Posts Tagged 'California'
Converting Classic Cars to Electric Vehicles [video]
Published March 26, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: automobile, autos, California, electric vehicle, EV West, green vehicle, Michael Bream, San Diego, video
Keeper of the Ghost Trees [video]
Published October 16, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: albino redwoods, California, Ghost Trees, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, redwoods, video
Meet Betty Reid Soskin, the Oldest Park Ranger
Published December 26, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Betty Reid Soskin, California, Civil Rights Movement, Detroit, national park ranger, oldest, Richmond, Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park
There’s no age limit for enjoying the outdoors, switching careers, or speaking out against injustice—and Betty Reid Soskin is living proof. As Travel + Leisure reports, the 96-year-old California resident is the nation’s oldest active national park ranger, a late-in-life vocation she embarked on just over a decade ago.
Pictures Of The Week by The Guardian
Published October 16, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Bangladesh, California, disaster, Kenya, Nairobi, National Super Alliance, photography, photojournalism, picture, Politics, Puerto Rico, Santa Rosa, Spain, wildfire
Marijuana Company Buys Entire US Town
Published August 8, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: American Green, California, cannabis, edibles, marijuana, medical marijuana, Nipton, recreational marijuana
A company which makes cannabis products has bought an entire town in California and plans to turn it into a “destination” for marijuana. American Green has agreed a deal to buy the town of Nipton for $5m (£3.8m). The company will own 120 acres of land, which includes a school building, a hotel, mineral baths and a general store. They also want to power the town with renewable energy.
10 Facts About Giant Sequoias
Published February 28, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: California, Giant Sequoias, largest tree, nature, plants, Redwood
What can grow as tall as a skyscraper and live for millennia? That would be the giant sequoia, one of the most impressive tree species on the planet. Here are 10 facts about America’s largest living residents.
Weird Effects of California Drought
Published July 22, 2015 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: California, Drought, ecology, environment, pipe-eating poop, rattlesnakes, water, water shortage
Brown lawns, fallow fields and higher water bills are all the predictable outcomes of the California drought. The Golden State is in the midst of its driest period on record. But all that warm, dry weather affects more than just lake levels and snowpack — it has some downright weird effects, too. From pipe-eating poop to more roadkill, here are some of the strangest results of the California drought.
Mysterious Case of the 113-Year-Old Light Bulb
Published October 8, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: California, Centennial Light, electric light, history, light bulb, Livermore, tungsten filament
In the United States, the average incandescent light bulb (that is, a bulb heated with a wire filament) has a lifespan of about 1,000 to 2,000 hours. Light emitting diode (LED) bulbs, which are increasingly replacing incandescent bulbs, are said to last between 25,000 and 50,000 hours — an incredible bump.
But dangling from the ceiling of a California firehouse is a bulb that’s burned for 989,000 hours — nearly 113 years. Since its first installation in 1901, it has rarely been turned off, has outlived every firefighter from the era, and has been proclaimed the “Eternal Light” by General Electric experts and physicists around the world.
Time Lapse Video of California’s Natural Beauty
Published October 17, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: California, High Sierras, Landscape, nature, photography, Time Lapse Video, video
Cool Light Sculpture Added To Bay Bridge [video]
Published March 8, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Bay Bridge, bridge, California, Light Sculpture, Oakland, San Francisco, travel, video
Need A Job? India Is Hiring!
Published November 14, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: California, economic crisis, hiring, India, job fair, new world order, outsource, recruit, San Jose, unemployment
U.S. companies have been hiring workers from India for years, especially graduates of U.S. universities. But Indian companies, as well as American firms operating in India, are now trying to convince some of them to return to India. A job fair at the San Jose Convention Center this weekend is focused on helping companies recruit Indian workers who may in the U.S. on a visa by informing them about the professional and economic opportunities back home. Organizers also stressed that the job fair is also open to anyone who is interested in working in India.
Was Windows XP Default Wallpaper An Actual Photo?
Published August 28, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: bliss, California, Charles O’Rear, Default Wallpaper, green, photo, photographer, picture, Sonoma County, verdant, windows xp
Yes, it was, according to TheNextWeb –
Have you ever stopped to wonder where the image was taken, or who took it? In fact, the image is so crisp you might have assumed it wasn’t real at all. The man behind the camera is American photographer Charles O’Rear. Don’t let his name fool you into thinking that the photo was in fact taken in Ireland. Bliss, as it turns out, is in California. In Sonoma County to be exact. The photo was taken in 1996, years before Windows XP launched, and before the area was converted into a vineyard.