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Building a Resilient Los Angeles

Lisa Novick | Posted 03.30.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: Resilient Cities, Sacramento Delta, Commodities, Resilience, Native Plants, Projected Environment, Drought, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Colorado River, Farm Subsidies, Aquifers, Rain Gardens, Detroit, Sierra Snow Pack, Water Supply, Eco Summit 2012, Los Angeles, Specialty Crops, Orange County, Food Supply, Sustainability, Community Gardens, Los Angeles News
Lisa Novick

For a resilient food supply, we need to keep our specialty farmers farming and we need to make it monetarily worth their while not to sell out. We need to replace abandoned acres of asphalt with small allotments and grow crops.

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Louisiana Sinkhole Evacuees Won't Be Home For Awhile

Susan Buchanan | Posted 01.30.2013 | Green
Read More: New Orleans, Hydrogen Sulfide, Small Business, Texas Brine, Seismic Activity, Evacuations, Slab Homes, Crude Oil, Cypress Trees, Itasca Consulting Group, Bayou Corne, Louisiana Dept. Of Natural Resources, Tremors, Baton Rouge, Air Monitors, Louisiana Dept. Of Environmental Quality, Napoleonville Salt Dome, Occidental Chemical Corp., Assumption Parish, Earthquakes, Fish, Wetlands, Aquifers, Hurricane Isaac, Shaw Environmental, Gulf Coast, Natural Gas, Green News
Susan Buchanan

At the eight-acre, Bayou Corne sinkhole in Assumption Parish, owners of slab houses are waiting for methane-gas monitors to be installed in December.

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Carbon Capture and Storage: A Fresh Look at Storage and Other Issues

Bill Chameides | Posted 06.10.2013 | Green
Read More: Fuel, Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Electricity, Research, Economics, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Utilities, Regulation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Technology, Aquifers, Power Plants, Coal, Natural Gas, Carbon Capture, Green News
Bill Chameides

New research concludes we've got space to store carbon, but other issues remain.

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John Wesley Powell Was Right

Brian Fagan | Posted 05.28.2011 | Green
Read More: Aquifers, Water History, Colorado River, Water Crisis, Green News
Brian Fagan

In 1893, John Wesley Powell of Grand Canyon fame, Director of the US Geological Survey, addressed an irrigation conference in Los Angeles about water in the American West.

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Natural Defense resources Council: Warmer

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: The West, Aquifers, Water, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Water Supplies, Denver News

BILLINGS, Mont. — A new report says more than 1,000 counties across the United States are at risk for potential water shortages by midcentury as...

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