AltWeeklies Wire
Global Warming: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?new
A recent national survey suggests that over the past few years a growing number of Americans have changed their minds about the importance of climate change, and fewer now believe it even exists -- but many still think government should do something about it.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
11-23-2009 |
Environment
Mental Disability Evidence Turns 2003 ELF Fire-Bombing Case on its Headnew
A court will finally hear arguments on whether a former graduate student's developmental disorder to blame for his involvement in a radical environmentalist plot to strike back against American wastefulness by firebombing gas-guzzling Hummers.
Pasadena Weekly |
Jake Armstrong |
09-21-2009 |
Environment
Plans to Cut Trees in Pasadena Provoke Debatenew
The impending removal of 13 ficus trees and 20 carrotwoods from a stretch of Colorado Boulevard has some business owners cheering, but others argue that a plan to replace the large, bushy trees with dozens of less-verdant ginko and palm trees will harm the very character of Pasadena’s iconic thoroughfare.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
01-26-2009 |
Environment
A Pasadena Family Turns its Backyard into an Urban Homesteadnew
Melting ice caps, unchecked global oil consumption, mind-boggling volumes of trash accumulating in landfills -- the problems facing our planet are so big, it's tempting to tune them out. But when you talk to the Dervaes family, the founders of a home-based sustainable living resource center in Pasadena called Path to Freedom, it's the smallness of things you walk away thinking about.
Pasadena Weekly |
April Caires |
04-28-2008 |
Environment
Dry Greennew
Xeriscaping allows you to go green while saving water.
Pasadena Weekly |
Jana J. Monji |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Smoke Screennew
After five years, Anne Sholtz has yet to be sentenced for her role in multimillion-dollar smog-credit scam.
Pasadena Weekly |
Chip Jacobs |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Gray Water: The Wave of the Futurenew
For communities serious about saving precious resources, green-friendly gray water systems may be the way to go.
Pasadena Weekly |
Jana J. Monji |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Tapped Out: Surviving in a World Without Waternew
Some 18 percent of the world's population wouldn't know clean water if they saw it, and roughly 2.6 billion people, says the UN, don't have access to basic toilets. Beyond that, scientists have been telling us for years that greenhouse gases are enveloping the planet, which is only getting warmer and drier.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Greener City, Better Worldnew
Pasadena is reaching to achieve Kyoto environmental protections and beyond, but there's much work left to be done.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
12-10-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Climate Change Means Drought for Southern Californianew
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Climate will need to address the impact of climate change on water supply and demand.
Pasadena Weekly |
Timothy F. Brick |
06-15-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Dr. Helen Caldicott's Nuclear Missionnew
The truth that Caldicott has devoted her life to telling -- that we are on the brink of environmental calamity as a result of nuclear weapons that could kill off a good portion of the human race -- remains as dangerous as it ever was.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-12-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Easy, Cheap and Dirtynew
Pasadena considers dumping environmentally hazardous coal-generated power over environmental concerns.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
11-20-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Dirty Truth About Green Fuelnew
The Bush administration is eager to help agribusiness giants that want to produce the "green fuel of the future" with their dirty coal-fired power plants.
Pasadena Weekly |
Sasha Lilley |
06-20-2006 |
Environment
Tags: ADM, Archers Daniel Midland
