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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Sometimes green priorities are mutually exclusive, as in Los Angeles, where a power transmission line that could bring clean, renewable energy to 4 million in L.A. is facing opposition from–wait for it–environmentalists:
“Los Angeles Department of Water and Power…wants to…
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Today is the first full day of marriage equality in Vermont and Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating the occasion in classic style: by renaming, temporarily, the popular ‘Chubby Hubby’ ice cream to ‘Hubby Hubby’ for the month of September. …
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Remember how in school you learn that what makes humans unique is that they are self aware? Well, humans might have competition from NASA’s new self aware building in California. The building will use zero net energy and will do…
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Nothing made more headlines for gay rights in the past couple of months than the high profile legal team of David Boies and Theodore Olson fighting for gay marriage at the federal level, using the U.S. Constitution as their guide. …
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
From the Washington Post via The Black Cardelias:
On the last day of the church’s triennial national convention in Anaheim, Calif., officials stopped short of creating liturgical rites to bless same-sex unions, but approved a compromise measure that allows bishops,…
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Is it just me or does it matter that Carrie Prejean denied Playboy and NBC’s requests for pictures and reality shows? We’ve got both already. Her racy photos and the cheapest, cheesiest reality TV show to date playing out through…
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Carrie Prejean might be trying to get back in the good graces of someone in Hollywood. Or, maybe it doesn’t matter to her that she’s denying Adam’s alleged rights. “Oh, yeah, um, gays they’re so funny, so cool. They like are…
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
California’s Supreme Court ruled today that Proposition 8 was legal, upholding the states’ ban on same-sex marriage. In the opinion, the justices noted that the proposition was narrow enough that it did not violate constitutional measures. In the same ruling,…
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
As if we didn’t already know, Los Angeles, CA ranked #1 as the most ozone-polluted city in America according to the American Lung Association’s recent ranking. According to MSN, “The public-health group ranked the pollution levels of U.S. cities and…
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
California knows how to party, but we also know how to keep it clean!
In a study conducted by Nalgene, the Nor Cal city was dubbed “Least Wasteful” because of “widespread habits of recycling, turning off the water while brushing…
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