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My View: Building Housing Near Jobs Is Imperative for the Climate Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 16, 2023
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My View: Building Housing Near Jobs Is Imperative for the Climate Crisis

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor My column yesterday raised a relatively simple concept—the notion ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor My column yesterday raised a relatively simple concept—the notion that if we are going to take climate change seriously, we need to find ways to put housing clos ...

September 16, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Comments on Long-Range Growth Subcommittee Report

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 19, 2023
| (5) Comments

Letter: Comments on Long-Range Growth Subcommittee Report

By John Johnston Editor’s notes: the following were comments sent to the city of Davis in advance of the ...

By John Johnston Editor’s notes: the following were comments sent to the city of Davis in advance of the Long-Range Growth Subcommittee Report and presented during public comments. I appreciate the in ...

June 19, 2023
| by Vanguard Administrator

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City of Davis Addresses Electrification in the Draft CAAP

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 23, 2022
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City of Davis Addresses Electrification in the Draft CAAP

Special to the Vanguard Davis, CA - The City of Davis is clarifying some of the proposed electrification ...

Special to the Vanguard Davis, CA - The City of Davis is clarifying some of the proposed electrification actions in the Draft 2020-2040 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) in response to concern ...

September 23, 2022
| by Vanguard Administrator

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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
| by David Greenwald

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Judge Hears Oral Arguments on DiSC 2022 Ballot Statements

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 30, 2022
| (19) Comments

Judge Hears Oral Arguments on DiSC 2022 Ballot Statements

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – He doesn’t have much time—Judge Dan Maguire on Tues ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – He doesn’t have much time—Judge Dan Maguire on Tuesday listened to roughly an hour of oral arguments from both sides of the DiSC 2022 campaign. L ...

March 30, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: DiSC Is Not Creating New GHG Impacts

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 07, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: DiSC Is Not Creating New GHG Impacts

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Opponents of the project continue to attempt to make t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Opponents of the project continue to attempt to make the case that DiSC is making “54 million pounds of new GHG emissions” and ignoring the fact that ...

February 07, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Part 4: It Was Unanimous, a 5-0 Vote, Council Comments on DiSC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 05, 2022
| (2) Comments

Part 4: It Was Unanimous, a 5-0 Vote, Council Comments on DiSC

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – On Tuesday, the council voted 5-0 to place DiSC 2022 b ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – On Tuesday, the council voted 5-0 to place DiSC 2022 back on the ballot for June 7. On Thursday, the Vanguard ran Councilmember Dan Carson’s brief p ...

February 05, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Same Old Choices

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 31, 2022
| (21) Comments

Letter: Same Old Choices

by Larry D. Guenther On Tuesday, the City Council will decide whether or not to put DiSC on the ballot ag ...

by Larry D. Guenther On Tuesday, the City Council will decide whether or not to put DiSC on the ballot again. DiSC 2022 is the project on the outside of the Mace Curve that was voted down in its last ...

January 31, 2022
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: But DiSC Adds 50 Million Pounds of CO2 Each Year to the Atmosphere?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 10, 2022
| (24) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: But DiSC Adds 50 Million Pounds of CO2 Each Year to the Atmosphere?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As noted previously the issue of carbon impact for DiS ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As noted previously the issue of carbon impact for DiSC is a little more tricky than opponents let on. What is true is that the DiSC project “would ...

January 10, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: A Different Vision for the DISC 200 Acres

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 22, 2020
| (11) Comments

Guest Commentary: A Different Vision for the DISC 200 Acres

by Juliette Beck A little over twelve years ago when I was pregnant with my first child and deciding whet ...

by Juliette Beck A little over twelve years ago when I was pregnant with my first child and deciding whether to move to Davis to join my sister in raising our families here, I looked at the air qualit ...

October 22, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: ARC Must Integrate Our City’s Exceptional Transportation System

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 15, 2020
| (5) Comments

Guest Commentary: ARC Must Integrate Our City’s Exceptional Transportation System

By Joe Bolte The Aggie Research Campus SEIR forecasts that travel to the site will be overwhelmingly by c ...

By Joe Bolte The Aggie Research Campus SEIR forecasts that travel to the site will be overwhelmingly by car. It includes an unsustainable transportation plan that focuses on adding general traffic lan ...

May 15, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Some Early Thoughts on Aggie Research Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 28, 2020
| (22) Comments

Commentary: Some Early Thoughts on Aggie Research Campus

Between now and May when the Davis City Council is expected to make a decision on whether to put the Aggi ...

Between now and May when the Davis City Council is expected to make a decision on whether to put the Aggie Research Campus (ARC) on the ballot, there will be a lot of commission meetings. On Wednesda ...

February 28, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Driving is Trending Down, but Don’t Tell People in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2019
| (44) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Driving is Trending Down, but Don’t Tell People in Davis

Want to raise the hackles of people on this site? Talk about parking. One of the rallying cries of the ...

Want to raise the hackles of people on this site? Talk about parking. One of the rallying cries of the people opposing the ARC (Aggie Research Campus) is to point out the 4340 parking spots that are ...

December 29, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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The Future of Clean Energy – Sierra Energy Gets $33 Million in Funding to Make It So

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

The Future of Clean Energy – Sierra Energy Gets $33 Million in Funding to Make It So

After years of seeking to develop the technology and get the funding, the Davis company Sierra Energy ann ...

After years of seeking to develop the technology and get the funding, the Davis company Sierra Energy announced on Monday that it had received a $33 million Series A investment from by Breakthrough En ...

July 30, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sierra Club Yolano Group 2018 Council Candidates Part 3 – Energy Use and Greenhouse Gases

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 21, 2018
| (1) Comment

Sierra Club Yolano Group 2018 Council Candidates Part 3 – Energy Use and Greenhouse Gases

by Alan Pryor The Sierra Club Yolano Group recently provided a questionnaires for Davis City Council cand ...

by Alan Pryor The Sierra Club Yolano Group recently provided a questionnaires for Davis City Council candidates in which we asked for written responses on a wide range of environmentally-related issue ...

April 21, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Linking Land Use and Transportation Policies to Reducing Greenhouse Gases

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 01, 2017
| (9) Comments

Linking Land Use and Transportation Policies to Reducing Greenhouse Gases

A recent study by Berkeley epidemiologist Neil Maizlish found that “physical activity due to increased bi ...

A recent study by Berkeley epidemiologist Neil Maizlish found that “physical activity due to increased biking and walking would have a profound impact on health and economic outcomes while contributin ...

December 01, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (9) Comments

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China’s Gas-Powered Car Ban Inspired the Governor, but When You Dig Deeper, You Find Coal

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: October 04, 2017
| 0 comments

China’s Gas-Powered Car Ban Inspired the Governor, but When You Dig Deeper, You Find Coal

By Leanna Sweha The Brown administration launched a trial balloon last week. The governor said he now sup ...

By Leanna Sweha The Brown administration launched a trial balloon last week. The governor said he now supports a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars in California. He apparently was inspired by China ...

October 04, 2017
| by Leanna Sweha

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Sunday Commentary: Housing Crisis Not Just Driven by UC Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2017
| (39) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Housing Crisis Not Just Driven by UC Davis

A tidal wave is building and it is difficult to know how it will end up impacting Davis. Across the stat ...

A tidal wave is building and it is difficult to know how it will end up impacting Davis. Across the state, attention is being focused on a statewide housing crisis. The state legislature, led by aff ...

September 10, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (39) Comments

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Cap-and-Trade 2.0 – A Lesser Version of Its Better Self?

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: May 03, 2017
| (1) Comment

Cap-and-Trade 2.0 – A Lesser Version of Its Better Self?

By Leanna Sweha The Legislature is considering two bills to extend Cap-and-Trade beyond its 2020 sunset. ...

By Leanna Sweha The Legislature is considering two bills to extend Cap-and-Trade beyond its 2020 sunset. One of these bills, AB 378, would make Cap-and-Trade less about greenhouse gases and more abou ...

May 03, 2017
| by Leanna Sweha

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Kinda Intense: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: April 21, 2017
| 0 comments

Kinda Intense: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

By Leanna Sweha The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seems to stand in the shadow of Cap-and-Trade. Both a ...

By Leanna Sweha The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seems to stand in the shadow of Cap-and-Trade. Both are market-based programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and spur new technology, but the LC ...

April 21, 2017
| by Leanna Sweha

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