BY CHUCK BUCK AND BOB SMITH
OC Global Warming Committee
For the past four years, the Club's COOL CITIES CAMPAIGN has urge cities to adopt plans for improved energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The US Mayor's Agreement and California AB 32 provided targets for such reductions. At its creation last year,the Orange County Global Warming Committee felt that a follow-up, next step is now required.
By Jim Stewart
Co-chair, Angeles Chapter Global Warming, Energy & Air Quality Committee
The world's leaders are meeting this December in Copenhagen, Denmark to craft a new global treaty on cutting emissions. The problem is, the draft treaty currently being considered doesn't address the severity of the climate crisis. 350--as in parts per million concentration of carbon dioxide--is the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere that will support life on earth as we now know it.
BY CARA LAMB
When I got an e-mail saying I won an energy audit, I figured someone would come and spend an hour or two scolding us about the hot tub or trying to sell us new appliances and solar panels. It was only when I learned that the audit would take 8 hours that I started to believe it was real.
WATER COMMITTEE - SPECIAL PROJECT
The Water Committee is looking for volunteers to help with a water conservation report. If you care about water conservation and have some time to volunteer, please contact jennifer.robinson@sierraclub.org or (213)387-4287 x204.
SUVAN GEER & CHUCK BUCK
Orange County Global Warming Committee
Let's face it. Energy is an unseen 'juice' that makes things run. In Orange County we want to encourage more of that juice that supports our business community to be green. So the OC Global Warming Committee has started a 'Powered by Solar' Insignia Award project for solar powered business and commercial buildings as part of its ongoing Juicing OC project.
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| Photo By: Elizabeth Saas O!burger's Martha Chang and Andy Soboil |
Organic cuisine. For many of us, these words conjure an exotic experience - we think of new foods for which we must acquire a taste sold at prices for which we must acquire a second job to pay.
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| Photo By: Fred Dong
Visit a part of the world most Western tourists never see next May. |
Visit living historic sites, rare wildlife, Great Wall and travel the world's highest rail line across the Tibetan Plateau to Lhasa May 4-19, 2010
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| Photo By: Mike Sappingfield A basket of organic treats from South Coast Farm. |
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| Photo By: Mike Sappingfield
Mike Sappingfield snapped this white-face monkey saying Bienvenidos! Nov 24 2007 at Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica |
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