California

Earth Day and Wine Country’s Regeneration

Igor Sill California, grape, grapes, Napa, red, regeneration, Sonoma, vineyard, vintner, white, wine 0 Comments

Three years after the devastating wine country firestorms, it’s amazing to watch our planet’s regeneration without our interference.

Currents

Pruitt Announces Plans to Overturn Obama-Era Vehicle Emissions Standards Could Set Back U.S. Emissions Reductions By Decades

E - The Environmental Magazine cabinet, California, EPA, Jerry Brown, Scott Pruitt, Union of Concerned Scientists 0 Comments

Trump plans to reduce vehicle emissions standards for new cars & trucks, setting back emissions reduction efforts by decades.

EarthTalk Q&A

Shower or Bath: Which Is Better for the Environment?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer bath, California, Colorado, EPA, flow, gallons per minute, GPM, head, low, low-flow, New York, shower, shower head, timer, tub, waste, wasted, water, WaterSense 1 Comment

Showers typically use less water than baths, but only if the bather doesn’t linger under the spray for too long and if he has a newer model — that is, more efficient — shower head.

Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Housing Bubble Building in Overlooked Spaces Is Key to Solving Nation's Craziest Real Estate Market

Megan Wild buildings, California, density, disuse, home, housing, land, landfill, median, Palo Alto, price, rehab, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, space, vacant 1 Comment

Building on landfills? Rehabbing Old Buildings? Planning for Greater Density? These are among the sustainable solutions some planners would like to see put in place to solve the housing crisis in Northern California…

EarthTalk Q&A

Cleaner Indoor Air Quality Can Help You Sleep Better

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer AFM, air, apartment, California, carcinogenic, carcinogens, chair, chemical, chemicals, couch, Coway, filter, filtration, fire, flame, furniture, house, household, houseplant, houseplants, indoor, indoor air quality, inside, low, low-VOC, mattress, off-gas, offgas, office, paint, plant, plants, quality, retardant, Safecoat, VOC, volatile organic compounds 0 Comments

Good indoor air quality is key to a good night’s sleep and overall healthy living, so do what you can reduce off-gassing furniture and paint and get your HVAC vents cleaned…

Under Water

Water Conservation at Home and in the Community Conserving Dwindling Supplies of Fresh Water Is Our Only Hope of Survival

Avery Phillips Aquifer, California, Central Valley, conservation, Flint, John Muir, Michigan, NASA, water 2 Comments

Water conservation is something we all need to think about in our everyday lives if we want to save some drinking water for the future…

McWay Falls at Dusk, Julia Pfeiifer Burns Stae Park, Big Sur, California, US

Currents

Overcrowded California Golden State Faces Serious Public Health & Environmental Crisis

Kate Harveston California, climate change, diesel, fire, fires, global warming, Golden State, LA, Los Angeles, pollution, shoreline, smog 1 Comment

California ain’t just sunshine and palm trees: overcrowding, pollution & climate change is creating a serious health & environmental crisis there.

EarthTalk Q&A

Rooftop Solar: Now’s the Time to Get Started

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer alternative, Arizona, California, database, Department of Energy, DOE, DSIRE, energy, Energy Sage, Hawaii, incentives, Massachusetts, NABCEP, New Jersey, power, renewable, Residential Consumer Guide to Solar Power, solar, SolarCity, state, sun, Sunnova, SunPower, SunRun, Vivint 0 Comments

There’s never been a better time to go solar, given how much prices have come down while efficiency in converting sunlight to electricity has risen…

EarthTalk Q&A

Can solar desalination help an increasingly thirsty world? Using the sun to cure Central Valley water woes

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Abengoa, Aqua4, California, Central Valley, desalination, drought, saltwater, Saudi Arabia, seawater, solar, WaterFX 1 Comment

Dear EarthTalk: What exactly is solar desalination and how can it help an increasingly thirsty world? —Maryann Dell’Amore, Howard, MN Solar desalination is a technique used to remove salt from water via a specially designed still that uses solar energy to boil seawater and capture […]

EarthTalk Q&A

Is California’s drought the result of too much meddling by enviros? Carly Fiorina and other conservatives think so

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer California, Carly Fiorina, conservatives, drought, Fox News, Glenn Beck, MSNBC 2 Comments

Dear EarthTalk: Is California’s epic drought really the result of too much meddling by environmentalists like some conservatives have suggested? —Betsy Martin, Butte, MT While no one questions that California is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in recent history, the […]

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