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This is the March 4, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. There’s a classic scene in “The Graduate” where Dustin Hoffman’s character, fresh out of college, gets pulled aside at a graduation party by a well-meaning friend of his parents and told: “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word . plastics.” If that scene were written today with sustainability in mind, the word might be “batteries.” Or maybe “hydrogen.” But it might also be two words: “energy efficiency.” ....
Housing and Development Newsletter Prior to the pandemic, iconic scenery and world-class restaurants, wineries and breweries, made the Central Coast a top tourist destination. Increased tourism and outdoor recreation opportunities through public lands protections will provide an additional economic boost to local communities, particularly those near Los Padres National Forest, as communities work to recover from the pandemic. With outdoor recreation often privatized, the Central Coast Heritage Act is a step in the right direction in protecting open spaces and securing everybody’s right to the outdoors,” said Rebeca Garcia, Santa Maria Policy Advocate with Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE). ....
Sign up to get The Wild sent weekly to your inbox. Welcome, readers of The Wild. Two words: uphill skiing. Sounds crazy, right? The sport, also known as skinning or ski mountaineering, has been around for awhile. Now it’s booming because it keeps skiers and boarders away from crowds and off ski lifts, ideal for these socially distant times. Uphillers, as they’re sometimes called, use “skins” that cover the bottom of their skis to tromp up a slope a super-tough, lung-busting workout and then do a downhill run. Snowboarders do the same thing with split boards, which come apart to create mini-skis with skins for the uphill trudge. ....
For Immediate Release, December 10, 2020 Contact: Cesar Aguirre, Central California Environmental Justice Network, (661) 979-2721, cesar.aguirre@ccejn.org Gabby Brown, Sierra Club, (914) 261-4626 gabby.brown@sierraclub.org Rebecca August, Los Padres ForestWatch, (805) 770-8692, rebecca@lpfw.org Trump Administration Auctions Off California Public Lands for Oil, Gas First Sale in Eight Years Comes Ahead of Biden’s Promised Leasing Ban BAKERSFIELD, Calif. The Trump administration opened bidding today in the first auction of California federal public lands to oil companies in eight years. Despite community opposition and ongoing legal disputes, the Bureau of Land Management put over 4,000 acres in Kern County up for sale for oil drilling and fracking. ....
Print This is the Dec. 10, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. More than 111 million acres of U.S. wilderness have been designated since 1964, when the Wilderness Act was signed by President Johnson. It’s the highest level of protection the federal government offers, ensuring that wild lands remain free of permanent roads, motor vehicles, commercial enterprise and structures of any kind. The law’s definition of wilderness is the stuff of legend: “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” ....