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Lawns versus Almonds – Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: March 27, 2015
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Lawns versus Almonds – Can’t We All Just Get Along?

By Leanna Sweha Last week, the East Bay Express published an article by Robert Gammon entitled “Californi ...

By Leanna Sweha Last week, the East Bay Express published an article by Robert Gammon entitled “California Targets Wrong Water Wasters.” Reflecting on the state’s emergency water conservation rules, G ...

March 27, 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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Bag Ban on Hold As Referendum to Overturn It Qualifies for November 2016 Ballot

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 26, 2015
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Bag Ban on Hold As Referendum to Overturn It Qualifies for November 2016 Ballot

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced on Tuesday that his office had certified a referendu ...

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced on Tuesday that his office had certified a referendum to overturn the ban on single-use plastic bags for the November 8, 2016, General Election Bal ...

February 26, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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President Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 25, 2015
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President Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline

President Obama on Tuesday used his veto power for just the third time in his presidency, vetoing legisla ...

President Obama on Tuesday used his veto power for just the third time in his presidency, vetoing legislation that would have authorized construction of a 1,179-mile pipeline that would carry 800,000 ...

February 25, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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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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The Aliens Among Us

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 12, 2015
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The Aliens Among Us

The fight to Save the Citrus By Debra Chase "The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched o ...

The fight to Save the Citrus By Debra Chase "The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility...its purity. A survivor - unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions ...

February 12, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Does Davis Need to Be More Like Woodland?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 05, 2015
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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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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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Poll Finds Plastic Bag Ban Has Broad Support

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 04, 2014
| (21) Comments

Poll Finds Plastic Bag Ban Has Broad Support

At the end of September, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 270 into law, prohibiting grocery stores and phar ...

At the end of September, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 270 into law, prohibiting grocery stores and pharmacies from distributing single-use plastic bags after July 2015, and thus aligning state law w ...

November 04, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Locals Represent Davis Organizations at the People’s Climate March

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 19, 2014
| (6) Comments

Locals Represent Davis Organizations at the People’s Climate March

by Kristin Heinemeier Davis resident and Holmes Junior High School student Peter Holderbein and his mom K ...

by Kristin Heinemeier Davis resident and Holmes Junior High School student Peter Holderbein and his mom Kristin Heinemeier have only two heads, but on September 21, they were wearing many hats, as the ...

October 19, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Responsible Illumination Proponents

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 17, 2014
| (33) Comments

Responsible Illumination Proponents

by Barbara Clowers We promote responsible lighting design based on the principles of balancing the need f ...

by Barbara Clowers We promote responsible lighting design based on the principles of balancing the need for light at night with human health, environmental health, and preservation of nature, includin ...

October 17, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (33) Comments

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Streetlights Revisited October 2014 – Part One

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 16, 2014
| (17) Comments

Streetlights Revisited October 2014 – Part One

By Barbara Clowers In January of this year, the city of Davis entered into a contract with Siemens to ret ...

By Barbara Clowers In January of this year, the city of Davis entered into a contract with Siemens to retrofit the city's high pressure sodium street lights with LED lamp heads to be placed on existin ...

October 16, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Leasing solar, too good to be true?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 09, 2014
| (5) Comments

Leasing solar, too good to be true?

by John Walter In 2013, solar exploded in California. Growth was driven by third-party leases and power p ...

by John Walter In 2013, solar exploded in California. Growth was driven by third-party leases and power purchase agreements; three out of four solar systems installed were owned by a third-party tax e ...

October 09, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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California Becomes the First State to Pass Statewide Ban on Plastic Bags

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 01, 2014
| (85) Comments

California Becomes the First State to Pass Statewide Ban on Plastic Bags

Angry Davis residents can no longer threaten to drive to Woodland or Dixon to acquire plastic bags. A lit ...

Angry Davis residents can no longer threaten to drive to Woodland or Dixon to acquire plastic bags. A little over a month after it looked like a statewide ban had died in the Assembly, failing to over ...

October 01, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (85) Comments

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Analysis: What If Research Confirms Fracking Is Not the Danger Environmentalists Fear?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 21, 2014
| (31) Comments

Analysis: What If Research Confirms Fracking Is Not the Danger Environmentalists Fear?

Fracking has become one of the causes célèbres in the environmental world, where activists fear the proce ...

Fracking has become one of the causes célèbres in the environmental world, where activists fear the process of injecting fracking fluid deep into underground oil and gas wells, to extract the fuel, ca ...

September 21, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (31) Comments

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Davis Community Pushes Back on West Nile Spraying, Council Subcommittee to Study Issue

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 17, 2014
| (26) Comments

Davis Community Pushes Back on West Nile Spraying, Council Subcommittee to Study Issue

The Davis community spent about a half hour overwhelmingly expressing their concerns about the aerial spr ...

The Davis community spent about a half hour overwhelmingly expressing their concerns about the aerial spraying for West Nile virus, the impact of the spraying, its effectiveness and need, as well as t ...

September 17, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (26) Comments

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