Southern California is gambling its future power needs on its constant sunshine, wind and the ability of engineers to effectively harness those and other alternative energy sources.
USGBC Announces Green Homes Commitment for Clinton Global Initiative
Written by Taryn Holowka
Sunday, 12 November 2006
(New York, NY) Green home building took a giant step forward as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), with support from Newland Communities, committed to launching the first program in a comprehensive yearlong campaign to educate consumers about the benefits of green homes.
11/12/06 Brush up on water catchment tech., Scientists set up in Sierra to track shrinking snowpack
Written by - Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Science Writer
Sunday, 12 November 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006 Noah Molotch, a UCLA research scientist, and Paul Kim, an undergraduate at UC Merced, had no need for their jackets as they broke ground at California's latest global warming research site: a stony Sierra hillside a half-hour's hike uphill from an old ski lodge in Sequoia National Park.