Solve Climate

If you are looking for a good website on climate and policy related issues, check out Solve Climate. I've been following this site for a few months now since I found it on Twitter. Good stuff here.

Check out this interactive world map of current fuel prices

Cruel Fuel World

Lake Tahoe gets another $54 million

Aquafornia.com

Looks like the Fed has authorized another $54 million for restoration and conservation projects at the beautiful Lake Tahoe: RGJ

Read about the potential of Lake Tahoe turning green here: Aquafornia blog

"Hyper-milling" tips to "max your mpg" from the Sierra Club

Travel light
An extra 100 pounds of cargo can reduce your mpg by up to 2 percent. Remove that surf rack when the waves are flat, and take the rock collection out of your trunk.

Face out
Back into parking spaces. Cold engines use more fuel, so three-point maneuvering is more efficient at the end of a trip.

Use cruise control
Pressing the accel button lets you speed up in smaller increments (and burn less gas) than even a feather-weight foot on the pedal.

Brake (very) gently
Skilled hypermilers coast to a crawl with hardly a touch on the brakes to avoid wasting an ounce of fuel at traffic lights.

More here: Sierra Club Blog

Al Gore: The Challenge to Repower America

Bee decline continues to "catastrophic" levels

Haagen Dazs: Help the Honey Bees
This sad news from Scotland:

Tony Riome, vice president of Ayr and District Beekeepers Association, said it had been estimated every third mouthful of food consumed could be linked to pollination by bees.

He said: "If there are no bees there will be no steak.

"A lot of pollination is wind blown, but bees play a very large part in pollinating the plants that animals eat."

Bumblebees along with wild and managed honey bees are suffering following a poor summer last year.

Honey bees have also fallen prey to varroa mite.

The parasites leave bee larvae deformed and can spread a condition called Israeli Paralysis Virus.

These attacks in turn have been suspected as the cause of Mary Celeste Syndrome, named after a ship discovered deserted in 1872. BBC News

We have over 60 hives here in Nevada. Last week my husband took some new queens over to his hives in Yerington and he was concerned that he might find colony collapse there. Thankfully, upon arrival, he was greeted by hundreds of busy bees crawling all over the outside of their hives as if in anticipation of their queens.

What's your footprint?

by cameron m smith

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