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New York will plant thousands of trees using new tech to maximize foliage impact
New York City is planning on adding 250,000 trees to their urban forest to help with the climate crisis (with regards to deaths caused by...
Dec 1, 2023
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Creative solution - implemented in record time
I first heard about this idea just a few months ago: cover irrigation canals with solar panels to save water and generate electricity. ...
Feb 16, 2022
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Some encouraging news about carbon pollution
Whenever I meet a young person who's trying to figure out what to do with their life, I immediately suggest science - as we've got a...
Jan 18, 2022
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Great news for the Western Monarch
It looked like they were slated for extinction just one year ago - and then we got a rebound in the population nobody was expecting. ...
Oct 25, 2021
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Non-toxic, natural (and beautiful) way to control rodents
https://baynature.org/article/raptors-rather-than-rodenticide/?utm_source=Bay+Nature&utm_campaign=fa4be416fb-BN+Newsletter+10%2F21%2F2021...
Oct 25, 2021
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Bye-bye stinky gas-powered machines - FINALLY
I just read that Governor Newsom has signed legislation banning the sale of gas-powered equipment in California, to be implemented "Jan....
Oct 10, 2021
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Great editorial from the New York Times
Somehow I missed this when the article was published last June, but I found it compelling and encouraging - in spite of the depressing...
Sep 13, 2021
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Well that was an interesting 15 months
Hopefully, we can say the Covid-19 pandemic is behind us - at least San Francisco and most of California. What a ride that was. We got...
Jun 17, 2021
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Artificial Turf - Not what we were hoping for...
Hopes were pinned on the stuff - no water, no weeds, no mowing, no trouble. Of course, there is no such thing as no maintenance. The...
Feb 12, 2020
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A simple machine to stop climate change
This from the book "The Overstory" by Richard Powers, 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction ....a simple machine needing no fuel and little...
Nov 7, 2019
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