The third and final community meeting for the Sausalito Shoreline Adaptation Plan will be held on Wednesday, September 10 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Sausalito Center for the Arts, 750 Bridgeway. The plan includes the floating homes community. Project consultants will discuss the process to date, followed...
Resilient Neighborhoods is offering more free Climate Action workshops to reduce your carbon footprint and prepare your family and community for the impacts of climate change. These 5-meeting online sessions kick off on Sept. 11 and Sept. 17 and cover how to: create a sustainable household, adopt eco-friendly practices, build...
Marin County non-profit Resilient Neighborhoods offers a free 5-session workshop to help you create a sustainable household, adopt eco-friendly practices, build stronger communities, and prepare for climate-related emergencies. The next online class starts Wednesday, June 18. Meetings are every other week for 8 weeks on Zoom. Learn more and sign...
We’ve all heard the term Greenhouse Effect, but have you ever wondered what it truly means? Michael Konrad of South Forty Pier sends along the following explanation of this climate phenomenon — and much more. Climate change caused by global warming is frequently in the news. The floating home community...
[masterslider alias=”ms-14-1-1-38″] The Floating Homes Association Annual Meeting returned to the Bay Model on March 15 for the first time in the post-Covid era. Early birds began arriving at 10:00 a.m. to browse the treasures in a silent auction. The crowd soon swelled to over 140. At 11:00 a.m. new...
The City of Sausalito held its Community Workshop #2 for the Shoreline Adaptation Plan on Saturday, January 25th at the Bay Model. The capacity crowd of interested Sausalito community members heard from city staff and representatives from its consultant team, WRT. Marin County Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters and Sausalito Mayor Joan...
Last week we quoted a projection from the Marin Independent Journal that sea levels would rise “more than 6 feet by 2100,” according to the California Ocean Protection Council. Soon after our post appeared, the IJ issued a correction, changing the projection to one foot of sea level rise over...
Two articles in the Sunday Marin IJ starkly detail the effects of climate change on our local environment. Writing about the Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s newly adopted regional shoreline adaptation plan, IJ reporter Adrian Rodriguez states that water levels are expected to rise “more than 6 feet by 2100...
The following is excerpted from the Marin County Sea Level Rise Adaptation Newsletter: With more than 70 miles of coast and 40 miles of Bay Shore, Marin County is one of the communities most affected by sea level rise in the Bay Area. Rising sea levels will affect many parts...
The second community meeting for the Sausalito Shoreline Adaptation Plan will be held from 10:00 a.m. to noon on Saturday, January 25 at the Bay Model. Catie Thow Garcia, the city’s Resiliency & Sustainability Manager, will summarize some of the thoughts heard in the first community-wide meeting. The focus of...