Yolo County Hazard Mitigation Plan Community Survey
Is your neighborhood ready for power outages, flood, heat, wildfire and other hazards? Answer the survey!! Yolo County is looking for community input as it drafts its next Hazard Mitigation Plan. The last few years here in Yolo County we have all experienced the new…
Electric Vehicles and Cold Weather
If you’re looking for a new/used car, no matter what kind you’re considering, you should consider local temperature and weather conditions – and future weather extremes — in your decision. Cold weather is hard on all vehicles and electric vehicles are no exception. While EVs…
Sphagnum and Peat Moss Sales to Be Banned in England and Wales, Ireland Since 2018
Editor’s note: This article has been changed from how it appears in the Yolo County Master Gardener newsletter. Local nursery owner Don Shor has corrected the geographical scope of the ban and headings have been changed to reflect that correction. See more reading section at…
Excessive Heat Warning and Places to Cool Down in Davis and Yolo County
City of Davis News posted 9/1/22 https://www.cityofdavis.org/Home/Components/News/News/7986/2985?backlist=%2f Weather Relief Station The next few days will be very hot. The City will open a Weather Relief Center in the Valente Room of the Davis Senior Center (646 A St.) for the following days: • Sat, 9/3,…
Landfill Award to Improve Waste-to-Fuel Processes
The Yolo County Central Landfill (YCCL) has been selected for an award of $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to improve the current science and infrastructure to turn waste streams into clean, renewable fuel. The DOE grant to the YCCL – one…
Pakistan Emits Less Than 1% Global Carbon, Floods Devastate Millions
A message from 350.org and Anam Rathor, a youth climate activist with Climate Action Pakistan: A third of Pakistan is under water and and over 33 million people have been displaced. It’s hard to imagine, but that’s more than the entire population of Texas being…
SCOTUS Ruling Limits Clean Air Regulations
Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court June 30, 2022 ruling that limits the federal government’s authority to issue regulations to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA “No challenge poses a greater threat to our future than a changing climate. Every day,…
Divestment Bill Killed by Fossil-Fuel-Funded Assembly Member
The Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill SB1173 introduced in the California Senate by Senator Lena Gonzalez of Long Beach made its way through three committees successfully. If passed, it would have required the two state pension funds, the California State Teachers Retirement Service (CalSTRS) and the…
Per Capita: One step forward, five steps backlash
Remembering isn’t really my strong suit, but I do recall points in the evolution of my thinking about the climate crisis. There was the beginning, when it seemed that if all us individuals changed our light bulbs and rode a bike that would take care…
Drought Hits California – Again or Still? Some Facts to Ponder
A compilation from the City of Davis website and writer Michael Kluk In October 2021, the Davis City Council reinforced the Governor’s call for a voluntary 15% reduction in water usage and adopted sprinkler irrigation watering restrictions as a preventive measure to assist the City…
Like the Hot April Sun: Ken Kirsch Sustainability Story
I remember reading Bill McKibben’s book The End of Nature during my lunch breaks while working as a carpenter in San Francisco. I don’t know why I picked up that book. I wasn’t particularly focused on those kind of issues at the time. But I…
Hope Needs You to Act on Climate! Personal and Policy Responses to the Recent IPCC Report
Cool Davis knows that the state of the climate, the pandemic, racial injustice, and the effects of an exploitive economy are powerful forces that weigh heavily on all of us to varying degrees. We know … because we struggle with these things, too! We’re in…
New “Healthy Planet, Healthy You” Exhibit Part of Explorit Grand Re-Opening
Editor’s Note: Explorit’s Grand Re-Opening is scheduled for this weekend, October 2nd and 3rd. Reserve your entry day and time. Take the Healthy Planet, Healthy You QUIZ. Explorit Science Center is excited to announce our next exhibit, opening in October! “Healthy Planet, Healthy You” will…
Per Capita: One step forward, two steps back … or is it the other way around?
The prior column was about pieces of the puzzle, how if we raise our gaze from our own circumstance with heat, drought, flood, whatever and take in the growing ubiquity of these extreme events around the planet, we will see a picture that requires us…
Tocando (Touching): Writings from Summer 2021
Yo Estoy Tocando On a cool, spring day in north Davis, just east of where the houses begin, you can walk out in the open fields, barefooted, and the moist earth will stick to your soles like a sandal. In the cadence of your steps,…
Yolo Co. Emergency Drought Proclamation
Yolo County Issues Emergency Proclamation for Unincorporated Areas of the County Due to Exceptional Drought Conditions (Woodland, CA) – Yolo County has issued an emergency proclamation due to exceptional drought conditions in the unincorporated areas of the county and urges all residents and businesses throughout the…
Per Capita Davis: We are all pieces of the puzzle
It’s puzzling to figure out why the climate crisis has not yet reached an all-hands on deck level of urgency that would characterize an effort something like a Marshall Plan, a consensus that would overcome the comparatively penny-ante divisions and competitions between countries. It’s as…
Per Capita Davis: News you may have missed
The climate crisis has so many facets, from global issues to individual purchasing decisions. This column is about some news items you may have missed, most of which are from the low end of the spectrum. The planet is, as we all know, getting warmer,…
Extreme Heat Resources for Newly Opened 2021
Yolo County officials urge all county residents to take measures to protect themselves accordingly during the summer heat. Vulnerable populations include individuals over 65 years of age, children under 4 years of age, those who work outdoors, people who are overweight and those who are…
May 27 CAAP Workshop to Focus on Community Resilience and Equity
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NEWS FLASH! We’ll start the discussion with a Q&A session with the film’s lead scientist! We are thrilled to report that we will be joined before our usual discussion by Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop coming to us from Syndney, Austrailia (19 hours ahead). Gerard served as Principal Scientist with the Queensland Dept of Environmental Resources and Management Remote Sensing Centre. Consider preparing some questions for Gerard for this Sunday! The Debunking the Myths page on the film website is a good place to look for ideas. Learn more about Gerard via a podcast from 2020, an interview with Healthification, a YouTube interview from 2013, and his ResearchGate page.
January Climate Movie Circle: "Eating Our Way to Extinction" (online) - Cool Davis
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Discussion Sunday, January 15, 1:30 to 3:00pm Online via ZoomThank you Environmental Defense Fund for these reasons for hope! "Temperatures soared, hurricanes roared. It was easy to feel like we were losing the climate battle in 2022. But 2022 also saw some significant wins for the environment. Looking back on the year that was, let the good news springboard you into the year to come." #davisca Davis City
Reasons to be hopeful: Six stunning environmental wins in 2022
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Discussion Sunday, January 15, 1:30 to 3:00pm Online via Zoom
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