Wed, March 26, Fisheries: Beyond the Crisis Fisheries: Beyond the Crisis, award-winning documentary film followed by discussion at 5:30 p.m. at Chilmark Public Library. Free. For details, call 508-645-3360.

SACRAMENTO — Where did they go?

The Chinook salmon that swim upstream to spawn in the fall, the most robust run in the Sacramento River, have disappeared. The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of Chinook salmon south of Alaska left gloomy fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations — and coming up dry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/
science/earth/17salmon.html?th&emc=th

HYANNIS — The average cost of electricity is higher on Cape Cod than it is in any state in the continental United States. Nationwide only Hawaiians pay more per kilowatt hour, according to the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy.

But, rather than wait and hope that endeavors such as Cape Wind bring energy costs down — a prospect opponents of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm contest — local consumers can help themselves by using less, according to members of the Cape and Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative steering committee.

http://capecodonline.com/apps/
pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/
NEWS/803180325/-1/NEWS01

WASHINGTON -- The leading congressional proposal to control greenhouse-gas emissions could be implemented without significantly harming the nation's economic growth over the next two decades, according to an analysis published Friday by the Bush administration.

But the analysis also gives ammunition to critics of the proposal. It predicts gasoline prices and electric prices would rise more rapidly if the government implemented the proposed caps on carbon-dioxide emissions.

http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB120554497521738693.html

In the summer months, Island cook Jan Buhrman starts her days early. After waking her two sons, feeding her two pigs, checking on her 12 ducks and saying goodbye to her one husband, Ms. Buhrman gets into her car. Rather than head straight to work, many mornings she seeks out the farmers who sell to her. More often than not, these farmers are women.

http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?15803

Postal Service Argues Against Registries to State Lawmakers

Chris Pearson, a state legislator in Vermont, had a sense that the people were with him when he proposed a bill last November to allow residents to block junk mail.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/
AR2008031802893.html

At the restaurant T.W. Food, a black-clad server circulates, pitcher of water in hand. ‘‘Good evening,’’ she says to a table of diners. "Can I offer you a glass of Cambridge filtered?"

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/
green/articles/2008/03/22/
tapping_into_greener_dining_eateries_table_bottled_water/