Category: California
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Sustainable and Affordable Housing Built in Santa Monica
The firm Kevin Daly Architects successfully renovated an old, vacant nursing home on the Westside of Los Angeles, turning it into sustainable and affordable housing units. The aim of the Broadway Housing project, as it is called, was to provide low-income families with a place to live that is within their limited budget, yet still…
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The Global Downfall of the Plastic Bag
The world’s strictest anti-plastic bag implementation strategy may be in Rwanda. Since a ban went into effect in 2008, airline…
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Beverly Hills Becomes First City in California to Pass Fracking Ban
On Tuesday night, Beverly Hills became the first city in California to pass a ban on fracking and related extreme well stimulation…
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UC Davis Converts Waste Into Clean Energy With Nation’s Largest Campus Biodigester
Trash isn’t simply trash at the University of California, Davis, it’s an important tool to create on clean energy. The waste-to-power conversion takes place in a large, white tanks on campus, together known as the Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester (READ). UC Davis unveiled the biodigester on Earth Day. Using UC Davis biological and agricultural engineering professor Ruihong Zhang’s…
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Northern California County Produces 152 Percent More Solar Energy Than It Uses
California is known for being a leader in solar energy, but a small county in Northern California has taken things a step further. It has become the first county government in the state to not only zero-out its electric bill with renewable energy, but also to become grid positive. Yolo County (population 200,000), just west…