Considering that this story was published on "April Fools Day" brings the validity of it into question............however we are talking politics here........LOL............PEACE..........Scott
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Gore will run for president as independent, sources tell Grist
You might want to sit down for this: Al Gore will announce his candidacy for president this week, knowledgeable sources tell Grist. Now there's an inconvenient truth for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Gore believes the two Democrats and Republican John McCain aren't giving climate change the urgent attention it deserves, so he's decided to go for the job himself, say Gore advisors who requested anonymity as they aren't authorized to speak to the press. A lifelong Democrat, Gore will run as an independent this time around, aiming to show the American people that climate change is not a partisan issue. He is expected to tap New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, also an independent, as his running mate. On Monday of this week, Gore's nonpartisan Alliance for Climate Protection launched a new public education campaign aimed at convincing Americans that climate change is both urgent and solvable. We're guessing that will be the thrust of Gore's presidential campaign as well.
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TODAY'S NEWS
Alice Waters plans to sell Chez Panisse to Martha Stewart
Fresh-food guru Alice Waters is retiring from the restaurant biz, with plans to sell her famed Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley to none other than ... Martha Stewart. "It's been a good run for me, and I'm excited about the restaurant's future," says Waters, who turns 65 years old this month. "Having the oomph of the Martha Stewart brand behind local and seasonal food will be thrilling." Um, yes. Thrilling. Stewart, whose media company recently acquired the rights to TV chef Emeril Lagasse's franchise, assured through a spokesperson that while "[w]e are considering changing the restaurant's name to Chez Martha ... the dining experience will remain much the same." Waters plans to focus her now free-er time on her Edible Schoolyard project at a Berkeley elementary school.
sources: San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times
McCain wants to run White House on nuclear power
In a campaign speech at Mississippi State University Monday, John McCain declared that by the end of his potential presidency, the White House will be powered "entirely by renewable energy." Is that so, John? And what kind of renewable energy might that be? "I will work hard to ensure that Americans are safe from terrorists, and I will conduct that work from a White House reliant on safe, clean, nuclear power produced right here in the United States," McCain said. Really, words fail us.
sources: The Hill, The Reflector
Barging In
USDA researching floating farmland for biofuel crops
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is doing "preliminary research" into growing biofuel-bound crops on enormous floating barges, USDA Secretary Ed Schafer said at the Mid-America Farm Exposition in Salina, Kan., last week. Critics of the Bush administration's generous subsidies for biofuel crops have raised concerns about reduced farmland for food crops, and the barge scheme would address that, said Schafer. He added, "This 'oceanic farmland' would also sequester carbon." The USDA Agricultural Research Service plans to present its research on amber waves of floating grain within the next week.
sources: Forbes, Associated Press
General Motors buys SmartCar, shuts down plant
Yesterday, General Motors bought smart-'n'-tiny SmartCar from Mercedes-Benz (itself a subsidiary of Daimler AG). And before we even had time to write it up, news emerged that GM has already shut down a SmartCar plant in Michigan. GM execs say they're merely streamlining and no jobs will be lost -- laid-off employees will be transitioned to elsewhere in the company. Activists, however, are skeptical of the motives of General Motors, which starred so unforgettably in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Will the enviro-beloved, teeny-tiny Smart Fortwo, which just made its U.S. debut in January, meet the EV-1's grisly end? Stay tuned.
sources: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Detroit Free Press
GRIST COLUMNS AND FEATURES
Umbra on breathing
Q. Dear Umbra,
I was thinking, while I was exercising the other day, that maybe my exertion (aka panting) was adding to global warming. Could excess breathing put lots of carbon dioxide into the air? Should we all be trying to breathe less?
Carl
Annapolis, Md.
A. Dearest Carl,
Take a deep breath. What I am about to say might shock you, but it is an inescapable truth of life in the 21st century ...
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