BEACHED whales saved in Australia. From BBC News Asia Pacific
Thursday, 2 June, 2005, 10:13 GMT 11:13 UKVolunteers have helped to save scores of false killer whales that were stranded in western Australia after they beached near Busselton. Hundreds of local people responded to
a government
call and pushed the whales back into the water. Just one is reported to
have died. False killer whales share some characteristics with killer
whales, though they are not as aggressive.Like killer whales, they are
not actually whales, but dolphins.
"I have never seen anything like this in my life"
Volunteer Alyssa Jeffery
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Written by geri via the Good News Network
Friday, 19 May 2006
IN TIME Magazine this week, Mayor Daley describes his efforts to turn Chicago into America's Eco-city. Since Dale took office in 1989, a half million trees have been planted, renewable, alternative power is being pushed, 2 million square feet of rooftop
gardens have been transforming air pollution while city vehicles are forbidden to idle more than five minutes.
If it works — and Daley is betting a hefty sum it will, with promises to buy millions in solar panels, for example — the green movement here is expected to yield the city perhaps billions in saved energy costs and new business.
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OF CHICAGOAncient
tree survives
death threat
Posted: 6:10 AM (Manila Time) | Jul. 29, 2004. By Marlon Ramos, Los Baños,
Laguna. Inquirer News Service
LUCKY TREE
An ancient tree just got as lucky as Filipino truck driver Angelo de la
Cruz.
Environmentalists heaved a sigh of relief last week when
Environment Secretary Elisea Gozun reversed her earlier decision to give
a "special" permit to the University of the Philippines at Los
Baños (UPLB) to cut down a dao tree, believed to be over a century
old and part of the university's heritage.
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From BBC News UK Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 11:57 GMT
LIBERIA'S 'Iron Lady'
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, fondly called the "Iron Lady" by her supporters, has become Africa's first elected female head of state following Liberia's presidential run-off. was often dwarfed by her party officials and bodyguards but over a political career spanning almost
30 years she has earned her steely nickname.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf pledges to end corruption
Japan Pioneers Clean Waste Disposal from Linda Gould - YES Journal of the Positive Futures Network
The Maishima waste incineration plant in Osaka, Japan, is pioneering new
uses for technology to dispose of waste with minimal air and land pollution
and low energy consumption.
Together, the plant’s filters, catalysts, and high-temperature incineration limit the plant’s emissions to 10 percent of the national allowable rate for pollutants associated with acid rain, respiratory ailments, and smog and less than 1 percent of allowable dioxins.
During the election campaign, the diminutive grandmother figure She was imprisoned in the 1980s for criticising the military regime of Samuel Doe and then backed Charles Taylor's rebellion before falling out with him and being charged with treason after he became president.
She twice went into exile to escape her legal problems with the governments
of the day.
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For the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UNICEF and FIFA bring together football stars
and young players of the world’s most popular sport to help children
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Most unusual for a waste incineration plant is Maishima’s role as
an Osaka landmark. Maishima generates electricity from the incineration
process and saves about 400 tons of water per day by reusing wastewater
and collecting rainwater. Plant vehicles run on natural gas, and the ash,
which is typically sent to landfills, is treated for heavy metals, then
used in road construction and land reclamation. Designed by Austrian artist
and environmentalist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the plant’s brightcolors
and unusual shapes annually attract thousands of visitors, who learn ways
to recycle and reduce the amount of waste they generate.
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From ABC On-line Tuesday, May 9, 2006. 6:13am (AEST)
Miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb have reached the surface of the Beaconsfield Gold mine, 14 days after being trapped by a rock fall.
The "great escape" is how the Australian Workers Union has described the survival of the two men.
Rescuers reached the men, who were nearly one kilometre underground, just before 5:00am AEST.
They were taken to a special crib room before being brought to the surface.
Rex Johnson, one of the rescuers and a friend of one of the men, says the men had a "few yeehahs" when they were freed.
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