UPS' hybrid trucks, Walmart's hybrid trucks, London's hybrid buses and now hybrid school buses.  Yeah!  A. Siegel, DailyKos blogger who writes on energy and energy policy issues, has a post discussing the $10 million the Department of Energy just set aside for another round of plug-in school bus improvement along with funding another 60 buses for testing.  There has been a Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEB), school bus program for awhile. 

For so many reasons, global climate change is the overarching environmental challenge of this century.  Julie Packard, of the Packard family and prime mover behind the incredible Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells us that "the oceans will be our most important battleground".  She reminds us that there is "compelling scientific evidence that climate change is dramatically affecting oceans worldwide in ways that threaten the survival of marine ecosystems and - ultimately - our human societies".  Writing at Huffington Post, Packard talks about the obvious signs: rising sea levels and increasing storm severity.