WHEN THERE IS NO MORE

BBC 20 May 2008, Supply fears push oil beyond $129
Oil prices have surged past $129 a barrel as Opec comments that it would not be boosting output in the coming months increased concerns about supply… Oil investor T Boone Pickens forecast that prices would reach $150 this year.

“The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.” ...Oil and Politics By Richard Heinberg

GOOD NEWS – People Making a Difference

Where Industry Once Hummed, Urban Garden Finds Success
PHILADELPHIA - Amid the tightly packed row houses of North Philadelphia, a pioneering urban farm is providing fresh local food for a community that often lacks it, and making money in the process.

Cleaning her mountains one bottle at a time
TILCARA, Argentina (CNN) -- Carmen Salva's mission may be ambitious, but her belief is simple: "It's never too early to start caring for the land you live in and grow up in." That's why on Saturdays, Salva and a group of 60 to 100 students, parents and teachers can be found venturing into the high altitude of their northern Argentina mountains, trash bags in hand and llamas in town. They're part of Esperanza de Vida (Hope for Life), Salva's youth environmental group that is out to clean up the surroundings, one plastic bottle at a time.

CBC/bc Nominations for “Greenest Person”
In honour of Earth Day, CBC News asked British Columbians to share the story of the greenest person they know. Here are two nominations for the same person, Jackie Hildering of Port McNeill:

From Norah Brown: My name is Norah and I am 10 years old. I think the "greenest" person I know is Jackie Hildering. She is amazing because she leads the Young Naturalists Club, she goes to classrooms and helps kids raise salmon in incubators and then release them. She teaches us about watersheds and the water cycle.

Knowing Jackie has changed my life because I know that if you pollute the water it will end up where salmon are. We need salmon to eat and because they feed bears and bears fertilize trees and we need trees to make oxygen. She taught us that everything is linked together.

She helped us learn to make better choices. Jackie has taught many people how to be better to the environment. Our lives and the earth have been positively changed by Jackie.

From Dominique Hooper: I am 11 years old. I know Jackie from when she teaches me. Jackie Hildering is a caring person to the environment and believes in making things better for the earth. She has a very unique sense of teaching that attracts people to the subject she's teaching.

Jackie teaches us beach studies. We learn about the creatures that live at the beach like sea urchins. Jackie taught us about marine mammals. She helps us learn to think like scientists. She showed us how we are connected by the food chain and the persistant toxins that go up the food chain and don't go away. If we keep polluting, it will effect our source of food and it might make other species become extinct.

I know not to use plastic bags, to recycle more, and to not use chemicals that are harmful in my home. Jackie is earth friendly and teaches us to be too.

... PLM