Three California colleges: Santa Monica College, Golden West College in Huntington Beach, and Irvine 
Valley College, have partnered with the California Works Alliance to offer a community based green jobs training course to assist Southern Californians in securing jobs in this evolving field.
"This program is about getting solid knowledge and experience that will put graduates on the path to finding a job that helps both the environment and the economy," said Laina Long, project manager for the California Works Alliance in a statement that noted the success of the previous course.
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Three California Colleges Offering Green Classes
Posted by Samina Cabral
on Friday, 27 July 2012
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Stick with us into the New Year!
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on Tuesday, 27 December 2011
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2011 is coming to a close and you are probably reflecting on the past year while looking ahead to 2012. Whether you welcome the New Year with open arms or cling to the former year, January is traditionally
seen as the perfect time to make resolutions. If you are a conscientious person, with steel willpower, you are pushing cookies and fudge aside and vowing to be better in a variety ways next year. At Sea Bird, we ask that you add “Be greener.” to your list.
Breaking News
It is April 22nd again, which means that it is Earth Day! This year, earthday.org has created an impressive collage on their website, and are inviting everyone to get involved. The meaning of the collage is to put as many faces with the impacts of climate change. This doesn't just include humans, it is encouraged to also post pictures of animals and areas being effected by climate change. The major focus for earthday.org is to target the major businesses and governments that lead in producing the most carbon polution. They will target these businesses and...
The second largest coffeehouse chain in the country (and if you live outside the land of Starbucks you may have heard of them) the alliterative Caribou Coffee has buddied up with Project 7 to plant trees for Earth Month. Project 7, founded in 2008 by entrepreneur Tyler Merrick, is a company that makes a small selection of everyday items like organic fair-trade coffee and t-shirts that can be purchased online at their website. While offerings like their sugar-free gum can be readily purchased at stores like Walmart or Target. For every purchase of a Project 7 product, the company makes...
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and their partner the Center for Ocean Solutions jointly commissioned a survey that found that an overwhelming majority of Americans would like to prepare for superstorms like Sandy and other factors associated with global warming like sea level rise. This finding does not correlate with what we normally observe before disasters, this cycle: ambivalence caused by a 24 hour news network and weather reports that like to cry wolf, unpreparedness, and then panic. The survey was conducted by GfK Custom Research over the Internet with a nationally...
On April 7, 2011 a bull shark with two heads was discovered inside the uterus of an adult bull shark that had been caught by a fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico. The unborn shark was first taken to the marine science department at Florida Keys Community College and was then transferred to Michigan State University (MSU). At MSU Michael Wagner, an assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife, and his team used MRIs to confirm that the baby shark had two distinct heads, hearts, and stomachs with the rest of the body joined together in back half of the animal to form a single tail only a mother...
Sometimes there are headlines that can make a person say, “Duh.” Take for instance this headline that introduces a study recently published in the journal Environmental Research Letters: “Cold Cities Less Sustainable Than Warm Cities, Research Suggests.” Anecdotal evidence, the sort of information you can gather from people sitting on a park bench, can support a claim like that. However, the data Dr. Michael Sivak, at the University of Michigan’s Energy Institute, presented in his paper after analyzing the artificial heating and cooling in two big cities is far better than any...
Use Both Sides of Paper
if you have a printer with a double sided print option use it. You will save half of the amount of paper you would have normally used.
if you have a printer with a double sided print option use it. You will save half of the amount of paper you would have normally used.
1944: Camano Class Light Cargo Ship was laid down for the US Army as FS-289 at Wheeler Shipbuilding in Whitestone, NY.
1945: Delivered to US Army.
1950: Acquired by the US Navy on July 1, 1950 and placed in service as USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17).
1954: The movie, Mister Roberts, was made on the USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17).
1955 - 1963: Used as a cargo supply ship for the Texas Towers, a network of advanced radar stations located off the Eastern Seaboard. In 1957, Capt. Sixto Mangual was commander of the AKL-17 and in 1961 it was rechristened the USNS New Bedford. The New Bedford, sailing out of State Pier, was keeping vigil when Texas Tower No. 4 callapsed off the New Jersey coast during a January 1961 nor'easter.
1963: Reclassified as Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX-308).
1971: The New Bedford (IX-308) served as a Torpedo Test Firing Vessel in the Puget Sound area.
1994: Ceremony in New Bedford.
1995: The ship was struck from the Naval Register on April 4.
2004: The Sea Bird's current disposition is a tuna long liner (fishing boat) out of San Diego, CA.
2006: Design of the Tesla Turbine began on June 11, 2006. The Sea Bird was sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for commercial service.
2007: The Sea Bird was drydocked for renovations.
2008: The Sea Bird setting sail to Sea-Tac in Seattle, WA.
2009 - 2010: The Sea Bird is currently docked at Seattle Sea-Tac.
