[SustainableTompkins] Al Gore announces candidacy, and more

Tue Apr 1 07:34:29 PST 2008

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	With Gore Galore
	Al Gore will run as Independent for president, Bloomberg tapped as veep

	You might want to sit down for this: Al 
Gore has announced his candidacy for president. 
Wait, wait, don't get up yet: Gore, a lifelong 
Democrat, will run as an Independent. He's even 
announced his vice-prez pick: New York City Mayor 
Michael Bloomberg, who only last week dodged 
rumors that he'd be Barack Obama's second fiddle. 
But Bloomberg only has eyes for Dreamy Al. "This 
is a man who gets things done," Bloomberg said. 
"We're tired of waiting on Democrat and 
Republican bickering." In a speech in Washington, 
D.C., on Tuesday morning, Gore	listed climate 
change, foreign policy, and getting the economy 
out of the dumps as his top priorities. And he 
minced no words in deflecting skepticism about 
his chances. "With all due respect to Senators 
Clinton, Obama, and McCain," he said, "what 
America needs is Al Gore."

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TODAY'S NEWS

	<> 	Martha, Martha, Martha!
	Alice Waters plans to sell Chez Panisse to Martha Stewart

	Fresh-food guru Alice Waters is retiring 
from the restaurant biz, with plans to sell her 
famed Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley to none 
other than ... Martha Stewart. "It's been a good 
run for me, and I'm excited about the 
restaurant's future," says Waters, who turns 65 
years old this month. "Having the oomph of the 
Martha Stewart brand behind local and seasonal 
food will be thrilling." Um, yes. Thrilling. 
	Stewart, whose media company recently 
acquired the rights to TV chef Emeril Lagasse's 
franchise, assured through a spokesperson that 
while "[w]e are considering changing the 
restaurant's name to Chez Martha ... the dining 
experience will remain much the same." Waters 
plans to focus her now free-er time on her Edible 
Schoolyard project at a Berkeley elementary school.

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New York Times

	<> 	Where There's a Will, There's ... Um, Just a Will
	McCain wants to run White House on nuclear power

	In a campaign speech at Mississippi State 
University Monday, John McCain declared that by 
the end of his potential presidency, the White 
House will be powered "entirely by renewable 
energy." Is that so, John? And what kind of 
renewable energy might that be? "I will work hard 
to ensure that Americans are safe from 
terrorists, and I will conduct that work from a 
White House reliant on safe, clean, nuclear power 
produced right here in the United States," McCain 
said. Really, words fail us.

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Reflector

	Barging In
	USDA researching floating farmland for biofuel crops

	The U.S. Department of Agriculture is 
doing "preliminary research" into growing 
biofuel-bound crops on enormous floating barges, 
USDA Secretary Ed Schafer said at the Mid-America 
Farm Exposition in Salina, Kan., last week. 
Critics of the Bush administration's generous 
subsidies for biofuel crops	have raised 
concerns about reduced farmland for food crops, 
and the barge scheme would address that, said 
Schafer. He added, "This 'oceanic farmland' would 
also sequester carbon." The USDA Agricultural 
Research Service plans to present its research on 
amber waves of floating grain within the next week.

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Press

	<> 	Also Changes Name to DumbCar
	General Motors buys SmartCar, shuts down plant

	Yesterday, General Motors bought 
smart-'n'-tiny SmartCar from Mercedes-Benz 
(itself a subsidiary of Daimler AG). And before 
we even had time to write it up, news emerged 
that GM has already shut down a SmartCar plant in 
Michigan. GM execs say they're merely 
streamlining and no jobs will be lost -- laid-off 
employees will be transitioned to elsewhere in 
the company. Activists, however, are skeptical of 
the motives of	General Motors, which starred so 
unforgettably in the documentary Who Killed the 
Electric Car? Will the enviro-beloved, teeny-tiny 
Smart Fortwo, which just made its U.S. debut in 
January, meet the EV-1's grisly end? Stay tuned.

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Washington Post, 
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Free Press

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