Current environmental, economic and other issues under consideration by federal, state, city, county and special district elected officials, and/or administrative agencies and community advocates
The strange and fascinating story behind Rep. Doug LaMalfa's bill to restore rights to a Native tribe which a recent study says didn't exist! Is this about water, or casinos? We don't know!
Your chance to comment on the draft EIR!
Pamela Neronha: Be more than a developer of places; become a developer of communities. Revitalize relationships, not just buildings or land parcels.
Molly brown: Why doesn’t the Market require compostable bags? Well, it turns out that when compostable bags get mixed in with plastic bags in recycling, they literally gum up the works. And it’s very hard to separate compostable bags from plastic bags, because they look pretty much the same.
Pamela Neronha: People need jobs and opportunities that are intentional, self-fulfilling, and evolutionary. Growth is good if it is compatible with natural capital, and indeed necessary for community sustainability.
LaMalfa: "...environmental extortion..."; Feinstein: "...studying the Shasta raise..."
Molly Brown: Five principles that communities (and individuals) can adopt to create cultures of longevity and justice, which help everyone to live longer and healthier lives.
Pamela Neronha: One of the challenges any community has is facing the fact that individuals in a community often lack a shared vision and goals; that we have mental models that prevent us from dreaming that vision into reality. We put 90% of our efforts into implementation, frequently promoting action of a policy that is not a shared vision.
Arielle Halpern: Rivers meander through towns, parks, and states, careless of who administers the land on which they run. Our forests and watersheds predate the advent of jurisdictional boundaries. So, why should we approach land management in a way that acknowledges the boundaries but not the landscape?
Raising Shasta Dam is a step in the wrong direction - little benefit and great cost! In the face of drought and salmon decline, California should be restoring rivers, not damming them further.
