NPR
“Alas, in 2020 we saw many governments doubling down on fossil fuels. Instead of governments letting these fossil fuel projects die, they resurrect them from death – it’s kind of zombie energy.” … more »
Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
"California has received more than $1.3 billion in federal aid to rebuild after the 2017 wine country wildfires, the 2018 Camp fire in Butte County and other disasters from those years. But disaster-affected homeowners and renters have yet to receive a single penny. The cause: years-long federal and state bureaucratic delays." … more »
ITPro
The Bay Area is about lose a part of one of its oldest tech companies, one that help found what we've come to know as "Silicon Valley." The exodus from California and its stifling business climate continues. Hewlett Packard Enterprise consists of the high growth enterprise networking, server, and equipment side of what was formerly HP. … more »
PBS.org
"Newsom’s gubernatorial career won’t be undone by an ideological revolution in blue California, but it could be short-circuited by bad optics — a perception that he’s out of touch and incapable of managing even routine governmental business." … more »
NRDC.org
"Thawing permafrost is releasing microorganisms, with consequences that are still largely unknown." … more »
BBC
"Dr. Grant Colfax, the city's health director, said last week that the number of San Franciscans who received positive tests for COVID has increased 265% in the last four weeks. Hospitalization rates have doubled since the end of October." … more »
Healthcare.com
"Five leading airlines are rolling out digital health passports so that passengers with a recorded negative Covid-19 test can travel easily and avoid the need to quarantine. " … more »
Wikipedia
"The complete torching of trees allows dense, low vegetation to sprout, creating a new hotbed for more extreme fire." … more »
Chris Malbon
"Data scientists are studying how information spreading online influences our social dynamics and what, if anything, can be done to smooth polarization." … more »
Marin Post
"In Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. His reply: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” He might as well be describing the prognosis for many of the nation’s 5,300 public pension funds, which hold $4.4 trillion in assets against what the Federal Reserve estimates to be $9 trillion in liabilities." … more »
