Archive for 'environment'
San Francisco values
It’s all too easy sometimes to get down on the Bay Area. But then you come upon information like this.
San Francisco recycles 69 percent of its total waste. Okay, for comparison, what percentage does Houston recycle?
a. 2.6 percent
b. 18.6 percent
c. 26.6 percent
d. 44.6 percent
And a bonus question:
25,000 Houston residents have been waiting as long as [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2008 under environment.
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Send in the tugs!
How can we prevent another catastrophic spill in the San Francisco Bay? Oil is bad enough but there are also vessels carrying chemical cargo that could potentially require the evacuation of most of the Bay Area if released in a spill.
One suggestion has been to require double hulls on cargo ships. This is a fine [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2007 under bay, environment, politics.
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Cleaning the Bay
This photo is from a set posted to Flickr entitled “San Francisco Bay Debris - KQED QUEST.” The photos document voluntary Bay cleanup by a group of San Francisco sailors, who were moved to action when a seaplane crashed into a telephone poll that was floating in the bay — sixty-five years ago. According to [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under community, environment.
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