By Joel WilliamsPublished: October, 2008 But just be glad you don’t run your car on hops, because if you did, you could be paying about 10 times what you were last year. That’s right; the prices of some varieties of hops, an essential bittering agent and aroma constituent of every beer, have risen by 1000 […]
By Sejal Choksi, Baykeeper and Program DirectorPublished: April, 2009 In the wake of increasingly alarming climate-change data and a growing movement to reduce our nation’s dependence on fossil fuels, energy issues have risen to the top of the national environmental agenda. The Obama administration has pledged to craft a sustainable national energy policy that promotes […]
By Deb SelfPublished: May, 2011 First, a sewage spill update: since I wrote last month about our annual Bay Area winter sewage spills, the number of gallons of sewage spilled has doubled! After a very rainy March, we can now say that nearly a quarter billion gallons of raw or undertreated sewage have entered San […]
