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</span>“Climate of Suffering,” an Australian study, points to the mental health costs of inaction on climate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Children, particularly, are suffering from something like pre-disaster trauma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Change is painful, but so is stasis in the face of a threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201108/s3304900.htm"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201108/s3304900.htm</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More, with an emphasis on the effects of the climate traumas already underway:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/national/national/environment/mental-illness-rise-linked-to-climate/2273050.aspx"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/national/national/environment/mental-illness-rise-linked-to-climate/2273050.aspx</font></a></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Eugene Linden reflects on the spectacle of leaders (among them the governors of Florida and Texas) who presume to ignore climate change.
</font><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-linden-climate-20110828,0,879690.story"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-linden-climate-20110828,0,879690.story</font></a></p>
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</span>A forthcoming report from the International Energy Agency anticipates that half of all energy needs in 50 years will be met by solar power and the balance by wind, hydropower, and biomass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-29/solar-may-produce-most-of-world-s-power-by-2060-iea-says.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-29/solar-may-produce-most-of-world-s-power-by-2060-iea-says.html</font></a></p>
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</span>The US was a net $1.8 billion exporter of solar power equipment last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Part of the boost came from the administration’s support of new development and production facilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/08/solar-stunner-america-is-a-1-9-billion-exporter-of-solar-products?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-August31-2011"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/08/solar-stunner-america-is-a-1-9-billion-exporter-of-solar-products?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-August31-2011</font></a></p>
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</span>Now in its 11<sup>th</sup> year, the US Green Building Council has certified 10,000 commercial buildings in its LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2011/08/31/10000-commercial-green-building-projects-earn-leed-ratings?utm_source=GreenBuzz&utm_campaign=b74cd4ffc2-GreenBuzz-2011-09-01&utm_medium=email"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2011/08/31/10000-commercial-green-building-projects-earn-leed-ratings?utm_source=GreenBuzz&utm_campaign=b74cd4ffc2-GreenBuzz-2011-09-01&utm_medium=email</font></a></p>
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</span>James Hansen was arrested in front of the White House in protest of the plan to build a second pipeline to carry tar sands oil from Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He explains why it would be tragic to use such oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(If CSPAN carried his arrest, as I said it would in the last news list, I missed it.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110902_WhiteHouseAndTarSands.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu//~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110902_WhiteHouseAndTarSands.pdf</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Hansen’s remarks at the White House:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
</font></font><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110902_WhiteHouseRemarks.pdf"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.columbia.edu//~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110902_WhiteHouseRemarks.pdf</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>The US has 4 times as many oil rigs as it had 8 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>We export more oil than we import, and have done so for 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The drive for the importation of tar sands oil from Canada derives from the hunger of oil companies for larger profits from exporting the oil, not from domestic need, however short term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=104972"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=104972</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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</span>In the first half of 2011 more than 20% of Germany’s power was produced renewably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The renewable share is rising at 2% per year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110902/wl_csm/407073"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110902/wl_csm/407073</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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