Jim Wilson

NapaVision 2050: Napa Has No Climate Action Plan. Why Not?

Climate, Community Rights/Rights of Nature, News / June 10, 2020

Napa Has No Climate Action Plan. Why Not? It’s Getting HOT in Here We Are In a Climate Emergency  Napa County: Still, No Climate Action Plan. Napa County has no plan in place to reduce carbon emissions to Zero by 2030. Why not? We will be asking a number of people in the County about this and other …

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Is Napa growing too much wine? Residents seek to preserve treasured land | Environment | The Guardian

Big Wine, Climate, Groundwater, Health, News / May 18, 2018

“Napa’s oaks have become a flashpoint in the story of wine’s takeover. Ninety-five per cent of those on the valley floor have been felled, the vast majority replaced by grapes. Now developers are eyeing the surrounding hillsides. “With great success came great money and outsiders,” explains James Conaway, a journalist and author who has been …

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Battle for Napa Valley’s future: Proposed curb on vineyards divides county

Big Wine, News / April 9, 2018

“Randy Dunn embodies the case for Measure C and its environmentalist supporters. The winemaker and owner of Dunn Vineyards has lived on Howell Mountain, in the small Napa County town of Angwin, since 1978, making some of the region’s most distinctive and celebrated wines. In recent years, as Howell Mountain has become one of Napa’s …

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