| Local Ecology |
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Market
Failure |
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Affordable housing
is a euphemistic term for a less politically correct situation. |
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Creating
the future of Anza-Borrego State Park |
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A first-hand
account of the June 20th General Plan Scoping Meeting, plus background
on the process. |
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Growth:
who wants it? |
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The General Plan
for the City of San Diego will play a big part in determining
how the city grows over the next 20 years and an update is in
progress. |
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Ireland:
A San Diego traffic solution? |
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If we keep going
the way we are headed, Los Angeles residents may end up saying,
"We don't want to be like San Diego!" |
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California
Attorney General supports SOFAR lawsuit against the County |
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The county continues
to ignore the court's rulings on back-country development, and
SOFAR is calling them to task. |
| National Issues |
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Environmental
regulations don't drive up home prices |
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Now that control
of point-source pollution is headed in the right direction, the
next target is non-point sources like our leaky sewer system. |
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New EPA water quality
regulations |
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A new EPA plan to fight water pollution
is focused on the right goals, but it will present difficult
scientific and technical challenges for states to wrestle with. |
| Global Ecology |
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Population
growth sentencing millions to hydrological poverty |
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Water shortage
is a worldwide problem, and water wars will eclipse oil wars
as a global problem. |
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New
satellite data to assess role clouds play in climate change |
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Current fishing
practices spell doom for the world's largest turtle. |
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Pacific
leatherback turtles face extinction |
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Drexel Professor James Spotila and team
spearhead 12-year study detailed in the journal Nature. |
| Toxics and Pollution |
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Cleaning
up petroleum spills with plants |
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A husband-and-wife
team have developed this practical, environmentally benign technology. |
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US
carbon dioxide emissions -- 1999 |
| Diet & Health |
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In-home
pesticide exposure increases Parkinson's risk |
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Read this before
you pull the trigger on that can of bug spray. |
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How
to fight fast food? With slow food, of course |
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Vitamins
C and E: protection against mental decline |
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These common
vitamins can help prevent dementia. |
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Apple
phytochemicals fight cancer |
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Guidelines
issued on risk of driving with Alzheimer's |
| In Your Garden |
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It's
Summertime in the Garden, How's yours Look? |
| Observations
from the Edge |
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"N"
is for NOMP |
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Our resident
eco-radical comes up with a new acronym: Not On My Planet! |
