The solar industry is usually on the oil industry’s case -- sniping about dirty energy and whatnot -- but the two sides came together Thursday in an unlikely alliance.
Fremont-based company GlassPoint Solar unveiled a demonstration facility that uses solar technology to coax petroleum out of an old oil field in Kern County.
Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times Greenspace
Boston restaurants think locally and act innovatively to reduce their environmental impact
Increasingly, owners are trying to reduce this environmental impact, implementing rigorous recycling and composting programs, installing energy- and water-saving devices, relying on local ingredients, and more. The Green Restaurant Association, started in 1990 with the goal of forging an ecologically sustainable restaurant industry, offers an ongoing certification program to help restaurateurs go green.
Read more: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/articles/2008/12/03/the_greenest_of_them_all/
Article courtesy of The Boston Globe –Green Blog by Devra First /Glob Staff
In an effort to reduce California's demand on limited drinking-water supplies and to minimize the amount of polluted storm water that flows into the ocean, Solorio has written AB 275, also known as the Rainwater Capture Act of 2011. Introduced last week, the bill would authorize property owners to install different types of rainwater-capture devices, including rain barrels that could provide water for outdoor gardens and other systems that would allow captured water to be used indoors for non-potable uses, such as toilet flushing.
Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times-Greenspace by Susan Carpenter
Take it from a reporter who covers wind energy: The issues get thorny.
Few people are against wind energy, in theory, but the placement of giant turbines has raised concerns about bird and bat deaths, noise, and, of course, aesthetics.
Read more: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2011/02/14/explaining_what_wind_energy_is_all_about/
Article courtesy of The Boston Globe posted by Beth Daley
WASHINGTON — Extreme rainstorms and snowfalls have grown substantially stronger, two studies suggest, with scientists for the first time finding the telltale fingerprints of man-made global warming on downpours that often cause deadly flooding.
Two studies in yesterday's issue of the journal Nature link heavy rains to increases in greenhouse gases more than ever before.
Article courtesy of The Boston Globe-Green Blog by Associated Press
[UPDATE Friday, Feb. 4: Southern California air quality officials adopted a plan Friday to allow industry to expand in the Los Angeles region by tapping into a public fund of free pollution credits. The vote was 10-1. Read more here about the South Coast pollution trading program decision.]
To read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/02/los-angeles-air-pollution-trading-system.html
Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times -Greenspace by Margot Roosevelt
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