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Environmental Issues and Protection

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Sobering Times for Pill Poppers: "Generation Rx," National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

    Prescription drug abuse by South County teens has been a hot topic lately thanks to the documentary Behind the Orange Curtain making its world premiere May 2 at the Newport Beach Film Festival and, due to a sell out, getting a second showing May 3 in the huge Big Newport theater.That makes a couple ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Santa Ana Sucker Legal Allies Finalized

    ​Just to be clear, the Santa Ana sucker is NOT a skinny young thing who works Harbor Boulevard. Or, more accurately, the Santa Ana sucker for the purposes of this post is not a tireless working gal/guy.The Santa Ana sucker referenced here is the algae-eating fish whose Santa Ana River habitat prot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    [UPDATED with More Details:] OC's Largest Municipal Solar Energy Efficiency Project Shines Today

    ​UPDATE, JULY 21, 8:47 A.M.: Though the ribbon-cutting unveiling the largest municipal solar energy efficiency project in Orange County is this morning, the city of Brea is already reaping savings that have exceeded expectations. For the month of June, there was a 65% reduction in electricity cost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    [UPDATED with New Kern County Stink:] Courts Weigh Orange County Poop

    ​UPDATE, MAY 26, 12:42 P.M.: There's an interesting nugget about Orange County and the Carlyle Group in coverage of the ongoing court battle over human waste from Southern California spread atop farmland in Kern County.Anyone trying to put the Bush 43 years behind them may have forgotten about the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Five Songs for Earth Day

    ​ Today marks the forty-first anniversary of Earth Day. As the brainchild of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the observation first held in the United States on April 22nd, 1970 was conceived as a 'teach-in' meant to inspire awareness and action on issues critical to the health of the enviro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    UCI Law Student-Run Conference Looks at Climate Justice

    ​UC Irvine law students are holding a first-ever, all-day conference today on climate justice. "A3 [Assemble. Advocate.Act]: A Conference on Climate Justice" examines "the social injustices faced by vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by climate change," according to organ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Radiation Detected in Japan's Tap Water and Anaheim's Air

    ​If you don't want to be exposed to radiation, don't drink the water in Japan.Or . . . gulp . . . breathe the air in Anaheim. The Japanese government says today elevated levels of radioactive iodine from a crippled nuclear plant we ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Always a Cover-Up at Wal-Mart. Always

    Kathrine Shimaji, the whistleblower who caught Foothill Ranch Wal-Mart employees illegally dumping hazardous waste, wants to know why the Orange County district attorney's office didn't prosecute the higher-ups

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2010

    Priest Blesses Surf City Waves Sunday

    ​One day at band camp, this kid was shredding at Bolsa Chica when he slipped off his board and yelled, "Jesus Christ." So, it is not without precedence that a priest from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange will wade into the waters near Huntington Beach Pier Sunday morning to bless the waves.

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    EPA Takes a Dump on Cruise Ships, Cleans Coast

    Flickr User Bruce Tuten​Twenty million fewer gallons of sewage will taint the 1,624 mile California coastline starting next year. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will ban all large cruise ships and other commercial vessels from discharging sewage withi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Grand Jury Lauds County Departments for Eco-friendly Practices

    ​The Orange County Grand Jury in the past has issued reports critical of projects intended to improve our environment, including light rail, cleaning up Aliso Creek and, most recently, the Orange County Great Park.Today, the grand jury issued a report titled "Orange County Goes Green" that lauds t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Move Over, Earth Day: It's Vegan Earth Day

    UPDATE: A new study shows vegans and vegetarian have more empathy--for humans and animals--than meat-eaters do . . . ​The trees have been planted, the trails have been cleared and the beaches have been de-syringed as another season of springtime Earth Day festivities have passed. But a "Vegan Eart ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2010

    Raw

    Hotel Maya

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2010

    Earth Week

    Discovery Science Center

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    RV Parks and Campgrounds Association Favors Regulation ... of Other Businesses

    Not Debbie Sipe​The California Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, which represents owners of recreational parks and campgrounds, has come out in favor of government regulation.That is, government regulation of the businesses that sell certain products used at RV parks and campgrounds, not th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Tale of Three Port of Long Beach Realities

    ​"Ports Celebrate Clean Truck Program Anniversary"Long Beach Press Telegram"Port Trucking Company Fights Economy, Environmental Fee"89.3 KPCC"Backroom Deal Leaves Long Beach Truck Program in Hands of Polluting Industry"Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club via PR Newswire

  • Calendar

    December 10, 2009

    ENC Green Building Tour

    Environmental Nature Center

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    OC Green Guide Goes National

    Don't it make Casey Cochran's Orange County green?Casey Cochran created the online OC Green Guide in 2006 so he could keep track of eco-friendly eateries, stores, events and news for his own eco-friendly purposes. Now, it's part of a nationwide network for all. Green Guide Network, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Please Recycle, Pre-cycle, Free-cycle, Up-cycle, Down-cycle, E-cycle

    ​Just when you finally figured out that the three point-chasing-the-tail arrows means "recycle" along comes a whole bunch more terms without the helpful arrows. They are (drum roll):  pre-cycle, free-cycle, up-cycle, down-cycle and e-cycle.What does it all mean? California News Service's Lori ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    More Federal Brownfields Cleanup Funds Coming Long Beach's Way

    EPA.govMiller's Childrens Hospital in Long Beach previously received federal brownfields cleanup funds.​A proposed Long Beach job training resource has been awarded a chunk of nearly $2 billion in federal grant money aimed at cleaning up contaminated sites in California known as "brownfields," the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Wax On, Wax Off: Surfrider Foundation Builds Green

    Surfrider.org​The buildings of Surfrider's global headquarters in San Clemente make up just one more demonstration of their commitment to preserving our coastal environment. The U.S Green Building Council (USGBC), an organization with a strict rating system for design and construction, awarded Sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Meat Free Monday Goes Mainstream

    Of course, by 'mainstream' I mean that celebrities are now endorsing the campaign. Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney today launched a new website, Meat Free Monday, which encourages everyone to, yes, you guessed it, give up meat on Mondays. Other famous names weighing in include Kevin Spacey, Sheryl C ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Annual Earth Day Celebration

    Ocean Institute

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    X [Prize] Marks the Spot for UC Irvine Students

      "The Capacitor Challenge" video above by UC Irvine students Kyle Good and Bryan Le was this morning crowned the winner of the X Prize Foundation's "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" competition, which comes with a $25,000 check. "We're so excited to be the winners of the Crazy G ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    Tour de Orange

    OC Wildlife and Beach Tour

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    No. 1 on the Palin/Hewitt/Colbert Threat Down: (Polar) Bears!

    Sarah Palin invigorated the conservative base with her surprisingly poised speech to GOP delegates last night, kicking new life into what had been a ho-hum convention previously “highlighed” by the Dead Man Talking triad (George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman). Clockwork's favorite sce ... More >>

  • Music

    August 28, 2008

    [Aural Reports] Nightlife Maven Sean Francis' Need for Speed Led Him to Create Spare the Air Fest

    Sarah Palin invigorated the conservative base with her surprisingly poised speech to GOP delegates last night, kicking new life into what had been a ho-hum convention previously “highlighed” by the Dead Man Talking triad (George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman). Clockwork's favorite sce ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2008

    The Great 
Green Orange

    Environmental Coalition for OC Great Park

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2008

    Colonel of Wisdom

    This toll road debate is starting to feel like Clue—who's going to kill the project? Was it Colonel Magness, in the media, with cold, hard facts? Col. Thomas Magness wrote a little letter the Transportation Corridor Agencies didn't like. The letter disclosed that the TCA's preferred, certified a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Burning Up

    You're Getting Warmer

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2007

    OC Dumpster Diving

    New York-based website www.Freegan.info hopes to become the craigslist of dumpster diving by providing a forum for refuse eaters all over the country to meet and share tips. With listings of the best places to forage for free discarded goodies in cities all over the country (only a few so far, mos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2007

    Beach Break: Five Outta Six Aint Bad

    The results are in and Long Beach is the winner with five of the six most polluted beaches in Los Angeles County, says the National Resources Defense Council in its annual "Testing the Waters" guide. Mother's Beach lead the charge with violations of state health standards 59 percent of the time. T ... More >>

  • News

    August 17, 2006

    Toll Road Rage

    Hey, Porter! New firm cashes in on bad toll-road PR

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2006

    Ear Splitters

    A federal judge has temporarily forbidden the Navy from using high-intensity sonar in war-game exercises off the coast of Hawaii, ruling that environmental groups had provided "considerable convincing scientific evidence that the Navy's use of ... sonar can kill, injure, and disturb many species, in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2006

    Popcorn and Greenhouse Gases (non Al Gore edition)

    Hot on the heels of last night's Orange County Film Society's premier of Chris Paine's Who Killed the Electric Car?– a documentary that makes the "compelling case: that oil companies, automakers, lawmakers, consumers and the media killed a workable solution to air pollution, global warming, so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2006

    At the Movies

    After a corrupt Congressional electoral committee declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 presidential election, Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate and the actual winner of the election, left politics and, as Gore Vidal delicately put it, "retired to private life and to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2006

    TCA Sued Not Once, Not Twice, but THRICE!

    Today, Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued the Transportation Corridor Agencies. Read the complaint HERE. Lockyer is none too keen on their plan to build a toll road through San Onofre State Beach, impacting surfing resources, the San Mateo Campground, Native American sites, and engandered species. ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2005

    No Mo Moiso

    Grassroots campaign aims to stop homebuilder from invading OCs last protected wilderness area

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    Their Ocean

    Can wealthy developers and business execs do for the environment what grassroots activists havent?

  • News

    July 31, 2003

    Tunnel Vision

    All that stands in the way of Bill Vardoulis tunnel dream is the Irvine Co.

  • Music

    April 24, 2003

    Its April 19

    Today is Earth Day, Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Ken Maddox, We Hardly Knew Ye

    Today is Earth Day, Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday

  • Columns

    October 31, 2002

    Letters

    Today is Earth Day, Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    We Missed On This One

    A county committee established to clean up the beaches produces a law that excuses polluters

  • Columns

    May 4, 2000

    Every Day Is Earth Day

    And why wont GM release a car powered by rock & roll?!

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    HBs Secret Santa

    Ed Lairdplanning commissioner, paint maker, bank investor, political bankroller

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    Alien Toxins

    Area 51's sci-fi folklore masks a truly spooks reality

  • News

    November 25, 1999

    School Haze

    Edison High awaits cleanup of nearby dumpsite

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Talking Shit

    Words speak louder than action in cleaning OC beaches

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Fill 'Er Up

    Even Jesus wouldn't try Irvine water district's plan to turn crap into tap

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