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COAST Under Attack: Last Chance to Save the Coast from Development

Last Chance to Save the Coast from Development Save the Sonoma Coast, a group of longtime coastal advocates: If you care about our Sonoma County coast, it’s time to communicate with the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and the California Coastal Commission about proposed revisions to the Local Coastal Plan (LCP). Eight years of hundreds …

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New Report on Pesticides and Climate Change Reveals Threat of Vicious Cycle

New Report on Pesticides and Climate Change Reveals Threat of Vicious Cycle | Pesticide Action Network (panna.org) For immediate release: January 17, 2023 (January 17, 2023) — Today, a new report analyzes how pesticide use fuels climate change and vice versa, raising risks to the environment, public health and food security. Developed by Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), …

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UPDATE: 3-2 Supervisor vote for wine interests…Winery Event Ordinance Returns Yet Again to Sonoma Board of Supervisors

As many readers may recall, in December 2014 in response to community outcry, the Board of Supervisors directed staff to prepare options for updating policy on regulating winery events, particularly in the over-concentrated wine areas of Sonoma Valley, Dry Creek Valley and Westside Road, either as a zoning amendment or local event guidelines. Finally, after …

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WWW Letter to BZA & Planning on Guernewood Park Resort

Wine & Water Watch calls out County, BZA on Redwood Decimating Project   winewaterwatch.org February 26, 2023 Sonoma County Supervisors Sonoma County Board of Zoning Adjustments 2550 Ventura Avenue Santa Rosa, CA 95403 PlanningAgency@sonoma-county.org    Georgia.McDaniel@sonoma-county.org  RE: Permit Sonoma File No. PLP18-0012; Located at 17155 Highway 116, Guerneville, APNs 072-130-005, -007 and -009; SCH Number 2021080556 Wine & Water Watch is …

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Just The Facts

Just The Facts Sierra Club reports by the number: 40: Percentage of GHG reduced below 2005 levels in 2030 that the Inflation Reduction Act will have achieved. 373,268: Acres that the Interior Dept. will allow to be leased for wind energy of California’s coast. This is also a first. $2.8 billion: Amount of money our …

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Forest Unlimited: ReLeaf Petaluma- Volunteers Wanted

Forest Unlimited: Volunteers Wanted🌳 Forest Unlimited Supporters, Our organization has mostly completed this year’s annual redwood seedling plantings planting over 3,000 redwoods in five properties around Sonoma County with the help of over a hundred volunteers like yourselves.  We couldn’t have done the scale of this undertaking without your help and dedication. So thank you, …

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