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New climate initiative: Join us on Earth Day!

The Climate Center is conducting R & D for a new initiative for learning, building fellowship, and focusing action on effective climate solutions. We seek 12 people willing to give candid feedback to participate in an exciting focus group. If you would like to participate, please send an email that includes the following information: Your name … Read more

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Welcome, Susan Thomas

Susan Thomas is a marketing and communications consultant who works with organizations to build awareness and credibility for their key initiatives. She began her career as a business journalist in Silicon Valley and later founded her own public relations firm. After her firm was acquired by an international PR company, Susan ran their Global Technology … Read more

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Loving Clean Energy – It’s a personal thing!

It is true: I love clean energy, but not necessarily because of some ideology, technical fascination or theoretical notion that it will contribute to a safer planet. I love it because it makes my life better. My day-to-day work at The Climate Center revolves around advocating Community Choice and other clean energy policies in California. … Read more

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Meet Scott Pruitt – and weigh in

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, left, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency director nominee. CREDIT: AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki

The Senate is likely to hold a floor vote on Pruitt’s confirmation as EPA administrator later this week. Read on to learn about Scott Pruitt. Call your representatives to express any concerns. Kamala D. Harris (CA) and Dianne Feinstein (CA) ————— Trump’s EPA pick recently called climate change a ‘religious belief’ by Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress Scott … Read more

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Sonoma County’s Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery shows sustainability is sound business

Jennifer Bice

by Jane Bender, The Climate Center Jane Bender is president of The Climate Center. Powering the Bottom Line (nbbj.news/powering) is a recurring column from that Santa Rosa-based organization. In 1978, Jennifer Bice took over her parents’ small goat dairy. Today, her award-winning goat milk yogurt, kefir and artisan cheese are sold nationwide, and she has expanded … Read more

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LA Times breaks story on California’s overbuilt electricity system

SUTTER ENERGY CENTER in Yuba City was hailed as the nation’s cleanest power plant when it opened in 2001. It closed indefinitely a year ago because the state has little need for its electricity. (David Butow For The Times)

The article below, published in the Los Angeles Times, demonstrates the need for a shift in our current energy system to better align the needs of California residents and businesses with the goals of energy providers. Currently, the main objective of private California utilities is to maximize shareholder profits. In the Community Choice Energy model, … Read more

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Energy Policy Leader Update: Hans-Josef Fell

Hans-Josef Fell, Energy Guru of the German Parliament

In 2010 I invited Hans-Josef Fell, at the time a German Parliamentarian, to visit Sonoma County to talk about the policies he successfully advocated for, which helped lead Germany in the transition to renewable energy. I caught up with him again in 2012 at the annual InterSolar conference in San Francisco shortly after he had … Read more