1860s.

“I started carrying around a small mock-up in bronze,” said.

The nonprofit foundation was formed and the fundraising began.

The city donated parkland in front of the Enumclaw Library. said it took eight or nine meetings with city committees and commissions to get the go-ahead.

“It wasn’t without opposition,” he said. “It’s different, a little and meant to be striking, enduring and tell the story for a long time.”

Donations came primarily from private individuals, close to 300 of them, he said. There also were corporate donors, including , Mutual of Enumclaw and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.

Chuck Nelson from the Wilkeson Sandstone Quarry donated the 136,000 pounds of sandstone base for the bronzes as well as for the benches, rocks and pavers in the park.

Nelson’s huge mobile crane lifted the heavy pieces into place.

said that if he had to bid out the project today, it would cost $2 million.

“Both the artist and the foundry felt it would be a signature piece and they were willing to work more for exposure,” he said.

said that for him the work epitomizes “the resolve and toughness these loggers had. This was the spirit of the Northwest. It was tough and rough.”

Kevin Keating of The Bronze Works in Tacoma is rushing to cast and assemble the bronze log in time for the June 14 dedication. The log is made up of 84 pieces that must be welded together. Each of the oxen had 65 pieces.

The entire sculpture will use 15,000 pounds of bronze, Keating said. The foundry has been working on it for 18 months.

“It’s pretty much the largest overall project we have ever done,” he said.

Keating said those involved were proud to be part of a local project of such magnitude.

“So many of our bronze pieces go outside the area,” he said. “We don’t get to brag about them.”

The oxen drew immediate attention when they were installed. A plan to cover the sculpture until dedication day was scrapped.

“They look so powerful,” Carol Smith said as she and her husband, Brit, strolled around the memorial last week. Landscapers were hard at work.

“There is such a rich history here,” she said. “I think it’s sad there is no real logging presence anymore.”

Allan Magstadt of Enumclaw Landscaping also liked what he saw.

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008

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Msis New Green House

landscaping.jpg”>Eco-friendly advancements are being made in building design and construction—think sustainable materials, efficiency of resources, and energy-reducing wiring and appliances. If this topic interests you, the new Smart Home: Green + Wired exhibit, opening tomorrow at the Museum of Science and Industry, is a neat opportunity to learn more about green buildings.

The exhibit is a real, fully functional, 2,500 square foot home squatting on the museum’s east lawn, demonstrating how landscaping, design, and technology can all work together to reduce the carbon footprint of a building. Private residences, as well as the examples of green architecture and design that have been creeping into the city’s skyline, are all contributing to the push to make Chicago one of the nation’s “greenest” cities.

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Friday, May 9th, 2008

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Board Approves Plan For New Kohl’s Store

The revitalization of Alameda Towne Centre took another step Monday as the approved the makeover of the building that currently houses Mervyn’s .

The renovation will set the stage for a Kohl’s store to open at the site in March, said Mike Corbitt of Realty, which owns and manages the shopping mall.

The new store comes as Borders . is about to open as an anchor store at the mall — earlier this month the bookstore hosted a job fair for the site.

While the idea of a Kohl’s opening has raised a few eyebrows among bloggers and others who say they’d like a more , a sampling of shoppers at the mall on Thursday found most people pleased with it.

“With the economy the way it is, I think it’s a good thing when you have a new business opening,” said 58-year-old Glenn Hendrickson, a retired electrician. “How can people have problems with that? It would be a lot worse if places were closing.”

The design that the board approved Monday does not call for the of the building to undergo a . But a portion of the store floor area — along the east and south sides of the building — will be converted into five smaller shops, eliminating the unbroken wall that currently exists on those sides.

Other changes include expanding the loading dock so that there will be two instead of one, with the entrances to Kohl’s being located on

the north side near the AC Transit bus stop and on the south side facing the interior.

New landscaping, benches and are planned, plus additional .

“I haven’t really shopped at Kohl’s before,” said Alameda resident Dorothy Kirschner, 32, as she was leaving Trader Joe’s. “There just hasn’t been one near where I live. But having one here is a good thing. Landscaping Idea It will give us more choice.”

The changes at the shopping mall have been in the works since at least August 2002, when Realty submitted an to the city that included everything from installing palm trees and the construction of a 7,000-square foot Safeway to securing Trader Joe’s.

It also included the removal of a Chevron service station and the construction of a Walgreens at the same site.

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Friday, May 9th, 2008

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Planning Commission Seeking Further Revisions To Berendos Home Proposal

The is seeking as small a as possible for a home on Berendos Avenue in .

Nestled between a hillside and and at the mouth of Modoc Place and Avenue, the one-acre lot has a very small with natural restrictions and city regulations already in place. The owner, Dave Colt, reduced the scale of a former version of his plans to present to the April 21. Nevertheless, the commissioners unanimously requested Colt return June 2 with a revision that puts less of a on the lot Landscaping Idea. The commissioners also requested Colt return with a plan that calls for no parking on the street in the front of the lot, which will require a variance on the front setback that is normally required.

The commissioners were pleased with some aspects of the scaled-down , but were intrigued that the coverage on the lot could get even smaller.

The version of the plans they reviewed called for a two-story home containing four bedrooms, three baths with a limited, uninhabitable attic space that will not be higher than . The total living area was reduced from 3,500 square feet to 2,700 . The overall height of the home would be 26 feet, reduced from 35 feet. A two-car attached garage with two adjacent on the developed part of the lot was proposed. The commissioners were concerned those must be placed well clear of the street and will not present a traffic or pedestrian . The curb will be painted red to prevent people from parking along that portion of the street.

A sidewalk on the portion of the lot facing the street will be created out of . Addressing concerns from the neighbors about safety on that part of the road, the sidewalk will be open to the public. During construction, trucks will not be permitted to block the roadway as it is narrow and would severely restrict .

The home was relocated on the lot 25 feet away from the creek to increase the habitat of the San Francisco garter snake and California red-legged frog, as recommended by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is now at the base of the hill and 15 feet from the closest dwelling on Modoc Place. Some eucalyptus trees will have to be removed, which raised objections from several neighbors who objected to a potential loss of wildlife.

Planning staff prepared a mitigated negative declaration and asserts it is all that is necessary to fulfill CEQA requirements. However, many members of the public who addressed the commissioners at past meetings and at this last meeting wanted the commissioners to require the owner to prepare a full environmental impact report. They were concerned about , storm water drainage, potential loss of wildlife, the removal of dirt and a sense that the home did not blend in well among the smaller homes of the neighborhood.

Commissioner Rich Campbell, who addressed his colleagues as a member of the public because he lives close to the building site, brought up concerns about protecting wildlife. He also said the unique configuration of pedestrians and vehicles created a potential hazard.

“I appreciate that he tuned it down, but he did not scale it down adequately, 3,000 is not reasonable,” Campbell said. “These safety issues must be addressed. Prohibit parking along that site. There’s still a fair argument for an EIR.”

In response, planning staff added additional requirements to which the owner must now comply, if his project is approved. To address issues about biology, the owner must comply with recommendations from the GGNRA. In addition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service required the owner apply for an incidental take permit for the California red-legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake. A condition was added that requires an exclusionary fence and escape funnel designed as recommended by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ensure the endangered species are protected. The habitat area shall not be used for construction purposes. After construction, a permanent barrier - buried at least six inches and rising 24 inches above ground - will replace the . If wildlife is discovered during construction, construction will stop.

Addressing concern about preserving the upland habitat and movement corridors, Landscaping Idea an additional condition was added that prohibits structures, the use of pesticides and other actions that would harm the habitat area.

Addressing culvert and drainage impacts, the city will now require the owner to allow city staff to walk onto the property and maintain the culvert and creek channel. Staff will review and approve a drainage plan the owner will submit. No run-off will be directed into the creek.

The home plans will require a variance for exceeding the allowable lot disturbance and to allow a side yard setback. Planning staff recommended the commissioners approve this and allow a 15.6 percent lot disturbance, with 7.5 percent of that in .

“The may prefer the applicant further reduce the of the building thereby reducing the disturbed area and the amount of the variance needed for the maximum allowable lot coverage,” the staff report reads. In staff’s opinion, it would be possible to design a dwelling of 2,700 or less living area with a smaller that the proposed dwelling. The has expressed concerns about not exceeding the maximum allowable lot coverage for other projects but in this case, the maximum allowable lot coverage is a negative number, which raises practical issues. Also, the dwelling does not exceed the proposed living area threshold for the proposed Mega Home Ordinance.”

The commissioners did not approve the variance at this meeting and instead held out for a plan that decreases the total lot disturbance.

A neighbor asked for story poles to give the community a sense of how they will be impacted by the new residence. A couple of neighbors spoke in favor of the development saying that the owner did a good and thoughtful job developing plans and that it would make a nice addition to the neighborhood.

But one neighbor, Steve Candido, the one whose property is now closest to where the new home will be, said he didn’t appreciate the new setback from the creek.

“It’s right on top of me. But you should let him go forward to the next step,” he said.

The commissioners expressed their pleasure with the progress the owner made on scaling down the project.

“This has been a genuine improvement,” said Commissioner Harold Cicerone, noting there will be a peer review of the plans once the approves them. “A lot of things have been addressed. The actual being disturbed is very small. Idea I don’t need an EIR to tell me there are species on this site. I’m comfortable with that part of it. We are being sensitive to the creek.”

Chair Leo Leon pushed for a smaller .

“This project can be designed with a smaller . I’m concerned about retaining walls, especially if they are unnecessary and I believe they are unnecessary, he said.

Commissioner Celeste Langille said the home is too big for the lot. She asked for a covenant to restrict any future owners of the property from changing the conditions that the planning staff is putting in place. Director of Planning Michael Crabtree responded that those covenants could be put in place.

“This is an environmentally sensitive lot close to a hill and a creek and he will have to get an incidental take permit. The size is out of character with the neighborhood. This is more variance of the Hillside Preservation District than I’d like to see. I would like to see a redesign with a smaller house. Safety is another issue. Parking is not resolved,” she said.

“The applicant has done a fine job,” said Commissioner B. J. Nathanson, noting the elements that will be taken care of by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the peer review. “At what point are we micromanaging what people can do? But I like the idea of a smaller .”

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Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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How to Move Green – Green Moving Terms

Take a look at the great information provided here on green terms that you may come across in the moving process.

The term Alternative Fuel and Energy refers to the types of energy and fuels that are produced from renewable sources such as wind and solar power. We hope that in the future, all moving companies will have practical options available to them for fueling their moving trucks.

A product is considered biodegradable when it can be broken down and absorbed into our ecosystem. There are some types of biodegradable products in moving, such as packing/foam peanuts.

Carbon Neutral refers to a company, person or action that produces zero or, perhaps, takes action to offset those emissions.

Hopefully many people have heard the term Carbon . This is a measurement of the impact a product or person has on the environment in terms of greenhouse gases produced. This is measured in units of carbon dioxide. Cardboard boxes and packing peanuts have a carbon that we should all be aware of.

An Eco-assessment is an evaluation of your home or business with the aim of cutting your energy and water usage. After you have unpacked and are settled in, take the time to evaluate your home and see what improvements you can make.

The term Environmentally Preferable refers to a products or service that has a lesser effect on our environment. In moving, the morning newspaper or an old t-shirt to pack your valuables would be environmentally preferred over packing peanuts.

Green design is a type of architectural design that utilizes strict environmentally sound principles of building. If you are still looking for a house to move to, consider looking for one that has green design such as solar panels, , or recycled building materials.

The household phrase reduce, reuse, recycle is still a standard today. It’s important to get the most out of each product you use. Reuse your moving boxes for other purposes.

It is also important to reduce the amount of products you buy, or the amount of waste and products you dispose of. And at the end of a product’s life, it will be time to reprocess it into raw, usable material, if possible.

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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Mayor Tim defends new car preference

Councillor Thelma Buck said yesterday it was inappropriate and obscene for ratepayers to be funding a V8 mayoral car in todays climate of high petrol and car prices and the talk of leaving a lighter carbon on the planet.
However, Mr Shadbolt said he wanted the car because it left a smaller carbon than his current car.
The new V8 model had a cutback to four cylinders, he said.
%26quot;Thelma survives by criticising the mayor … she makes speeches like children of solo mothers are lying in the gutters because of the mayors new car. I admire her passion but the fact is the mayors car doesnt make a difference to the rates. Its part of the machinery (replacement) fund set up a long time ago,%26quot; he said.
Mr Shadbolt said his mayoral car was a Chrysler 300c which was midnight blue. He had requested a new Chrysler 300c, colour midnight blue.
%26quot;There hasnt been a model change or a colour change. All theres been is a motor change and the reason I wanted a motor change is because you leave a smaller (carbon) ,%26quot; he said.
It was council policy that senior staff got a new car every three years, he said.
%26quot;Richard (city council chief executive Richard King) is getting a new Commodore at the moment, all senior staff get new cars (every three years) … but you dont have to worry about them because they wont get a story in the newspaper,%26quot; Mr Shadbolt said.
Mr Shadbolts request for a V8 was in stark contrast to the Kapiti Coast District Council mayoral car a small 1300cc Mazda %26quot;green machine%26quot;, said Kapiti Coast council spokesman Tony Cronin.
%26quot;The mayor (Jenny Rowan) got it on the basis it was seen as being environmentally friendly … but you couldnt pull a concrete mixer behind it,%26quot; Mr Cronin said.
Some people on the Kapiti Coast thought the mayoral car should befit the mayors status, but the little green machine was appropriate for the region as it was a New Zealand leader in sustainability, he said.
The Southland Times yesterday asked Mr King to provide a breakdown of how many new cars the city council was providing its senior staff this year, and the cost. Mr King said the information would be available today.

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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Mayor wants new car but the time may not be right

But there is some confusion about whether he is even entitled to one.
Mr Shadbolt said the councils staff contracts gave them new cars every three years, and this tended to be the case for staff.
Two years ago Mr Shadbolt wrote off the mayoral car in a car crash. It was replaced by his insurance company.
Mr Shadbolt said there now appeared to be confusion about whether he could get a new car this year. It had been three years since the council had paid for one but his car was only two years old.
%26quot;I dont think weve ever come across a situation like this before.%26quot; Mr Shadbolt said he now wanted to change to a different model of car, one he had wanted previously but which was not available two years ago.
The car he wanted was a V8, but had a cutback to four cylinders and would leave a much smaller carbon than the car he had at present, which had no cutback, he said.
However, the idea has disgusted at least one city councillor.
Cr Thelma Buck last night said she believed the mayor wanted to buy another Chrysler. However, given car and petrol prices and the talk of leaving a lighter carbon on the planet it was inappropriate for ratepayers to be funding such a car.
%26quot;I thought it was obscene,%26quot; she said.
The original telephone interview to Mayor Tim was cut off yesterday before all questions had been asked. When The Southland Times tried to contact him later to find out what exact make and model of car he wanted to buy the call was answered then disconnected.
When texted, Mr Shadbolt replied by text that there was no car situation: %26quot;Bt hey dont let the truth gt in the way of a good story%26quot; was his reply.

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Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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Pulp fact Books publishing gets greener

NEW YORK –The latest report about the publishing industry doesn’t compile sales figures, track the market for fiction or lament the future of reading. It does tell a great deal about books - not what they say, but what they’re made of.

“Environmental Trends and Climate Impacts” is an 86-page summary, printed on 50 percent post-consumer recycled paper and full of charts about fiber, endangered forests and carbon footprints. The news: The book world, which uses up more than 1.5 million metric tons of paper each year, is steadily, if not entirely, finding ways to make production greener.

“I was very pleasantly surprised,” said Tyson Miller, founder and director of the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit program which has worked extensively with publishers on environmental issues. “We’re seeing a groundswell of momentum and real measurable progress.”

Commercially, publishers have certainly discovered the benefits of green, with best-sellers including Deirdre Imus’ “Green This!” and Al Gore’s companion guide to the Academy Award-winning movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” Environmental themes can be found in novels, children’s stories and business books.

But reading books is healthier than making them. The climate impact survey, released Monday and co-commissioned by Green Press and the nonprofit Book Industry Study Group, offers a mixed picture about industry practices.

There is great support in theory for going greener, but results are uneven. Just over half of publishers, for instance, have set specific goals for increasing use of recycled paper. About 60 percent have a formal environmental policy or are in the process of completing one.

Declining to name any specific companies, Miller said “the other 40 percent just aren’t taking the issue seriously or they aren’t willing to pay a penny more to move in the right direction.

“But,” he added, “critical mass has no doubt been reached and my sense is that the majority of those publishers that aren’t acting will step up and join their peers in this effort.”

Seventy-six publishers, representing just under half of the market, participated in the study, along with 13 printers (about 25 percent) and six paper mills (about 17 percent).

One publisher that hasn’t set targets is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A spokesman says Houghton “has been actively working to increase usage of recycled papers in its print products and has in fact substantially increased its use of recycled papers in recent years.

“While we haven’t formally adopted corporate-wide percentage goals for use of recycled papers, we are currently reviewing procurement policies from the standpoint of environmental impact,” spokesman Rick Blake told The Associated Press.

Regnery Publishing, a conservative press based in Washington, D.C., also has not set any targets and has no plans to do so. Jim Zerr, Regnery’s director of production and distribution, said the reason isn’t ideology, but economics; recycled paper is more expensive than regular paper.

“We basically follow what our competitors and the leaders of the industry are doing,” he said, adding that he didn’t expect any changes until “the Random Houses of the world, and the HarperCollins and Simon %26 Schusters start ordering enough tonnage of that product” to make using it more practical.

Compared to late 2001, when Miller began working with publishers, cooperation is easy. “University presses and a few smaller presses were making progress,” he says, but no major company had announced any public environmental goals. Now, around 150 publishers, along with 10 printers and four paper manufacturers, have backed a treatise supporting recycled paper and fiber from forests certified by the Forest Council, an international environmental organization.

A turning point came in 2006 when Random House, Inc., said that it would dramatically increase its use of recycled paper, saving more than 500,000 trees a year.

“We were already working on our own environmental initiatives, but to have Random House step up like that encourages everyone in the industry to come forward,” said publisher Liz Perl of Rodale, which published Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and has another environmental book by the former vice president scheduled for 2009.

Virtually all of the major publishers have taken some steps, from Hyperion switching to soy-based ink, to Penguin Group (USA) using wind power, to Scholastic, Inc. printing the deluxe edition of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” on 100 percent post-consumer waste fiber. Simon %26 Schuster and the Hachette Book Group USA are among those using e-book readers instead of paper manuscripts. The Random House Publishing Group is experimenting with sending books online to media outlets.

“It just makes so much sense,” says Random House publicity head Carol Schneider. “It saves the expense of printing galleys and mailing them. It saves paper.”

Miller says he would like to see the industry’s carbon (a measure of greenhouse gases produced) cut in half by making 50 percent of all book paper recycled fiber, more than triple the current level, and continued efforts to reduce paper use and energy consumption. He questions one possible solution - releasing all books electronically.

“There are environmental impacts connected to electronic publishing like what materials are the e-readers made with, what happens after disposal,” Miller said.

“I personally like handling books and reading them and I know that many others do too. … At this point in the game, my focus is on how the industry can continue to make progress in areas connected to paper and reducing energy consumption. Going digital isn’t listed in the ‘recommendations’ section as a solution because more needs to be understood when it comes to the lifecycle of an electronic book reader.”

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

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For Prince Charles ecotravel doesn’t mean roughing it

CHAGUARAMAS, Trinidad Sometimes the fight against global warming can be downright pleasant.

Britain’s Prince Charles, eschewing pollution-spewing jets, is touring the Caribbean on a 246-foot mega-size yacht, complete with hot tub, gym and 24-member crew.

Charles and wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrived Tuesday on the first leg of a five-island Caribbean tour that the prince’s office swears will be friendly to the budget and the environment.

According to Clarence House, the couple’s plans to sail rather than fly between islands will reduce the trip’s carbon . It will also be cheaper, though the prince’s office declined to give a price tag for the royal jaunt to Trinidad, Tobago, St. Lucia, Jamaica and the volcanic island of Montserrat.

In a statement announcing the trip, Clarence House said the tour aboard the Leander, a yacht rented from British businessman Donald Gosling, would “advance key British government priorities in the promotion of sustainable development, environmental protection and youth opportunity.”

It was not immediately clear how large of a carbon would be left by the yacht as opposed to a charter flight. The eco-conscious prince has converted his Jaguar and Land Rover to run on biofuels.

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Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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