A Winter Spare the Air Alert has been called for tomorrow, Saturday, January 9, 2010, in the Bay Area ( Read more... )

Please Spare the Air tomorrow Thursday by removing a car journey by pooling, transiting, or cycling. Thank you!

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Website.

Cello Joe.

1. The opinion piece.

2. The city government site with specific text. Mandatory waste sorting into recycling, composting, and landfilling, reflecting state and local landfill-diverting and climate targets, with enforcement tools.

3. The city government awareness campaign (featuring several of my friends ( Read more... )

http://missionmission.wordpress.com/

Velo:
1. Bike to Work Day is this Thursday - and the article reports bicycle activists expect 150,000 people to participate. At first that struck me as a bit high, but given previous years, and looking at the Bay Area as a whole, that is actually quite feasible (and sadly a tiny fraction of average daily commuting traffic). If Sunday Streets ( Read more... )

For all and sundry to support the Broken Bones Fund.

http://www.myspace.com/qcr2009

4 July 09.

(Awesome playlist on that site, btw!)
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EDIT: SF Dep of Env staff blog unofficially.

A speaker from PG&E's Pacific Energy Center came in for a talk today, I gleaned some handy take-away bits and bobs:

PG&E is 31% renewable (a mix of small renewables and large hydro; <1% is photovoltaics); 20% is nuclear. Lots of natural gas (about equal to renewables total), and a sliver of coal ( Read more... )

Can you really eliminate one of your senses safely?

A blogger highlights a real shortcoming in the all-too-common American approach to risk - the small-scale "pilot" which fails to account for the success in the thoughtful, yet radical ( Read more... )