The Segerstroms want to put in 23-story condo towers across from South Coast Plaza in "Lakes Pavilion", where the Greek restaurant is. First, they have to demonstrate that putting these in won't cause environmental impact in the form of more cars. I wonder how hard it will be to convince their drinking buddies on the City Council that everything ( Read more... )

An interesting story in the New York Times (linked from automotivedigest.com) discusses the problems we're having in Southern California improving air quality. Despite tremendous efforts, greater Los Angeles is in the bottom 3 metropolitan areas for air quality ( Read more... )

The real problem with genetically modified food is not that your tomato will turn you into a halibut. The real problem is that we might, you know, make a superweed and stuff.. Oops.

Some idiot somewhere is mixing kudzu with algae, or poison ivy with mint. You just know it.

You can hear an underwater recording of the big Indonesian earthquake; amazing.

The Japanese, kings of weird news, have got their banks doing things people probably should not be tempted into doing.

The Plantronics telephone headset people are giving away a trip to space. Really.

There's a whole ecosystem we didn't know about under the recently ( Read more... )

Ecotourists may be making the gorillas sick.

I think the whole problem with "ecotourism" is contained in its name. Just Stay Home, everyone.

via ScienceDaily, from a new Cornell study. Everyone knows that the ethanol subsidy is just a farm subsidy, but it's sort of depressing to see data that makes biodiesel generally look like a net loss. If it takes more fossil fuel to produce the biodiesel than we get out of it, we're taking a step back.Ethanol And Biodiesel From Crops Not Worth The ( Read more... )