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The city of San Francisco was an exuberant sea of orange and black as local residents celebrated the World Series victory of their home town baseball team. Last night, just as we entered our downtown BART station, our driver announced that the Giants had finally won the pennant, eliciting gleeful whoops and cheers of delight from all the train’s passengers. A few people even launched into a spontaneous off-key rendition of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”.
When most people visit Rwanda they are very surprised to learn about the country’s focus on the environment. However, Rwanda’s efforts to maintain and improve the earth is a focus of everyone in the country, including President Kagame. From outlawing plastic bags to protecting its national parks for wildlife, Rwanda intends to protect its land, [...]
I think the biggest topic of the following century might just be water. From the effect global weirding is having on water to our unsustainable pumping of groundwater to water pollution from agriculture, factories, and transportation, water is a growing concern. Recent news that Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, might be out of water by 2025 is [...]
If you are a regular reader of Ecolocalizer, you know that we’ve been following the effort to essentially ban toys from Happy Meals or other unhealthy fast food “meals” in San Francisco (see McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys to be Banned in San Francisco? and Update on San Francisco Happy Meal Toy Ban). The most recent news [...]
In the middle of the world’s 6th great extinction, it is hard to find a lot of positive news on biodiversity and saving species — we currently have a rate of extinction the world has not seen since dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. However, at the end of the Convention of Biodiversity in Nagoya, [...]
