Tag: environment
All the articles with the tag "environment".
Skinny whales
Voice of San Diego has a good article on the increasingly skinny grey whales that migrate down the Pacific coast to Baja. It is thought that warmer waters have allowed for more fish migration and grea…
Lodgepole pine death
Like Canada, Colorado and Wyoming have a massive fight on their hands with mountain pine beetle outbreaks due to drought and warm winters . Every large, mature lodgepole pine forest in Colorado and so…
Pining for a lost environment
Wired has a really interesting story called Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds People are feeling displaced. They're suffering symptoms eerily similar to those o…
CA oil rigs - remove them, let them be reefs?
As anyone who has driven through OC to the California central coast knows, there are lot of offshore oil rigs out there. The UT has a great article on the debate over what to do about the California o…
Sanders Turns Blue
When I first moved near down town, I had no access to recycling. This was a pain in the ass, as I would always end up dragging it to someone else's bin, or to a center somewhere. But most people in th…
How green is alternative energy?
Ars Technica has a interesting writeup on a study of the life cycle of alternative energy sources, and their total environmental impact. The article is called The 'greenness' of alternative energy sou…
The ethanol scam
RollingStone has a great article called Ethanol Scam: Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America's Biggest Political Boondoggles . If you aren't familiar with the subject, this article is a g…
The biggest gas producer
NPR has an interesting story about trying to find the biggest greenhouse gas producer in the US . Canada makes that easy, they have a reporting system. But there is no mandatory reporting system in th…
San Diego Transit
Google Transit has been around for a little bit, but it just got a nice update . Reno and San Diego are the newest cities on board. Nice!
Each of us tosses about 185 pounds of plastic per year
How's your day going? Need a downer? Though not really news, this article sums up the situation quickly: " Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of …