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Oceana CEO Published in Oyster Newsletter!
Apr 8, 2009
Jon Frank, Oceana E-activist
Oceana CEO Andrew Sharpless recently added to his writing resume by having an article published in Oyster Yachts' seasonal newsletter. Andy composed an insightful overview of the threats facing the world's oceans and common misconceptions about the cause of those threats. Click here to read the article (and unless you have telescope vision, remember to Toggle to Full Screen.)
House Climate Bill Aims to Please Environmental and Business Interests
Apr 1, 2009
Posted by Kristen Berry
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 1, 2009; A04
House Democrats introduced an ambitious climate bill yesterday aimed at pleasing both environmental and business interests, even as Senate leaders acknowledged that the party faces serious challenges in trying to pass a carbon limit in the near future.
The 648-page "discussion draft," crafted by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman (Calif.) and Rep. Edward J. Markey (Mass.), chairman of the subcommittee on energy and the environment, would create the first federal requirements to boost energy efficiency and ensure that a quarter of the nation's electricity comes from renewable sources. It also would cut the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, and by 80 percent by mid-century.
WILSON COMPLETES VENDEE GLOBE
Mar 11, 2009
Posted by Kristen Berry
(Mar. 10, 2009; Day 121) - Crossing the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne at
12h 43 19s GMT, Rich Wilson (USA) completed the 24,840 mile Vendée Globe solo
non-stop round the world race in ninth place from the original 30 starters.
Wilson finished 121 days 00 hours, 41 minutes and 19 seconds after leaving Les
Sables d’Olonne on Sunday November 9th. Wilson averaged 9.84 knots on the
water covering 28,590 miles. He sailed the 24,840 theoretical miles at an
average speed of 8.55 knots. Raphaël Dinelli (FRA) and Norbert Sedlacek (AUT)
are the remaining skippers still competing, now 557.6 nm and 980.2 nm from the
What to do with those plastic bottles?
Mar 4, 2009
Posted by Kristen Berry
SETTING SAIL ON SEA OF DISPOSABLE PLASTIC
A handful of young men and women are constructing one of the strangest vessels
ever seen on the San Francisco waterfront - a fantastic plastic catamaran made
of cast-off plastic bottles filled with dry ice. When it is finished, sometime
next month (in April 2009), the boat, a 60-foot catamaran named Plastiki, will
sail out the Golden Gate bound across the Pacific for Australia, a voyage that will be either an absolute disaster or a huge sensation.
Yuck!
Mar 2, 2009
Posted by Kristen Berry
Due to a recent sewage spill in Contra Costa County that dumped almost a
million gallons of raw and partially-treated sewage into the San Francisco
Bay, a county advisory regarding the water quality led to Richmond YC
cancelling two small boat events over last weekend. -- Latitude 38, full
story: http://linkbee.com/HO4H
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