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O.C. woman heads for Copenhagen climate summit

December 2nd, 2009, 12:30 pm by

She’s an environmental activist and an insurance company executive, and she says she’s ready to fly to Copenhagen Friday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. COP15 DENMARK GREEN DANES

Jennifer Searfoss, who belongs to the Sierra Club and the League of Women Voters, was chosen by the league to join their delegation.

She won’t be speaking at the conference, but says she is anticipating watching how international climate negotiations unfold.

“Am staying in the downtown area in an apartment,” Searfoss, who lives in Newport Beach, wrote in a recent e-mail update. “Hopefully, the transportation will be all that it is being raved about!

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From fiery crash, a green alliance is born

November 30th, 2009, 12:39 pm by

The scene sounds worthy of prime-time drama:  a man trapped inside a burning car is pulled out by passers-by — just before the car is completely engulfed in flame. burningcargoc

It really happened two years ago on Interstate 5 in south O.C. And now the man in the car, Timothy Nelligan, has formed a green business alliance with the man who helped save his life.

Nelligan, 34, will hold a grand opening Wednesday for a compressed natural gas refilling dispenser at a Shell Gas Station in San Juan Capistrano. He is president of Go Natural Gas, a company founded by Joshua Radwan — one of several men who helped pull Nelligan from the car.

“He gathered three or four guys together,” Nelligan said of Radwan. “They ended up using the butt end of a fire extinguisher to break the glass.”

They pulled Nelligan through his car window so hard that it tore both his rotator cuffs, he said, although he has no memory of the incident.

“The back seat hit me in the back of the head,” he said, after he was struck from behind by a driver who might have been doing 70 mph or more. “It knocked me out and split my head open. And then the car was immediately on fire.”

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Death of prominent activist shocks O.C. environmental community

November 6th, 2009, 11:56 am by

The sudden death of Jan Vandersloot, a fixture in the Orange County environmental community, left his friends and fellow activists in shock and disbelief this week. vander2

Vandersloot died Wednesday at his home in Newport Beach from what his son, Jon Vandersloot, described as a possible massive heart attack, although the cause has not been confirmed.

His death prompted a moment of silence and kind words at a meeting of the California Coastal Commission Thursday. Meanwhile, the allies in his many causes — from raising treatment levels for sewage emptied into the ocean to preserving wetlands and wildlife — spoke of his dedication, energy and drive.

Vandersloot also was a local dermatologist whose office was always crowded with patients. Read full O.C. Register story.

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    Landscape recycler: O.C. woman creates contractor “Craig’s list”

    October 13th, 2009, 11:10 am by

    You’ve got an orphan load of rocks. Or bricks. Or wood planks. What to do?  beckstrom

    Until recently, even licensed contractors might have been forced to dump them in the landfill. But a Mission Viejo woman recently invented another option: ContractorBoneyards.com.

    The web site, launched just four weeks ago, allows licensed contractors to buy and sell excess building materials — potentially a way to vastly increase recycling, a major concern for “green” builders.

    “Recycling means materials diverted from the waste stream become a different type of finished product,” said the site’s creator, Angelia Woodside-Beckstrom.

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    “James Bond” star makes viral marketing pitch for ocean reserves

    October 8th, 2009, 3:51 pm by

    A new public service announcement by Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities urges support for the state’s effort to create marine protection zones off the California coast, including Orange County’s. brosnangoc

    The minute-long video, “MPAs work,” is for now in “viral launch” on YouTube and a marine protection web site, said Sarah Sikich, coastal resources director for the Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay. MPAs are marine protected areas.

    “We’re also in the process of discussing it with various TV stations,” Sikich said.

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    O.C.-based Green Guide goes nationwide

    September 26th, 2009, 7:00 am by

    He’s one of the best-known faces in Orange County’s “green” community, and he’s had a busy year. cochrangoc

    Casey Cochran, once the sole proprietor of a “hobby” Web site called O.C. Green Guide, is taking the idea nationwide, spending the past few months establishing new guides across the country. Miami, Boston and Chicago came online last month; last spring, he added San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, San Diego and Los Angeles. There are Green Guides in New York, Denver and Dallas as well.

    Now it’s called the Green Guide Network, and it’s no longer a hobby.  It’s a full-time job.

    “It’s a little surreal,” Cochran, 28, said Thursday in an interview from St. Louis, the next city he will add to the roster. “We’re in 15 different cities right now nationally. We’ll be expanding that through the year, and then into early next year.”

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