| BOOKS | | Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs Order Consumer Reports' "Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs" - a definitive guide jammed with easy-to-follow research straight from Consumer Reports' testing, research and survey experts. | If You Love This Planet : A Plan to Heal... by Helen Caldicott, M.D. The End of Nature by Bill McKibben The Quotidian Mysteries : Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work by Kathleen Norris After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the... by Jack Kornfield Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding... by Linda Breen Pierce Betty's Book of Laundry Secrets by Betty Faust, Maria Rodale Talking Dirty Laundry With the Queen of Clean by Linda C. Cobb  The Clothesline Irene Rawlings and Andrea Vansteenhouse Homeowner Associations: A Nightmare or a Dream Come True? by Joni Greenwalt Lamb in the Laundry (Animal Ark, 12) by Ben M. Baglio et al. Elmo's Wash and Dry: A Magic Bath Book... by Carol Nicklaus (Illustrator), Jim Henson  The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter FACT SHEETS The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that in 1997, there were approximately 16,700 fires, 30 deaths and 430 injuries associated with electric clothes dryers. Some of these fires can occur when lint builds up in the filter or in the exhaust duct. This fact is from www.eclothesdryers.com | | MUSIC  "Caribou Commons" (compact disc) by Wildlands with Matthew Lien   Kylie Jordan, Laundry...The Way Granny Did It. REPORTS A bitter debate has broken out in the scientific community over hydropower’s contribution to global warming. A leading climate scientist calculates that there are startlingly high levels of greenhouse gas emissions when water is released from the turbines and spillways of dams in the tropics. But hydro industry-backed researchers have sharply attacked his work. An IRN report, "Fizzy Science: Loosening the Hydro Industry’s Grip on Reservoir Greenhouse Gas Emissions Research," calls for a UN scientific panel to review the issue. | "Well dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the United Kingdom" The Sustainable Manufacturing Group is part of the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University. This report from them presents the outcome of a five person-year study conducted at the Institute for Manufacturing on the future supply of clothing and textiles to the UK. The bulk of the work of the project was a scenario analysis of various future means to meet the UKs demand for clothing and textiles. The scenarios were developed with three case study products, and analyzed according to the "triple bottom line", including environmental life cycle costs, calculation of national accounts and prediction of employment changes. |