Your Community Spirit 2006-02-10

Aur returns, and cold winter weather ensues. Earthwatch News discusses energy efficiency. Happenings include Food Not Bombs, Saluki Cycles meetings and expansion, public help with your home energy bills, and Big Muddy IMC. News includes Aur’s news from Mexico; Bush’s relapse to the “oil addiction” he mentioned in his State of the Union address; Bush’s cuts to energy efficiency and renewables research; proposals to do more oil drilling; evangelical Christians fight global climate change; new power meters to help reduce energy use; frogs getting fungus from pregnancy test; and Sweden aims to phase out oil in 15 years. (Insert Swedish Chef jokes here.)