Wikipedia
Over the next ten years, a city that now has a budget of more than $11 billion a year and is one of the richest cities in the history of human civilization will spend $300 million to address the most dramatic impacts of the boom that brought this money in. … more »
USDA
Five years ago, Google starting measuring the quantity and value of food being tossed at its facilities. It’s still got a long way to go, but it’s an object lesson in how focusing on a problem can bring solutions. Over the last five years, the company calculates that it has avoided more than 6 million pounds of food going to landfills or compost. … more »
NSIDC
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the world’s second-largest reservoir of fresh water sitting on the world’s largest island. It is almost mind-bogglingly huge. The transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet is one of the profound geological shifts of our time. … more »
Azumio
CO2 is stripping the food we eat of essential proteins and nutrients as well as warming the planet, says the lead author on last year’s IPCC report at TED in Vancouver. … more »
CDC
In 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in the United States. Today, the US and many other countries are experiencing outbreaks of measles because of declines in measles vaccine coverage. … more »
NYC.gov
Instead of forcing social engineering and draconian tax schemes on the public, as we are in the Bay Area, New York City is addressing its biggest carbon polluters: existing urban buildings. Their solutions and proposals are realistic, flexible, doable and they even provide financing methods. The Bay Area should take notice. … more »
University of Vienna
Does the potential to win or lose money influence the confidence one has in one's own decisions? Researchers investigated confidence bias in a learning context through a system of monetary punishment and reward. Ironically, we learn more from pain than from gain. … more »
Novato Exposed
Constant fee increases and government and special district taxes are driving the working class, middle class and seniors out of Novato, and ultimately out of the state. The good people of Novato deserve better than constant money grabs. … more »
The Onion
This piece lays out a grim scenario and if it's even half correct, the consequences for California will be dire. Without a constantly rising stock market (i.e., state tax base) and constantly rising real estate prices (i.e., local tax base), and with our huge public debt the only path for the government's "survival" will be dramatic tax increases. … more »
48 Hills
48hills filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court asking a judge to order the MTC to release full reports of how much public money was spent on the Committee to House the Bay Area (CASA). The lawsuit demands all documents that show MTC funding going to CASA from the first day the regional transit agency helped create that group. … more »
