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Webinar: Economic Development and Davis featuring Barry Broome (Video)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 30, 2020
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Webinar: Economic Development and Davis featuring Barry Broome (Video)

Davis has been talking about building an innovation center for over a decade. How does a center benefit t ...

Davis has been talking about building an innovation center for over a decade. How does a center benefit the community? Will startups, technology transfer, spinoffs and other companies come to Davis if ...

September 30, 2020
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While Massive CA Fires Burn, Supervisors Declare a Climate Emergency, Commit to Justice and Mobilization

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 30, 2020
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While Massive CA Fires Burn, Supervisors Declare a Climate Emergency, Commit to Justice and Mobilization

By Juliette Beck With smoke still rising from one of California’s most massive wildfires on record, the Y ...

By Juliette Beck With smoke still rising from one of California’s most massive wildfires on record, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to accelerate local climate action and to fund a clim ...

September 30, 2020
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Letter: Climate Emergency Response: A path to Restore Health and Wellbeing in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 28, 2020
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Letter: Climate Emergency Response: A path to Restore Health and Wellbeing in Yolo County

by Juliette Beck, Scott Steward Ragsdale and Pamela Dolan Explosive wildfires, extreme heat, the COVID pa ...

by Juliette Beck, Scott Steward Ragsdale and Pamela Dolan Explosive wildfires, extreme heat, the COVID pandemic, school closures, skyrocketing unemployment, increasing racial disparity. Many are griev ...

September 28, 2020
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Student Opinion: Gates and Musk at Odds: Climate Change Solutions Require Unique Energy

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: September 24, 2020
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Student Opinion: Gates and Musk at Odds: Climate Change Solutions Require Unique Energy

By Jose Orozco Since late August, Bill Gates and Elon Musk have shared their thoughts on the potential al ...

By Jose Orozco Since late August, Bill Gates and Elon Musk have shared their thoughts on the potential alternatives to carbon-based fuels. Gates stated his concern over electric vehicles in a blog pos ...

September 24, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Cool Davis Receives $6,000 for All-Electric Engagement Programs

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|Date: September 12, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Cool Davis Receives $6,000 for All-Electric Engagement Programs

by Leslie Crenna The Valley Climate Action Center (VCAC) recently provided $6,000 to Cool Davis to contin ...

by Leslie Crenna The Valley Climate Action Center (VCAC) recently provided $6,000 to Cool Davis to continue their work engaging Davis residents to adopt all-electric heating and cooling systems. The f ...

September 12, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Wildfires Underscore Urgency to Rein in Climate Change

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|Date: September 11, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Wildfires Underscore Urgency to Rein in Climate Change

By Elisabeth Robbins and Mark Reynolds My friend hurriedly evacuated her dream home northeast of Vacavill ...

By Elisabeth Robbins and Mark Reynolds My friend hurriedly evacuated her dream home northeast of Vacaville as flames advanced down the hillside. In the Mendocino National Forest, firefighters burned o ...

September 11, 2020
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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 11, 2020
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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Extreme weather events throughout 2020 have devastated natural landscapes and human communities. Climate ...

Extreme weather events throughout 2020 have devastated natural landscapes and human communities. Climate change contributes to the intensity and severity of these events, which disproportionately affe ...

September 11, 2020
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Commentary: Media Focuses on One Denial by President, Ignores Another

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2020
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Commentary: Media Focuses on One Denial by President, Ignores Another

By David M. Greenwald Most of the nation was focused on Wednesday on the revelations from Bob Woodward th ...

By David M. Greenwald Most of the nation was focused on Wednesday on the revelations from Bob Woodward that President Trump knew in February that COVID was both airborne and dangerous (as though we di ...

September 10, 2020
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Commentary: Heat, Fires, Post-Apocalyptic Landscape Punctuate September in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 09, 2020
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Commentary: Heat, Fires, Post-Apocalyptic Landscape Punctuate September in California

By David M. Greenwald In 1987, I was a freshman in high school in San Luis Obispo. One miserable day th ...

By David M. Greenwald In 1987, I was a freshman in high school in San Luis Obispo. One miserable day the temperature hit a whopping 111 degrees—the highest in the country that day and the highest ev ...

September 09, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Spiraling Greenhouse Gas Emissions at DISC?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 09, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Spiraling Greenhouse Gas Emissions at DISC?

Think globally, act locally. That has been the rallying cry of the environmental movement for decades an ...

Think globally, act locally. That has been the rallying cry of the environmental movement for decades and as we have seen the failure of leadership at the national level, state and local communities ...

August 09, 2020
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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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COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts Could Put U.S. on Track to Meet Paris Climate Accord Goals

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|Date: May 02, 2020
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COVID-19 Mitigation Efforts Could Put U.S. on Track to Meet Paris Climate Accord Goals

By Kat Kerli originally published by UC Davis News Americans drove drastically less, saved millions of ...

By Kat Kerli originally published by UC Davis News Americans drove drastically less, saved millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases, and, in some states, lost millions in fuel-tax revenue since C ...

May 02, 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
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Guest Commentary: Yolo County Board Unanimously Votes to Move Forward on Climate Emergency Resolution

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 14, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Yolo County Board Unanimously Votes to Move Forward on Climate Emergency Resolution

by Nick Buxton By unanimous vote at its Tuesday March 10th meeting, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors ...

by Nick Buxton By unanimous vote at its Tuesday March 10th meeting, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors directed its staff to work with a local group of community advocates to develop a climate emerg ...

March 14, 2020
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Assemblymember Bonta Announces Launch of California Green New Deal

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 07, 2020
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Assemblymember Bonta Announces Launch of California Green New Deal

(From Press Release - Assemblymember Bonta) - Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) today unveiled details ...

(From Press Release - Assemblymember Bonta) - Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) today unveiled details of the California Green New Deal Act (AB 1839) that will boldly address the impacts of climate ...

January 07, 2020
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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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Guest Commentary: Working Together For Local Healing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 17, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Working Together For Local Healing

By David Abramson We live in the most interesting of times. In the era of so much uncertainty there is pl ...

By David Abramson We live in the most interesting of times. In the era of so much uncertainty there is plenty of reason for despair. But there is also plenty of reason for hope. Energy has been buzzin ...

December 17, 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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Sunday Commentary: State Takeover of PG&E not only Reasonable but Warranted under the Circumstances

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 03, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: State Takeover of PG&E not only Reasonable but Warranted under the Circumstances

It is hard to blame Governor Gavin Newsom for the problems involving PG&E and the threat of wildfires ...

It is hard to blame Governor Gavin Newsom for the problems involving PG&E and the threat of wildfires fueled by howling winds and dry conditions. But he only has to look to 2003 to know what can ...

November 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Wind, Fire, Power Outrages – Post Climate Change California’s Normal?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 30, 2019
| (6) Comments

Commentary: Wind, Fire, Power Outrages – Post Climate Change California’s Normal?

It is easy to point your finger at PG&E, at their failure to plan and maintain their electrical lines ...

It is easy to point your finger at PG&E, at their failure to plan and maintain their electrical lines, their untenable solution of turning off power for long periods of time – this is a disaster. ...

October 30, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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