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Sunday Commentary: Environmental Justice Requires Us to Address Income Inequality

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 10, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Environmental Justice Requires Us to Address Income Inequality

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor A week ago, Robert Hansen penned an opinion piece, “Driving is a R ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor A week ago, Robert Hansen penned an opinion piece, “Driving is a Right Not a Privilege,” and it deals with an overall issue of fines and fees—and one problem tha ...

April 10, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Petroleum Addiction’s Local Component

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|Date: March 20, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Petroleum Addiction’s Local Component

By Mark Dempsey SACRAMENTO/DAVIS, CA - Many people don't appreciate our dependency on fossil fuels has a ...

By Mark Dempsey SACRAMENTO/DAVIS, CA - Many people don't appreciate our dependency on fossil fuels has a local component. That's right, the design of our cities, when it precludes walking and encourag ...

March 20, 2022
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My View: Slouching Toward Dystopia

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 01, 2022
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My View: Slouching Toward Dystopia

By David M. Greenwald Executive Director This month the iconic essayist and journalist Joan Didion died a ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Director This month the iconic essayist and journalist Joan Didion died at the age of 87. While I am a fan of a number of her works, I decided to re-read Slouching Tow ...

January 01, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Have We Come Full Circle on Nuclear Power?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 05, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Have We Come Full Circle on Nuclear Power?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It caught my attention yesterday when Max Szabo, a PR consultant a ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It caught my attention yesterday when Max Szabo, a PR consultant associated largely with progressive prosecutors tweeted, “A formal effort was launched today to ...

December 05, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: How To Turn the Tide on Climate Change?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 12, 2021
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Commentary: How To Turn the Tide on Climate Change?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The data is not surprising. A Washington Post-ABC News poll that ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The data is not surprising. A Washington Post-ABC News poll that sound that even though Americans are really starting to feel the impact of climate change, “Ame ...

November 12, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Our Humanity Is on the Line

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|Date: November 11, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Our Humanity Is on the Line

By Juliette Beck Glasgow -- a working class city of a million inhabitants located on the west coast of Sc ...

By Juliette Beck Glasgow -- a working class city of a million inhabitants located on the west coast of Scotland, known for being cold and damp, has given us a warm welcome. Workers had strewn banners ...

November 11, 2021
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The Green Bank: Benefits the Climate

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|Date: August 15, 2021
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The Green Bank: Benefits the Climate

by Mark Dempsey SACRAMENTO, CA – One of the most avid environmentalists I know recently sent me a Volt po ...

by Mark Dempsey SACRAMENTO, CA – One of the most avid environmentalists I know recently sent me a Volt podcast about the proposal for a "Green Bank" in the Biden infrastructure bill. The written intro ...

August 15, 2021
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Commentary: The IPCC States the Obvious, but Too Many Have Their Heads in the Sand

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 12, 2021
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Commentary: The IPCC States the Obvious, but Too Many Have Their Heads in the Sand

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor In a way, the latest report from IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor In a way, the latest report from IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) this week states the obvious. We need only look outside, see our own community ...

August 12, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: It’s Happening, It’s Bad – Is There Anything We Can Do at This Point?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: It’s Happening, It’s Bad – Is There Anything We Can Do at This Point?

By David M. Greenwald Does anyone seriously question whether climate change is happening at this point? ...

By David M. Greenwald Does anyone seriously question whether climate change is happening at this point? Maybe I will rephrase that slightly, does anyone, who is serious, question whether climate chan ...

July 18, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: ‘WATERPALOOZA WEEKEND’ Highlights Valley and State’s High Stakes ‘Water Wars’ and ‘Soul of the Delta’

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|Date: May 20, 2021
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Guest Commentary: ‘WATERPALOOZA WEEKEND’ Highlights Valley and State’s High Stakes ‘Water Wars’ and ‘Soul of the Delta’

By Bob Saunders Special to The Vanguard SACRAMENTO, CA – There have been, for more than a century in Cali ...

By Bob Saunders Special to The Vanguard SACRAMENTO, CA – There have been, for more than a century in California, huge political battles fought at the State Capitol and throughout the state for water. ...

May 20, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Documentary Peddles Dangerous Climate Denial

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|Date: May 09, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Documentary Peddles Dangerous Climate Denial

The YouTube film offers outdated and wildly misleading information on renewable energy, sacrificing progr ...

The YouTube film offers outdated and wildly misleading information on renewable energy, sacrificing progress in pursuit of unachievable perfection. By Dana Nuccitelli Environmentalists and renewable e ...

May 09, 2020
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My View: Why Wait Till 2045 for Carbon Neutrality

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 25, 2020
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My View: Why Wait Till 2045 for Carbon Neutrality

This week in an event probably overshadowed by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the mayors of Sacramento and ...

This week in an event probably overshadowed by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the mayors of Sacramento and West Sacramento—Darrell Steinberg and Christopher Cabaldon, respectively—came forward with a dr ...

April 25, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Extreme Weather, Fires, Climate Change

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 02, 2020
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Commentary: Extreme Weather, Fires, Climate Change

I recently had an interesting conversation with a long-time firefighter, and naturally the conversation t ...

I recently had an interesting conversation with a long-time firefighter, and naturally the conversation turned to that of climate change. In many ways, firefighters are on the front lines of the clim ...

January 02, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Low Impact Development, High Impact Environmentalism

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 24, 2019
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Low Impact Development, High Impact Environmentalism

by Mark Dempsey Most environmentalists do not request the economy halt so no harm would come to the envir ...

by Mark Dempsey Most environmentalists do not request the economy halt so no harm would come to the environment, instead advocating minimizing development impacts. It's possible to cut vehicle miles t ...

December 24, 2019
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Finding Home after Paradise Burned

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 10, 2019
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Finding Home after Paradise Burned

by Nick Buxton Just before dawn this last Friday (November 8), Carol Dyer climbed into her car and headed ...

by Nick Buxton Just before dawn this last Friday (November 8), Carol Dyer climbed into her car and headed two hours north to see what was left of a home she had left in a panic exactly a year earlier. ...

November 10, 2019
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Faced with Climate Activism, Law Enforcement Chooses to Crack Down on Protesters

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 18, 2019
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Faced with Climate Activism, Law Enforcement Chooses to Crack Down on Protesters

By Vaidya Gullapalli Next Monday, the United Nations General Assembly convenes for a climate summit durin ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli Next Monday, the United Nations General Assembly convenes for a climate summit during which countries will describe their plans for slowing global temperature rise. In The Nation ...

September 18, 2019
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My View: Climate Crisis Coming Sooner Than We Thought

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 24, 2019
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My View: Climate Crisis Coming Sooner Than We Thought

The fires have attracted worldwide attention to the peril that could hit this planet if the Amazon succum ...

The fires have attracted worldwide attention to the peril that could hit this planet if the Amazon succumbs to an ecological disaster. But as a Washington Post editorial this week makes clear – this ...

August 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Power Outages the New Normal?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 09, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Power Outages the New Normal?

California Wildfires There we were on Friday evening and suddenly the news is reporting that areas of Yol ...

California Wildfires There we were on Friday evening and suddenly the news is reporting that areas of Yolo County – specifically Winters and Davis – could have the power turned off on Saturday morning ...

June 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Ocasio-Cortez Fights Back against Charge of Elitism on Green New Deal, Climate Change

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 28, 2019
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Ocasio-Cortez Fights Back against Charge of Elitism on Green New Deal, Climate Change

While the Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday on a 57-0 vote, New York Representative Alexandri ...

While the Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday on a 57-0 vote, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laid out her vision of why this is needed and why concern for the environment i ...

March 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs Are Key to Reaching Climate Resilience and Sustainability in the Agri-Food System

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: March 08, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs Are Key to Reaching Climate Resilience and Sustainability in the Agri-Food System

By Leanna Sweha There has been extensive discussion about climate change and the agri-food system, includ ...

By Leanna Sweha There has been extensive discussion about climate change and the agri-food system, including in the Green New Deal resolution, which was introduced last month in both the House and Sen ...

March 08, 2019
| by Leanna Sweha

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