Trinidad supports solar city idea. The city of Trinidad, CA, wants all its 150 homes to go solar as a means of increasing energy and emergency independence. [News Source]

Local businesses join to reduce global warming. Twenty-two businesses in Brattleboro, VT, have pledged to reduce their energy consumption by 10 percent in a local program called the 10% Challenge. [News Source]

Exposing the organic-farming myth. Now companies from Wal-Mart to General Mills to Kellogg are wading into the organic game, attracted by fat margins that old-fashioned food purveyors can only dream of. [News Source]

Study tracks ozone, aerosols feeding Texas air pollution. Williams' task, along with the nearly three dozen other scientists aboard, is to identify the microscopic particles making air in Houston, Galveston and elsewhere in East Texas some of the foulest in the country. [News Source]

Global warming happening now, most Alaskans say (Casper Star-Tribune) ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Four of every five Alaskans believe the Earth is getting warmer, a new poll suggests, and most of them think global climate change is transforming the landscape as the summer Arctic ice pack shrinks, forests burn and fall storms batter coastal villages. [News Source]

Alaskans Feel the Heat of Global Warming (Columbia Earth Institute) A new study shows that four out of five Alaskans believe global warming is happening and is a serious threat to the state. The statewide survey involved telephone interviews with more than 1,000 Alaskan adults, and was conducted early this summer. [News Source]

Climate change is not top issue. Canadian Environment Minister Rona Amrbose announced no new greenhouse gas targets and did not rank global warming as the top issue facing her department. [News Source]

Smog target of act. Canada's environment minister Rona Ambrose vowed to get tough on industrial air polluters with nationwide regulations and penalties, but offered little detail to a parliamentary committee yesterday. [News Source]

Clean air or hot air?

Canada’s environment minister, Rona Ambrose, vowed to get tough on industrial air polluters with nationwide regulations and penalties, but off ered little detail to a parliamentary committee yesterday.

Ambrose accused of posturing. Environment Minister Rona Ambrose was accused of blatant political posturing — rather than real action — on an urgent international crisis after she refused to tell MPs how or when the Conservatives will follow through on their promises to tackle global warming and clean up the environment. [News Source]

Heat rises on global warming (Stuff) The Government has been accused of doing too little too late in tackling climate change as National rolled out its policy direction on global warming. [News Source]