SFGate.com is reporting that the air quality board is set to fine Bay Area companies that pollute.
The Bay Area air quality district became the first in the nation on Wednesday to impose fees on businesses that pump some of the highest levels of carbon dioxide into the air each year.
The 15-1 vote by the Bay [...]
We’re in the midst of a pre-summer heat wave here in the San Francisco Bay Area. So global warming is on the mind more than usual.
Seeing this article on the places most threatened by global warming has the same effect as seeing “An Inconvenient Truth”: it scares the pants off of me!
Citizen Sugar posted this, [...]
Great post on Behind The Greens: Good Causes Gone Bad.
Apparently, Doubletree Hotels and the Arbor Day Foundation are working with Teaching Kids to CARE on an awareness project.
The goal is to help students learn more about nature and the outdoors through a tree tagging campaign titled Get To Know The Tree Next Door.
In an [...]
image credit: tanakawho
Kudos to Grist for a great post, which spurred my post today:
We all know about our carbon footprint. But about water footprint? Waterfootprint.org is a site that takes a hard look at water consumption and how it affects our environment. Specifically: the amount of water each of us uses, and its overall [...]
Top Bay Area greenhouse gas emitters, 2005.
As we gear up for Earth Day this coming week, alot of news sources are digging up more and more environmentally relevant information.
This weekend, SFgate.com has a number of great articles bringing environmental issues into focus. One of these articles covers the fact that many Bay Area businesses will [...]
Checking out one of my favorite green blogs, Ecorazzi, the other day, I caught this post, which references an article on MSNBC.com. :
Serj Tankian, the frontman for Los Angeles rock band System of a Down, is so dedicated to saving the planet that he wants to launch a virtual concert tour to reduce his carbon [...]
image credit: Omar Omar
I found a very cool site while trawling around this week: OurGreenCities.com.
They are devoted, as their mission statement says:
To help local city leaders understand how their governments can make significant progress toward becoming more sustainable
OK, next question: how does one qualify a sustainable city?
In short, a sustainable city seeks to protect, improve, [...]
Great bit of info at the Green Guide today.
According to this post, the precise sources of carbon dioxide emissions have now been mapped, with “100 times more detail than was previously available”. The work was done by Vulcan project researchers at Purdue University.
The high-resolution, interactive maps combine carbon dioxide emissions data from power plants, factories [...]
photo by colleen_taugher
Have you ever considered what happens to ocean-bound trash?
Greenpeace has an dunbelievable Pacific Ocean pollution animation.
You really have to see this to believe it.
Plastic and other durable trash that flows from waterways into the Pacific Ocean end up in something called the North Pacific Gyre. This is basically a big swirling “trash [...]
photo by aussiegall
Two sites came up today that I thought were important to share:
Breathingearth.com succeeds because sometimes it takes some pictures to clarify where words don’t suffice.
BreathingEarth is a Flash-driven site using simulation to show how much C02 is being emitted at any given point, in any spot in the world.
The site is basically an [...]
