Don’t Swim In The Poo
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...
View ArticleWhat Bay?
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...
View ArticleDon’t Swim in the Poo, Continued
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...
View ArticleHow We Wrecked the Ocean
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...
View ArticleNOAA’s Gulf Spill Disaster Response Map
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...
View ArticleCharles Moore on the Garbage Patches
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...
View ArticleSea Shepherd at the Gulf
I still can’t talk about this. But here’s Sea Shepherd’s Steve Roest’s commentary on his recent flyover of the devastation. No related posts.
View ArticleTrying to Not Swim in the Poo
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....
View ArticleDon’t Eat the Fish
There’s a lot of noise going on about whether the seafood from the Gulf is safe to eat or not. The Obamas ate plenty on their vacation, so that must mean it’s perfectly safe, right? My friend Scott...
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