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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. ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Best way to save civilization? PLANT TREES

Since we are now living in what is essentially a runaway chemical reaction (too much carbon in our atmosphere) it has been my view that...