David Sneed reports in the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
The owner of a Cayucos ranch has agreed to work with federal wildlife officials to protect California red-legged frogs.
Under a Safe Harbor Agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Swallow Creek Ranch three miles north of Cayucos will manage a creek and pond on the property [...]
Catherine Ryan Hyde summarizes the struggle Cambria has had with its own governing body, the Community Services District, to protect the local environment. The area is legally protected by state and federal law, but the CSD board of directors has pursued invading it to build a desalination plant. The full text of her summary includes [...]
Joe Fassler writes in The Atlantic about Edible Education 101. Joe Fassler, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa. In 2011, his work for TheAtlantic.com was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in Journalism. He hosts The Lit Show on KRUI radio and litshow.com.
This fall [...]
Additional information about permaculture posted online:
Permaculture is a design system based on ethics and design principles which can be used to establish, design, manage and improve all efforts made by individuals, households and communities towards a sustainable future. The permaculture flower uses the evolutionary spiral path to link together the key domains required for this [...]
Chew on this
Locals are finding ways to move away from food created by corporations
BY KATHY JOHNSTON
A quiet revolution is stirring in local kitchens. All over San Luis Obispo County, people are claiming their right to decide what goes in their mouths and their power to choose where it comes from.
CRUNCHY CHOICE
Dan Melton picks out [...]
(12-26) 02:44 PST South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (AP) –
Over the objections of the U.S. Forest Service, wildlife officials in California are taking steps at the state level to protect a rare woodpecker partly because the federal agency won’t stop logging the bird’s ever-shrinking habitat in burned stands of national forests in the Sierra Nevada.
The California [...]
Kathy Johnston reports in San Luis Obispo’s New Times on a project that needs some laws to change
Using fish heads and fish carcasses to help crops grow well—an ancient practice that pre-dates the Pilgrims—is an idea that recently caught on in San Luis Obispo County.
People enthusiastically jumped on board this fall to make a fish-composting [...]
A billion-dollar project by SolarCity to stick solar panels on military housing across the country will proceed solely with private financing, after the federal government backed out in the wake of Solyndra’s bankruptcy.
SolarCity, based in San Mateo, will report today that it has reached an agreement with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to fund the [...]
Jonah Owen Lamb of the San Luis Obispo Tribune takes a look at local farms that collect federal subsidies, see below. The newspaper editorialized about the issue the following week. The report is welcome, now that we have a chance to spend time examining the Farm Bill, which had been shrouded in secrecy during SuperCommittee [...]
As reported in the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
A proposed state ballot initiative would force Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, as well as California’s other nuclear plant, to shut down, causing electricity rates to jump and possibly resulting in rolling blackouts, according to a nonpartisan analysis.
The proposed Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 would require that no [...]
David Sneed reports:
A wide variety of opinions about climate change and how the county should respond — ranging from a belief that the county is not doing nearly enough to fight global warming to fears that the plan would be a step in turning the sovereignty of our country over to the United Nations — [...]
California Watch reports:
In a push to expand across California without interference, Wal-Mart is increasingly taking advantage of the state’s initiative system to threaten elected officials with costly special elections and to avoid environmental lawsuits.
The Arkansas-based retailer has hired paid signature gatherers to circulate petitions to build new superstores or repeal local restrictions on big-box stores. [...]
HuffPo reports:
Humpback whales shocked a bikini-clad surfer and two kayakers this past week when they leapt out of the water and lunged disturbingly close to the group in the waters off Santa Cruz, California.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the humpback whales are traveling unusually close to the shore in search of food. In turn, [...]
International environmentalist Bill McKibben spoke to a cheering “room full of people who are ready to go to work,” a sold-out crowd at the Fremont in San Luis Obispo on Oct. 30. It was an extra stop on his tour, “Brave New Planet: The Fight for a Livable Climate.” The San Luis Obispo Tribune’s environment [...]
At first glance, California’s vast Mojave Desert seems barren: mile after mile of dust, sand and scrubby creosote bush under a blistering sun. But the huge desert, which spans an area larger than West Virginia, is becoming speckled with gigantic solar power plants that are creating hundreds of construction jobs and, when complete, will generate [...]
‘Shark Publicist’ William Winram tags great whites for scientists and captures images of them that confound us. He wants to show that humans’ natural fear of the so-called man-eater has been blown way out of proportion. This photo of him and a tiger shark is by Fred Buyle.
Joe Mozingo of the Los Angeles Times profiles [...]
California Report finds Tahoe getting green instead of blue:
“Keep Tahoe Blue” has been the slogan of environmental groups working to protect Lake Tahoe’s legendary clear waters. Over the last decade, more than $1 billion has been poured into curbing runoff and erosion at the lake. But new [...]
Starting October 5, a series of dives by a remotely operated vehicle may definitively determine the ecological threat posed by the S.S. Montebello, a World War II-era oil tanker that lies seven miles offshore from Cambria.
The Coast Guard and state Department of Fish and Game have hired Seattle-based Global Diving and [...]
A small population in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles is hemmed in by freeways and faces extinction,
As if their situation isn’t dire enough, someone killed and mutilated — the story doesn’t specify how — one of them.
Police chased two lions off a suburban lawn in Sierra Madre, north of Los Angeles in the [...]
This is interesting, because locally zebras graze with cattle on the Hearst Ranch.
Recently, neighboring ranchers shot three of them, in two separate incidents, claiming the zebras were scaring their horses.
NPR reports on research that mixed herds are compatible:
Those of us who eat beef can thank cattle for turning grass into something tastier. [...]
David Sneed reports from San Luis Obispo:
In what is being described as an unusual event, state Fish and Game officials rescued a black bear cub Friday that had been found orphaned at the top of the Cuesta Grade.
The cub will be taken to a specialized care facility and will be released back [...]
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