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Books On Raising Chickens, Green Burials, Plus Some Awards

Jan Daniels has a new job as the founder/director of Eco Expressions, an environmental writing program based in San Diego, CA and Hailey, ID, that helps solidify the outdoor experience for students with scientific and creative writing. www.EcoExpressions.org
In January, Scribner released Mark Harris' book on green burial, "Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial." See review on page 22.
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Toolbox: Financial Disclosure Info on Obama WH Officials Online

The Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure reports themselves are not online, but you can request them.
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Developing Credibility Is Key In Local Nuclear-Plant Coverage

By TOM HENRY

America has 103 nuclear plants.

Chances are, especially if you work east of the Mississippi River, there's one in your circulation area or one close enough to pose a risk.
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WA State Secret Deal on Coal-Plant Emissions Raises Ire

Seattle Times lets the cat out of the bag with an April 7, 2009, story describing the secret agreement between the administration of Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Canada-based TransAlta.
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Climate Change Thawing Freeze On E-News

By BILL DAWSON
"All news, all the time" was the slogan of a once all-news radio station of my acquaintance. A quick Google search reveals that the phrase and several variations are still around.

Given the recent rise to prominence of the climate issue, even veteran reporters familiar with the often-surprising meanders of the environment beat's path may have wondered if "all climate news, all the time" could be the beat's future.
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Book Shelf: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl

THE WORST HARD TIME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT AMERICAN DUST BOWL
By Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin, $28

Reviewed by EMMA BROWN

When I bought Timothy Egan's "Lasso the Wind" last summer in Ashland, Ore., the bookstore owner chuckled and said, "Tim Egan, lucky guy, you know he covers the West for The New York Times?" I said yeah, that's a job I'd like to have. She shook her head and said, "He can write whatever he wants and no one back East knows whether he's telling the truth."
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Book Shelf: Carbon Finance

CARBON FINANCE
Sonia Labatt and Rodney R. White
Wiley Finance, $101.99

Reviewed by CRAIG SAUNDERS

Climate change has serious financial ramifications and opportunities for business. In their new book "Carbon Finance," University of Toronto professors Sonia Labatt and Rodney White describe the economic ABCs of climate change.
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Book Shelf: The Wild Trees: A Story Of Passion And Daring

THE WILD TREES: A STORY OF PASSION AND DARING
By Richard Preston
Random House, $25.95
Reviewed by NANCY BAZILCHUK

Tree canopy research is still a young science, partly because it's difficult to get into the canopy to see what's there, and also because until recently, scientists hadn't thought to look.
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Yale Climate Project To Launch Journalists' Resource

By JOE DAVIS
Journalists writing about climate change got some help this fall when the Yale Project on Climate Change launches a new publication aimed at helping them communicate science – and communicate with scientists.

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media is published online, aimed mostly at an audience of journalists, but also at scientists, policymakers, and the general public.
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'Need Bee Geek:' Searching For Meaning And Fun In Subject Lines

The subject line of an e-mail is an underappreciated writing task.

We knock off dozens daily with little thought. And yet they carry every bit of the challenge and impact of a newspaper headline – a terse explanation of what's to come, with perhaps the added burden of hinting at the sender's personality.

Extend that concept and maybe a case can be made that the e-mail subject lines found on a listserv say something about its members.
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Publication Items

Books On Raising Chickens, Green Burials, Plus Some Awards

Toolbox: Financial Disclosure Info on Obama WH Officials Online

Developing Credibility Is Key In Local Nuclear-Plant Coverage

WA State Secret Deal on Coal-Plant Emissions Raises Ire

Climate Change Thawing Freeze On E-News

Book Shelf: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl

Book Shelf: Carbon Finance

Book Shelf: The Wild Trees: A Story Of Passion And Daring

Yale Climate Project To Launch Journalists' Resource

'Need Bee Geek:' Searching For Meaning And Fun In Subject Lines

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