Today’s Headlines
Saturday Ties for Warmest January Day Ever in NYC Coney Island Polar Bears Stage Global Climate Change Demonstration (NYT) Ancient Global Warming was Jarring, Chaotic: U.C. Davis Study (LAT) Japan: Better Prepared to Prosper in a World of High Energy Prices (NYT) Park Slope: One of America’s Top 10 Eco-Neighborhoods (Natural Home) “Accident Forgiveness,” New … Continued
9:00 AM EST on January 8, 2007
- Saturday Ties for Warmest January Day Ever in NYC
- Coney Island Polar Bears Stage Global Climate Change Demonstration (NYT)
- Ancient Global Warming was Jarring, Chaotic: U.C. Davis Study (LAT)
- Japan: Better Prepared to Prosper in a World of High Energy Prices (NYT)
- Park Slope: One of America’s Top 10 Eco-Neighborhoods (Natural Home)
- “Accident Forgiveness,” New Trend in Auto Insurance. Is it Ethical? (IRMI)
- Insurance by the Mile: A Simple Way to Slow Global Warming (Harper’s)
- Greenpoint Oil Spill, Bigger Than Exxon Valdez, Still in Court (Curbed)
- Exxon Mobil’s Biggest Oil Spill? Look in Brooklyn, Not Alaska (Common Dreams)
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