Jon’’s NewsCloud Journal

In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts.
Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within a year, nearly everyone had […]

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Cyclists have long revered Portland for its bicycle-friendly culture and infrastructure, including the network of bike lanes that the city began planning in the early 1970s. Now, riders are helping the city build a cycling economy.
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The recently ousted head of the 787 Dreamliner program said Wednesday Boeing may build its next plane differently — axing the globe-spanning supply chain that has caused its recent problems and concentrating major partner factories at a single manufacturing super-site.
But that big prize won’t necessarily be in Washington state, said Boeing vice president Mike Bair.
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The nation’s largest urban car-sharing company, Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar, is absorbing Seattle-based Flexcar in a move that could hasten the spread of a business whose rapid growth relies on lifestyle marketing as much as its promise to save people money.
Executives said Tuesday the two will combine by week’s end to create a company three times […]

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Finally, the media gets around to watchdogging the fact that Bush has crippled the watchdogs. What took so long?
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just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has shattered all precedents. Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public but also […]

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Interesting. TIAA-CREF is making its nonprofit-ness the center of its new marketing campaign. Dot-org pride, baby!
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Nuclear and coal plants less attractive, but renewable energy also hurt.
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“One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement of ExxonMobil’s plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men’s upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com and cut off the Yes Men’s email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify.
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The Food and Drug Administration today issued an alert challenging imports of five major types of farm-raised seafood from China, including shrimp and catfish, because testing found recurrent contamination from carcinogens and antibiotics.
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