US Energy Info Admin
"By just changing the way buildings control their lighting, heating, cooling, and appliances through smart energy analytics, a four-year initiative by Berkeley Lab saved $95 million per year in energy costs across 6,500 buildings." … more »
KTAR
Cities should be aware of its deadline to file an appeal with the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). If a city doesn't hit its out-sized RHNA quota, developers can fast-track the city’s development process and override zoning laws, even though the city doesn't build housing. … more »
ANXY
"If Whitaker is right, modern psychiatry, together with the pharmaceutical industry, has inflicted iatrogenic harm on millions of people." … more »
CSPP
"...very few people have noticed that California has defunded public education since 2014 through a pension contribution maneuver. California income tax ranks 5th highest in the U.S., and we have high property, sales and business taxes. The lack of public school spending is not due to lack of revenue." … more »
Vancouver Aquarium
"A study in California has laid bare the staggering scale of pollution from plastic microfibers in synthetic clothing – one of the most widespread, yet largely invisible, forms of plastic waste." … more »
EDD
"A new report examines the failures of California’s Employment Development Department to help residents obtain their unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic." … more »
Business Roundtable.Org
"Today’s definition of corporate climate leadership centers on how companies can do less harm. It needs to be about creating a thriving future." … more »
The Guardian
"The number of registered chemicals reached 167 million. Every day people are exposed to them through food, water, contaminated air, drugs, cosmetics and other man-made substances. Less than 1% of these chemicals were tested for toxicity, and those that were tested demonstrate ability to disrupt almost every biological process in our body." … more »
National Geographic
"Half of the corals on Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef have died since the 1990s, according to a troubling new study that analyzed just how devastating years of catastrophic mass bleaching have been for one of the most biodiverse structures on Earth." … more »
NSIDC
"At the end of July, 40% of the 4,000-year-old Milne Ice Shelf, located on the north-western edge of Ellesmere Island, calved into the sea. Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf was no more. On the other side of the island, the most northerly in Canada, the St Patrick’s Bay ice caps completely disappeared." … more »
