L.A. tops list of nation's most polluted but what about Tampa?

L.A. tops list of nation's most polluted but how did Tampa do? Here is the link: Hillsborough County's State of the Air

Florida Yards & Neighborhoods

For those that didn't make it to the OSH general meeting to see the presentation on Florida Friendly Gardening; here is the link to the Florida Yards & Neighborhoods website. The site includes a handbook and great tips to improve your garden into an environmentally friendly land of "happy plants and flowers"....... I miss Bob Ross.

Florida Yards & Neighborhoods can help you transform your yard into a beautiful oasis that will not only conserve precious water resources and reduce pollution, but will also help you save time, energy and money.Florida-friendly landscaping emphasizes nine major principles:Right Plant, Right PlaceWater EfficientlyFertilize AppropriatelyMulchAttract WildlifeControl Yard Pests ResponsiblyRecycleReduce Stormwater RunoffProtect the Waterfront

Gore Calls Canada Climate Plan a 'Fraud'

Gore called out Canada's conservatives on their new plan to address global warming. You tell em Green Machine.

Gore Calls Canada Climate Plan a 'Fraud'
The Associated Press Sunday, April 29, 2007; 11:31 PM

TORONTO -- Al Gore condemned Canada's new plan to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it was "a complete and total fraud" because it lacks specifics and gives industry a way to actually increase emissions.

Under the initiative announced Thursday, Canada aims to reduce the current level of greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020. But the government acknowledged it would not meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which requires 35 industrialized countries to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.