Ideas and Concepts Seemingly Long Forgotten
Drill Our Way Out?
We Cannot Drill Our Way Out By Frank Schiavone With less than three percent of the worlds oil reserves (21 billion barrels on shore), our nation simply doesn’t have enough oil to impact the global market or drill our way to lower prices at the pump. Lacing the Arctic Refuge and our spectacular coastlines with oil rigs would boost oil company profits, but it would impoverish our natural...Reducing Environmental Impacts
Reducing The Environmental Impacts of Development By Frank Schiavone The State Legislature passed the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in 1970. The legislation was enacted to provide public agencies with the tools they need to regulate development, minimize environmental damage, and provide each of us “a decent home and satisfying living environment”. The law explicitly states...Man’s Impact
What We Do To Our Planet We Do To Ourselves By Frank Schiavone When it comes to the footprint we leave on this ever-shrinking globe, we humans wear some pretty big clodhoppers – size 13, triple wide. From space, man’s impact on our world is clearly visible. Bill Mckibben in his book, The End of Nature, writes that there is nowhere on Earth that man’s reach is unfelt. Even our aerial...An Enduring Legacy
An Enduring legacy By Frank Schiavone The measure of any society is what it bequeaths to the generations that follow. We are more than just the sum of our material wealth. Our greatness and goodness lies in our values, our creativity, and the paths we choose to follow. Are sprawling developments, mega-stores, and look-alike strip malls the only legacy we wish to pass on to future...Biodiversity
Biodiversity and Why it Matters By Frank Schiavone Habitat and species loss is a major challenge in Southern California. In fact, Southern California has been identified as one of eight “hot spots” worldwide where species loss is occurring at unprecedented rates. Many of the plant and animal communities here rank as some of the most threatened in the world. According to a nationwide...