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There’s the “do nothing” approach. Simply put, it's the archaic idea of leaving the environment alone in hopes that nature will fix itself. Then there are a multitude of efforts to stall climate change. But then there are concepts, such as “solar geoengineering,” and the controversial notion of deliberately reflecting sunlight back into space, resulting in a so-called “white sky.” It’s all chronicled in the new must-read, “Under a White Sky,” penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert.

Some call it “workforce housing,” others call it “community housing,” but what they have in common is the effort to provide a place to live that is affordable… in any community.

India is more than half-a-world away for Joseph (he prefers to be called Jos) Tharakan. Born in India, raised as a Catholic, ordained as a Franciscan monk and then received into the Episcopal Church, he is now the first person of color to be the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho.

Truth be told, there’s something new at the Boise library nearly every day; but its newest addition is a bit of a game-changer: a new Mental Health Coordinator.

“Today will be the hottest day of the year, so far,” said Les Colin, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service Office in Boise, where he and his fellow meteorologists are tracking a significant high pressure system and its grip over southern Idaho.