Press Release, The Climate Center | August 31, 2015 The Climate Center released today a white paper assessing the status, progress, and benefits of electric vehicle (EV) adoption in Sonoma County. The paper also provides several recommendations to accelerate EV adoption as one of the best opportunities to reduce greenhouse (GHG) emissions from transportation. According … Read more
by Barry Vesser | Posted June 23, 2015 OK, so I work for The Climate Center. You might be thinking, “Of course he bought an EV.” But actually, it was a long time coming, and I ended up with what is more accurately described as a transition vehicle. I did this because I, like … Read more
Posted on April 22, 2015 By Kristin BergerTeam Captain, The Climate Center, CA Climate RideDirector of Development, The Climate Center In less than a month, climate changer Hanna Bauer, a UC Berkeley sophomore studying Molecular Environmental Biology with an emphasis on the Environment and Human Health and a minor in French, will finish her finals. … Read more
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
