Tell the CPUC It Must Protect and Grow Rooftop Solar

Here Got to still help out as much as possible on this.

Married, On Honeymoon... Still Seeing Climate Headlines

July Was Hottest Month on Record Globally

Study Confirms Climate Change Turned California Drought into Disaster, with Worst Yet to Come

China's Fossil Fuel Emissions Lower Than Estimated: Harvard Researchers
This important for Paris UN Climate target goal-setting and agreements later this year.


Martin O'Malley: Global Warming Fueled ISIS
Droughts, loss of farmland, unrest, anger.

I'll take a bit of a break, being in one of Earth's paradises, it's time to enjoy a functional, balanced beautiful ecosystem with my loved one...

England to Test Charge as You Go [wireless] 'Electric motorways' -- BBC News

Here Cool! "Electric cars are a hot topic in the motoring world, as people look for ways of not using petrol any more."

In Letter to Obama, U.S. scientists Praise Iran Nuclear Deal

Here Pesky scientists, using data and science and stuff.

The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here -- Rolling Stone

Here Great sobering article in Rolling Stone. Makes one think what Romans might have thought when Nero (modern GOP) fiddled while Rome burned.

Cecil the lion: We Will Remember, the Killer Not So Much

Cecil the lion: Twisted logic behind hunting (Opinion) - CNN.com 


I'm thinking, to kill a lion is a shameful thing. There is no game here. No old-school hunting need here. Just trophy hunting. Just ego-hunting. Just the desire to kill something beautiful, and grand. I'm thinking the hunter is a very small man. I'm thinking mankind is barely able to get out of the need to kill each other, and innocent animals (and let's be honest: this lion did nothing to the hunter, and they surely had shotguns if his little bow charade did not work out and Cecil charged).

Cecil was grand. He became the leader of a tribe at an older age. He should have been allowed to live out his life, as we all should.

I've signed petitions to Zimbabwe hoping to make such 'contracts' with hunters illegal. Tourism for the more well-adjusted of us is big money for African nations: we want to go and look, gawk, snap photos, see their habitat, see how they live. And if they are killed off (see below), there is nothing left to see.

Killing them just isn't on my radar.

Hunters need to find some robot targets, or worse maybe hunt themselves.

I hope the other Cecil's out there are allowed to live out a decent life.


"Sadly, lions aren't the only imperiled species hunted for sport.
Americans continue to kill rhinos, leopards, elephants, polar bears,
giraffes, leopards and a variety of other animals for gruesome mementos,
collecting heads as if they were merit badges. Perhaps the most
perverse part about this is that the rarer and more endangered these
species become, the more valuable they are to trophy hunters, as
evidenced by the $50,000 price tag of this hunt and the even more
egregious $350,000 permit auctioned off earlier this year by a member of the Dallas Safari Club to kill a critically endangered Namibian black rhino."

I'm in a good mood, but honestly the endangered species killing makes me furious. I'll save the foul language, but needless to say hunters interested in killing an endangered species is a most short-sighted, awful and soulless sort. Small-minded, greedy, and internally desperate and completely void of the connectedness and beauty of life.

Utah Actually Making Headway Against Chronic Homelessness by Giving Them Homes (Apartments)

Here Interesting. Good news. Here in Venice, so many homeless. San Francisco considering laws to help, among other things, make there city smell less like urine. Apparently this method saves Utah about $8000 per chronically homeless person per year too.

http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2015/06/09/warning-san-francisco-smells-like-a-toilet/
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-urine-resistant-walls-in-San-Francisco-shoot-6403283.php

Obama Climate Plan Not Strong Enough

Here It's a start, but emissions reductions need to be ramped up.

No doubt regarding the resistance to start helping, "The issue works in terms of painting out a larger narrative around the Republican Party as being out of step and out of touch,” the official said

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/clean-power-plan-2016-democrats-see-promise-120965.html?hp=c2_3

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-climate-20150802-story.html#page=1

Coal in Asia on the Decline ("On It's Knees")
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-03/obama-climate-plan-squeezes-asian-coal-as-china-fights-pollution

10 Dangers of Fracking: Why It's Harmful and Needs to Be Banned -- From CAF Coalition

10 Dangers of Fracking: Why It's Harmful and Needs to Be Banned

Don't Nuke the Climate! Sign Petition

Don't Nuke the Climate! Sign petition from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service

"http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=20658"

Don't Nuke the Climate!

June 16, 2015

Today, seven international clean
energy organizations launched a major new campaign in support of a
nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system and to prevent nuclear power
from being considered as a climate solution when the world's governments
meet at the COP 21 conference in Paris in December 2015.

California Gov. Brown, L.A. Mayor Garcetti Give Thumbs Up to Obama's 'Clean Power Plan'

Here Good. California's is already on track to meet and even exceed the goals/metrics of the plan.

Well, He Better. "Obama Unveils Tougher Climate Plan"

Here "Obama to Unveil Tougher Climate Plan" 


"The centerpiece of President Obama’s climate change strategy - the Clean Power Plan - is now finalized. It is the single biggest and most ambitious action the US has ever taken to tackle climate change. Under the initiative, the country will reduce carbon emissions by 32 percent on 2005 levels by 2030, lining up with the offer it made as part of this year’s international climate negotiations taking place in Paris. Prior to Monday’s announcement, hundreds of American companies expressed support for the plan and some of the country’s largest businesses committed to invest at least $140 billion to take on climate change. Support for the Clean Power Plan goes far beyond the private sector. Health advocates from coast to coast are heralding the plan’s finalization saying it will avoid 3,600 premature deaths, lead to 90,000 fewer asthma attacks in children, and prevent 300,000 missed work and school days. Social justice leaders also praised Monday’s announcement given the disproportionate impacts coal pollution has on poor and minority families. Opposition to the Clean Power Plan, however, is coming from expected corners: fossil fuel companies and the politicians and interests groups they fund. Despite these predictable attacks, the Clean Power Plan's anticipated positive impacts on public health, the economy and the chances for future generations to inherit a safe planet are driving the policy’s popularity."

http://treealerts.org/topic/public-health/2015/08/obama-finalizes-historic-clean-power-plan/#background-cust