Your Community Spirit 2007-04-06

Sage life advice includes Aur’s suggestion that people beware of substance abuse. Happenings include an art reception at Rosetta Stone Bookstore; nature photographer shows owls at night; classes at the Co-op; Step it Up anti-climate change campaign; Africa week; community dialog on genetically modified food. News includes Bush appointing anti-regulatory advocate as regulatory official; green programming on TV; baby seals drowning from melting ice as hunt begins; Supreme Court delivers landmark ruling on greenhouse gases; San Francisco approves first-in-nation ban on plastic bags; and federal judge blocks West Virginia mountaintop removal mining.