Greeneroo

It’s piling up! And why? Because San Mateo County Garbage workers are on strike!
When we pay attention to recycling, composting, using less packaging, this becomes less of an issue. I wouldn’t want to be the family with a mound of plastic disposable diapers and no trash pick-up on this very hot sweltering week. Ugh!
Garbage workers [...]

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is a provider of protection, information and conservation to species and habitats around the world.  If you haven’t enjoy meandering through their site, now is a good time! They have a Marine Fund Raising drive going on right now.
On a hot August day, many of us enjoy sandy beaches and rolling waves. But oceans are [...]

Please feel free to share this LINK with people you know around the state and ask them to call.
Hi Everyone! This is one of our priority Sierra Club Calfornia bills for 2010. If we can’t get this bill passed, we might as well forget about saving the planet. Low hanging fruit, people. Let’s just make [...]

What better way to celebrate the end of the summer than a visit to the beautiful HIDDEN VILLA? 
WHEN: Sunday, August 29, 2010 from  5:30 to 7:30 pm. HV has been closed during the week for campers this summer. Now it is our chance to relax and enjoy. The cost is just $10 per car.
26870 Moody Rd
Los [...]

Please join us in urging California’s legislative leadership to move forward a bill that could be critical for California’s resource management.
TAKE ACTION!
Our state resource agencies face growing challenges. Once stable revenue sources are now of marginal reliability while the demands for resource monitoring and protections have increased exponentially. Ever-increasing state policies and regulatory responsibilities continue [...]

The slow food movement changed my life. I started paying attention to what I ate, and how I prepared it. It was no longer enough to eat organic, healthy food. If I was eating while driving, eating while distracted or jamming stuff in my mouth, I wasn’t meeting my goal to reach a new state [...]

Monitoring towers are set up in 5 continents, involving many countries to understand the dynamics between carbon, water and temperature. This collaboration of scientists is gathering data. For more information, read the full article.
Visit Fluxdata.org

It’s been a battle, and many many meetings and petitions later, there is news. The issue wasn’t simple although it was often distilled into jobs, environment and 12,000 homes.
Seven years ago, a $100 million deal by the federal and state government to purchase 16,500 acres of industrial salt-evaporation ponds along the southern shoreline of San [...]

Location: Allied Arts Guild
Event Dates: 8/2/2010 – 8/31/2010
Portola Art Gallery Presents Frances Freyberg’s “Flowers, Fields and Forests – Photographs from the Bay Area and Beyond”

EXHIBITION: “Flowers, Fields and Forests – Photographs from the Bay Area and Beyond,” by Frances Freyberg
DATES: August 2-31, 2010
LOCATION: Portola Art Gallery at Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park, [...]

Many of the green initiatives are focused on owners rather than renters. Buying solar panels can make sense to add to your home, and energy star appliances ARE a great idea, but places come with refrigerators, water heaters, windows, washer/dryers etc when you rent. And in alot of apartments there isn’t much incentive to take the [...]