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Link: The Associated Press via L.A. Times Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline about 200 miles east of the Alaska border: They're building windmills. It's a token of irony, too: People little to blame, but feeling it most, are doing more to stop global warming than many of "you people in the south," as Mayor Merven Gruben calls the rest of us who fill the skies with greenhouse gases.