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Author Archives: Gary Hedden
07 Aug 2017 |
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“Get to Know Los Altos” Bike Ride
GreenTown led a bike ride as part of the City’s DownTown Green events, Sunday, July 23. Organized by Mike Tkalcevic who is generously interning with GreenTown as part of a Master’s Degree program in Urban Planning at San Jose State University, we rode 10 miles to explore the quiet streets of Los Altos. We started […]
Continue Reading21 Jun 2017 |
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Deep Green
The “greenest house in America.” That’s what we heard at GreenTown’s lunch at Tah Mah Lah, the Holland-Yates home in Portola Valley. The home, designed to showcase the latest innovations in sustainable design, does that by being highly efficient, producing more energy than is consumed, restoring habitat, saving and ...
Continue Reading21 Jun 2017 |
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Summer Solstice Night Bike Ride
The summer solstice was June 21, and GreenTown took a bike ride to see the sunset over the Bay. There were 28 of us and we entered the Stevens Creek Trail just off Sleeper Avenue in Mountain View. Once on the trail there are no more cars – what a treat, just bikes and the […]
Continue Reading16 May 2017 |
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Earth Day Bike Ride
Earth Day Bike Ride It was Earth Day, so we rode our bikes. GreenTown loves bike rides so the Lawn-Be-Gone bike ride this year was held on April 22 and for a change of pace, we visited the south side of town. We started at Oak School and heard about the amazing Living Classroom […]
Continue Reading14 May 2017 |
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A Ride Honoring Dr. Hardy Jones
GreenTown led a bike ride in honor of the late Dr. Hardy Jones to view his artistic metal sculptures. Hardy collected old metal parts, especially old abandoned farm equipment, and fashioned them into art. He called this “found art.” There are pieces at most of the local schools and they typicallyrepresent the ...
Continue Reading09 May 2017 |
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Earth Day Bike Ride
GreenTown loves bike rides and the Lawn-Be-Gone bike ride this year was held on April 22, Earth Day, and for a change of pace, we visited the […]
Continue Reading14 Mar 2017 |
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So, What’s In Your Water?
The “World Water Monitoring Challenge” gave us some clues about the health of Permanente Creek at Heritage Oaks Park in Los Altos. A group of instructors from Grassroots Ecology led an outdoor class and workshop March 11 in the science of creek water. Linda Ziff, water program lead for GreenTown, partnered with Grassroots ...
Continue Reading23 Feb 2017 |
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How To “Watch Your Waste”
We had an impressive array of speakers for the February GreenTown meeting, “Watch Your Waste” at the Los Altos Library. Speakers included GreenTown’s Margie Suozzo, Susanna Chan, Los Altos Director of Public Works, Tim Giacomini with Mission Trail and Garth Schultz with R3 Consulting. Margie Suozzo kicked things off with ...
Continue Reading27 Jan 2017 |
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Clean Electricity: Moving to Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) will soon be your official electricity provider, bringing us 100% carbon-free electricity at rates 1% lower than PG&E. Formed by twelve local government agencies in 2016, SVCE was established to provide clean electricity at competitive rates to PG&E. PG&E remains responsible for the ...
Continue Reading23 Dec 2016 |
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Winter Solstice Night Ride Recap
Our second annual GreenTown Winter Solstice Night Bike Ride was a great success! We had 28 riders, including a few who by serendipity saw our colorfully decorated bikes and decided to go along for the ride with us. Literally. Starting off from Peet’s on State Street, we rode to Christmas Tree Lane in Palo Alto, […]
Continue Reading13 Dec 2016 |
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Zero Net Energy? What’s That?
GreenTown attended a Zero Net Energy Workshop recently and learned that ZNE is coming our way by 2020 for new residential construction and by 2030 for new commercial construction and 50% of existing commercial construction. What does that mean? Simply put, a ZNE building produces as much energy as it uses over the course of […]
Continue Reading02 Dec 2016 |
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Safe Streets – GreenTown “Completely” Likes That!
by Gary Hedden and Arnold Ambiel On Nov. 16 at the Los Altos Library, GreenTown hosted a talk “What’s a Complete Street?” Four speakers addressed the state of complete streets in Los Altos, Santa Clara County and the Bay Area and Cedric Novenario with the City of Los Altos had an answer, “It’s a street […]
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