October 2009
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Exiled Indigenous Leader to Run for President in Peru
Alberto Pizango, the exiled leader of Peru’s Inter-Ethnic for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), according to reports is planning to run for President in Peru’s 2011 general election.
Nobel Prize in Economics Goes to Political Scientist for Work on Managing the ‘Commons’
Ostrom’s work showed that “tragedy of the commons” problem can be solved by voluntary organizations, not just the state.
Gov. Schwarzenegger Wants to Buy Your Surplus Solar Power
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday signed the nation’s first statewide solar feed-in tariff, a provision that requires utilities to purchase solar energy put back on to the grid at above-market prices.
Stephen Colbert on Toilet Paper, Pine Beetles and… Bears!
Stephen Colbert spouts about environmentalists targeting soft toilet paper and how mountain pine beetles are ‘preventing us from shooting bears.’
Fed Plan to Shoot Arizona Mountain Lions Comes Under Fire
A pending U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service plan would allow state game agents to shoot radio-collared mountain lions on the Kofa refuge for the purpose of limiting predation on bighorn sheep, prized by hunters.
