Gag me with a high rise
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | 6 Comments
Las Vegas City Center. Photo: Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times. Click on the image to be taken to the story.
AS the US heads to Copenhagen without any clear plan to combat the effects of climate change on water, one of the areas predicted to be worst hit by global warming, Las Vegas, Nevada, is opening “CityCenter.”
In a preview so unctuous that it would embarrass an ad agency, the Los Angeles Times travel section writes, “Even in Las Vegas, a town not given to architectural subtleties, CityCenter looms large. The 67-acre, $8.5-billion, 18-million-square-foot ‘city within a city’ combines size and flourish with environmental consciousness.”
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High good, low bad: Mead in November
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > Lake Mead > Las Vegas Review-Journal > November 2009
Water strategy for climate change
Posted on | November 30, 2009 | No Comments
One only need read James G. Workman’s op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times to deduce what we aren’t doing about water in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next week.
Rather than wait for hell to freeze over and heaven to melt, the US Environmental Protection Agency has got out in front of politicians with this presentation on what’s happening to our climate in the meantime, its impact on our fresh water supply and what we should be doing as a matter of urgency.
Read it carefully before confidently taking the quiz, or, as I did, read it carefully the second time before re-taking the quiz.
This posting was updated at 7.10pm, 11/30/2009. The Workman reference and link were added.
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > US Environmental Protection Agency > Water
Western datebook: Meet, learn, shop
Posted on | November 30, 2009 | No Comments
Photo: Annie Wells
For those staying out of the malls and in the know, here are a few good events for the upcoming week:
Tuesday December 1:
Public meeting on the proposed Los Angeles Low Impact Development Ordinance
Plant Information with Frank McDonough, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
LA River Revitalization Corporation meeting, via LA Creek Freak
Friday December 4:
Winter Cactus and Succulent Show and Sale, Fullerton Arboretum
Saturday December 5:
Go Wild Native Plant Sale, Malibu Creek Watershed Council / Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, Topanga Ranch
Plant Identification, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Arcadia
California Friendly Landscape Workshop, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Harbor City
Garden Tour, Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College, El Cajon
California Native Plant Society, Los Angeles and Santa Monica Chapter, Field trip and habitat restoration, Cold Creek Preserve
For more events in December, click here and for a resource guide, here.
This post was updated at 8.14am, December 1, 2009. The item about the LA River Revitalization Corporation meeting was added.
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > events > Low Impact Development Ordinance
The week that was, 11/22-28/2009
Posted on | November 29, 2009 | No Comments
Hourly images were taken by the UK Met Office (originally the Meteorological Office) of record rainfall over Cumbria between November 18-20. On November 23, the Met Office issued a report with radar images, an analysis chart and rainfall totals. To read it, click on the image.
“We cannot have our grandchildren, or great-grandchildren, looking back and saying, ‘Why on earth did they build here? What possessed them to do so?'” — British Labour Member of Parliament Nia Griffith, “We have to stop building on our flood plains, warns MP,” South Wales Evening Post, November 26, 2009
“The reality is that floods are going to keep happening.” –– “Experts say the torrents cannot be prevented,” Times of London, November 22, 2009
… one emergency worker said it was like “an Irish Hurricane Katrina,” — “Electricity Supply Board was warned dams could not cope with flood,” Irish Independent, November 23, 2009
“We’re not saying we’re ready to pull that trigger, but we certainly have done some additional legal work in that area.” — Bert Brantley, spokesman for Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, on the option of moving the state boundary north so it could tap into the Tennessee River, “Georgia task force: 2012 too soon to find new water,” AP / Gainesville Sun, November 24, 2009
It’s time to get all the energy, all the best minds, all the effort on salmon recovery out of the courtroom and into the river where it belongs. — “Judge should say yes to Columbia salmon plan,” the Oregonian editorial board, November 25, 2009
“If someone says, ‘Why would the city want to put more strain on water users, and make it more difficult to use water?’ Well … from a budgetary perspective, people use more (water) and we get more money.” — Salina, Kansas City Manager Jason Gage, “City discusses water conservation,” Salina Journal, November 24, 2009
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