U.S. energy stimulus money to aid cities but leave Broward County in cold. Broward County has been passed over for a share of $168 million that President Barack Obama's administration is distributing across Florida to help local governments improve energy efficiency and start conservation projects. [News Source]

Cleaver touts $200 million green zone project. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver wants to create a Green Impact Zone and use $200 million in federal stimulus money to make some of the city's poorest neighborhoods a model for green living. Local, state and federal governments will work on the plan. [News Source]

A wall against water. How scary is a hurricane’s storm surge? So scary that building the “Ike Dike” — as oceanographer William Merrell calls his audacious proposal to wall off most of Galveston Bay — is clearly better than doing nothing. [News Source]

Teaching to appreciate our assets. The theme of the 2009 National Environmental Education Week is "Water Wise," something we have an abundance of but which still needs a watchful eye to keep from contamination or over usage. [News Source]

Poor prognosis for our planet. The world has about a decade left to sort out the climate-change mess. John Collee sees lessons from his medicine days as parallels for the future of our planet. [News Source]

Bay Area’s tricky choices about delta’s future. Continuing to supply the Bay Area and other water users directly from the delta is the worst long-term strategy for native species and a poor strategy for California's economy. [News Source]

Getting rid of ‘green’. You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word "green" disappears. [News Source]

Saving us from ourselves. Welcome to the United States in 2009. Nowhere is this ignorance more on sad display -- and the ramifications of that ignorance more frightening -- than with the debates on global warming and our economy. [News Source]

Just what is driving those rail objectors, anyway? PEER's hyper-ventilating about the SouthCoast rail line, in fact, is totally predictable for a population whose entire lifestyle is completely dependent on spewing carbon emissions into the air. [News Source]

Dimensions of the water crisis. The demand for clean drinking water continues to reach critical proportions in most of the developing world. The value of fresh water as a commodity has continued to grow because of its increasing scarcity. [News Source]

Solar has got to go in someone’s backyard. Solar energy companies are making nice with politicians, hoping to win approval of their monster projects through honey-tongued sweet-talking. The sites they have in mind are in a remote but beautiful corner of this county — the Carrizo Plain. [News Source]