Driving just 100 km with a car using biofuels would require close to 3,000 litres of water due to the huge amount of water they require.

It would only take about 20 litres to produce solar electricity to drive an EV that same distance.

Our report on the massive impact of biofuels 👉 bit.ly/4h1M5W9

I just watched the animation of past radar. Omg. Have there been landslides in the Palisades and Malibu burn scars?

South Bay and Santa Monica are getting hammered by rain right now. I may have heard thunder

Laubbläser gibt es inzwischen auch ohne Lärm: #Elektromotor
#Lärmschutz Cartoon: #Perscheid

City of Manhattan Beach owns the land under the country club & leases it to the MB Country Club. In a rejected draft Housing Element, the city said that the site would be developed into 100% low income housing.

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

What every software engineer in silicon valley wants: to spend half their day driving back and forth to their house in a swamp where it's 100 degrees and windy as fuck

And we are paying for it through our utility bills www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/press-room/c...

I’ve got a short piece up in The Conversation on the catastrophic flooding in Southwest Alaska from ex-typhoon Halong and the challenges of recovery work. #akwx #ExtremeWeather #Alaska #AlaskaSky

theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...

Look near the train stations in El Segundo and just outside the boundary. I think there will be weird sections there

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

Completely agree with the “should” of this, but the problem is that dead and disappeared people never get their day in court. And even lots of people who do get their day in court never get justice, for reasons we all understand.

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

I should update my numbers for the evolving and cleaner California grid

Hmm… bsky.app/profile/mark...

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

“We’ve had a growing population of susceptible children whose parents have chosen not to vaccinate them… This is the most contagious human infection, and it’s not surprising that as kids go back to school, and we enter the winter and early spring months, that you see this virus once again surging.”

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All the people who dunked on virtue signaling got what they wanted: unrestrained vice signaling.

Monster October storm for the San Gabriel Mountains - winds were aligned perfectly for orographic rainfall on the transverse ranges. 4”-5” across the west fork of the San Gabriel River drainage. Fire season is over up there.

Go Metro to the Taste of Soul on Saturday, Oct. 18! Three K Line stations offer easy access to the event -- Expo/Crenshaw, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Leimert Park stations.

The E Line's Expo/Crenshaw Station is also at the north end of the festival.

More info below.

This disparity does not seem surmountable: “American ships can cost up to five times the amount of those built in Asia. So far this year, China has made 717 large commercial vessels; the United States just one, according to BRS.”

LA's parks department is proposing fencing MacArthur Park with "a green wrought iron fence around both the northern and southern sections of the park. The proposed fence would fully enclose the historical Wilshire Boulevard sides and the eight historically prominent cornered ingress/egress points"