If your trees are shading your neighbor’s solar panels, you could be fined $1,000 a day. The 1978 California Solar Shade Act deems shading trees a nuisance. In Sunnyvale, CA, Prius driving Carolynn Bissett and Richard Treanor were convicted under the law after electric car driving neighbor Mark Vargas complained .
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CA Solar Shade Act Invoked by Neighbors
(via ecoscraps.com)
Submitted by ecochildsplay on Mon, 2008-04-07 17:20. | Tags: technology | California | redwoods | Silicon Valley | solar | Solar Shade Act | Sunnyvale

Mad Botanists Plan Vast Forest of Cloned Redwoods
(via www.environmentalgraffiti.com)
A group of historic tree fanatics is taking genetic samples from the tops of California redwoods today as the first step towards cloning old-growth redwoods.
Submitted by Bukowsky on Fri, 2007-11-02 22:27. | Tags: nature | botanist | climate change | environment | Nature | redwoods