Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Coronal Energy, powered by Panasonic, has announced plans to substantially increase the number of solar PV projects it will acquire in 2017 and 2018. The ambitious program will support a rapidly expanding solar pipeline in North America that already totals over three gigawatts under development. "While many companies are retrenching, Coronal Energy, powered by Panasonic, is in growth mode," said Jonathan Jaffrey, chairman and CEO of Coronal Energy™. "We are fortunate to be b...
State and local leaders joined executives from NextEra Energy Resources and its partners to commission the Blythe and McCoy Solar Energy Centers, which created hundreds of construction jobs and will help California meet its renewable energy goals. "These projects represent a more than $1.2 billion investment in California and a tremendous step forward to help the state meet its renewable energy goals," said Armando Pimentel, president and CEO of NextEra Energy Resources,...
In a civil case involving NMS Family Living Trust, and Margot and Neil Shekhter, Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bruguera found that NMS Properties and its owners, fabricated evidence, and destroyed or hid electronic evidence from the Court and the opposing parties. For this reason, she entered a judgment imposing "Terminating Sanctions" against NMS, meaning that they lost the lawsuit and now have a default judgment against them. Terminating sanctions are unusual, though not...
Several well-known motor companies are determined to make electric car use easier for consumers. BMW, Ford Motor Company, Daimler AG, and Volkswagen Group with Audi and Porsche are among the manufacturers teaming up to provide more efficient charging stations throughout Europe. In a joint press release made earlier this week, the companies said they hope that this serves as a milestone in "facilitating mass-market battery electric vehicle adoption." The network would begin...
Editor's Note: This is an official City Press Release and has not been edited. Less than one month from today on January 1, 2017, Santa Monica's new paid sick leave provisions under the City's recently adopted Minimum Wage law will become effective. State law already requires all California employers to offer employees 24 hours of paid sick leave. Under Santa Monica's law, Santa Monica employees will benefit from increases to 32 or 40 hours, depending on the size of the employ...
Software giant Oracle Corporation has purchased a 316,000 square-foot property on Colorado for $368 million. At around $1,165/square foot, the large office complex is one of the priciest transactions ever in Los Angeles per square foot. A grant deed for the property at 2600 and 2700 Colorado was filed on November 9 at the Los Angeles County Recorder's Office. Oracle intends to occupy the space at 2600 currently leased by Viacom, Inc., after Viacom relocates to Hollywood next...
Engel & Volkers rents a storefront office on Montana Avenue (as if you might drop in and buy a $4 million house in 90402, then proceed a few doors down to Starbucks). I guess it paid off for them. They just announced the highest sale of the year, and the third highest residential sale in Santa Monica history. "We respect our clients confidentiality, but I can say that the buyer is an avid golfer, loved the architecture, view and of course La Mesa is an iconic street," said...
LOS ANGELES - The Captain of the Port will be enforcing a temporary safety zone due to hazardous conditions in the vicinity of the Morro Bay Harbor entrance from November 29 –December 13, 2016. The safety zone will encompass all navigable waters from the surface to the sea floor near the inside and outside of the mouth of the Morro Bay Harbor entrance. This action is necessary to reduce significant hazards subject to the vessels, the harbor and the public during periods of p...
California voters recently approved prison reforms intended to release non-violent offenders. Consistent with that movement, Ridesharing application provider Uber has announced that it will allow ex-prostitutes and other non violent convicted offenders to drive. This is with the blessing of California authorities. Uber's new standards have already taken effect in California and will begin in Connecticut on January 1, 2017. Former sex workers and those convicted of harassment,...
Jersey Mike's Subs, known for its fresh sliced/fresh grilled subs, has announced a generous incentive program for donors looking to help Wreaths Across America reach its goal of placing a wreath on every headstone at Arlington National Cemetery this Dec. 17. For every wreath sponsored between now and Monday, Nov. 28, at midnight (ET) Jersey Mike's will match it, up to a total donation of $250,000. Currently, Wreaths Across America has nearly half (approx. 122,500) of the...
Americans have at least one thing to be thankful for this year: the average Thanksgiving meal will cost less thanks to lower grocery prices. In its annual survey of Thanksgiving dinner prices, the American Farm Bureau Federation reported this week that the average price of a meal for 10 has fallen compared to last year. The group surveyed grocery store prices, excluding coupons and promotions, and found lower prices for items such as turkey, pumpkin-pie mix, carrots, celery,...
J.K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," a prequel to the Harry Potter blockbuster franchise, made its silver screen debut on Thursday night, grossing $75 million domestically during its opening weekend. The Warner Bros. film, starring Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as a magizoologist who travels the world seeking magical creatures, had a total budget of $180 million. Pre-release tracking had predicted around $90 million for the weekend, according to Box Office M...
Mars, Incorporated is urging the business community and global leaders at COP22 to take bold action to implement the targets agreed last year in Paris for tackling climate change. Mars combined this call to action with an announcement of plans for a wind farm in Mexico-its third major wind energy commitment in as many years. Mars has an ambition to eliminate all fossil fuel use from its operations by 2040. Today the company is urging business and global leaders to do the same...
The flat-pack furniture giant IKEA has announced a move to a USA-made eco-friendly mycelium packaging to replace polystyrene. "We are looking for innovative alternatives to materials, such as replacing our polystyrene packaging with mycelium - fungi packaging," Joanna Yarrow told the Telegraph. Yarrow is the head of sustainability for IKEA in the UK. Mycelium is the part of a fungus that grows in branched fibers to attach to the soil or other host, essentially the roots of...
Bacardi gives new meaning to the phrase, "to the bat cave," as a team of employees, in partnership with Lubee Bat Conservancy, erected several large bat habitats at the company's BACARDÍ® rum bottling facility campus in Jacksonville, Florida. Within just a few months, the habitats – branded bat caves – will be full of tenants. Together, the organizations are working hard to fight the devastation of habitat depletion that has occurred for bats, the world's only flying mamm...
As detailed in the latest episode of Shameless, nobody wants a homeless shelter in their neighborhood. Nope, Not In My Back Yard. It is for this reason that the Ocean Park Community Organization is located not in swank Ocean Park, but on Cloverfield, 100 yards from the City dump. Anyway, below is the press release. I can't make heads or tails of it, other than the first paragraph, which says that OPCC has merged with LAMP, whatever that stands for, to form "The People...
Just in time for its 7th Season Premiere on October 23rd, the AMC hit show The Walking Dead has partnered with everyone's favorite 100% All-Natural & Gluten Free Hot Sauce to bring life back to bland food. With Limited Edition packaging, Tabañero is revamping two of its signature products and giving them a Walking Dead twist. In their recent partnership, AMC's The Walking Dead has licensed its name to Tabañero for its line of hot sauce and bloody mary products. Last Christmas,...
With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, mechanics and other workers who service UPS' fleet of jet engine aircraft started voting Friday to authorize a strike. The strike vote comes after three years of prolonged negotiations during which UPS continues to demand huge concessions. UPS, which posted $4.84 billion in profits last year and is the world's largest delivery company, is calling for massive reductions in health benefits for 1,200 maintenance workers...
Liberty Mutual Group agreed to pay a nearly million-dollar settlement regarding advertisements the insurance company aired for a car accident forgiveness program that is not available in California. Yesterday a civil complaint was filed in Riverside County Superior Court by district attorneys from Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego counties alleging unfair competition by Liberty Mutual through the airing of the misleading advertisements. Since 2014, the Boston-based insuran...
Apple, Inc, makers of the iPhone, have announced that they will not longer provide repair service or parts for the iPhone 4. Apple will similarly discontinue servicing the 13-inch MacBook Air from 2010, the third-generation AirPort Extreme and the second-generation Time Capsule on October 31. While Apple generally halts servicing iPhones that are older than 5 years, California requires that manufacturers support electronic devices for 7 years. So California, where Apple is...
A smoking samsung Galaxy Note phone forced the evacuation of a Southwest Airlines flight on the ground Wednesday in Louisville, KY. Southwest Airlines flight 994 from Louisville to Baltimore was evacuated this morning while still at the gate because of a smoking Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. All passengers and crew exited the plane via the main cabin door and no injuries were reported, a Southwest Airlines spokesperson told the AP "I shut down the phone," the man who...
Garden Fresh Restaurant Corporation, based in Rancho Bernardo, owns and operates 123 Souplantation and Sweet Tomato restaurants in the United States. The first location opened in Grantville in 1978. The company intends to close 20 to 30 restaurants as part of its financial restructuring. None of those restaurants closing are in San Diego or the greater Southern California area.CEO John Morberg is attending court filing hearings in Delaware, where the company will seek...
An article in today's Washington Post website corroborates what conspiracy theorists have said since a SpaceX rocket exploded on September 1, 2016: It was deliberately sabotaged. The investigation centers on one particular competitor, United Launch Associates. ULA is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and there is no love lost between ULA and SpaceX. ULA occupies a building at the Kennedy Space Center launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The theory is...
Thousands of suited up budtender businessman gathered Sept. 7-10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center for the Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition, and there was nary your classic Shaggy stoner in sight. But what there was was a lot of talk of a lot of green, both of bud and money to come from bud. It is estimated that $50 billion a year is generated in cannabis sales within the United States, yet only $5.4 billion of that is legal sales. But all that's about to...
A SpaceX Cargo ship exploded on the launchpad Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral during a test firing, destroying the rocket and Facebook's first ever satellite. In an reference to the UFO visible in this photo; "an Anomaly" caused Facebook's SpaceX Satellite to explode. At least two Youtube videos show a strange craft hovering around the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket just before it exploded. The video is embedded hereinbelow. SpaceX said there were no injuries connected to the...