The Think City: In Norway, they’re building your first electric car: “The car was 95% complete when Ford stopped development in 2002,” says Fretheim. In the long run, he says, the down time might have been a good thing. “When we started work again we had better options for batteries.” [LA Times]
Climate Issues Tied to U.S. Security: U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that global climate change will worsen food shortages and disease exposure in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades, creating operational problems for the Pentagon’s newest overseas military command. [Washington Post]
Deal could restore the Everglades: It was a strategy so bold no environmentalist or state bureaucrat dared dream it could happen: Buy out Big Sugar’s polluted fields, railroad and refinery within the Everglades so the wounded “river of grass” could heal after more than a century of man’s industrial intrusions. [LA Times]
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