AltWeeklies Wire
Educational Institutions Go Greennew
California State University-Monterey Bay and Monterey Institute of International Studies pledge to teach sustainability.
Monterey County Weekly |
Zachary Stahl |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Green Commitmentnew
Local governments in California are taking the global warming fight in their own hands.
Monterey County Weekly |
Jessica Lyons |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
A Moth's Errandnew
Pheromone spraying aimed at wiping out the light brown apple moth may be fruitless.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
11-15-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Legal Battle Continues Over Moth Spraynew
Now that the complete list of ingredients in the CheckMate pheromone products has been released, the public can focus on the question of whether they are safe. Though officials reply with a mollifying yes and activists with a nervous no, the answer is more like a murky maybe.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
10-26-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Enviromental Bill in California Stalls Outnew
Bill aimed at reducing global warming through smart local land use policy won't be up for consideration again until January 2008.
Monterey County Weekly |
Michelle Caldwell |
09-13-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Fort Ord Burningnew
Opponents demand an independent review of the Army's latest planned burns.
Monterey County Weekly |
Zachary Stahl |
07-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Pesticides Get Green Light in Neighborhoodnew
California Legal Rural Assistance attorneys appeal the decision to the state.
Monterey County Weekly |
Zachary Stahl |
07-12-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Drowning in Plasticnew
Every bit of plastic ever made is still with us -- and it's wreaking havoc on the ocean.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
06-14-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
How Our Paper Became its Own Solar Energy Plantnew
Everyone in the building is excited about this 33-kilowatt, zero-emission system, which will keep about 14 tons of globe-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
05-03-2007 |
Environment
Toxic Battery Waste Generates Surge of Recycling Effortsnew
Californians bought more than a half billion batteries in 2001 but only recycled one half of 1 percent of them.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
04-12-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Grasses v. Greensnew
In the wake of E. coli hysteria, farmers are under pressure to pull out vegetation -- and unravel water-quality progress.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
03-29-2007 |
Environment
Marine Menacenew
Housecat-carried parasites, cancer-causing PCBs, algal bloom-feeding fertilizers -- people are contributing all kinds of nasties to the sea mammals who frequent the Central California coast.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
03-02-2007 |
Environment
Big Sur Will Burnnew
A dry, hot summer following a long, wet winter -- and years of sudden oak death -- are bound to fuel an inferno. The only question is: When will it happen?
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson |
09-28-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Enviros Win Onenew
An environmental coalition prevails in a lawsuit against the Bush administration's EPA.
Monterey County Weekly |
Ryan Masters |
09-07-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Toxic Runoffnew
Cities are pumping poisons into Monterey Bay -- and they can't afford to stop.
Monterey County Weekly |
Ryan Masters |
08-03-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
