The San Francisco Citizen

Jerry Brown isn’t waiting around for Obama or Congress or whomever - he and other Attorneys General around the country are calling for action now on global warming. They want the Environmental Protection Agency to do something instead of waiting for more comprehensive measures to come down the pike.

In Jerry’s words:

“After eight years of foot-dragging, it is time for the EPA to reverse its shameful inaction on global warming and use its authority under the Clean Air Act to combat dangerous climate change”

via “Thomas Hawk’s” Photostream

Read all about it and take a look at the gritty nitty, after the jump.

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Despite what you might have heard, the summer of 2008 starts today, June 20, at 4:59 PM. This is the our favourite season’s earliest start since 1896. Could global warming be responsible?

Courage.

Petaluma-based Diggler, the original mountain scooter company, is selling more and more of its products to San Franciscans. Check out this sweet electric ride seen at Crissy Field.

And check the video. Maybe a little more practical than an E-Glide electric skateboard, anyway.

So when you hear the name Diggler, don’t think about Dirk Diggler (or Brock Landers), think about scooters.

Here it is, one of the first Lexus LS 600h L hybrid luxury sedans to arrive in San Francisco. The letter “L” appended to the end of the model name stands for “long,” so it’s a little difficult to navigate on our narrow streets.

However, balance that with the letter “h,” which tells tout le monde your ride is a hard-to-get six-figure hybrid, the most expensive in the land.  

And it’s even bigger and better than the slightly older Lexus GS450h hybrid.

(Sir Paul McCartney just got his LS 600h L on the other side of the pond, but he was horrified about how it was delivered to him. Chin up, Paul!)

Zoom zoom.

Full-service public relations and public affairs consultancy Hill and Knowltonannounced today that former vice president Al Gore, upon his death, will be encased in carbonite and then buried. This type of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) was only made possible this year through the use of nanotechnology.

Until recently this was our understanding of carbonite, made famous in Star Wars V - The Empire Strikes Back:

“By the rules of chemical nomenclature, the formula for a “carbonite anion” would be CO22-, which is thought to be an impossible formation (methanoate being preferentially formed instead).”

Impossible no longer.

Artist’s conception of the former vice president encased in the densest form of carbon known to man:

Just one treatment of this double carbon material will take the equivalent of 1200 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The only downside will be the expense of a slightly oversized coffin. The upside is that Al Gore, Jr. will be the most severely carbon negative person in recorded history.

A relieved Hill & Knowlton spokesperson confided to one reporter that this announcement will lay to rest the controversy over the greenhouse emissions of Al Gore’s house, for some reason an issue of almost daily concern to the D.C.-based House of Flack.

If only Han Solo were alive to see this day…

Look at what you can see rolling down Market Street during these days of four-dollar gasoline - E-Glide Electric Skateboards.

The problem with riding around on your regular old-fashioned skateboard is that it burns calories. That causes you to expel extra carbon dioxide into the air. Instead, you should take it easy and let your E-Glide do all the work.

Zero-emissions, sort of.