Tag Archives: Sustainable city

Salinas Loses .5 Million Dollars From “Green Vehicles” Involvement

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City governments need to stay out of private sector businesses.

A Salinas car manufacturing company that was expected to build environmentally friendly electric cars and create new jobs folded before almost any vehicles could run off the assembly line.

The city of Salinas had invested more than half a million dollars in Green Vehicles, an electric car start-up company.

All of that money is now gone, according to Green Vehicles President and Co-Founder Mike Ryan.

Thing is butt ugly, too.
Green Vehicles Closes
From the San Jose Mercury in 2010. Reads like a sham pitch full of eco-babble. No mention of true environmental progresses such as recyclable building materials or support for the vendors in China (!!) to improve their pollution output.

The first Triac prototypes were made in China, but the company moved manufacturing operations to California to lower its carbon footprint as soon as it got funding from the energy commission. Building the Triac in the state with the greatest market for electric vehicles will minimize the cost of transporting materials and vehicles, Ryan said.

Green Vehicles is also working on an online site that tracks the company’s greenhouse gas emissions and waste. “I want people to see these kinds of metrics,” Ryan said.

Salinas Loses .5 Million Dollars From “Green Vehicles” Involvement

Who Wants To Tax Grocery Bags?

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Sarah Hardgrave, another substainable kook that thinks taxes will change behavior. Taxing me even more on safe, clean packaging from stores makes me change my mind to shop in Sand City.

Bag Grab

Senior city planner Sarah Hardgrave, environmental programs manager for the city, sought authorization to prepare a report about alternatives that would allow the city to regulate single-use carryout bags — paper as well as plastic.

Such regulation could encourage shoppers to bring their own reusable bags.

Residents cited the environmental harm reportedly caused by bags when they wash into Monterey Bay and are eaten by fish and other sea life.

Europeans routinely bring their own shopping bags to stores, said resident Inge Larritzen Dumer.

Yes, and Europeans urinate in the street.

Residents Marciel Price and Terry O’Connell argued that reusable cloth bags can pose a health hazard.

“Different people have different sanitary standards,” O’Connell said.

Merchandise carried in reusable bags often contains “germs, pesticides, all kinds of stuff,” Price said, adding that she wouldn’t want to deal with leaking packaged meats in a cloth bag.

Who Wants To Tax Grocery Bags?

Substainable Pacific Grove Has A Good Con Going, Eh?

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Social Justice

So you have an alleged non profit taking advantage of taxpayer supported facilities to advertise alleged ‘green’ businesses that wish to make a profit off of taxpayer subsidized schemes to put solar panels in foggy Pacific Grove. What a racket!

Sustainable Pacific Grove will present a free program on home energy rebates and financing from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdayat the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.

Speakers will be Jay Tulley of local green building contractor Sage Building Solutions and Jennifer Rupnow of Energy Upgrade California.

Sustainable Pacific Grove Has A Good Con Going, Eh?

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What Does “Sustainable” Really Mean In Pacific Grove?

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Substainable P.G.’s so called “Green Spot”, a repository of garbage & propaganda.
Green Spot Standing Water
Sustainable mosquito farming? No. All the public displays of water reclaiming, recycling and such are just a front to gain trust. Then they take your rights away..

From American Policy Center Website:

Question 1: Have you heard the term Sustainable Development before?
Yes 38% No 57% Not Sure 5%

Question 2: Are you aware that Sustainable Development policy means severe restrictions on your local natural resources like water, and on private property use?
Yes 39% No 59% Not Sure 2%

Question 3: Have you heard of ICLEI?
Yes 23% No 75% Not Sure 2%

Question 4: Are you aware of ICLEI activities in your community?
Yes 5% No 91% Not Sure 4%

Question 5: Did you know that your community is enforcing international policy and laws, hiding them behind excuses like environmental protection and historic preservation?
Yes 10% No 78% Not Sure 12%

Question 6: Do you believe your community should be paying taxpayer dollars to an international organization like ICLEI to dictate local development policy?
Yes 2% No 95% Not Sure 3%

Question 7: If ICLEI is already in your town, do you want your City Council, Mayor, or County Commissioners to end its contract and stop paying ICLEI?
Yes 96% No 3% Not Sure 1%

Question 8: If ICLEI is already in your town, do you want your City Council, Mayor, or County Commissioners to continue its contract and allow ICLEI to proceed with its programs through non-elected boards and councils?
Yes 3% No 96% Not Sure 1%

Question 9: If ICLEI is not yet in your community, do you want your city leaders to allow them to get involved in your town?
Yes 2% No 97% Not Sure 1%

Sustainable Development calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of central planning of the entire economy – often referred to as top-down control. Truly, Sustainable Development is designed to change our way of life.

What Does “Sustainable” Really Mean In Pacific Grove?

No Traffic Solutions For Pine Ave. Not That It Was Needed Anyway

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Substainable P.G. type idea to make travel by car less desirable. Look at the picture, there is enough room on Pine Ave for 4 traffic lanes, curbside parking and bike lanes to nowhere.
Pine Avenue 1980s

Earlier this year, the Pacific Grove Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Commission made efforts to carry out a 3-lane conversion on Pine Avenue, with one lane each way and a center turning lane, adding bike lanes on each side. Amid mixed public reaction to the proposed project, the idea has been postponed and Public Works has completed a re-paint of the street in its familiar, 4-lane configuration. No plans for a 3-lane conversion are in the works at this time.

No Traffic Solutions For Pine Ave. Not That It Was Needed Anyway

One Way Lighthouse Avenue Is A Commie Plot

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Delays

The preferred alternative remains a one-way, eastbound Lighthouse with two general traffic lanes and one lane dedicated to bicycles, buses and emergency vehicles.

City traffic engineer Rich Deal contends that controlling traffic speeds on city streets is easier with one-way traffic than with two-way, and cited Alvarado Street in downtown Monterey as an example.

But Alvarado street is not a main road into Pacific Grove. Reducing four lanes to two will not help ease traffic.

This is beginning to sound like a “Sustainable City” scheme, much like to stupid idea to reduce Pine Avenue to two traffic lanes in P.G. with exaggerated bicycle lanes no one needs. Until they take your freedoms away.

Bike lanes

One Way Lighthouse Avenue Is A Commie Plot

Green Crime On The Rise

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Add possible theft and jail crowding to the cost of going green.

Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies say charges of grand theft and trespassing are pending against five male juveniles suspected of stealing a solar panel and battery used to power an electric fence on a ranch in San Lucas.

Deputies said that at 11:10 a.m. Sunday, the boys, ranging in age from 14 to 16, trespassed onto the ranch on Star Road and removed the panel and battery, then buried them in anticipation of retrieving the goods later.

Deputies said they followed the footprints from the scene to a house in San Lucas.

Green Crime On The Rise

World Government Of Our Locality?

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AMBAG is drinking the Agenda 21 kool aide. Don’t buy into this harmless sounding feelgood stuff. Sustainable Development means population reduction, travel restrictions, loss of rights and other fascist progress.

I recommend this local group to get the other side of the story: www.FreedomAdvocates.org

It is close to the anniversary of that well known socialist experiment called Jonestown, isn’t it?

The report suggests that coordinating regional land-use and transportation policies can reduce congestion by cutting back on personal vehicle use, conserve valuable open space and farmland by clustering development, and provide a variety of housing and transportation options.

Employing “sustainable growth patterns” would focus new, compact development in already populated areas, with jobs within walking distance of mixed-use public transit and neighborhood centers, according to the report.

World Government Of Our Locality?

Cross Bay Swimmer Surrenders

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He gave up and used the wet suit. Chase failed to make the trip last year. This year his cause for restrictive seafood rules are mentioned with his other substainable BS not mentioned. Guess swimming among the seafood has better mojo than building schools in Afghanistan.
Bruckner Chase

Bruckner Chase, 44, wanted to become the second person to finish the swim without a wetsuit — English Channel rules — but the toxic stings of jellyfish forced him to abandon that plan about two hours into the 14-hour swim.

Chase did the swim to attract attention to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, sustainable seafood programs and the Blue Ocean Film Festival, a five-day event that begins today in Monterey.

Cross Bay Swimmer Surrenders