Reader Vicki sent me a link to the following story from the Honolulu Advertiser, about another city falling prey to industry forces, with politicians afraid of upsetting their big donors:
Bills before the city and state that would ban the use of plastic shopping bags were met with opposition by city administrators and retail industry advocates [...]
I had to run out and do some errands late last night and I was amazed that every single office building I drove by had at least 70% of their lights on at 10pm. Why is that? And on top of that, people had even left their monitors on as well, using even [...]
I came across an incredible exhibit by photographer Chris Jordan last night that shows us in photographs that which we normally only read about. Statistics such as the number of plastic bags thrown away each day, the number of plastic bottles used every hour in the United States, and the number of cell phones retired [...]
Congrats to myself and everyone else living here in Los Angeles, we have regained our crown. The American Lung Association has once again proclaimed Los Angeles to have the dirtiest air in the nation, and we could not be more proud.
No really, we couldn’t.
Thankfully I moved out of the valley and down to the [...]
