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- Feb 16, 2022
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. ...
- Jan 18, 2022
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...
- Oct 25, 2021
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
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 10, 2021
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....
- Sep 13, 2021
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...

- Jun 17, 2021
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...


- Feb 12, 2020
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...
- Nov 7, 2019
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...
- Jul 5, 2019
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...