A.M. Greenlist: Reducing illegal dumping, greenhouse gases
>> You already know we've got a big garbage patch in the ocean -- but apparently, we've got a whole bunch of "illegal dump sites across about 800 square miles of the Antelope Valley" too, created by people who don't want to pay to send junk to the landfill -- or who are too lazy to investigate some of the free trash disposal options out there.
>> A bill to reduce greenhouse gases to 66% below 2005 levels will hit the Senate floor this week. Richard Simon of the L.A. Times reports that the argument surrounding the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act has become largely about money, rather than climate change.
>> Kate Sheppard of Grist has the nitty-gritty details of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. "It's not as strong as most activists and climate scientists would like, but strong enough that many of them are cheering it as a big step forward," Sheppard writes.
>> Watch the “kelp cutting” ceremony for Año Nuevo State Reserve's new Marine Education Center via live webcast here from noon – 12:30 p.m. today tomorrow. The center was created through a public/private partnership; the Reserve's also launching a new 24-hour high-tech Web cam that'll let anyone get an "intimate view of elephant seal breeding colony" whenever, wherever.
>> Bicycles are eco, even if you buy them new. Writes Umbra at Grist: "your bike is already far less of a carbon source than your car when it comes off the assembly line -- and that's not even touching tailpipe emissions, the impacts of gas exploration, and so forth."
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