Here’s a note from Ellen Pinney of the Oregon Health Action Campaign.
The Oregon Health Plan Standard reservation list is open!
In one week over 41,164 people have signed up in hopes that they will be one of the lucky 10,000 people who will be able to enroll in Oregon Health Plan Standard because their name will [...]

Coal
The hard energy news of the moment: The price of coal threatens to reach $300 a ton this week. That’s a sudden tripling in the price of the stuff (see EB 2/4) . For those depending on cheap coal to solve future energy problems, put that in your stack and smoke it.

Oil
Financier Matthew Simmons told [...]

The Tesla Roadster: it’s ready!
For the curious, here’s a pleasantly readable plethora of information about the managed battery system in the Tesla Roadster.
And more news, the Tesla Whitestar, due in 2009, will have two options, totally battery-powered or as a gas-electric hybrid configuration known as REV for Range Extended Vehicle.
Beyond Super Tuesday: consider that the [...]

In the darkest days of world history, distinguished leaders blazed a path, illuminated by truth, to guide the lost through turbulent times. Alas, the heroes of yesterday have ridden into the sunset, and who will take their place?
Today, youth are lost in a sea of conflicting and groundless stereotypes either [...]

STATEWIDE CALL TO ACTION
“NO LNG IN OREGON”
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
11 AM TO 2 PM
CAPITOL STEPS, SALEM
Our friends at LNGPollutes.org hope you will join them to say NO to high risk gas terminals and pipelines and land condemnation!
For more info on LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) in Oregon, please visit the Onward Oregon LNG web page.

Tell Oregon’s Governor [...]

Must see: in just a few minutes of Flash video, Annie Leonard breaks down our consumer society into its various parts. She makes it all fun and easy to follow, while at the same time creating a powerful indictment of the modern American lifestyle.
Watch it and tell your friends and family:
www.StoryofStuff.com

Out With The Old, In With The New
The end of one year and the beginning of another. Traditionally a time to take stock of what recently happened and what we expect of the future. Be advised: Not all is well with the world. But good news lurks toward the end of this report. You want [...]

Remember the Clean Air Act of 1970? It gave California the authority to set its own clean air standards, contingent on a federal waiver. Since then, California has made several requests for waivers and has never been refused. And now the Environmental Protection Agency has refused to grant a waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, [...]

“Is there anybody alive out there?”

The EV-1 was the first battery-powered electric car made by General Motors, in production from 1996 through 1999, although only available in California and Arizona under a lease program. Despite positive feedback from customers, the EV-1 program was cancelled in 2003 under somewhat mysterious circumstances, documented in the 2006 film “Who Killed the Electric Car?“. [...]