Jul 24 2010
You gotta hand it to Baykeeper; they keep swinging. Notice how insanely long this is? That’s a lot of lawsuits in the last three years, and a whole lot, I mean OMG, a whole lot, of sewage in the Bay. Some of these I knew about, some I didn’t. They all add up to a [...]
Jul 15 2010
I still can’t talk about this. But here’s Sea Shepherd’s Steve Roest’s commentary on his recent flyover of the devastation.
Jun 30 2010
What I love about this, and why I’m posting it here, is because Captain Moore is the person who discovered the garbage patches. But not really. I find it hard to believe that he’s the first person to cruise over that hunk of the sea. More likely, he’s just the first person to raise a [...]
Jun 16 2010
This is weirdly beautiful and disturbingly wonderful. I salute the programmers who created it, while I deplore the actions that made it necessary. I haven’t honestly gotten calm enough to blog about the disaster in general. But for now, check this out: HT: gCaptain
May 09 2010
Jeremy Jackson knocks it out of the park. I’m gonna have nightmares for a while. How will we respond to this? The thing we really need to fix, is ourselves. It’s about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world different from the selfish world we live [...]
Jan 22 2010
This just in, from Baykeeper: Heavy Rains Trigger Sewer System Breakdowns Heavy storms this week have caused numerous sewage spills and treatment facility overflows that are polluting waterways and closing beaches – and reports are still coming in from across the region. So far, 235,361 gallons have discharged from 23 sewage system overflows, along with [...]
Oct 05 2009
This crossed my inbox this morning: It’s clear: The Bay isn’t as murky After more than a century of being murky from enough Gold Rush-era mining sediment to fill 60 Superdomes, researchers say, the Bay suddenly crossed a profound threshold 10 years ago and became much clearer. “The conditions in the water “… changed dramatically,” [...]
Feb 27 2009
Unbefreakinglievable. Sewage spills foul San Francisco Bay over and over SAN FRANCISCO—Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay. And those were just the big spills the [...]
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