FREE E-waste Recycling – Saturday July 9th
Category: Environment
Free Film Screening: The Clean Bin Project
The Clean Bin Project—link to the Trailer on YouTube Free Film Screening: The Clean Bin Project—A humorous take on zero waste June 15, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Join the City of San Rafael’s Green Initiatives for a free screening of the award-winning film The Clean Bin Project, which takes a...
Irrigation: Not Simply a Question of On & Off
This is the second of two posts on water usage. The first is a reminder of the Marin Municipal Water Department (MMWD) water regulations currently in effect, and a look at the new generation of smart irrigation controllers: How Smart is Smart Phone-Controlled Irrigation? This post points to MMWD tools and tips to help us be water...
Earth Day – À Chacun Son Goût
Earth Day—April 22—always sneaks up on me; to tell the truth I’ve never been that excited by the day. I think my febrile teenage mind was informed by the 60s and yet by 1970, when Earth Day was first celebrated, the event felt manufactured. For context, my mother was never...
Start Small: Grassroots Environmentalism
Earth Day is Friday, April 22 this year, but the best observance occurred earlier, on April 18, when the Goldman Foundation recognized its 2016 prize recipients. For the last 27 years, the Goldman Foundation honors six individuals who have triumphed against greed to save their local environment, one from each continent....
How Smart is Smart Phone-Controlled Irrigation?
As a reminder, the MMWD water restrictions remain in effect through the end of October: limit watering to 3 days per week – any 3 only water after 7 p.m. & before 9 a.m. use a hose with a shut-off nozzle zero overspray & zero water runoff do not run...
International Dark-Sky Week: April 4-10, 2016
400 years ago the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei wrote, “If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.” Clearly, a man ahead of his time. I was seven when John Glenn first shot...
Dock Budgets for Composting
To encourage composting, the FHA board has agreed to set up a budget of $5 per household—per year—for each dock. We hope this marina-wide program—benefitting all residents—will increase awareness. As more people compost we will divert more waste away from our landfills, and improve the quality of our planet as...
Sea Level Rise Study Seeks Floating Homes Input
Marin County Community Development Agency planner Bridget Van Belleghem visited the floating home community to learn what unique characteristics of our lifestyle would be affected by dramatic rises in sea level during a period of global warming. She met with Brad and Teddie Hathaway at their home on Kappas’s East...
A Drop in the Bucket
A while back the Environmental Committee discussed how our community could be better informed about our water usage, and if knowing how much water we use would affect our choices. Could immediately available feedback exert a positive effect on our behavior? Individual water metering turned out to be prohibitively...