Frances Beinecke talks to Grist about the environmental community's hopes for a Barack Obama administration... In Christian Science Monitor Sharon Buccino remarks on President Bush's push to open public lands to development... Liz Barratt-Brown comments on the role of Canada's tar sands energy trends on US energy trends in Canada's The Globe and Mail ... Doug Obegi commends the management plan for the Sacramento delta in the Sacramento News and Review... Pierre Bull explains some benefits of "run-of-the-river" hydroelectric power to the readers of Plenty Magazine.