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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- HANFORD: Obama Nominates DOE Deputy Secretary
- United Kingdom - Experts Warn Of 'Energy Shortfall'
- Oregon - Engineering Failure at $100M Fish Facility
- Bountiful Oregon Salmon Season Expected
- An Ancient Art: Dowser Works on Whidbey Island
- New Survey Urges Buyers of Green Products to Beware
- 'Energetic Site' Chosen for Snohomish PUD's Tidal Power
- Irish Tidal Energy Company Secures Contract with Snohomish
- Imperium Grays Harbor Biodiesel Plant Not Producing
- PROMISES, PROMISES: Plug-In Cars Goal Hard To Hit
- Palo Alto Eyes Solar Financing Plan
- First Solar To Build Nevada Photovoltaic Plant
- Reviving the Energy-From-Trash Concept
- NREL Highlights Utility Green Power Leaders
- Does Green Building Make Cents?
- Deciphering California’s Efficiency Successes
- State House Approves Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Boxer Seeks Silicon Valley's Help in Clean-Technology Push
- Global Carbon Market to Achieve $669 Billion In 2013
- UK Biofuels Target Creating More Emissions
- Now the Greens Want Your Cat
- Palo Alto Presses On With Citywide Fiber
- Democrats Take Nap on Network
- The Whys and Hows of Measuring Power in Your Data Center
- Study: Spammers Scourge To Inbox and Environment
- One Teen Dies, Another Seriously Injured In Hwy 3 Crash
- Mason County to Cut Deputies
- 9.2% Unemployment "Troubling" For State
- Bremerton-Based Hospital Eliminating 91 Jobs
- State Senator: State Income Tax 'Inevitable'
- Former P-I Staffers Launch Online Newspaper
WORD OF THE DAY
Slake • \SLAYK\ • verb - *1: satisfy, quench 2: to cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water: hydrate
Thunderous cataracts of water flowed over the jagged cliffs, garbed in emerald green moss and ferns. The weary travelers, parched from a long trek were warned not to slake their thirst from the tempting stream due to the location of a large dairy stream located just upstream.
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast and Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
HANFORD: Obama Nominates DOE Deputy Secretary (Tri-City Herald, WA)
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/945/story/544016.html
United Kingdom - Experts Warn Of 'Energy Shortfall' As Nuclear Sites Revealed (Times of London)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6099637.ece
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon - Engineering Failure at $100M Fish Facility (Bend Bulletin)
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090415/NEWS0107/904150374/1009/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Bountiful Oregon Salmon Season Expected (Eugene Register-Guard)
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/outdoors/11620180-41/story.csp
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
An Ancient Art: Dowser Works on Whidbey Island (Whidbey News Times)
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/news/42998887.html
New Survey Urges Buyers of Green Products to Beware (Sacramento Bee, CA)
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1780849.html
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
'Energetic Site' Chosen For Snohomish PUD's Tidal Power Test - The PUD settles on Admiralty Inlet off Whidbey Island as the site to test energy-producing turbines (Everett Herald, WA)
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090415/NEWS01/704159882/-1/RSS02
Irish Tidal Energy Company Secures Contract with Snohomish PUD (Edie Net)
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=16281&channel=0&title=Irish+company+wins+US+tidal+power+contract
Imperium Grays Harbor Biodiesel Plant Not Producing (The Daily World, Aberdeen, WA)
http://www.thedailyworld.com/articles/2009/04/14/local_news/doc49e4cd664a0c7962960356.txt
PROMISES, PROMISES: Plug-In Cars Goal Hard To Hit (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009056993_apobamaplugins.html?syndication=rss
Palo Alto Eyes Solar Financing Plan (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12144945
First Solar To Build Nevada Photovoltaic (Plant San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/15/financial/f063121D21.DTL&feed=rss.business
Reviving the Energy-From-Trash Concept (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/reviving-the-energy-from-trash-concept/
NREL Highlights Utility Green Power Leaders (Utility Automation & Engineering)
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ONART&PUBLICATION_ID=22&ARTICLE_ID=359286&C=ENVIR&dcmp=rss
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Does Green Building Make Cents? It depends - Two new studies offer conflicting views (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/405135_green15.html?source=rss
Deciphering California’s Efficiency Successes (NY Times)
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/deciphering-californias-efficiency-successes/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
State House Approves Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/43035637.html
Boxer Seeks Silicon Valley's Help in Clean-Technology Push (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12142720
Global Carbon Market to Achieve $669 Billion In 2013 (Earth Times)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/global-carbon-market-to-achieve-669-billion-in-2013,784851.shtml
UK Biofuels Target Creating More Emissions, Environmentalists Claim (The Guardian, UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/15/biofuels-carbon-emissions
Now The Greens Want Your Cat - Bruce Ramsey replies to an argument that cats are bad for the environment (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009052021_opina15ramsey.html?syndication=rss
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Palo Alto Presses On With Citywide Fiber Network - Council says the technology is key to competitiveness, despite setback (Palo Alto Times, CA)
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=11958
Democrats Take Nap on Network Neutrality - Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Democrats-Take-Nap-On-Network-Neutrality-101903
The Whys and Hows of Measuring Power in your Data Center (Greener Computing)
http://greenercomputing.com/feature/2009/04/15/why-how-measure-data-center-power
Study: Spammers Scourge to Inbox and Environment (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/14/financial/f210641D12.DTL&type=health
GENERAL NEWS
One Teen Dies, Another Seriously Injured In Crash on Highway 3 South Of Allyn (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1897/smid/3468/ArticleID/6987/reftab/1632/t/ONE-TEEN-DIES-ANOTHER-SERIOUSLY-INJURED-IN-CRASH-ON-HIGHWAY-3-SOUTH-OF-ALLYN-/Default.aspx
Mason County to Cut Deputies (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_041409WAB-mason-county-deputy-cuts-TP.d52b38d5.html
9.2% Unemployment "Troubling" For State (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009054985_jobless15.html?syndication=rss
Bremerton-Based Hospital Eliminating 91 Jobs (The Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/apr/14/bremerton-based-hospital-eliminating-91-jobs/?partner=RSS
State Senator: State Income Tax 'Inevitable' (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/19178983/detail.html?treets=sea&tid=2653595907813&tml=sea_4pm&tmi=sea_4pm_1_06000104142009&ts=H
Former P-I Staffers Launch Online Newspaper (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_041509BUB-AP_p-i-staffers-online-paper-JM.d92d348b.html?rss
DIVERSIONS
NASA names treadmill after Colbert
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12146985
Humane Society Blasts Squirrel Slaughter
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10187989
On This Day: “Unsinkable” Titanic Lost After Hitting Iceberg
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/April/Unsinkable-Titanic-Lost-After-Hitting-Iceberg.html
Methuen Man Sells Mold of Tiny Tim's Teeth Online For $1,500
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_103013921.html
SONG OF THE DAY
Cripple Creek - The Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4LD-7enIMs
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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