Speed PR

Public Relations stuff worth a mention...

• Bad sign (OPM for wasteful project): "Members of the consortium seeking to build the controversial Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon reveals a striking lack of private sector participation...there is only a 28 percent chance that the Belo Monte Dam would yield a positive rate of return over the first 50 years of its operation. The report's risk scenario analysis calculates a high likelihood of a loss for investors ranging between US$3 - 8 billion."
  
  
• "The Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership is an independent organization that facilitates information and education exchange among government and military professionals charged with identifying, specifying, and buying green goods and services and with the vendors, contractors, and consultants that provide green goods and services." They want you to join!
  
  
• "Flowing 330 miles from the Sierras to the delta, the San Joaquin River is California’s second longest river. It once boasted one of the state's great salmon runs. But since the construction of Friant Dam near Fresno in the 1940s, most of the San Joaquin's water has been siphoned off to farmland in the Central Valley. Now, after years of lawsuits, a new effort to restore the river is offering hope that fish and farmers can co-exist." View the video.
  
  
• "Food & Water Watch put together this celebrity-studded video to encourage Californians to ask their legislators to scrap, not delay Prop 18." I don't know these "celebrities," but I agree that the bond should be scrapped.