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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — San Francisco’s GreenFinanceSF Program, already described as the largest retrofit loan program of its kind in the U.S., got a nearly $3 million boost from Recovery Act funds today. Newsom announced Friday night that city had secured $2,955,957 in federal funds, … Read ...read more

Sunday of the “Week of Eating In.” I am squeaking in under the wire with this entry. All week I have been thinking about what I, a penny-pinching freelancer who likes to cook and for whom eating in (and no take-out) is the default setting, would write about. On a week that brought a New ...read more

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sun 4:26 hst: update Civil Defense and the 'Blueberries' (nickname for popo in hawai'i as they usually use their own vehicles and slap a blue light on top) did an amazing job keeping an entire state out of the water, because the innocent-looking one-foot punch, or footer tsunami, had hidden debris and dangerous turbulence. The legendary ...read more

In Central New York, we are blessed with our connections to the enviroment and 95% of the fresh water supply for the U.S. We are home to over 20% of the world's fresh water. Our watershed provides some of the purest fresh water in the country. The drinking water for millions of people is now ...read more

Mayor Mike McGinn and Seattle City Councilmembers announced the “2010: The Year of Urban Agriculture” campaign to promote urban agriculture efforts and increase community access to locally grown food. In April of 2008, Seattle City Council adopted Resolution 31019, the Local Food Action Initiative, outlining a series of actions developed to promote local and regional food ...read more

cross-posted from Not Eating Out In New York: That is the question. It is quite possibly the most perplexing thing about not eating out. We live in a culture that travels a lot — whether it’s just a twenty-minute commute to work each day in a car or perpetually being “between” two coasts, or countries, by ...read more

By 2050, two out of every three people living in cities will live in slums. As cities around the world continue to grow to sizes unimaginable only a few years ago, and as slums within these cities grow at twice that pace, we must look into the reasons why humanity is incapable of accommodating the essential ...read more

A tsunami triggered by an earthquake in Chile has swept ashore in Hawaii, but there are no immediate reports of damage. On the island of Robinson Crusoe, a huge tsunami wave flooded the village of San Juan Batista. There's a possibility the waves could reach Japan. ——————————————————————————– A tsunami triggered by the Chilean earthquake sent a ...read more

*These figures are potential statistics based on the Revenue & Taxes from Oakland's Cannabis Economy Report to the Measure Z Oversight Committee By Dale Gieringer & Richard Lee. http://california.marijuanalobby.com/california/californias-income-potential-fro… Read the original article at Current