While attending the North Bay Sustainable Business Green Drinks mixer this past February, I met Carrie Bachelder from The Away Station. The Away Station would provide a central place in the North Bay where residents and contractors to send their unwanted items and construction and deconstruction waste. The materials can be sorted, rehabilitated. and reused […]

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Turn Yellow Cabs GREEN
Nancy Isles Nation reported in the Marin IJ today that a new taxi service in Marin will use hybrids. The conventional cab company in our area claims that they get 33 MPG which they say is competitive with hybrids (huh?). Studies show fleets like what they use are in the teens when […]

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Ice Cream Can Save Our Planet
First of all, congratulations to our favorite ice cream store ever, Three Twins Ice Cream, for earning Assemblyman Huffman’s Sustainable 6 Award for their earth-friendly business practices in January. Besides making their own fabulously tasty certified organic ice cream at their Terra Linda and Napa stores, they use organic ingredients, […]

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In a October 31st article, Marin IJ reports that there is a proposal floating around to have old fashioned electric trolleys connecting cities and towns of Marin. The architects estimate it would cost $20 million to $50 million to get a demonstration line running between The Depot in Mill Valley and the ferry terminal in […]

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I ran across a disturbing article about the melting of Greenland being 30% faster in the past 30 years. Since there was a possibility this would mean a sea rise of 7 meters or 24 feet, I went to the flood map and set it on 7m just for yucks. Just so you know what […]

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From Earthnews. If you look closely in the background you can tell traffic is going in a snail’s pace on 101 South.

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Can our affluence be killing us?

How can a county with such great climate be so bad for the climate? An environmental education group puts the county’s ecological footprint at 27 “global” acres per person, where the national average is 24. It turns out that being a politically progressive county is not enough, when conspicuous consumption rears […]

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It’s hard out here for a maven. It’s hard to be civilized or sane when its so darned hot.
So, have you ever got out of your car after blasting the A/C and get smacked by a wave of unbearable heat and think, “How do people live like this?!?”, only to realize you DO live like […]

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Without seeing this film, we will suggest everyone go see this regardless if your opinion matches the current president or the guy who should have been our president in 2000…cough…Al Gore…cough. It will be playing on June 2nd at the CineArts at Sequoia in Mill Valley (25 Throckmorton Ave), or the California Theaters in Berkeley […]

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