DISTRICT PROVIDES HOLIDAY TO SAVE ON GAS MONEY

see here... this will be occurring more and more as gas prices go up and up, and students will be happier and happier...

perhaps we will see a final defeat for the old mythology that presumes that people (i.e. the working class) will learn nothing without coercive schooling...

BIODIVERSITY LOSS ACCELERATING

Read here, especially where the article concludes: "'Reversing this trend is possible, as numerous conservation success stories have proven,'" Steiner said.

This is perhaps true for a little while, on a local level, in places where the resource-developers have somewhere else to go. But when you have a global society that runs on a paradigm in which the world is merely a collection of "natural resources" and in which the duty of each individual is to "compete" to use them up, then environmentalism is dead. (Hint: change the paradigm through revolutionary action!)

Same story in the BBC... and here is an article in Gristmill to explain why it's important.