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UPDATE FROM HEARING: Renewable Sonoma Needs Your Support

  Wine & Water Watch attended the hearing. 95% of the people attending were supportive of the compost facility. The Board of Public Utilities voted to go ahead with the plan. Next step is CEQA. The Board said they would be looking into mitigation for the neighbors.  The county has been transporting our green waste …

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Renewable Sonoma Needs Your Support

Renewable Sonoma Needs Your Support This is very short notice.  I received a note explaining that Renewable Sonoma just learned that the City of Santa Rosa is being pressured by a neighborhood group on Llano Rd. to oppose what the City previously determined, after extensive public input, was the “preferred site” for the new municipal …

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Renewable Sonoma Needs Your Support: We’ve been sending green waste to Vacaville for years

“This is very short notice but Renewable Sonoma just learned that the City of Santa Rosa is being pressured by a neighborhood group on Llano Rd. to oppose what the City previously determined, after extensive public input, was the “preferred site” for the new municipal composting facility – at the city’s Laguna Treatment Plant. Due …

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These 3 supertrees can protect us from climate collapse But can we protect them?

“If these ecosystems collapse, the climate effects are likely to be irreversible. And so what happens to these forests truly affects all life on Earth.” These 3 supertrees can protect us from climate collapse But can we protect them? By Eliza Barclay, Umair Irfan, and Tristan McConnell Photographs by Victor Moriyama, Ardiles Rante, and Sarah …

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Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good

“In contrast, growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential—termed proforestation—is a more effective, immediate, and low-cost approach that could be mobilized across suitable forests of all types. Proforestation serves the greatest public good by maximizing co-benefits such as nature-based biological carbon sequestration and unparalleled ecosystem services such as biodiversity enhancement, water and air quality, …

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Pam Strayer calls out PD, SF Chron and NB Biz Journal on Sonoma wine industry greenwashing

Pam’s commentary: https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/industrynews/wineindustry/10039746-181/sonoma-wine-grapes-business-sustainable-environment https://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/10031318-181/sonoma-county-grape-growers-reach Karissa fails to mention that in 2017, Sonoma’s sustainable wine grape growers used more than 74,000 pounds of glyphosate on their vines. In the meantime, cities in Sonoma and Napa have been banning glyphosate left and right. The entire county of Sonoma banned it from any county owned property as did …

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