By Kathy Gottberg (7/8/10)

            Signs By Tomorrow is a local sign company known for their overnight delivery and superior customer service.  However, now the “tomorrow” in their company name also points to the future—and that future is green.   Co-owners Al Keve and Larry Deitz recently made the significant business decision to replace their primary printing equipment with the latest commercial printer designed with the environment in mind—the HP L25500 Designjet.

By Kathy Gottberg (6/23/10)

            A recent workshop sponsored by Desert Cities Energy Partnership was held at the UCR-PD Campus to provide information about the updates to the Title 24 Building Code in California, as well as the new CALGreen Codes that will go into effect January 1, 2011.  While primarily geared to building contractors, and city and county building code staffs, the workshop also offered vital information that will ultimately affect every resident of the Coachella Valley.

By Kathy Gottberg (6/16/10)

            This fall the Coachella Valley will be part of a large-scale global experiment using what Popular Science Magazine says is one of the “Top Ten Inventions for 2010.”  According to Popular Science, the Groasis Waterboxx is “a box that quenches thirsty plants without irrigation.”  Even better, inventor Pieter Hoff believes that the box could promote reforestation on a large scale to address global problems like hunger, erosion and climate change caused by global warming.  To test the validity of those claims, students and teachers from Palm Springs Unified School District and other local volunteers will plant native desert trees in both our high and low desert communities this October.

By Kathy & Thom Gottberg  (6/3/10)

            The Salton Sea may very well be the Coachella Valley’s Gulf Oil Disaster. Rick Daniels, former Director of the Salton Sea Authority put it bluntly at the Salton Sea Symposium on May 27th, “There is going to be terrible harm to the economy because of the terrible harm to the environment.  We all moved here because we were drawn to the quality of life—the views, the air, the open farmland, the sea, the wildlife—but all that is in severe distress and danger because the existing quality of life will be gone.  We will have in its place—odor, dust, visibility loss, asthma. You can forget sustainable growth and sustainable communities—you can forget it—because if no action is taken on the Salton Sea, then the ability to do anything about it will just disappear.  No one will move to a smelly and dusty place.”