Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
Last weekend, as part of a worldwide effort to raise environmental consciousness, Jessica Lass, Noah Garrison and I joined 100 or so others to pick up trash along a stretch of Santa Monica Beach. Collectively, we picked up 40 pounds...
Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
Here's a quick note on a debate next week on global warming. Santee Education Complex in downtown Los Angeles is hosting a debate on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at noon as part of The People Speak Global Debates, which challenge high...
Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
Just a note about my post from October 28, 2008 explaining why NRDC, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Union of Concerned Scientists and many other groups are opposed to California Prop. 7, a ballot initiative that will make it...
Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
California's Proposition 7 is well-intentioned but so badly written that it is likely to hinder, rather than accelerate, fulfillment of our need for more renewable energy resources. NRDC has been fighting for renewables and for energy efficiency for over 20...
Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
I grew up in Los Angeles. When I was a teenager and gasoline was 33 cents/gallon, getting your driver’s license and bumming your parents’ car meant mobility and freedom.There isn’t much mobility left in L.A. The population has more than...
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Last Wednesday, International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James P. Hoffa announced at a conference in Oakland, CA, that the Teamsters were withdrawing from the coalition supporting oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). This was a stunning development,...
