MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013
Volume 12 Issue 157
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Project aims to track big city carbon footprints ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer
street, will remain and even expand slightly. The rest of the space, including that unique basement, will transform into retail sales, although what retailers will occupy the newly vacant spot has not yet been decided, said Bill Tucker of Tucker Investment Group, the company that owns the building. Tucker felt that the change was a necessary one. Although Yankee Doodle’s has been a mainstay of the promenade since 1991, the decision was made that the space
LOS ANGELES Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tailpipes. And there is talk of outfitting Sao Paulo, Brazil, with sensors that sniff the byproducts of burning fossil fuels. It’s part of a budding effort to track the carbon footprints of megacities, urban hubs with over 10 million people that are increasingly responsible for human-caused global warming. For years, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse pollutants have been closely monitored around the planet by stations on the ground and in space. Now, scientists are eyeing large cities — with LA and Paris as guinea pigs — and aiming to observe emissions in the atmosphere as a first step toward independently verifying whether local — and often lofty — climate goals are being met. For the past year, a high-tech sensor poking out from a converted shipping container has stared at the Los Angeles basin from its mile-high perch on Mount Wilson, a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains that’s home to a famous observatory and communication towers. Like a satellite gazing down on Earth, it scans more than two dozen points from the inland desert to the coast. Every few minutes, it rumbles to life as it automatically sweeps the horizon, measuring sunlight bouncing off the surface for the unique fingerprint of carbon dioxide and other heattrapping gases.
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WINNING WAYS
Morgan Genser editor@smdp.com Crossroads' boys' volleyball team celebrates after storming back from a two-set hole to defeat Warren on Saturday at home. Crossroads won the second round CIF-Southern Section Division 3 game in five sets, 19-25, 24-26, 25-20, 27-25 and 18-16.
Let them eat Prada Conversion of restaurant highlights struggle between retail, dining BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
DOWNTOWN A walk down the Third Street Promenade on a mild spring day comes with the sound of fountains, laughter of outdoor diners and, occasionally, the roar of sports fans coming out of Yankee Doodle’s. That last may change, however, as the owner of the building in which the sports bar has stood for over 20 years contemplates a major change in the use of the
space, demonstrating the fundamental tugof-war between restaurants and retail in the high-end shopping district. If approved by the Santa Monica Planning Commission, the building with its tall ceilings, deep back end and expansive 7,500-square-foot basement will be converted from a 15,000-square-foot restaurant to one less than 10 percent of its size. The outdoor dining aspect, which is highly prized on the promenade for its almost instant ability to enliven portions of the
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