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Creating His Clean Energy Future, Twice

DONOR SPOTLIGHT: Climate Sustainer Club member Gerry Lazzareschi, MD Gerry Lazzareschi had 38 solar panels installed on the roof of his Healdsburg home a month ago. (Conner Jay / PD) The second time’s a charm for Climate Protection Campaign Sustainer Club member Gerry Lazzareschi.   Gerry was recently featured in the Press Democrat for going solar … Read more

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Distributed Bananas: A Better Way to Go

In the debate over centralized vs. distributed energy systems, we can perhaps learn something about which one might be better for society from behavioral studies of our chimpanzee cousins. In her book “The Egalitarians – Human and Chimpanzee: An Anthropological View of Social Organization,” Margaret Power challenges the view, based largely on observation of artificially … Read more

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Clean Power, Healthy Communities Conference — Oct 17

Clean Power, Healthy Communities Conference 2013 The 4th Annual Conference of the Local Clean Energy Alliance Thursday, October 17, 2013 California Endowment Conference Center 1111 Broadway, 7th Floor, Oakland CA See map and directions (Also by live video stream) Check out the CONFERENCE PROGRAM. Thanks to our Conference Sponsors! The Local Clean Energy Alliance is … Read more

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Too much meat

During WWI and WWII, the government ran a campaign called Meatless Mondays to aid the war effort. There was not enough meat to go around. Nowadays, the Meatless Monday movement is resurfacing for a very different reason – too much meat. The average American eats 270 pounds of meat per year. The devastating health and … Read more