Month November 2009

CalPERS financial explosion

The CalPERS [The mismanaged, incompetently-run State of California pension fund] financial bomb has gone off. The blast wave hasn’t arrived to knock us all down is all. A deficit of $7.4 billion is projected for CalPERS by the end of…

Gourmet mushrooms from coffee grounds

Peets’s Coffee and Tea and BTTR have teamed up in a unique venture. Peet’s provides coffee grounds (that otherwise would be dumped in landfills) and BTTR uses them to grow different varieties of mushrooms. They use about a ton of…