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CLIMATE CHANGE

10 Years Later, Obama Says New Orleans Is Reborn.
President Barack Obama is marking 10 years since Hurricane
Katrina by celebrating the revival of New Orleans, which suffered
the worst of the storm's devastation. He's also using the
occasion to press governments to start helping communities
prepare for the stronger storms that climate change will cause.
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/08/27/obama-visiting-new-orleans-on-hurricanes-10th-anniversary


Energy Commission Launches Application to Track Climate Change in
California Deserts.
The California Energy Commission on Tuesday announced a new
application, the Climate Console, that utilizes geospatial data
to show how climate change could impact the state’s desert
regions and wildlife. Developed by the Conservation Biology
Institute, the new tool allows scientists and planners to develop
climate change models to predict such things as temperature and
precipitation.
https://www.techwire.net/energy-commission-launches-application-to-track-climate-change-in-california-deserts/


DROUGHT

Flick a cigarette butt? Not in a drought, Cal Fire warns.
Napa resident Dick Schaaf became concerned when he saw a motorist
flick a lit cigarette out of a car window earlier this month, so
he took down the license plate number and called the California
Highway Patrol. To Schaaf’s surprise, the CHP said that they did
take this issue seriously, especially during wildfire season. In
fact, although this type of littering is common, it is illegal.
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/flick-a-cigarette-butt-not-in-a-drought-cal-fire/article_1aaa5ff2-96f9-5efe-8c95-66fe6389f257.html


L.A. continues dramatic water savings; 21% in July.
Los Angeles residents cut their water use by 21% in July,
surpassing the mandatory conservation standard set by state
regulators to combat the drought, Mayor Eric Garcetti said. The
21% reduction compared with July 2013 means that for the second
straight month, Angelenos have met their state target and will
avoid fines and other penalties for non-compliance.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-water-conservation-20150826-story.html


Official: Californians Conserving Water In Drought.
State officials say strong water conservation figures for July
show Californians are beginning to understand the dire need to
cut back in a fourth year of drought. Felicia Marcus, chair of
the State Water Resources Control Board, says that regulators are
now turning their focus to the communities failing to conserve.
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/08/27/official-californians-conserving-water-in-drought/


DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Fleet Managers Go Hands-On With Green Vehicles.
Fleet managers drove a wide spectrum of green fleet vehicles
including a diesel-electric hybrid cabover, battery-electric
Class 8 rig, and plug-in hybrid SUV that's yet to reach the
market at the Fleet Technology Expo's Aug. 25 ride and drive
event. The fleet event, which is hosted by Bobit Business Media,
ran from Aug. 24-26 at the Long Beach Convention Center in
southern California.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/story/2015/08/fleet-managers-go-hands-on-with-green-vehicles.aspx


VEHICLES

Event to offer some Fresno drivers free emissions testing.
Certain drivers in Fresno will be able to get free vehicle
emissions testing through a partnership between a regional
pollution control agency and nonprofit clean air advocacy group.
The Fresno Bee reports (http://bit.ly/1NWro9F) this year's annual
tune-up event provided by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution
Control District and Valley Clean Air Now is being held Aug. 29
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fresno Fairgrounds.
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/article32519028.html


New electric car charging station opens in Richmond.
Richmond's Main Street Station parking lot is now home to an
electric car charging station. The Richmond Times-Dispatch
(http://bit.ly/1MPDcfa) reports that the city's first DC Fast
Charging Electric Vehicle Charging Station has opened.
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/technology/article32515776.html


GREEN ENERGY

Thinking small, South Africans develop affordable solar power
prototype that stumped Google.
By thinking small, a group of South African scientists may have
pioneered solar technology that has stumped Internet giant
Google. The Helio100 project, based at Stellenbosch University in
the Western Cape province, is a cost-effective heliostat that
harnesses solar power to generate electricity.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOUTH_AFRICA_SOLAR_INVENTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Related articles:
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/27/south-african-prototype-may-solve-solar-power-problem
http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/apgeneral/south-african-prototype-may-solve-solar-power-problem/article_ddf4e969-88f4-589d-8dfe-cf5e905c52c7.html

http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_28712588/has-south-african-team-solved-solar-tech-that


MISCELLANEOUS

New York City Might Get a Climate Change Museum.
Climate change is an environmental issue. But it's civil rights
issue, argues lawyer Miranda Massie. “If you don’t have the right
to thrive as an organism, then everything else falls away,” she
tells reporter Lisa W. Foderaro for The New York Times. “I came
to see the environment as a civil rights issue.” The effects that
Hurricane Sandy had on New York City helped spur her to this
realization. And now, Massie is working hard to build the Climate
Museum, a place where the public can gain a broader understanding
of the effects of climate change.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-york-city-will-have-climate-change-museum-180956411/?no-ist


OPINIONS

California drought, wildfires aren't the only looming disasters.
Gov. Jerry Brown says California's drought and the wildfires it
has spawned are wake-up calls about the potentially cataclysmic
effects of climate change. That may be true. But they are not the
only indications of potential disaster that could devastate a
state perched, however precariously, on the continent's western
edge. California has been experiencing a series of moderate
earthquakes this month -- coinciding, somewhat eerily, with the
first anniversary of a temblor that severely damaged downtown
Napa.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_28712216/dan-walters-california-drought-wildfires-arent-only-looming


BLOGS

Why Big Corporations Like Gap And eBay Are Mobilizing Against
Climate Change.
This week, California legislators received a pair of letters
signed by dozens of corporations in support of two bills that
would require the state to further reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions through 2050. In both letters, the firms say tackling
climate change is "one of America’s greatest economic
opportunities of the 21st century." 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-corporations-are-on-board-with-climate-change-policy_55dde804e4b08cd3359e2704?kvcommref=mostpopular




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