Increasing Energy Bills Causing Concern in Our Community
Did your energy bill skyrocket last month? Energy bills have gone up and customers are noticing! If you want to understand what’s going on, the first step is to understand that most energy bills in our area reflect two energy sources: natural gas and electricity….
Turn off the Carbon Pump and Turn on the Heat Pump! Heat Pumps Explained in Basic Terms
Most homes in our area use natural gas for heating. When natural gas is burned in your furnace, it can be pretty efficient — up to about 95% efficient if you have an advanced system. But even the best natural gas heaters have some losses,…
Clean Energy Home Workshop Follow Up Video FINALLY Here!
THE CLEAN ENERGY HOME WORKSHOP VIDEO IS READY FOR VIEWING, FINALLY! The video from the very popular event this past August 1, 2021, is a fabulous resource for anyone looking to make a plan to incoporate efficient, all-electric heating and cooling systems in their home…
Daily Choices DO Make a Difference
The average person’s daily choices can still make a big difference in fighting climate change – and getting governments and utilities to tackle it, too Tom Ptak, Texas State University The average American’s everyday interactions with energy sources are limited. They range from turning appliances on…
Student Activists Launch Fossil Free Campaign at UC Davis
As the United Nations-sponsored COP26 climate conference begins in Glasgow, UC Davis faculty, staff, and student activists today announced a petition and educational campaign asking the university to commit to ending fossil fuel use by 2030. The petition also asks that specific policies for doing…
St. Martin’s: Becoming a Zero Carbon Church
Editor’s Note: This text is crossposted from the Interfaith Power & Light Cool Congregations website. In 2004, the Episcopal Church of St. Martin in Davis, California, took first steps toward becoming a zero-carbon church by installing a small photovoltaic solar array on the roof of…
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…
Online Workshop Aug 1: Make a Plan for a Clean Energy Home
Sunday August 1st at 2:00-3:30pm online
Per Capita Davis: Here’s a little bit about bitcoin
I’ve been collecting coins since I was a kid, but not so much in the sense of looking for and assembling coins that are worth more than their face value. My coin collection, what my spouse refers to as a “collection of coins” is more…
Per Capita Davis: The world needs to reflect resilience, redundancy and cooperative governance
Eventually, on this planet of increasing population and not inexhaustible resources, the issue of sustainability will take center stage. We talk about it now, but my guess is that not too far in the future the discussion will take on a more serious and urgent…
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…
Cool Davis Welcomes New Board Member Julie Haney
Julie Haney is a licensed architect and earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1990. While attending Cal Poly Julie’s interest focused on sustainable design, she studied Village Homes and energy efficient architecture. While at Cal Poly she was…
Per Capita Davis: What a week this was
What a week that was, and I don’t mean about what was happening in Washington, though I guess that also factors in. I’m talking about the avalanche of news reports coming out about car companies and their plans for the future. Friday, Jan. 29, the…
Heating System Up to Snuff? Maintenance and Incentives Help You Get the Job Done
Winter is the time of year when we really test our home heating system. It’s a good idea to take notice. Is your system sufficient and efficient? You know your system is sufficient if it heats all parts of your house well. You know your…
Saving Money? Always a Great Plan!
Thank you to Bernadette Balics for her contributions to this article! Incentives have always played a huge role in the adoption of new technologies. Eventually, prices come down as volume increases and innovations like electric cars, electric heat pumps, and renewable energy become commonplace. While…
Don’t Light Tonight Season Began Nov 2020
November 1st marked the start of Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District Don’t Light Tonight season, the District’s voluntary program encouraging residents to not burn wood on days where air quality forecasts for particulate matter are above 25 micrograms per cubic meter, or an AQI of…
Tuleyome Tales: A second chance for Eel River salmon and steelhead?
For many years PG&E has operated the “Potter Valley Project,” a hydroelectric facility on the main stem of the Eel River consisting of Scott and Cape Horn dams and a tunnel diverting water into the Russian River watershed, where it is used to generate a…
Per Capita: Is it ‘here we go’ or is it ‘here we go again’?
I admit to becoming somewhat cynical about news reports of countries pledging to take real, substantive actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but, in the spirit of the season, and also admitting to a slightly dormant but unquenchable hope, I’m letting Lucy line up the…
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…
Could You Be Induced to Switch to an Induction Cooktop?
We’ve all heard you can start a fire by rubbing two sticks together. Easier said than done, but the idea has enshrined in popular culture the physical property that friction between two objects creates heat. Lesser known, but important nonetheless, is the idea that you…
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