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
Environment
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
Sierra Club Sponsored Page
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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
Sierra Club Sponsored Page
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An Encuentro About Land, Climate and Food Justice
In April, Madera Community College hosted the American Friends Service Committee’s Pan Valley Institute (PVI) national encuentro, or gathering, titled Salt of the Earth, centering California’s Central [...] 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 [...] Continue Reading
Allensworth Combats Floodwaters, Big Ag and Railroad
Overabundant flood waters from southern Sierra rivers have put some San Joaquin Valley communities in harm’s way. One such community is the historic town of Allensworth in Tulare County. Residents are [...] Continue Reading
Last Chance CSU Fresno
In a fall football classic more suited to a Netflix season finale than Election Day, Fresno State pigskin boosters fumbled their Measure E sales tax proposal and took a classic fall in November. But [...] Continue Reading