What’s your green new year resolution?
The new year is a time for making resolutions. And what better resolution than to commit to doing our part in lowering our own impacts on our planet and protect it for future generations? Cool Davis asked community leaders to tell us about their personal…
Rosemary Honey Sweet Potatoes
Shared by Bill Heinicke and rated Delicious! by Cool Davis Board. makes 6 servings Ingredients olive oil 2 tablespoons honey 1/4 cup fresh rosemary 2 tablespoons, chopped salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon sweet potatoes 3 large Directions 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees…
I Believe in Riding a Bike to Work
By Matt Biers-Ariel I commute 180 days a year to Winters High School where I teach English. Like most people who ride a bike to work, I love it. Sometimes I think of a great lesson plan. Sometimes I obsess over a difficult interaction with…
Market Team Helps get us All to Zero Waste
This article is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. It was written by Anne Ternus-Bellamy. When was the last time someone cheerfully welcomed you at a garbage can? If you regularly attend Picnic in the Park, probably quite recently. That’s where the Zero Waste Team,composed mostly…
Electric and Plug-in Cars Light Up the Festival
This article is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise on Friday, October 4, 2013. It was written by Peter Kerr. Are you seeing TV ads for the Leaf and the Volt? Or hearing about them on the radio when commuting? Can the marketing campaigns be believed?…
Cool Davis Festival: Getting Cooler all the Time!
This article is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise, Sunday, September 15, 2013. by Kerry Daane Loux, Cool Davis Festival Chair It’s a Festival! The City of Davis, officially named ‘Coolest California City’ in June 2013, is celebrating our One Cool City. Join neighbors and friends…
Will Your Building Keep Its Cool As California Heats Up?
(By Tom Phillips, crossposted from Resilient Design Institute) Floods and ice storms cause some the biggest economic losses in the US, but heat storms are the leading cause of death over the last 10 years among weather events in the US. Heat storms cause 1500…
A Simple Meal
When I was a kid we always had a garden growing. When it came time to pick tomatoes, my Dad would go out to the garden with a salt shaker in his back pocket. In the midst of the picking he would find one that looked especially good to him, sit down, split it open with his hands,
Earth lovers, be part of the solution
I read a text on a friend’s smart phone recently that said: “Save the earth; it’s the only planet with chocolate!” As we approach Earth Day on April 22, it’s good to reflect on the value of something we often take for granted: the earth…
Crowdfunding Clean Energy
By DAVID BORNSTEIN If you wanted to get large numbers of people actively engaged in helping to solve global warming, how might you go about it? For years, the main approach in the environmental movement has been to sound the alarm bell and implore…
Davis Bicycles!: Become a night rider
This article by Maria Contreras Tebbutt of the Woodland Bike Campaign is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. The holidays are over and solstice has passed and here we are in the coldest and darkest months of the year. Time to ride a bike? Well, maybe….
‘Car children’ learn less in school
This column by Sanne Fettinger of Davis Bicycles is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise. If you drive your child to school, you decrease your child’s ability to learn the rest of the school day. On the flip side, when children walk or bike to school,…
Photographer’s work documents ‘True Cost of Oil’
This article by Anne Ternus-Bellamy is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise The before and after photos provide a backdrop for Garth Lenz’s message. Before: A lush landscape of color: trees, wetlands and wildlife with mountain ranges in the background. After: More of a moonscape really,…
Festival touts green changes of every size
This article by Cory Golden is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise, one of the Cool Davis’ Festival sponsors. Allen Doyle remembers seeing craters in Alaska left behind by vanished permafrost. On Saturday at the Cool Davis Festival — the Central Park pep rally for all…
Grow Your Own Food! Community Gardening in Davis
For those of us itching to grow our own food but who don’t have a bountiful yard or whose yards may be shaded by beautiful trees, community gardens are one option. And luckily, Davis has two public community gardens and a slew of other ‘community’ gardening options available to choose from!
Real Life: Greening our Davis Schools
Here in our wonderful little bubble of Davis it’s easy to take steps toward greening our schools, thanks to organizations like Davis Farm To School (DF2S).
Keep Your Business Running Cool with New HVAC Program
From Yolo Energy Watch It’s still air conditioning (AC) season in the Central Valley, which means AC units are logging lots of hours to beat back the heat. In Northern California, on average one-third of a typical commercial building’s energy usage comes from HVAC (Heating,…
Davis Farm to School to Expand Throughout Yolo
John Young, Yolo County Agriculture Commissioner inspired Davis Farmers Market Foundation to consider taking their inspirational Davis Farm to School program to other schools throughout Yolo County.
Movie Night at Clara’s
One of the most entertaining ways Clara Perez has found to help her community raise its collective environmental awareness has been to gather her tight knit group of largely Colombian and other Latino friends together to watch a documentary, eat good food, and discuss the topics raised in the film.
Move more with your bike
Dani Lee, Sustainability Manager, UC Davis Dining Services, dnilee@ucdavis.edu, 559-351-4354 shares some top tips on how to transport more on your bike So you live in Davis, right? Mostly likely, you own a bike. If not, then stop reading and get yourself over to Bike…
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