MetaFilter posts tagged with California and ecology

Death and Politics in the Great American Water Wars

Afroblanco — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:16:50 -0800

LA : What's that smell? The Salton Sea! previously, previously, and previously

Pretty Trash

codacorolla — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:40:04 -0800

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that a rubbish dump being created would, in the space of a century, become a protected area. Yet that is exactly what happened to what has come to be known as Glass Beach, just outside Fort Bragg in California." Tourist information, and a wiki link. Another glass beach, from the comments (hyperlink added):

There's a beach like that round my place, in Asturias, Nothern Spain. It's called "El Bigaral" o "Playa de Los Cristales". There used to be a glass factory nearby which used the beach as landfill. The pieces of glass were mixed with the sand material, being eroded and polished by the sea. I really find it a big irony of nature, because as you already know, glass is made of silica, in the end, sand.

Sea Glass Journal provides locations for more sea glass hunting.

Garret Hardin and wife die, possible suicide

samelborp — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:14:45 -0800

Garret Hardin and his wife Jane were found dead last Thursday in their house of Santa Barbara (California), presumably a double suicide. His 1968 essay Tragedy of the Commons (a critique of both communism and laissez-faire capitalism in the light of natural resources constrains) was one of the most widely known works of this expert in population and ecology. Garret was 88 and Jane was 81 and both were in poor health. Last week celebrated their 62nd anniversary. They were members of the Hemlock Society (now know as End-of-Life Choices).

Nicolae Carpathia — Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:36:22 -0800

This LA Times article will get you clued in to some recent developments. But what is the most responsible course of action to deal with the Salton Sea? It's part of a complex hydrologic system and has a pretty unusual history. To me, this seems one of the best reminders that ecological issues are among the trickiest we face.

Another right wing rant about California's predicament.

BGM — Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:54:31 -0800

Another right wing rant about California's predicament. By one of my favourite right wing ranters. But I never knew about this... Kinda cool.

California on verge of gutting goals for electric cars,

jasonshellen — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:09:26 -0800

California on verge of gutting goals for electric cars, Ed Begley Jr and the rest of California hangs collective heads in shame.