USDA
"Drought resilience depends on location but also extraordinary engineering — determining which California places are running out of water this year and which remain in good shape." … more »
public domain
"The poorest 10 percent of Americans pay 10 cents on the dollar in taxes, while the wealthiest pay 1 or 2. “Our elected officials may talk endlessly about the value of a hard day’s work and the nobility of labor,” Payne writes, “but our tax code is deliberately designed to reward capital income over labor income.” … more »
Google Maps
"People who live near more trees feel younger, are happier, and are healthier. But perhaps one of the most important factors in a world of rising temperatures is that trees have the ability to keep urban areas they cover up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than those exposed to sunlight." … more »
Daisy-Daisy/Alamy
"Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders." … more »
Wikipedia
"Even “sustainable” technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines face unbreachable physical limits and exact grave environmental costs." … more »
IStock
"Tenants of large, unaccountable housing investors suffer in ways that don’t necessarily show up in data." … more »
GimMe
"Seaweed serves as an excellent carbon sink, and so farming more of it to use in food could be an important step in the fight against climate change." … more »
CSPP
It's encouraging to see that some states are taking the public pension reform effort seriously. Unfortunately, there's not even a whisper of possible reform in California's legislature. When queried, elected officials point to their very watered-down version of Gov. Brown's 12 Point Pension Reform proposals as if the problem has been solved. … more »
Armastas/iStock, lovleah/iStock
"Among the 40 million Americans enduring the triple-digit temperatures are scientists who study droughts and the climate. They’d long forewarned of this crisis, and now they’re living through it." … more »
City Watch
"PLANNING WATCH-PT Barnum said there is a sucker born every minute. Famous newspaper man, H.L. Mencken wrote something similar, “No one nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” … more »
