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Bernards New LEED Silver HQ Reflects Californias Green Building Push
2013-05-07 16:11:00| National Real Estate Investor
California is often touted as the most environmentally progressive state in the nation—and given the state’s new Net Zero Energy (NZE) initiative, that isn’t surprising. NZE status requires that buildings generate as much energy as they consume, without creating a carbon footprint. California’s goal is ambitious: the state aims to reach statewide NZE status for all new commercial buildings by 2030 and residential buildings by 2020. read more
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Airborne laboratory used to measure California's snowpack
2013-05-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Teams will fan out across the Sierra Nevada on Thursday to perform their final snow survey of the season, a closely watched rite of spring that helps determine how much water will flow to farms and cities in coming months. But 18,000 feet above the Sierra slopes, an airborne experiment is underway that could revolutionize that ritual. Starting in early April, researchers have made weekly flights over the upper Tuolumne River basin, taking sophisticated instrument readings of the snow depth...
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Oil town hopes for a boom in jobs from California's Monterey Shale
2013-03-31 16:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The small oil town of Taft was built on petroleum -- and is now hoping for a second boom from the Monterey Shale. In a story on Sunday's front page, The Times wrote about the shale that runs miles underground through Southern and Central California. Oil companies are already drilling exploratory wells. Oil trapped in deep rock deposits in the Monterey is estimated at 15 million barrels. That's four times the amount of oil in North Dakota's Bakken Shale, which has fueled a boom that's driven...
Indigenous People Call For REDD+ Safeguards In California's Carbon Market
2013-03-30 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Using the REDD+ mechanism to fight deforestation and climate change involves a complicated and lengthy process that crosses over several sectors. Because of its complex nature, Valentino Shal of the Mopan Maya Indigenous people says multi-stakeholder engagement is key to REDD's success. Shal is an Indigenous Social Development Consultant for the Mopan Maya community in southern Belize-a region offering pristine rainforest, mountains and rivers. It's an area that could easily work for a REDD (reducing...
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Will California's cap and trade be fair?
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Nation: Even when she was a kid, Melissa Cervantes knew something was wrong with the air in Wilmington, a neighborhood next to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach where she has lived most of her life. The streets here are verdant with mango, guava and avocado trees. But a brownish haze hangs above the houses. I kind of figured the refinery was making people sick, she says. But when youre just a little kid, you dont put it together as a puzzle. Less than a mile away are the ConocoPhillips and...
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