Latest from Emerald City, my enviro-blog at LAtimes.com

>>Solastalgia: mourning over warming Do you suffer from solastalgia? Defined as a pining for a lost environment, Solastalgia is a global warming threat we should be concerned about, writes Clive Thompson for Wired. I agree — especially as t huge swaths of California’s wine areas may disappear by 2050 –

>> Chicago is taxing bottled water. Will L.A.? Every plastic bottle of water will cost an extra 5 cents in the Windy City, starting in the new year.

>> Freedom for your new year. “Americans associate cars with personal freedom, but Hodgkinson points out that, according to the late cultural critic Ivan Illich, once you consider all the labor required to pay the loan, gas and repairs, not to mention all the time spent at the service garage, you get an average of only a lousy 5 mph.”

>> Funding it! SoCal-NoCal bullet train and the Subway to the Sea. The public transit projects everyone seems to want are always in jeopardy because of lack of funds. Some ideas to get the money that elected officials are batting around –

And 2 linky posts:

>> Greenlist: crafty challenges. Knit your own Ferrari, craft your own champagne chair, etc.

>> Greenlist: In strange animal news. Kangaroo farts, walrus stampedes, etc.

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