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Be the change

By [node:field_contributor] / On August 5th, 2008
In March 2008, I went to Mumbai with a congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We went in search of an answer of how to fashion an international agreement on climate change from today's Indian leaders. But I didn't find the answer from today's Indian politicians; I found it from long-gone Indian revolutionary, Mahatma Gandhi. His real life begs description.
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The paradox of fire policy

By [node:field_contributor] / On July 29th, 2008
For the last week the Idaho Statesman has run a three part series written by reporter Heath Druzin and I about the paradox of fire policy. Based on the research of Forest Service fire behavior expert Jack Cohen we showed that fire does not burn into communities as a ball of fire but almost always as a ground fire.
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Folk fire and forest history

By [node:field_contributor] / On July 21st, 2008
Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, long one of the timber industry's biggest supporters has always had a novel alternative history of forest management in the West. In Sen.
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A Level Playing Field

By [node:field_contributor] / On May 11th, 2008
Everyone hates their taxes being spent on subsidies — unless it’s to subsidize their own industry. It’s time for an honest debate about the role of subsidies in a 21st Century economy and, at least, a restructuring to a more level playing field. Examples? When I served in California state government, the Schwarzenegger administration tried for three years to push through a solar incentive package.

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