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Through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar America Cities partnership, a select group of U.S. cities is working to accelerate the adoption of solar energy technologies for a cleaner, more secure energy future. These Solar America City partnerships include the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), national laboratories, 25 cities across the United States, and a variety of municipal, county, and state agencies, universities, solar companies, utilities, developers, and non-profit organizations. These partners have made a commitment to power their municipalities with clean, safe, reliable energy—solar energy.San Diego will provide a blueprint for the nation through its “Sustainable Energy 2050 Plan,” which will create an energy infrastructure capable of supporting the region on a sustainable path. Where appropriate, San Diego will work in partnership with local, state, and federal representatives to realize its plan. In this project, San Diego is addressing key issues necessary for a sustainable solar infrastructure, including tariffs, data management, expedited permitting, strengthened private-sector involvement, training and technical expertise, and long-term implementation.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the roller coaster at Belmont Park has been around a long time and anyone growing up in San Diego will have happy memories of riding it. Our neighbor friend's father work at this park so many times we would get special bracelets that allowed us to ride as many rides in a day as we wanted. My sister would take advantage of this and ride the roller coaster over and over again. I was not as tough - once was my limit.
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Mission Beach is the center of a continuous stretch of beach which continues over two miles, beginning at the Mission Bay channel entrance and ending at the north end of Pacific Beach. This stretch is the most popular beach area in San Diego and draws huge crowds in the summer.
How to Boogie Board
1) Buy a boogie board. You will want a boogie board with a strap to wrap around your wrist so you don't lose it. Depending on your height, for the best results, your board should come down to about where your knees are when the top is level to your head (the smaller the boogieboard the more you will be able to turn though).
2) Get up to your waist in water. You will want to be in water where there are waves. Getting yourself in water where there is no waves will make it impossible to use your boogie board.
Be ready with your board laying flat on your belly, with your hands a couple inches down on the side and from the top, your shoulders parallel to your hands, and your elbows bent and resting close to the outer edge.
3) Right before the wave crashes, push off the ground (if you choose to stand in the water), and start kicking rapidly with your feet and you can use your hands as well.
Hold on tight!!
California State Parks contains the largest and most diverse natural and cultural heritage holdings of any state agency in the nation. State park units include underwater preserves, reserves, and parks; redwood, rhododendron, and wildlife reserves; state beaches, recreation areas, wilderness areas, and reservoirs; state historic parks, historic homes, Spanish era adobe buildings, including museums, visitor centers, cultural reserves, and preserves; as well as lighthouses, ghost towns, waterslides, conference centers, and off-highway vehicle parks. These parks protect and preserve an unparalleled collection of culturally and environmentally sensitive structures and habitats, threatened plant and animal species, ancient Native American sites, historic structures and artifacts . . . the best of California's natural and cultural history.
What is a hot rod?
The definition depends on who you ask. One point of view is, a Hot Rod is any car that was built before 1949 and modified for speed. The point was to go fast and looks were secondary.
For the complete Hot Rod Story click here.
