One more earmark story: this one's about HUD funds for pig dung | McClatchy

KANSAS CITY — Turning wet pig dung into dry pellets.

It's one way to protect the environment, and a factory farm in northwest Missouri is about to spend almost $250,000 in congressional pork to try it on a hog waste lagoon.

The source of that $250,000 is also creative: HUD.

Yes, the agency that has the words Housing and Urban Development in it.

Greens to CA Solar Power: "Drop Dead" - Steven Hayward - Planet Gore on National Review Online

More proof that environmentalists will oppose renewable energy that might actually work on a large scale: The New York Times reports today on the green opposition to solar power in the California desert, where solar irradiance is at its peak in the U.S.

Money quote from a Sierra Clubber: “Deserts don’t need to be sacrificed so that people in L.A. can keep heating their swimming pools.”

Green energy hoax - The Scotsman

William Oxenham (Letters, March 23) puts his finger on yet another scam from renewable electricity suppliers. Some years ago they were chastised by the Advertising Standards Authority for claiming "green tariff" customers received electricity from a particular source such as windpower, so they thought-up the trick of claiming that as much wind power was fed in one end as customers used at the other.

Downstage Turns Off Lights, Uses Candles For Earth Hour 3/28

Downstage Theatre will be turning off all non-essential lighting on Saturday the 28th of March in support of Earth Hour. This will include the buildings exterior lighting and candles will be used in the bar throughout the evening.

The stage lights will need to remain on however as Earth Hour falls on the opening weekend of Downstage Theatre's return season of My Brilliant Divorce starring Ginette McDonald. Ginette is a big supporter of Earth Hour, saying "Some cynics reckon global warming is a lot of hot air, but if you live on the South Coast as I do, you can hear the sound of those ‘bergs snapping off the Arctic shelf."