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
Thursday May 27 at 5 pm online
CAAP Workshop Launches Community Engagement
The first workshop for the Davis Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) Update process was held online the evening of April 22, 2021, on the 51st Earth Day. As many as 94 participants, including the presenters, were in attendance that night, hoping to learn more…
Per Capita Davis: Nature and the climate crisis
The world has changed since I was a kid. Well, duh, you might reasonably respond. But bear with me. I’m not talking just about the landscape, about how the Nut Tree was the only thing on the highway between the Bay Area and Sacramento, nor how there…
Yolo Master Gardeners Tackle Climate Change Adaptations
Editor’s Note: Thank you to Editor James Fowler from Yolo County Master Gardeners (UCCE) for agreeing to share this article. UCCE Master Gardeners in Yolo and Solano Counties are volunteer employees of the University of California. We can assist with community awareness regarding global temperature…
‘The Story of Plastic’: Free Movie Screening for Earth Month!
Cool Davis is pleased to bring you this high quality documentary for Earth Month. Enjoy! The Story of Plastic (2020) THE STORY OF PLASTIC is presented by The Story of Stuff Project, a nonprofit dedicated to changing the way that we make, use, and throw…
Hugh Safford to Speak on Fire Ecology in California
Thursday, April 29, 7:00pm to 8:30pm online
Tap into Your “Practical Prepper”
Being prepared for an energy and water disaster has never been more important We all witnessed a catastrophic fail of energy infrastructure in Texas over the past few weeks. Households went days without gas, electricity, or water in freezing temperatures and many of these households…
“Kim Stanley Robinson Speaks” Draws Record Crowd
The first talk in the Davis Climate Speaker Series 2021 drew a record number of registrations of nearly 400 admirers eager to hear about Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel. Long-time Davis science fiction and climate fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson offered the mostly home-town audience…
Per Capita Davis: We have arrived at a reckoning
The word “reckoning” can be used in more than one way. It can be defined as “the action or process of calculating or estimating something,” as in “I reckon that boat won’t float.” For my purposes with this column, it can also be defined as,…
Local Cli-Fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson Speaks: Climate Ideas from “The Ministry for the Future”
Tuesday, Feb 23, 7:00pm to 8:30pm online
Resilient Communities Webinar Fosters Positive and Constructive Power
Thanks to all those who registered or attended the “Building a Resilient Community” webinar as part of the November Cool Davis Coalition quarterly meeting. As promised, we are providing the link below to the video of this event along with pdf’s of the presentations and…
Podcast looks at climate change’s effect on the poor
In Kenya, climate change is threatening a way of life for pastoralists. It’s driving families deeper into poverty. When drought hits, men travel for weeks in search of water and greener pastures for their livestock herds. The women and children are left behind with no…
Per Capita Davis: What does ‘urgent’ look like?
Warnings about potential adverse effects of what was heretofore known as “climate change” began long ago, but even if we stick a pin in the year 1990 (see below), there was always the semi-comforting tagline to news reports to the effect of, “if we act…
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