Once-Wild West Disappearing Under Development
But Shhh! Mustn’t Mention that Rampant Population Growth is a Major Reason Why Subdivisions subdue the once Golden State. San Jose Mercury... Read More
Acid Rain: Still with Us
With the start of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, we began spewing billions of tons of smoke and noxious fumes... Read More
Aided and Abetted by Humans, Wildfires are Torching Canada, California, the Planet
Ironies abound as a massive forest fire, nicknamed “the Beast,” recently brought tar sands production to a halt in the Canadian province... Read More
The Onion: We Must Preserve The Earth's Dwindling Resources For My Five Children
Since its origins in 1988, the satirical online “news magazine” The Onion has evolved into one of America’s sharpest-witted purveyors of fake... Read More
California Not Alone in Suffering through a Water Crisis; India is Baking, Blistering
Killer Heat Wave, Drought Devastate India Indian farmer in the southern state of Telangana in his cotton field, which so far in... Read More
Most Creative Water Conservation Award Goes to San Rafael Pacifics Baseball Team
As California enters its summer and early fall months – the mostly rainless June, July, August and September – Hollywood’s rich and... Read More
Kauai Fights to Reduce Traffic Congestion, Preserve its Environment in Hawaii
Every year, INRIX, Inc., a traffic data and insights organization, releases its findings about the most awful cities to drive in. Not... Read More
The Myth of Sustainable Growth
You hear about “sustainable growth” at city council meetings all over America. You hear how community leaders hire developers to create romantic... Read More
Apparently in Some Parallel Universe L.A. Air is Too Clean, California’s Coast Too Undeveloped
Recent staff firings by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and the California Coastal Commission (CCC) suggest that the never-ending... Read More
The Toxification, Sickening of our Planet
Environmental contamination causes 1 in 4 deaths worldwide. A report released on March 15 by the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that... Read More