2010 was a difficult year for most people I know, and for me personally. I was sick, our car was stolen right out of our driveway, I lost a beloved cat to illness, I had unexpected (and unentertaining) expenses, work has been very slow, etc. I stopped writing on my blog early in the year, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Kicking off a new decade
Posted in Personal, site, work, tagged ceqa, economy, engineering, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, nepa, water quality, work on 1 January, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Google Earth layer: Contaminated sites
Posted in environment, technology, tagged contamination, environment, google earth, local, maps, software, tools on 30 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another useful Google Earth feature today: the Contaminated Sites layer from Terradex. This company compiled, and makes available free online, a list of USEPA Superfund and RCRA Cleanup sites, and state sites including California, Oregon, Washington and New Jersey. The layer requires the use of Google Earth 4 or later. When you click on individual [...]
Google Earth: Wilkins ice shelf collapse
Posted in current events, science, technology, tagged climate, environment, google earth, landscape, maps, media, science, software, tools on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The various stages of collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctica has been in the news over the past couple of weeks. Now you can watch an animation of the process in Google Earth, as assembled by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). After downloading the file and opening it with [...]
Godwit Days next week
Posted in environment, local, tagged birds, california, environment, events, humboldt, local, natural resources on 10 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Godwit Days will be upon us April 16 to 22 — a week of birding and art in and around Arcata. The marbled godwits arrived a little while ago already, along with American avocets, black oystercatchers, willets, several kind of plovers, etc. Birding has been good at the Arcata Marsh and along the shores of [...]
Melting glaciers mean redrawing border between Italy and Switzerland
Posted in current events, environment, tagged climate, environment, google earth, impacts, maps, politics on 25 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to global climate change and the resulting world-wide glacier meltdown, Switzerland and Italy now have to redraw their border. The draft law has already been endorsed by the Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, and is expected to become law before the end of April; Switzewrland has already agreed to the new border. The current [...]
U.S. bird populations and diversity in decline?
Posted in current events, environment, science, tagged birds, environment, habitat, impacts, science on 20 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to the recently released U.S State of the Birds 2009 report, a study prepared under the Bush administration by 13 major agencies and conservation organizations, almost one third of the 800 species of birds found in the US are “endangered, threatened or in significant decline”, particularly due to the influence of human activity, loss [...]
Sinking the map, blurring the map
Posted in current events, environment, science, technology, tagged california, climate, environment, google earth, landscape, maps, science, tools on 12 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sea level rising… Wednesday’s San Francisco Chronicle offered an article discussing the release of a new report by the Oakland-based Pacific Institute, evaluating the effects on the California coastline of a rise in sea level resulting from global climate change. A Huffington Post article also discussed the report, which was commissioned by the California Energy [...]
U.S. House approves funds for dredging Crescent City harbour
Posted in current events, environment, local, tagged california, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, transportation on 2 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Crescent City Daily Triplicate announced on Saturday that an appropriations bill that just passed the U.S. House of Representatives included $1.6 million for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Crescent City’s harbour. The bill stills needs to pass the Senate vote and be signed by President Obama before the Corps officially gets [...]
Act today to save the CCC
Posted in current events, environment, tagged activism, california, economy, environment, excellence, management, natural resources, politics on 12 February, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Remember last week when we talked about Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision to close the California Conservation Corps? The grassroots organization Save-the-CCC has started a letter campaign to protest the proposal. But even if you’ve already sent a letter, they need your additional help immediately: The governor and four legislative leaders are working behind closed doors to [...]
Richardson Grove EIR: Comment period extended
Posted in current events, environment, local, tagged ceqa, environment, humboldt, nepa, planning, transportation on 6 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I forgot to mention that Caltrans extended the comment period on the environmental impact report (EIR) for Richardson Grove widening project. The public can submit comments until March 12, by sending them by mail to: Deborah Harmon, Senior Environmental Planner CA Department of Transportation 1656 Union Street Eureka, CA 95501 or to: Kim Floyd, Project [...]
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