Results tagged “climatechange”

This is all Ed Jew's fault. We were so distracted by updating you on the latest in his woes that we the news that we just got from a favorite reader that previous SFist obsession District 6 Supe Chris Daly threw one of his famous fits at the Board of Supes meeting today! NO! How did we miss this?

"Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine. We were being a little hyperbolic, of course. But a new diet, written by two Bay Area residents, quite literally aims to save the environment via your food consumption.

claims to be the web's first carbon-neutral film, a designation that means Al Gore catered it or something. The film itself is about four minutes' worth of the best part of a horror film -- when the monsters attack and the sexy young humans die horribly. In this case, the monsters are thawed possums, and the sexy young humans gamely shriek and burst and run away, pursued by a predictably question-marky The End. It's all the sort of splattery fun you'd expect from the title; nothing more, nothing less. Actually, a little bit less: the film STRICTLY FORBIDS scrubbing, so no fast-forward or rewind. Dragging a playhead must cause global warming somehow.

As noted in this week's SF Weekly and SFist Rita's "We Read the Weeklies" column, the Bay Area's (and beyond) beloved Kitchen Sink—the magazine for people who think too much—is calling it quits this spring. Kitchen Sink is the latest of several independent publications to shut down due to the Independent Press Association's failure to fulfill its commitments before going under. Before Kitchen Sink's proverbial well runs dry, they will be producing one last issue. But they need your help to do it! Stop on by Edinburgh Castle this Saturday night for their fundraiser, which will feature lots of bands and a raffle with prizes from Amoeba, the Believer and local artisans.

So San Francisco's Department of the Environment-- you know we had one didn't you?-- has come out with their plans to make this city go green. Or more like cutting down on those nasty, nasty greenhouse gases so we can cut emissions to pre-1990 levels. The report was called for by Gavin as part of his Climate Action Plan, which he introduced in 2004.

One good thing about being the area known as having the most-liberal, terrorist loving court system is that we get all the fun lawsuits happening here. Which would describe a lawsuit filed a couple of days ago against the Federal Government at the US District in San Francisco for slacking on a global warming report.

Munich Re is a leading reinsurance company which basically means that they insure the insurance companies (but who insurances them? The rereinsurers?) and wind up doling out a lot money to insurance companies after natural disasters hit. To help the company prepare for the future, the company does research on possible catastrophic trends which is how they came up with the “natural hazard risk index.” It’s leading researcher, Gerd Berz, has spent the past thirty years monitoring things such as climate change, population trends, and infrastructure. Long story short, more population at greater density increases chances of “mega-disaster” at huge cost and toll. Besides helping Munich Re plan for the future, Berz’s job is to be the guy in all the disaster movie who spends all their time telling everyone something bad is going to happen, only to have nobody listen to them. While that job sounds slightly on the frustrating side, those guys always survive the movie.