Posted in Contempo Marin, Marin Water, Mark Leno, california politics, elections, environment 2 Comments »

Could your family do without lights, television, radio, computers, and all the electric devices you have plugged in for sixty minutes?
Tonight at 8pm local time, people in the Pacific Time will be turning off their lights in their businesses and homes. Will you join us?
Some people will make light of this effort, stating that it […]

Posted in environment No Comments »

While attending the North Bay Sustainable Business Green Drinks mixer this past February, I met Carrie Bachelder from The Away Station. The Away Station would provide a central place in the North Bay where residents and contractors to send their unwanted items and construction and deconstruction waste. The materials can be sorted, rehabilitated. and reused […]

Posted in Green Marin, environment, global warming 1 Comment »

Ice Cream Can Save Our Planet
First of all, congratulations to our favorite ice cream store ever, Three Twins Ice Cream, for earning Assemblyman Huffman’s Sustainable 6 Award for their earth-friendly business practices in January. Besides making their own fabulously tasty certified organic ice cream at their Terra Linda and Napa stores, they use organic ingredients, […]

Posted in AB1920, Jared Huffman, Marin Politics, california politics, environment, global warming 1 Comment »

Light Brown Moth, Light Brown Moth
What Do You Hear?
I hear helicopters in the sky
Dumping unknown chemicals…
Apologies to Eric Carle.
If you haven’t heard already, there are plans to do an aerial spray against the Light Brown Moth in Marin this Summer. The first communities will be Tiburon, Belvedere, and San Francsico. Opponents, StoptheSpray, feel […]

Posted in AB2892, Jared Huffman, Pesticides, california politics, environment, holy crap No Comments »

With all due respect to his death metal minions, Metallica rocker, James Hetfield maybe slowly losing his rocker credentials after denying access to his open space due to finding too many beer bottles and cigarette butts.
[…]

Posted in Developments in Marin, environment No Comments »

CNN just reported that 2.7 million gallons of sewage has been dumped into the Bay courtesy of our own Marin County waste treatment plant. Apparently, it happened last night and it is just being reported within the last 16 minutes. Nobody appears to know what happened and they don’t think there is any chlorine in […]

Posted in Our Polluted Bay, environment No Comments »

It is becoming clear that the spill is worse than was initially thought. It couldn’t come at a worse time - during migration time for birds. There reports of slowness to act and reporting of the full extent of the damage., Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed a state of emergency today in response to […]

Posted in Cosco Oil Spill, Mark Leno, california politics, environment, holy crap No Comments »