Matt Banner leads a team of five divers mapping the bottom of Casco Bay outside Portland, Maine. When one of the divers surfaces with a huge gold and emerald pendant, murder ensues and the search is on for the rest of the treasure.

Sustainable Me: Green Tips and Terms for the Environmentally Conscious. In March of 2008 PointsWestGroup.com merged a passion for the sustainable lifestyle and the former real estate web site re-opened as YourEcoTeam.com with seven pages to assist clients in "greening" both their homes and lifestyles. As a Realtor-"Eco-Broker" with value-added green pages on my web site my goal was to help clients make sustainable choices when purchasing or marketing a home. In recent months, my site has become YellowPagesForGreenStuff.com and has a mission of helping visitors to make economically sound,...

This second book in Ben Thomas' Sustainable Me series takes a candid look at the environmentally conscious "conservative." There is a conflict that rages within the conservative heart when it comes to the "green" movement. They really want to be green but it would mean crossing party and ideological lines to do so. It's quite the conundrum The subtitle of this book is "Counterintuitive Conservatism" but it may as well have been "Schizophrenic Conservatism." Part of the problem for conservatives, Republicans, and evangelical Christians is both as simple as guilt and a penchant for playing...

The great bequests of Russell and Mab Grimwade have opened up extraordinary opportunities for the University of Melbourne, enabling an exciting range of initiatives.
Through the Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows program, Australia has benefited from the visits of more than a hundred international academics. The University's cultural collections have been enriched by the treasures of the Grimwades' collections of art, rare books and Australiana. Russell Grimwade's passion for chemistry, appreciation of art and sense of obligation to preserve the past has driven the development of the...