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Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update

By Laura Knoy on Monday, March 14, 2005.

In 1972, three young scientists wrote the groundbreaking book, "Limits to Growth", a bestseller that said the world was growing at an unsustainable rate. Now, thirty years laters, there is an update to the book. We'll talk with one of the authors, Dennis Meadows about the book's predictions and whether they've played out, and we'll ask what he sees as the biggest growth issues facing the world in the next century.

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NH Environmentalists Question Arctic Drilling

By Rebecca Kaufman on Monday, March 14, 2005.

Last week, the United State's Senate Budget Committee approved a provision in their budget bill that would allow for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Drilling in ANWR has been hotly debated for years, pitting those who want to protect the area against those who want the oil.

The Chair of the Budget committee, NH's Senator Judd Gregg has endorsed the move to include ANWR.

And that has many in New Hampshire's environmental community angry with the man once voted conservationist of the Year.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Rebecca Kaufman has more.

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Everyday Matters

By John Walters on Monday, March 14, 2005.

Nardi Reeder Campion has written the column "Everday Matters" each week for the Valley News for close to twenty years. She's also just authored a book by the same name which is a memoir of her family and her almost 60 years of marriage to the late Tom Campion.

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