>> Rolling Stone’s put together a list of “The Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming.” First up, profiteer Warren Buffett.
>> A Cali eco-hero’s retiring: California Energy Commission member Arthur H. Rosenfeld will retire this week, after decades of helping to enact some of the toughest efficiency standards in the world:
These mandates have yielded about $30 billion annually in energy savings for California consumers. They’ve eliminated air pollution that’s the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off the roads. They have been copied by states and countries worldwide.
>> Fans of Animal Planet’s Whale Wars: Remember how the the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s anti-whaling ship Ady Gil collided with a Japanese whaling ship last week? Ady Gil’s still sinking — but last week Ady Gil, the man who furnished the money to buy the boat named after him, threw a fundraiser — hopefully to buy an Ady Gil II.
>> Want a plot in a community garden in Venice? If you can’t wait to make it to the top of city-owned plots, you can get a plot in a privately-owned lot for $25 a month, according to Tara Tiger Brown at Metblogs LA.
>> Enviro groups oppose parts of Cali’s green building code because its standards are weaker than LEED certification and “rigorous standards adopted by Los Angeles, San Francisco and more than 50 California jurisdictions.”
Cover image via Rolling Stone
Why couldn’t the state have worked with LEED to just use the LEED standards? I understand, California as being ahead of other States in environmental standards, but why do we need to spend resources coming up with our own standards again? A Cal-LEED standard would make much more sense. Kind of like how most professional licenses in California are more strict than other states.
Comment by Brandon Lee — January 11, 2010 @ 4:18 pm
I agree with you, but I’m guessing the industry gave Schwarzenegger more money than we did. The double standard’s now official law.
Comment by Siel — January 28, 2010 @ 5:28 pm