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Student Opinion: UK Emergency Usage of Bee-Harming Pesticides

Posted by Ibrahim Dagher
|Date: February 02, 2023
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Student Opinion: UK Emergency Usage of Bee-Harming Pesticides

By Kayla Ngai Although it has been repeated many times in the past years, “Save the Bees,” is still an im ...

By Kayla Ngai Although it has been repeated many times in the past years, “Save the Bees,” is still an important slogan. Recently, the UK authorized the emergency usage of neonicotinoids (more specifi ...

February 02, 2023
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Sunday Commentary: The Latest Right Wing Scare – EV Straining the Electrical Grids

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 11, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: The Latest Right Wing Scare – EV Straining the Electrical Grids

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Governor Gavin Newsom has set out a fairly aggressive agenda for t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Governor Gavin Newsom has set out a fairly aggressive agenda for transitioning the state toward electric vehicles by 2035. The necessity of this move is obvious ...

September 11, 2022
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Commentary: Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 07, 2022
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Commentary: Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It’s hot outside. Temperature is weather, not necessarily indicat ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It’s hot outside. Temperature is weather, not necessarily indicative of climate change. As someone pointed out, there have always been heat waves—some of them ...

September 07, 2022
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Commentary: Climate Change Is Happening More Quickly and More Unpredictably than Anticipated Even a Few Years Ago

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 25, 2022
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Commentary: Climate Change Is Happening More Quickly and More Unpredictably than Anticipated Even a Few Years Ago

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor While there are outright deniers of climate change who have consid ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor While there are outright deniers of climate change who have considerably hijacked the discussion and hindered progress toward a solution, there have also been a ...

August 25, 2022
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Commentary: Is the Era of Cheap Gasoline Over? Will America Finally Wake Up to Climate Change Reality?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 27, 2022
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Commentary: Is the Era of Cheap Gasoline Over? Will America Finally Wake Up to Climate Change Reality?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Yesterday I was filling up in Davis and came across a sticker plac ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Yesterday I was filling up in Davis and came across a sticker placed next to the total cost of gas – the image of President Biden with a caption saying, “I did t ...

July 27, 2022
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Letter: Setback from Manchin Won’t Deter Advocates’ Push to Reach Climate Goals

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|Date: July 19, 2022
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Letter: Setback from Manchin Won’t Deter Advocates’ Push to Reach Climate Goals

By Elisabeth Robbins The Yolo County Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby is deeply disappointed at the new ...

By Elisabeth Robbins The Yolo County Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby is deeply disappointed at the news that the reconciliation package the Senate is considering will not contain any climate measur ...

July 19, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Environmentalists Can Build Nicer, More Valuable Cities Than the Sprawl We Build Now

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|Date: July 12, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Environmentalists Can Build Nicer, More Valuable Cities Than the Sprawl We Build Now

Environmentalists Can Build Nicer, More Valuable Cities Than The Sprawl We Build Now (c) By Mark Dempsey ...

Environmentalists Can Build Nicer, More Valuable Cities Than The Sprawl We Build Now (c) By Mark Dempsey Special to The Vanguard SACRAMENTO, CA - A recent discussion with an environmentalist friend r ...

July 12, 2022
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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

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|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

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|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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