You know it’s summer here in California when we’re collectively seeing new record breaking temperatures, power outages, and rising energy bills as more people turn to ACs to survive the merciless heat. “I barely used the AC last week but my energy bill went up!” “I lost power during the outage last month.” “I swear my energy bills are higher this year than last year.” These disgruntled sentiments are familiar
Every five years, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) creates a Scoping Plan, a roadmap of actions required to meet California’s climate goals. Unfortunately, the current proposed plan doesn’t ensure that California will meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets, which
White Skin, Black Fuel – On the Danger of Fossil Fascism By: Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective. Published December, 2020 A review by Jack Lucero Fleck, 10/23/22 This is a very eye-opening book. As a person who has been
Gasoline cars are going the way of Kodak cameras, but will they go away fast enough to avoid climate catastrophe? Proposition 30 will expedite EV adoption with EV and charging subsidies, funded by a small increase in taxes for those
Photo credit: NRCgov Please contact the CA Energy Commission y Friday August 19 to let them know: We don’t need to spend $billions on outdated, inflexible, brittle, unreliable power! What DO we need? A flexible, reliable, affordable, clean energy grid.
Quick Answer-87% cleaner with renewable electricity! This question is one that I have been trying to answer since I bought an EV in 2011. My last answer was in 2015 where I produced this table based on data from the
After the major fires in Sonoma County in the Fall of 2017, the community came together to find ways to support fire survivors and help the community rebuild stronger. One area of focus became figuring out a way to rebuild
In July of 2019, Berkeley became the first city in the US to eliminate natural gas hookups for new low-rise residential construction, ending the era of automatically and mindlessly extending the infrastructure that accelerates the climate crisis. Other cities have
Head youth organizers, Alexi Lindeman and Ian Cohen. Photo provided by Alexi Lindeman. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, California (Earth Anecdotes) – Youth activist Greta Thunberg has transformed awareness about the climate crisis all around the world. Now, in a parallel effort,
Recording and Other Resources from the March 26 Panel & Leadership Team Conversation Recording 26Mar22 Diesel Free NS mtg.mp4 You may need to unzip this file; Google will walk you through the process. Panel Bios Chris Peeple: Chris Peeples has
Introduction Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has become the darling of the Biden Administration as well as the fossil fuel industry hoping to continue its toxic emissions, and technology and engineering companies hoping to benefit from billions of dollars in
Despite what the utilities are saying, rooftop solar benefits all ratepayers, creating affordable and more reliable power for us all. The CA Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC’s) new proposed rules would be the highest in the US!! while decreasing compensation for excess power going
The CA Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has proposed a set of new rules which would set punishingly high monthly fees – the highest in the US!! – and decreased compensation for excess generation from rooftop solar systems. This will stop all but
