Environment Archive

  • Prop 8 upheld by California High Court, Opponents Plot Next Move, Peter LaBarbera (ugh)

    Prop 8 upheld by California High Court, Opponents Plot Next Move, Peter LaBarbera (ugh)

    Chapter Three in the Great California Gay Marriage Saga has officially come to a close. It wasn’t a big surprise to anyone that the California Supreme Court ruled today that Proposition 8 was indeed a legal amendment to the California Constitution. The Court ruled that Prop 8  does not alter the constitution’s fundamental framework as [...]

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  • Photos: Offshore Drilling Protest SF

    Photos: Offshore Drilling Protest SF

    Offshore Drilling Drilling Protest SF (Flickr) I went to Interior Secretary Salazar’s San Francisco hearing on offshore drilling to cover the protest outside.   From the SFBG: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was welcomed to San Francisco last Thursday by a host of activists dressed as marine creatures, including a few diehards in head-to-toe [...]

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  • Misc Round Up: Phil Spector, Journalism Layoffs, Oakland Murders, Marijuana.

    Misc Round Up: Phil Spector, Journalism Layoffs, Oakland Murders, Marijuana.

    I Heart Phil Spector’s License Plate. Flickr:  cgkinla Popping Mad: Legendary Pop Music Producer’s second murder trial ended last week. According to the LA Times, he may have to wait a long time for his verdict. While he waits,  someone can let him know that looking like a homicidal maniac doesn’t help your case. Oakland [...]

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  • Gridlock and the Renewable Grid

    Gridlock and the Renewable Grid

    grid, imperial valley, climate watch, KQED

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  • Smart Grids… they’re like smart and think for us

    Smart Grids… they’re like smart and think for us

    May I quote the Department of Energy? Shazzam! Our century-old power grid is the largest interconnected machine on Earth, so massively complex and inextricably linked to human involvement and endeavor that it has alternately (and appropriately) been called an ecosystem. It consists of more than 9,200 electric generating units with more than 1,000,000 megawatts of [...]

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