By Garry Brown, Executive Director / Orange County Coastkeeper There are plenty of ways to celebrate the Earth on Earth Day (Monday, April 22). Some of the more popular activities include planting a tree, or attending a local festival where you can make some recycled arts and crafts. On this Earth Day, we want you [...]
Visual and educational information about butterflies and the Back Bay will now be easier than ever for visitors to the Muth Interpretive Center, thanks to Alex Conte and his fellow scouts in Troop 90. As Conte’s Eagle Scout project, he planned, designed, funded and constructed three new informational and visual stations in the butterfly habitat [...]
I have long avoided the topic of climate change, for good reason. I prefer to make fun of Al Gore for inventing the Internet rather than jousting at his global warming pitch, and get bored debating the merits of extreme thinking on both sides of the issue. First, a couple of my beliefs that establish [...]
Not everyone can be a professional athlete, and a superstar. A sustainable community necessarily requires a group of special individuals who contribute any time, anywhere. A journeyman is that individual. Sean Pronger is that JRNYMN. Pronger has a younger brother, Chris. Chris was drafted No. 2 overall in the 1993 NHL Draft, became an NHL [...]
I had an opportunity to take a sustainability tour of Pelican Hill Golf Club as Earth Day approaches, its first ever eco-tour. We “took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The South Course at the amazing resort – on 504 acres in Newport Coast, a breathtaking legacy of the [...]
NEWPORT BEACH (April 1, 2012) — Bad news for local developers and advocates of key Newport Beach projects: the dreaded Tsetse fly has been identified in the region and is no longer considered extinct in North America. The Tsetse Fly first came to the West Coast on boats from Fiji and Bali carrying teak. The [...]
To seal a bet over whose citizens will conserve the most water, the mayors of Newport and Laguna Beach today kickoff the National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation at Newport’s Back Bay Science Center. As part of a challenge to mayors across the nation by the foundation established by the Laguna Beach artist Wyland, Laguna’s [...]
I would not be able to be here, to opine on cool green decisions and sustainable behaviors, had others not fought to preserve my freedom to do so. That is my premise to conclude that our veterans of foreign wars are the most sustainable folks we have. It is precisely our freedom that allows us [...]
“The Lorax” written in 1971, was Dr. Seuss’ personal favorite. Of all Dr. Seuss books, “The Lorax” is the most strident and most thinly veiled allegory, and its message, both to big business and young readers, is crystal clear. The fable looks at an industrialized society and the danger it poses to nature. For historical [...]
Back in the day, any food scraps were delivered to the family pig, or fed to the chickens. Today, no one has a pig, and we now know that chickens, although cute and friendly, are no longer an option unless you live in designated areas where chickens are permitted by code, or secretly tolerated by [...]
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