Google, Oysters and Drakes Bay, China Timber

Good morning!  (It's 12:05 AM)  Before I clean up a rather incredible assortment of piles I just want to note a few of the environment-related items in the news: 

The National Park Service is going to turn Drakes Bay, where Sir Francis Drake landed over 400 years ago, into "the first federally designated marine wilderness area on the West Coast," which means that the estuary will have a protected status as an unaltered ecological region.  (The owner of Drakes Bay Oyster Co. is not happy because this will end the oyster farm that's been there a long time.)

In North Carolina, Google is now in the business of hog waste!  It has joined a project started by Duke University, Duke Energy and a local farmer to pull methane from swine waste and use it to generate electricity.  To learn more, Google Google methane energy! 

An environmental activst, Juventina Villa Mojica, and her son have been killed by Mexican drug traffickers who wan the forests she was trying to protect for both lumber and space to plant marijuana. 

Botswana plans to ban hunting by 2014 because it's afraid the nation is losing its wildlife, which includes elephants, lions, giraffes.

China is ignoring illigally harvested timber because of the desire many have there for rosewood dining sets, hardwood floors, plywood, and printer paper, and this is leading to the destruction of fragile ecosystems all around the world.  The countries affected are Burma, Mozambique, Indonesia, and other countries with weak law enforcement and widespread coruption.

Well, I've said "Good morning," but it doesn't sound very good, does it.