Butterfly group calls for Mexico to protect forest

By Susan McDonough, STAFF WRITER

Oakland Tribune

!(image-right)/images/monarch.jpg(Monarch butterfly)!ALAMEDA—Local butterfly preservationists are leading a national campaign to pressure the Mexican government to intervene against increasingly violent loggers they say are illegally deforesting the region of Mexico the group seeks to protect.

Bob Small, director of the Alameda-based Michoacan Reforestation Fund, said Monday hostile Mexican mobsters are illegally logging in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a protected stretch of forests 100 miles west of Mexico City, where Monarchs arrive by the millions each winter to roost.

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Autonomy lesson

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Randy Gragg

The Oregonian

A high-performance home produces its own energy—and has some to spare

Oregon’s first “zero-energy” home—a house that produces more energy than it consumes—is all about connections, the first ones made around the dinner table.

Marie Taylor was worried that her parents someday might not be able to climb the 46 steps to their Eugene home. So she and husband Taylor Watkins asked if they might like to move into what the city of Portland officially calls an accessory dwelling unit, informally known as a granny flat, in their back yard.

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For 28 Cows and Precious Water, a Man’s Got to Sit in Jail

May 9, 2004

By Charlie LeDuff

New York Times

WILLCOX, Ariz., May 4 “Sometimes a man has to die for what he believes in before anyone knowed he truly believed it,” said Wally Klump, a 70-year-old rancher who sits in jail because he refuses to remove some cows from federal land.

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NASA Curbs Comments on Ice Age Disaster Movie

April 25, 2004

By Andrew C. Revkin

New York Times

Urgent: HQ Direction,” began a message e-mailed on April 1 to dozens of scientists and officials at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

It was not an alert about an incoming asteroid, a problem with the space station or a solar storm. It was a warning about a movie.

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