April 6, 2015 by Amy Jolly Can a hot beverage motivate students to use a “Green Way” to get to school? Yes! These Millennials are anything but lazy! They woke up early on a cold winter morning to encourage their peers to lower their carbon footprint and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by rewarding them … Read more
March 4, 2015 by Kristin Berger A few spaces remain on the California Climate Ride, a 320 mile, 5 day experience through majestic redwood forests along the coastline from Fortuna to San Francisco. As captain of the The Climate Center team, I invite your support and participation. I’m happy to assist you with preparing for … Read more
The Climate Center is thrilled to announce that registration is open for the Climate Ride California that will be May 17 to 21, 2015. Join The Climate Center Team for the California ride. Experience epic biking, amazing scenery, and dynamic speakers that all combine to make this charitable event exciting, informative, and fun. Last year’s … Read more
SRJC internship: community-building, outreach and marketing Internship description The Climate Protection Campaign, a Santa Rosa-based non-profit in partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), is seeking a fall intern to help build the Carma Carpooling app user community. The mission of the Climate Protection Campaign is to create model programs to reduce greenhouse emissions for … Read more
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
By MATT BROWN THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Dave Toister had been waiting at the Rohnert Park park-and-ride only for a few minutes when his colleague, Sam Amin, rolled up in a Toyota Prius. Toister jumped into the passenger seat and, before Amin drove off, the carpool buddies repeated a daily ritual — they pulled out their … Read more
Maybe you’ve seen all those articles about driverless cars under development by Google,Carnegie Mellon and a slew of other smarty-pants organizations. When I talk to people at the office about what driverless cars mean, I hear about not wanting to give up control or worries about making the car into a complicated piece of consumer technology. I imagine the … Read more
Over the weekend I showed off my 2000 Ford Ranger all-electric pick-up truck in an “EV Expo” in Sebastopol, an exhibit of about twenty-five electric vehicles along with their owners. The EVs ran the gamut, all the way from a funky 1925 converted pick-up truck to a $100K Tesla Roadster. And yes – many practical … Read more
Rafael Reyes, Executive Director of Bay Area Climate Collaborative, will moderate a panel of experts discussing how innovations in EV technology (including batteries, charging stations and design) can point the way to continuing mobility while offering new options for large scale solutions to energy storage. Join Acterra for a series of exciting conversations focused on … Read more
It Starts with a Revolution – Sun 9/9 Starting out the ride today I couldn’t find words for what I was feeling. I think that’s the definition of having your mind blown. After breaking camp, 162 riders rolled out of the campground and started the five-day ride to San Francisco. One turn of the wheel … Read more
