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Council Passes First Reading of Organics Program Despite Passionate Pleas From the Public

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 08, 2015
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Council Passes First Reading of Organics Program Despite Passionate Pleas From the Public

While the public commenters were almost evenly split, the opposition to changes in the city’s organics pr ...

While the public commenters were almost evenly split, the opposition to changes in the city’s organics program, which includes weekly containerization of greenwaste with only a monthly pick up of yard ...

April 08, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Council Set to Approve Organics Program Despite Questions About Survey Techniques

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2015
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Council Set to Approve Organics Program Despite Questions About Survey Techniques

Staff recommends the city council introduce an organics ordinance creating a City-wide Organics Program. ...

Staff recommends the city council introduce an organics ordinance creating a City-wide Organics Program. As proposed, staff believes it can be implemented “with no additional rate increase to customer ...

April 06, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Zero-Waste Shopping

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 06, 2015
| (1) Comment

Zero-Waste Shopping

By Michelle Millet When I recently inventoried the contents of my family’s garbage and recycling bins, I ...

By Michelle Millet When I recently inventoried the contents of my family’s garbage and recycling bins, I found that most of what was inside these containers came from food-related packaging. For ideas ...

April 06, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary II: Does the Community Support Yard Waste Bins?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 29, 2015
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Sunday Commentary II: Does the Community Support Yard Waste Bins?

As one who has encouraged the city to get behind the use of social engagement and other such tools to fac ...

As one who has encouraged the city to get behind the use of social engagement and other such tools to facilitate public dialogue, I am somewhat sympathetic to the city here. One the other hand, pumpin ...

March 29, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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California Safe Soil, LLC – Food Waste to Fertilizer

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: March 11, 2015
| (1) Comment

California Safe Soil, LLC – Food Waste to Fertilizer

by Leanna M. Sweha A Vanguard article in January about a food sharing experiment in Davis generated both ...

by Leanna M. Sweha A Vanguard article in January about a food sharing experiment in Davis generated both interest in and dismay at the sheer amount of food waste generated by our society every day. A ...

March 11, 2015
| by Leanna Sweha

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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Global Cooling, Prosecutorial Misconduct and More

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 09, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Global Cooling, Prosecutorial Misconduct and More

Global Cooling One of the more interesting arguments I hear against Global Warming is that ‒ 40 years ago ...

Global Cooling One of the more interesting arguments I hear against Global Warming is that ‒ 40 years ago – at least some scientists believed that the earth was cooling. An April 28, 1975 Newsweek art ...

March 09, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Dietary Guidelines Committee Proposes That Americans Choose Foods Based on Sustainability

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: March 05, 2015
| (42) Comments

Dietary Guidelines Committee Proposes That Americans Choose Foods Based on Sustainability

By Leanna M Sweha The U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee - experts in nutrition and public health ...

By Leanna M Sweha The U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee - experts in nutrition and public health - recently released its Scientific Report for the 2015 update to the Dietary Guidelines for Am ...

March 05, 2015
| by Leanna Sweha

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The Moral Urgency of Climate Action

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 24, 2015
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The Moral Urgency of Climate Action

by Lynne Nittler In a flood of extinctions and on-rushing global warming, what can one person do to chang ...

by Lynne Nittler In a flood of extinctions and on-rushing global warming, what can one person do to change the course of the river? Why should anyone try? Cool Davis invites the public to a feisty ta ...

February 24, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts Part I: Mayors Lead, World Follows

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 23, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts Part I: Mayors Lead, World Follows

(Editor's note: our readers asked me last week to segment the Monday Morning Thoughts column into separat ...

(Editor's note: our readers asked me last week to segment the Monday Morning Thoughts column into separate parts, and I have obliged) In the late 1960s, a phrase emerged, “Think globally, act locally, ...

February 23, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Overstating the Problem of Global Plastic Waste

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 15, 2015
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Overstating the Problem of Global Plastic Waste

by Jeff Boone A new science study from researchers at the University of Georgia, published in the Feb. 13 ...

by Jeff Boone A new science study from researchers at the University of Georgia, published in the Feb. 13 edition of the journal Science, has calculated the amount of plastic garbage going into the oc ...

February 15, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sixty Locals Join Largest March To Ban Fracking

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 12, 2015
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Sixty Locals Join Largest March To Ban Fracking

by Leslie Crenna Despite afternoon rain, at least 8,000 dedicated citizens, including about 60 from Sacra ...

by Leslie Crenna Despite afternoon rain, at least 8,000 dedicated citizens, including about 60 from Sacramento and Davis combined, called on Governor Jerry Brown to ban the practice of hydraulic fract ...

February 12, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Reducing Waste While on Vacation

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: February 09, 2015
| (41) Comments

Reducing Waste While on Vacation

by Michelle Millet This past Christmas, my family had the opportunity to travel to Hawaii where we spent ...

by Michelle Millet This past Christmas, my family had the opportunity to travel to Hawaii where we spent 10 lovely days at a resort on the island of Oahu. This was our first extended trip since taking ...

February 09, 2015
| by Michelle Millet

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Commentary: Does Davis Need to Be More Like Woodland?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 05, 2015
| (74) Comments

Commentary: Does Davis Need to Be More Like Woodland?

There was an interesting and thought-provoking column from John Mott-Smith this week and, while the overa ...

There was an interesting and thought-provoking column from John Mott-Smith this week and, while the overall subject was “the city of Woodland and what it’s doing to increase energy efficiency, reduce ...

February 05, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Cart Before Community Discussion on CCE?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 02, 2015
| (15) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Cart Before Community Discussion on CCE?

(Editor's note: I had originally put my thoughts on two subjects together as per my usual Monday Morning ...

(Editor's note: I had originally put my thoughts on two subjects together as per my usual Monday Morning Thoughts Column, but after some reflection, decided that the topics were diverse enough that I ...

February 02, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Council to Form Subcommittee on Innovation Parks and Community Choice EnergyAdvisory Committee

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 31, 2015
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Council to Form Subcommittee on Innovation Parks and Community Choice EnergyAdvisory Committee

Two of the critical issues facing the council are the handling of the innovation parks and Nishi, as well ...

Two of the critical issues facing the council are the handling of the innovation parks and Nishi, as well as the ongoing discussion on public power. As a result, there are consent items on this counci ...

January 31, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Marching For Climate Change

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: January 28, 2015
| (55) Comments

Marching For Climate Change

by Michelle Millet On Saturday, Feb. 7, thousands of people are expected to take part in the March for Re ...

by Michelle Millet On Saturday, Feb. 7, thousands of people are expected to take part in the March for Real Climate Leadership: Our Water, Our Health, Our California. The march, organized by a broad c ...

January 28, 2015
| by Michelle Millet

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Food Waste and Greenhouse Gases

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 27, 2015
| (10) Comments

Food Waste and Greenhouse Gases

Two weeks ago, a Vanguard reader, Ernst Bertone, wrote an article for the Vanguard that we decided to pos ...

Two weeks ago, a Vanguard reader, Ernst Bertone, wrote an article for the Vanguard that we decided to post. Little did we realize the article on food sharing in Davis would stir up so much controversy ...

January 27, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Innovation, Away from Internal Combustion and Going Carless

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 24, 2015
| (37) Comments

My View: Innovation, Away from Internal Combustion and Going Carless

One of our readers in the past week “suggested” that perhaps the term innovation is an overused term. The ...

One of our readers in the past week “suggested” that perhaps the term innovation is an overused term. There is more than a modicum of truth to that, so I’m not sure that the idea of being carless is a ...

January 24, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Smart, Clean and Local Energy Technologies for Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 03, 2014
| (1) Comment

Smart, Clean and Local Energy Technologies for Davis

By Gerry Braun and Lorenzo Kristov In a recent article Gerry Braun and Richard McCann summarized energy s ...

By Gerry Braun and Lorenzo Kristov In a recent article Gerry Braun and Richard McCann summarized energy service options available to Davis, pointing to the benefits of locally accountable energy servi ...

December 03, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Let’s Take Davis’s Energy Future Seriously

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 09, 2014
| (3) Comments

Let’s Take Davis’s Energy Future Seriously

By Gerry Braun and Richard McCann Last year the Davis City Council funded work to evaluate the city's lon ...

By Gerry Braun and Richard McCann Last year the Davis City Council funded work to evaluate the city's long-term electricity service options. The matter was tabled as the June election drew near. Then ...

November 09, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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