Auburn CA

On June 26, 2010 join Hands Across the Sands to protest off-shore oil drilling, at a beach near you!

USCG- Deepwater Horizon oil platform 2010

The Gulf Coast  is just now heading into what will be months and years responding to the April BP drilling platform explosion and oil leak. At his point scientists are worried that the oil will spread at least as far as the Florida [...]

Interesting recent reports about climate change effects-

About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast:  Curiosity Rises With Trees' Strange Growth Spurt- NPR, 3-28-10. Just the fact that this researcher has seen a 12% rise in carbon dioxide in the 23 years he's taken [...]

Added Note: I am a long-term area resident, putting all of these links concerning Placer County corruption together in one place for other residents. (After people I know kept talking generally about these articles, and how little impact they seem to have made.) I have also placed this info on my old somewhat static Auburn links page.

Enjoy!

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Bloggers/Groups

Placer County Scam group on [...]

Moringa oleifera (Forest & Kim Starr -http://www.hear.org/starr/)

The Moringa oleifera tree is native to India, and is cultivated widely throughout many countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.  (It is not tolerant to frost- so would only grow in some climates.) Many parts of this tree are edible and highly nutritious.  (It's called the 'drumstick' tree for it's edible immature green pods.) Organizations like Trees [...]

Urban life can seem awfully sterile with little greenery and/or abandoned lots. Often residents have no opportunity to connect with plants by actually growing them.  (A must have experience for all children, in my opinion.) It looks like some city dwellers are tired of having just house plants or a few potted plants at windows; urban gardening, including edible foods farming, is becoming a movement. Here's a [...]