Ever experience that painful tailbone landing that follows when your playmate suddenly jumps off their end of the seesaw? To avoid it you had to see it coming, then put your feet down fast. It’s like [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change
Cities Attempt “C” Cash Grab
The residents of rural Fresno County living outside its 15 cities, including thousands in more than 30 disadvantaged unincorporated communities, were placed on the political chopping block last [...] Continue Reading
Tala de árboles de Yosemite Detenida Por Demanda Por Preocupaciones Ambientales
¿Qué hay detrás de la tala en el Parque Nacional Yosemite? Los funcionarios del parque lo anunciaron como un proyecto de reducción de combustible para mejorar la resistencia al fuego en los bosques [...] Continue Reading
Drinking Water or Lawn Water?
Based on numerous historical studies and predictive climate modeling, climate scientists predict that the future of the American West, and California in particular, will be one of higher daily average [...] Continue Reading
Global Warming Producing Multiple Threats to the Valley
Climate activist and author Bill McKibben, in the San Joaquin Valley recently, warned that rising global heat is at the core of California’s increasing droughts, mammoth wildfires and water shortages. [...] Continue Reading
Ticking Bomb in Bakersfield: Abandoned Oil Wells
Imagine that someone knocks at your door and tells you that in a lot next to your home there are abandoned oil wells leaking massive amounts of methane that could be explosive. Or even worse, that [...] Continue Reading
Bill McKibben Speech in Fresno
This is an (.mp3) audio file of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence 30th Anniversary held on June 11, 2022 at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Guest Speaker: Bill McKibben. [...] Continue Reading
The June Community Alliance is now online
The June 2022 Community Alliance newspaper is being printed today and will be mailed to subscribers this afternoon. You can see the online version here: www.fresnoalliance.com [...] Continue Reading
Catastrophic Climate Change While Being Unhoused
It’s already deadly on the streets of Fresno. It’s deadly, in part, because it is Fresno City policy to continue encampment sweeps and because of its refusal to support safe camps. Women, the elderly, [...] Continue Reading
Systemic Racism on Display
Nothing upsets people faster than to suggest they’re reinforcing institutionalized racism, regardless of their race. Consider the elected officials and community leaders of the Fresno Council of [...] Continue Reading
Fresno-Madera Area No. 1 in the Nation for Worst Air Quality
According to the 2022 State of the Air Report, which is published by the American Lung Association every year, the Fresno-Madera area took the lead as the most polluted city in the country for fine [...] Continue Reading
Community Slows Tax Renewals
Sales tax renewal efforts in Fresno and Madera counties hit historic roadblocks in May and have no chance of success at the ballot this year. Running on 20th century plans for the future, the renewal [...] Continue Reading