As a long beach resident I have been pleased to find local and organic produce - deliveries from Tanaka farms and from Farmer's markets more »
Together with Los Angeles, the port of Long Beach bears the eco-brunt of US trade. The two comprise the largest port system in the United States; goods that enter the US here are put on trains and trucks and transported across the country. It’s a recipe for eco-disaster: take idling ships (each of which can produce as much air pollution as 12,000 cars), add a major airport, throw in some of the most congested roads and freeways in the country, and you've got a near-last place finish in SustainLane's 2008 air quality category. In recent years though, officials have been working to green port operations. The city instituted a voluntary Green Flag program, where ships voluntarily slow down as they near the port, reducing their emissions. The Port of Long Beach is also leading a global "cold ironing" trend; ships plug into generators while at the dock rather than idle. Outside of the port, Long Beach established a formal Office of Sustainability in 2008. Coordinators are drawing up a comprehensive plan for sustainability, which is expected to include green building mandates and incentives as well as a call for a greenhouse gas inventory.
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As a long beach resident I have been pleased to find local and organic produce - deliveries from Tanaka farms and from Farmer's markets more »
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This order [i.e. capitalism] is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with the economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt. —Max Weber
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