Your Community Spirit 2009-01-30

Music includes a solar holiday song. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Critical Mass; Rice and Spice International Slow Food Dinner; Big Muddy IMC film showing Sir, No Sir; Vigil for Peace; Spoken Word at Hangar 9; Time for Chocolate fundraiser for the Women’s Center; WDBX Valentine’s Ball. News includes House passing stimulus package with more than $100 billion in green spending; Gore urges quick action on climate; falling gas prices; beef has 13 times climate impact of chicken, 57 times climate impact of potatoes; sexy Superbowl PETA ad banned; EPA places hold on a coal-fired power plant. Special segments include Green Thumbs Up and Angry Polar Bear.