A recent comment from a Fresno City Council member rang an old, all too familiar bell. When District 1 representative Annalisa Perea referred to West Fresno as “down there” in an interview with [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change
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September 2023 You can read the print version of the Sierra Club page below. This is a .pdf of the September 2023 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase the [...] Continue Reading
Climate Boomers, Doomers and Zoomers
Most people’s first reaction to the threat of climate change is the technofix. Raised to place our faith in market forces, we almost instinctively turn to technological solutions. A primary tenet is [...] Continue Reading
Sierra Club Sponsored Page
August 2023 You can read the print version of the Sierra Club page at the link below. This is a .pdf of the August 2023 Sierra Club Sponsored Page. There are features that allow viewers to increase [...] Continue Reading
A Ticking Bomb in Arvin-Lamont
On June 13, nine persons from various communities met virtually to hear updates about a project that will help them improve the indoor air quality in their homes. Although getting filters for their [...] Continue Reading
In Yosemite Valley, Snow Melt Flows and Falls
Yosemite Valley’s waterfalls are especially abundant this year due to the enormous snowpack in the southern Sierra. History was made as the Merced River’s watershed was buried under a snowpack that [...] Continue Reading
Tulare Lake Lives!
Imagine the largest lake west of the Mississippi on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. About 200 years ago, you could see flocks of birds arriving that were as loud as a freight train. Turtles, [...] Continue Reading
Water Forum Ponders Valley Water Concerns
There are few places this year where water has been more of a preoccupation than in Kings County. That’s mainly because of a partial rewatering of the historic Tulare Lake, along with flooding due to [...] Continue Reading
Climate-Proofing Our Communities
“There is no later. This is later.”—The Road, Cormac McCarthy, RIP (1933–2023) The road to preparing communities for climate shocks is narrow and short. It has been mostly destroyed by market-based [...] Continue Reading
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Measure C Rhymed 2022 with 2002
Shakespeare wrote in 1610, “What’s past is prologue.” Mark Twain observed 250 years later, “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Both adages apply to last November’s failed effort to [...] Continue Reading
Moving to Community Choice Aggregation for Energy
BY ROB ENGLAND The Climate Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has been a leader in creating climate solutions and action plans for a climate-safe future in California, hosted a community meeting in [...] Continue Reading