The Promise of Coast Redwoods
Jennie DusheckThe Climate Alliance (TCA) In October, 2022, I opened an email from my friend Nancy Abrams inviting me to an intriguing weekend retreat at the University of California’s Big Creek Reserve in Big Sur, California. The weekend was the brainchild of UC Santa...
Connected Futures: What Can Come From “Hanging Out Without Borders”
Nancy Glock-Grueneich, Ph.D. Connected Futures, Equatorial Voices, United 4 Planetary Health & Well Being (U4PHW), Unity with Nature Committee of the Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Going on 4 hours sleep, I was walking a...
Woody Biomass: Green Subsidies Are Creating a Feeding Frenzy
magi amma The Climate Alliance (TCA) Green subsidies are creating a feeding frenzy for unproven technologies. They are providing incentives for companies to justify development of new projects in woody biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS).Enviva, the...
Do Youth Have a Constitutional Right to a Livable Future?
Lynda MarínCitizens' Climate Lobby Santa Cruz (CCLSC) The first case of its kindJuliana v the United States was filed in 2015 by 21 youth plaintiffs arguing that they have a right to a habitable planet. The case argues that the government’s actions that have caused...
Mendocino County’s Jackson Demonstration State Forest: Work in Progress
Kristen SandelValley Women's Club (VWC) What Does a Demonstration Forest Do?The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) manages and operates 14 Demonstration State Forests, with a total area of around 85,000 acres. These demonstration forests...
Offshore Wind: Why Is the State So Anxious to Set This Up?
Pauline Seales Santa Cruz Climate Action Network (SCCAN) The answer is that we desperately need clean new electricity to supply the switch to electrification. We need to do this to greatly reduce the impact of climate change and to ensure a livable world for our...
New Affordable & Fully Electric Housing in Santa Cruz
Susan Cavalieri - Santa Cruz Climate Action Network (SCCAN) The new building at 525 Cedar Street, next to Calvary Church, will provide 64 units of affordable family housing with 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. The rents will be 30% to 60% of the area median income...
Connected Futures: Seeking “Right Relations” between Global South and North
Connected Futures:Seeking “Right Relations” between Global South and NorthNancy Glock-Grueneich, Ph.D. Connected Futures, Equatorial Voices, Fielding Graduate University, Quaker Earthcare WitnessIn all parts of the world,...
Forest Biomass for Energy Production: Not Renewable, Not ‘Green’
Kristen Sandel With California’s push for renewable energy sources (despite recent court rulings against Berkeley’s natural gas ban and CPUC decisions hampering rooftop solar), woody or forest biomass has become a focal industry, raising serious environmental...
Why Building Electrification?
Jennie Dusheck, TCA The point of building electrification is to convert heating and cooking in homes from natural gas to electricity. With more and more solar electricity and a coming buildout of wind energy, electricity in California is getting cleaner and cleaner....