Blog

We Delivered 780 Signatures Supporting CA to Meet Our Climate Goals

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 are set by state law.  It also doesn’t address key Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC) recommendations, and fails to put California on a path to phase out fossil fuels equitably

Read More »

Yes on Proposition 30 11/1/22

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

Read More »

Why the automotive future is electric

That hum in the distance is the sound of the concept of mobility changing—for the better. While challenges to the electrification of the vehicle parc persist, opportunities worth fighting for also lay ahead. This is particularly evident in cities, where

Read More »

How clean are Electric Cars?

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

Read More »

Six People, Nine Months

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

Read More »

Diesel Free Neighborhoods

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

Read More »

Should Transit Be Free?

Free transit sounds like a utopian fever dream. Imagine being able to hopscotch your city on a bus, never again needing to fumble for your ticket, seeing the dreaded “insufficient fare” message on the fare machine, or forgetting to ask

Read More »