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Sonoma County Water Agency: Carbon Free by 2015

May 1, 2015 by Adrienne Tatman, SSU student and The Climate Center Intern Recently I attended a Sonoma County Water Agency’s Energy and Sustainability tour and learned how the Agency achieved carbon free water.  The Agency pumps and distributes water to more than 600,000 Sonoma and Marin customers, and also runs several sanitation plants. Before … Read more

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Hanna Bauer Joins The Climate Center Team for the CA Climate Ride

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

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Sustainable Enterprise Conference April 30, 2015

        Sustainable Enterprise Conference Thursday, April 30, 2015 (register today) Hosted at the Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center in Rohnert Park, CA, we present the 10th annual Sustainable Enterprise Conference. This year’s theme is “Capital for a Sustainable Future,” a topic which highlights the region’s wealth of financial, social and natural capital and … Read more

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Students use “Green Ways” to School

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

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Coal Costs Us In So Many Ways

April 8, 2015 by Barry Vesser  You might have heard about about the massive spill at a Duke Energy facility into the Dan River in North Carolina last year. A storm water pipe ruptured allowing coal ash contained in ponds to flow into the river. Duke estimated that between 30,000 and 39,000 tons of ash, … Read more

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Symposium Coordinator – Request for Proposals

The Climate Center (CCP) seeks a consultant who will serve as a full service coordinator for its second annual symposium (http://staging-theclimatecenter.org/local-energy-symposium/). The symposium will be located in the San Jose area scheduled sometime in the first half of November, 2015, and is expected to attract approximately 350 people. This is an opportunity to work with … Read more

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Lunar Panels?

  Did we get ya? If you’re laughing as hard as we are, perhaps you should consider a kind donation to keep the humor, innovation, and GHG reductions flowing.  

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SCWA Energy and Sustainability Tours

Upcoming Public Tours The Sonoma County Water Agency is pleased to host public tours of the Russian River water supply system, sanitation districts, and energy projects.  Please select the date of the tour you’d like to attend, and fill out the registration form.  You will be notified with additional details and directions once you have … Read more

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Sonoma County Adaptation Forum – April 8, 2015

Sonoma County Adaptation Forum April 8th: Resilience in a Changing Climate This public forum and follow-up workshop brings together individuals, organizations and businesses from across a wide spectrum of sectors and disciplines who are working to ensure that Sonoma County remains vibrant and resilient in a changing climate.  Attendees will learn how to make their … Read more

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Renewable Energy Markets: Ready for Take off?

March 18, 2015 by Barry Vesser News about recent developments in the renewable energy market indicate that business rather than government or utilities is leading the way. Kaiser Permanente, a large consumer of power statewide, announced that it will source half its energy from renewables by 2016. Apple is investing $848 million to build a … Read more