published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Flickr , CC Should Access for Regular Hybrids be Phased Out? In California, vehicles that meet certain fuel economy and tailpipe emission criteria are granted special access to the high occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV, aka the carpool lane). In car-centric places like Los Angeles, it's a huge advantage. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill (SB 535) into ...
Read more...
published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: M. D. Vaden of Oregon Deep in the forests of northern California is a grove of trees unlike any other in the world. Within only a few acres lies an incredible density of old-growth redwood trees—including many of the world's largest trees. It's called the Grove of Titans and its location is a secret.
See the original ...
Read more...
published August 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Screen capture: About the Vaquita , vaquita.tv The Vaquita porpoise may be living its last days in Mexico's Gulf of California. The demise of the species is imminent, says Chris Johnson, who's spent the last three years on a documentary, "Vaquita - Last Chance for the Desert Porpoise." Johnson hopes the film, available online, will help change the practice ...
Read more...
published August 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Peak Moment TV When Peak Moment TV asked whether being uncivilized is sustainable , it prompted an interesting discussion on what happens if we move away from current models of industrial civilization. Now their next episode tackles another aspect of the same question—what happens if we give up on the concept of perpetual economic growth? ... Read ...
Read more...
published August 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: SocialBicycles Whether we are talking about grassroots "peer2peer" bike rental , or multi-million dollar public bike share schemes , there's no doubt that these initiatives are revolutionizing the way we think about mobility in many cities. But managing access to bikes can be an expensive headache. Luckily, the rise of mobile computing is helping out here too. ...
Read more...
published August 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: UNEP I asked before why so many people hate environmentalists , and concluded that it might have something to do with green living as passive aggressive preaching , disasterbation , not to mention the ever-familiar but oh-so-annoying
More here:
Can We Preach Green Without Being Preachy? (Video)
Read more...
published July 30, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Franco Folini via flickr Even though it often seems that even mentioning climate change or pricing carbon on a national basis is an utter nonstarter, here's another example of how states aren't waiting for the Feds to get their act together: The Sacramento Bee reports on progress with the Western Climate Initiative . Specifically, California and 10 ... ...
Read more...
published July 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via a Green Living You'd be forgiven for thinking that AB 32, California's climate change law, was truly controversial. Republican candidates running for office this year have taken to publicly bashing it, calling it a job killer and worse. And given that the effort to reign in carbon emissions on a national level just deflated because it was ...
Read more...
published July 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Boston In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California released a few million gallons of oil into marine ecosystems -- eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental movement in the nation's history, starting with the first Earth Day. That 'national teach-in' day in turn lead to some ...
Read more...
published July 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Image from wsj.online We are always extolling the virtues of garage sales; the joy of recycling and re-using and respecting perfectly good finds. And then there is the joy of Ansel Adams' photography: he was one of the original environmentalists who understood the beauty and inspirational quality of nature. Imagine these two coming together: a man in California bought ...
Read more...
