NASA
Grantham has a chart showing the tripling of the world’s population since he was born, more than 80 years ago. “If that’s the curve in the stock market,” he says, “you know what to do: panic and go short.” Translation: When something goes up that far for that long, it’s almost certain to plummet. The only question is when. The next bubble is humans … more »
Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) introduced H.R. 530, the Accelerating Wireless Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 2019, legislation to overturn Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations limiting the ability of local governments to regulate the deployment of 5G … more »
Alternet.org
Until consumers started to campaign loudly, food, drink and other heavy plastic-using businesses took little responsibility for single-use plastic waste, expecting urban collection services and a small recycling market to clean up the litter and dispose of their products. … more »
Palo Alto Online
A sweeping package of proposals to expand the Bay Area's housing stock by passing new renter protections, loosening zoning restrictions and expediting the approval process is making its way to the state Legislature despite opposition from local leaders, many of whom decry the proposed policies as unfair, anti-democratic and counterproductive. … more »
John Parulis
There's many Catch 22s associated with Newsom's plan as well, where do the more than 200,000 workers needed live? Most of the construction is market rate which will make further demands on housing, services and traffic. Gutting programs like CEQA & neutering local governments' ability to plan for sustainable housing is a recipe for failure. … more »
PBS.org
Gavin Newsom comes out of the gate, showing his hand as just another out of touch, tax and spend politician. NO OTHER TAX is more regressive and punishing on the poor than taxing water. … more »
PBS
The Camp fire, which killed 86 people and burned the Northern California town of Paradise to the ground in November, was last year’s most expensive natural disaster worldwide, according to a report from German-based global reinsurance company Munich Re. … more »
FoodSafety.gov
We talk incessantly about how to make children more “resilient”, but whatever we’re doing, it’s not working. Rates of anxiety disorders and depression are rising rapidly among teenagers, and in the US universities can’t hire therapists fast enough to keep up with the demand. What are we doing wrong? … more »
wikipedia.org
The number of monarch butterflies in California declined by 86 percent in one year! The population of western monarchs in California was already low before the most recent count, having declined by an estimated 97 percent since the 1980s. … more »
