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Impact - August 2008
Submitted on 8.31.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - August 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
The Media Should Report What the Vatican Really Says about the Environment
Submitted by Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 8.19.2008
Listening to the news over the past year, one would think the Vatican was reinventing Catholicism in an effort to go green. First there was the story that the Vatican was sponsoring a forest to offset the carbon emissions of Vatican City. Then we found out that the Vatican had come up with seven new deadly sins, among them polluting the environment. The UK’s Telegraph even ran the headline “Recycle or go to Hell, warns Vatican.” And in July, the Los Angeles Times wrote, “Pope Benedict XVI, like many world leaders, has spoken passionately about the urgent need to protect the planet from climate catastrophe.”
How Water, Oil, and Government Mix in California
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 8.13.2008 5:00:00 PM
On August 6, the California Coastal Commission approved a desalination plant at Carlsbad in San Diego County, a region with severe water needs in normal times and hard hit by the current drought. The $300-million for-profit venture by the Poseidon Resources Corporation aims to produce as much as 50 million gallons of fresh water each day, about nine percent of the water San Diego County uses. The approval marks a change for the Coastal Commission, an unelected body usually in the business of rejection.
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