Landscape Architect with a background in wildfire ecology & wildland fire fighting. Site Planning, Planting & Irrigation Design for your rural property.
@LaMichaelJames That was an epic season - a great beatdown on Pete Carroll/USC- thank you LaMike! Late that season, met my wife at the Dec. 3rd 2009 alumni game event in #SF at the famous Duck bar: 'R Bar'! #Ducks
"Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund."
β Anthony Bourdain
@carldemaio Healthy Middle Aged Male in California, Kaiser to Western Health Advantage to Blue Shield total including any employer co-pay:
2015: 300
2016: 350
2020: 500
2024: 700
2025: Completely cancelled. Can't afford. Haven't seen a doctor in 2 years+.
New green hell on the way: Battery-powered kitchen stoves.
"Battery stoves arenβt yet for everyone. Prices are still high. And while Copper and Impulse offer robust guarantees, covering their batteries for years, neither company has a long track record."π
https://t.co/oXJqL3AEbI
Forest carbon is still a scam!
The fires in the Pacific Northwest are incinerating some major carbon offset projects which sold credits to a laundry list of major California companies, including Valero, SoCal Edison, PG&E, Chevron, etc. The Box Springs Fire has burned over 80% of the Opal Mountain offset project, which will likely now be 'retired'. And neither the buyer nor seller of these credits has to pay anything back. The seller gets to pocket the money they made, and the buyer gets given replacement credits by CARB, and can still claim they have carbon-neutral operations.
The costs of carbon taxes was passed on to consumers of gas, energy, and electricity in the form of higher rates and prices. And all we have to show for it is a burnt forest. Trying to store carbon in dry, fireprone forests is a bad idea, it turns out!
We have links to more information about the current wildfire carbon losses in our latest PNW fire update, on The Lookout.
https://t.co/1ZSv6rfSZT
@Immortal_Kurgan@Milajoy No Shit - who wants to hang around tourist-traps when your living there? I'd tell friends from out of town "have fun, call me when your done, I'm not going there period"
@adamcarolla Nothing 'fresh' or 'local' fish here-was frozen Sysco food. No actual boats, fisherman, nothing authentic left for several decades. All commercial fishing is out of Sausalito. Fisherman's wharf, when your an SF resident is Kryptonite. It's only for out-of-towners.
I surveyed over 200 LA homeless for @CityJournal in May, finding the majority are not from our cityβmany of whom were doing drugs as I talked to them.
Homelessness is up in LA because the nationβs homeless are attracted here by our tolerance of crime and open-air drug use.