June 18 Middletown Days – Calpine Sponsoring A Day at The Middletown Days Rodeo and offering free guided bus tours of The Geysers Departing From Calpine’s Visitors Center 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. For more info>
June 10 Calpine hosting free guided bus tours of The Geysers departing from Geyserville from 9:00 am until 1:00 pm. For more info>
Ghilotti Construction Company, the largest contractor in Sonoma, Marin and Napa, is a Business for Clean Energy sponsor and is demonstrating leadership in the industry by reducing its environmental impact. Some of the company’s accomplishments: using biodiesel blend for trucks and heavy equipment, recycling jobsite asphalt and concrete materials, construction of a “Green” corporate headquarters, … Read more
“Natural gas may be a marginally cleaner fossil fuel than coal, but obtaining it through the processing of fracking turns out to be more damaging to the climate than coal ever was. Fracking is a process that splits deposits of natural gas deep underground, using high pressure chemicals. A new study at Cornell has revealed … Read more
Woody Hastings, Renewable Energy Implementation Manager at the Climate Protection Campaign, described Sonoma County’s studies and plans for increasing local renewable energy at the second annual “Clean Power Healthy Communities” conference in Oakland on March 18. The conference drew over 100 people and was sponsored by the Local Clean Energy Alliance, a coalition of Bay … Read more
NASA says that last year was the warmest in 131 years of record keeping. For more details>
>From California Watch, “Lawsuit by low-income groups may delay climate law,” by Sarah Terry-Cobo: “The latest legal challenge to California’s landmark climate-change legislation isn’t coming from big polluters faced with a series of new regulations. Instead, groups representing low-income residents are challenging the environmental law as unfairly burdening their beleaguered communities… Brent Newell, an attorney … Read more
Jane Bender and Larry Robinson have joined the board of the Climate Protection Campaign. Bender served on the Santa Rosa City Council for ten years, and was co-director of ReLeaf for thirteen years. Robinson served twelve years on the Sebastopol City Council, and is a retired psychotherapist. Woody Hastings has also joined the staff as … Read more
Thanks to our partners at Calpine, last week the Campaign loaded up a bus with local elected officials, business sponsors and colleagues and took the windy road up to the Geysers. The Geysers is the world’s single largest geothermal resource for electrical generation and supplies 25% of California’s renewable energy. Calpine Corporation owns and operates … Read more
Last week the Press Democrat ran an editorial about declining car pooling. For the complete editorial> Alan Strachan, an advisor to the Campaign, responded with a letter to the editor. Strachan points out that “The Metropolitan Transportation Commission recently chose to fund a collaboration between the Sonoma County Transportation Authority and the Climate Protection Campaign … Read more