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Going Green

Budget and Spending

Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change

Patagonia made him a billionaire. Now he’s giving it away to save the climate Source of this article: the Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2022 Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving his company away — to planet Earth, he announced Wednesday. “I never wanted to be a businessman,” Chouinard wrote Read more…

By Steve, 5 monthsSeptember 14, 2022 ago
Budget and Spending

Newsom signs nation’s most sweeping law to phase out single-use plastics and packaging waste

Legislation heads off what would have been costly and contentious ballot measure. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2022 SACRAMENTO — Striking a blow against a pernicious form of pollution, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday the nation’s most far-reaching restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging. The Read more…

By Steve, 7 months ago
Energy Use

The Lompoc Strauss Wind Farm: Santa Barbara Is Well on the Way to 100 Percent Renewable Electricity

Source of this article: The Santa Barbara Independent, June 23, 2022. A small group of us had the privilege of recently touring the Strauss Wind Energy Project in Lompoc while it is under construction. It is the first and only wind project permitted anywhere along the California coast. From the Read more…

By Steve, 7 monthsJune 23, 2022 ago
California

Facing new law, plastics lobby turns to mailers with false claims

Industry sends fliers falsely claiming the consumers will bear cost of tighter rules Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2022 Cheryl Auger was stunned this month when one of her Pasadena neighbors and friends received a flier in the mail featuring her state assemblyman, with a Read more…

By Steve, 8 monthsMay 23, 2022 ago
Budget and Spending

State Parks Get New Chief

Former Maj. Gen. Anthony L. Jackson will take over as director of the state Parks and Recreation Department, which was rocked by a financial scandal last summer. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2012 Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday tapped a decorated retired Marine Corps officer Read more…

By Steve, 10 yearsNovember 14, 2012 ago
Budget and Spending

Thousand Oaks’ second solar installation up and running

The area’s recent hot spell may be sending residents running for shade, but the sunny skies are also fueling the city’s newest solar panel installation. Source of this article: The Thousand Oaks Acorn, September 6, 2012 Completed in June atop the Hillcrest Center—home to the Conejo Recreation and Park District, Read more…

By Steve, 10 yearsSeptember 6, 2012 ago
California

Saving desert tortoises is a costly hurdle for solar projects

BrightSource Energy has spent $56 million so far to protect the threatened creatures, but calamities have befallen the effort. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2012 Stubborn does not come close to describing the desert tortoise, a species that did its evolving more than 220 million Read more…

By Steve, 11 yearsMarch 4, 2012 ago
Drilling, Mining, Logging

Natural gas: Cheap, clean and risky

Natural gas has a key role in our energy future, but it must be handled with care. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2012 (Op-Ed) By Hal Harvey Political leaders from both parties argue that natural gas could save our economy, the environment and promote our Read more…

By Steve, 11 yearsJanuary 3, 2012 ago
California

Californians Now Recycle Half of Their Trash

A 16-year state campaign to divert more waste from dumps has hit its goal. As a result, no new landfills have opened in a decade. Source of this article – Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2006 State officials announced Thursday that California has finally achieved its goal of reducing landfill Read more…

By Steve, 16 yearsAugust 25, 2006 ago
Development

Board Acts to Keep Region Green

Ventura County supervisors vote to keep development out of thousands of acres separating Ventura and Santa Paula. Source of this article – Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2006 By Catherine Saillant, Times Staff Writer Ventura County supervisors tightened development rules for 27,900 acres between Ventura and Santa Paula on Tuesday Read more…

By Steve, 17 yearsFebruary 8, 2006 ago

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