>> Kit, the cute sea otter pup. Watch an adorable 11-week-old sea otter pup swim and play on Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Otter Cam.
>> Sailing against disposable plastic waste’s become a popular eco-activity. The upcycled JUNK boat that sailed from Long Beach to Hawaii in 2008 was apparently the raft that launched a thousand ships — or at least about a half dozen eco-boats. At FilterForGood last week, I wrote about eco initiatives like 5 Gyres, Project Kasei, and banking fortune heir and environmental activist David de Rothschild’s Plastiki — which the L.A. Times also wrote about yesterday.
>> California farm jobs aren’t disappearing due to water restrictions. Last year, farmers facing water restrictions warned of disaster, and this year, Senator Diane Feinstein wants to weaken the Endangered Species Act to up water deliveries to San Joaquin Valley farms to pereerve jobs. However, the L.A. Times reports that “state data show farm jobs declined less than half a percent from 2008 to 2009″:
Though photographs of farmers bulldozing their almond groves for lack of water were a media favorite, California had more acres of bearing almond trees last year than ever before.
Photo via Monterey Bay Aquarium
Aw! Thanks for sharing the pic of the sea otter. Nothing like adorable animals to get me through the mid-week slump. :)
Comment by Rosemary — February 24, 2010 @ 11:39 am
She IS super cute :) I’m actually going to be visiting Monterey in a couple months and hope to see her in person :)
Comment by Siel — February 24, 2010 @ 3:17 pm