Clean Energy

On October 11th we celebrated with about 100 of the Center’s supporting partners at the Charles Schulz Museum. After refreshments, mingling, and a welcome from Jeannie Schulz,  Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains gave an inspiring talk about the movement that abolished slavery in the British Empire. Abolishing slavery seemed impossible at the time, … Read more

What better time than a 10-year anniversary to take solar to the next level at The Climate Center? And what better place to do it than in Sonoma County, which ranked 13th for 2016 among the nation’s metropolitan areas based on the number of solar-related jobs. We at Solar Sonoma County feel honored to work … Read more

Hazzahs, woots, and yahoos could be heard and seen reverberating around the clean energy community world throughout the afternoon on Tuesday, August 28 after the California State Assembly approved Senate Bill 100, the Kevin de León bill that sets a goal of 100% low or no carbon renewable energy by the year 2045. The bill … Read more

Hi! My name is Susan Bryer-Shelton and I’m delighted to have joined The Climate Center as its Energy Program Coordinator. I’ll be managing the Solar Sonoma County and Business for Clean Energy programs, both of which shine brightly as important collaborations with our local business community. I’m already in awe of the amazing entrepreneurs, installers, … Read more

by Jane Bender, Board Member, The Climate Center “I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change—but in yours.” I was surfing the internet for something else when I ran across these words from President Obama’s 2016 farewell speech to the nation.     Upon hearing these words, a lump rises in … Read more

by Maddie Maffia, CCP The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center held their 12th annual State of the Lake Report for the 2017 year this past week in Incline Village, NV. The report summarized the wellbeing of Lake Tahoe from data collected in 2017. In 2017 alone, 11,000,000 data points were gathered and analyzed to … Read more