Jerry Brown blames climate change for state's early fire season - latimes.com

Jerry Brown blames climate change for state's early fire season - latimes.com: "SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown put the state’s early wildfire season in global terms Monday, saying the state would have to grow accustomed to more forest fires as a consequence of climate change."

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Cars kill. Why try to mitigate it with design? Get rid of the cars.

A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)
KQED News Fix: "Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made."

Young people "just not into" driving

NYTimes: "MADISON AVENUE and the automotive industry are fretting over a growing trend involving the important demographic group of young Americans known as millennials or Generation Y: more of them are just not that into driving, car culture or the lure of the open road."

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Failing Gracefully

Failing Gracefully: "The planet is getting hotter and more crowded, energy supplies may soon get tighter, and yet billions of people seem to want a consumer lifestyle that's completely unsustainable. Things aren't looking good."

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Berkeley, 28-March, free presentation on sustainability

HowMany - Event Calendar - Learning, Inspiring, Connecting, Helping: "March 28th, 2013, | David Brower Center, Berkeley:
Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources:
With so many people and such growing levels of worldwide consumption, we can not continue to measure our success by "more growth". Rob Dietz will discuss ways to limit materials and energy flows to sustainable levels, achieve a fair distribution of wealth and income, secure meaningful jobs and full employment, stabilize population by compassionate non-coercive means, and much more.
Rob Dietz will discuss this great new book. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Cost: FREE
Location: Tamalpias Room, David Brower Center, Berkeley | 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA | 7:00 - 8:30pm
Info: 510-848-9062, outreach@howmany.org | howmany.org"

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Free Muni Program for Youth Kicks Off | Mission Loc@l

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Free Muni Program for Youth Kicks Off | Mission Loc@l: "Campos said that the idea of free youth passes was not an easy sell when he began pushing it a few years ago. The supervisor gave one of his aides, Sheila Chung Hagen, the credit for coming up with the concept.

“Everyone we started talking to about it at the time said, ‘This is never going to happen. You can’t be serious about this,’” Campos said Wednesday. He said that organizers had to gain support from a long list of city, county and regional government agencies in order to make the pilot program possible. Providing youth with transportation is not only about making sure that San Francisco remains affordable for families, he said, but also about “transforming how we as a city think about transportation.”"

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Two million Bay Area residents don't drive

Bay Area Transportation Advocacy | TransForm: "The Bay Area deserves a world class transportation system with fast, frequent, reliable and affordable transit and safe routes for walking and biking. Achieving a robust network of choices will ensure that the nearly two million residents who don’t drive can meet their daily needs. A cost-effective and reliable transportation system will help to keep the Bay Area affordable for working families as they’re able to put more money in the bank, not the gas tank. Quality travel options will give everyone, including people in cars, more time by reducing congestion. And, a world-class transit system will help us all breathe cleaner air and will push back on a changing climate."

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