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TOWN SECURES $216,000 FOR GREEN RIVER RESTORATION |
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Written by Office Of The Mayor
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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GREENFIELD, MA - Greenfield has decided to work with the Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWC) and several other state and federal partners to restore the Green River ecosystem. The Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) spent the last eight years doing a Feasibility Study to compare alternatives and released the final report in May, 2008. The ACOE final report – including an Environmental Assessment is available for review at the Department of Planning & Development at the Greenfield Town Hall. Their recommendation was removal of the Wiley & Russell and Mill Street dams and installation of fish passage structures at the Swimming Pool and Pumping Station dams. |
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Take Control of Your Community’s Energy Future |
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Written by CO-OP POWER & GREENING GREENFIELD ENERGY COMMITTEE
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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Save the date: Sat., July 26, 10am
Where: Greenfield Community College – Downtown, 270 Main St
Learn how you can cut your heating and electricity costs use biomass from our forests for community-scale power plant to produce heat and electricity
GREENFIELD, MA – District heating expert, Dr. Morris Pierce, and Ben Urquhart, biomass specialist will give a talk on how many communities have taken control of their heating and electric needs without relying on fossil fuels. The talk is co-sponsored by Co-op Power and the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee. It will be held on Saturday, July 26, 10 am at the Greenfield Community College’s Downtown Center, 270 Main Street, Greenfield, just down the block from the Farmer’s Market. |
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WAL-MART PROJECT HEARINGS DELAYED UNTIL LABOR DAY |
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Written by Al Norman
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
According to the July 8th minutes of the Greenfield Conservation Commission, the next Wal-Mart hearing will be SEPTEMBER 2nd at 6:30 pm at a place to be announced.
The last hearing with the Norfolk Ram Group peer reviewer was June 10th. This means that the developer, Louis Ceruzzi, will have lost almost another three months in delays. The NRG report on June 10th contained so many criticisms of the project, that the developer asked for an extended time period in which to respond. By contrast, when Greenfield citizens asked for time to review and respond to the developer's submissions, we were given 7 days to respond. |
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Global Trends That Affect Our Lives |
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Written by Daniel Glickman - SCSI
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
As Samuel Goldwyn wisely observed, you should never make predictions, especially about the future. So rather than making predictions, how about analyzing some macro trends?
Cost of energy will remain high. The world's demand for oil has been growing faster than supply in recent years, leaving little spare capacity. John McCain wants to suspend the federal gas tax. George Bush wants Congress to let oil firms drill in areas of Alaska and coastal waters that are currently off-limits for environmental reasons. None of these ideas will do much good in the short term. There are some signs of hope: demand is falling in the rich world and slowing in fast-growing parts of the developing world, such as China and the Middle East. Several governments have cut fuel subsidies in recent weeks, a move that should help to stifle demand. Still, it is becoming obvious that high energy prices (weather it's $60 or $200 a barrel) are here to stay. |
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Written by Rogar Simon/Drudge Report
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
Gramm has been a close friend and economic adviser to John McCain. Photo: AP |
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Let’s stop the whining. I mean it. It is ruining the country. If we all stopped whining, the economy would recover, the banks would stop failing, the stock market would go up, the value of your home would rise and you could fill your gas tank for less than the cost of a diamond tiara.
OK, so maybe that last one is optimistic. But good things would happen. And that is because almost all problems are mental. Phil Gramm says so. And when it comes to mental, Phil Gramm knows a thing or two. Gramm, a former U.S. senator and congressman and now a wealthy banker, has been a close friend and economic adviser to John McCain. And Gramm said recently that we are not in a real recession, just a “mental recession,” and that our real problem is that we have become “a nation of whiners.”
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Afghan Refugees Despair in Greece |
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Written by Danylo Hawaleshka in Patras, Greece/Al Jazeera
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
| | | | | | |  | | Fearing for his life, this Afghan man fled for Greece and has now lived for more than nine months in Patras, hoping to make his way to Italy and the west [Hawaleshka] |
Sitting amid the squalor of a sprawling shantytown in the western Greek port city of Patras, a sombre illegal migrant named Hanan explains why living in Afghanistan left him facing a potentially deadly Catch-22 situation. |
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