Kudos to the Northern Sierra Partnership, an effort to buy undeveloped land in the Sierra Nevada in order to preserve them for future generations before any large scale building starts to occur.
Via Mercury News:

Jim and Becky Morgan of Los Altos Hills — he, the retired CEO of Applied Materials and she, a former Santa Clara [...]

Climate activism never looked so good. This comes from the fine folks at 350.org. Wondering where in the world the “350″ came from? Well, according to their website:
350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis–the solutions that science and justice demand.
Our mission is [...]

With more than 4,800 actions planned across 179 countries the International Day of Climate Change, scheduled tomorrow October 24,  has the potential to become the largest public demonstration devoted to climate issues ever.
The events are being coordinated and publicized by 350.org, a group devoted to raising awareness of climate change.  According to the interactive map [...]