By Alan Pryor The City of Davis had a municipal wood burning ordinance in place for a single wood burning season in 2012-2013. This ordinance prohibited use of non-EPA compliant wood burning devices o ...

Davis secured its place among the more progressive communities in California Tuesday night, as the Davis City Council finally made Davis the 61st community in the state of California to pass an ordina ...

For years Davis has prided itself on being one of the progressive leaders in the state and, indeed, the nation.  From Village Homes to the Solar Array to bicycle paths to the smoking ordinance, the ci ...

By Alan Pryor On the City Council agenda consent calendar for tonight's meeting, Staff is recommending that Council reapprove and amend last year's expired wood burning ordinance that was effective fr ...

Based on council's discussion back in early July, city staff has taken the council's comments at the time, and revised the proposed ordinance to reflect some of the concerns raised by council.  They p ...

I was reading a rather pointed letter to the editor of the Enterprise suggesting that "[t]elling some businesses they may no longer use plastic bags versus telling all businesses they may no longer us ...

By Rob White This week was marked by the announcement that Elon Musk (of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX fame) announced that he is making significant plans to explore a new high speed transportation option ...

Citing a study that shows that both solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar water heating are considerably cheaper energy options for Davis residents than using grid-sourced electricity and natural gas, the ...

The debate against an ordinance related to carryout plastic bags has been dogged by misperceptions and outright errors.  I will fall on the sword for some of this.  One of our readers for months has b ...

Nearly two weeks ago the Obama Administration finally responded to critics that he lacked an aggressive policy on climate change, and unveiled a sweeping plan to slow carbon emissions.  The plan, whic ...

There was a time when Davis was the environmental leader, the innovator.  But those days are long over.  Davis finds itself fighting some remarkably rear-end fights on issues like plastic bags where m ...

It was Councilmember Brett Lee who seemed to derail some of the discussion on the Single Use Carry-Out Bag ordinance, when he argued that the plastic bag ban was "misnamed." "It's a plastic bag ban if ...

A few years ago one of the more controversial proposals was a green waste containerization plan.  While the city implemented a brief pilot plan at the time, ultimately, community dissent led to the ci ...

Back in February, the Davis City Council directed staff to hold off on CEQA documentation to see what would happen at the state level with regard to the implementation of single use plastic bag legisl ...

Across the state, counties and cities have passed various ordinances against the provision of single-use plastic bags.  Those ordinances have also faced a series of legal challenges. Recently the Seco ...

Friday, January 25, 2013 marked the beginning of a one-month public review of the city's proposed ordinance for a plastic bag ban.  The city has prepared an Initial Study/Negative Declaration for the ...

It did not take long for a certain columnist to begin gloating over the demise of Zipcar.  Certainly it is somewhat understandable that not everyone would support the concept of car-sharing, but at th ...

Despite some early missteps by the city with regard to the Zipcar contract, and heavy criticism in particular by a prominent columnist of the local newspaper, Zipcar has been a heavily successful car ...

By Dan Oney A year after San Jose approved its Bring Your Own Bag ordinance; the City has released its initial findings on the plastic bag ban's effectiveness. And the city is trumpeting the program a ...

By Catherine Portman and Pam Nieberg Guest Comentary - As many local environmentalists recall, nesting burrowing owls at Mace Ranch were illegally disked into the ground in 2000. As part of the mitiga ...