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Author Archives: Kris Jensen
20 Apr 2020 |
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Dear Friends: A Message From Kris Jensen
Dear Friends, On behalf of GreenTown Los Altos, I wish you health and happiness during this challenging time. Too often environmental organizations have been harbingers of doom, while there might […]
Continue Reading22 Dec 2019 |
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Winter Solstice Night Bike Ride 2019
~Gary Hedden There was no rain and it wasn’t too cold as twenty riders enjoyed another colorful Winter Solstice Night Bike Ride. We decorated our bikes with festive lights and […]
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29 Oct 2019 |
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GreenTown Welcomes New Board Members
Please join GreenTown in welcoming the following three new board members. Connie Miller As a Bay Area native and Los Altos resident who has spent her entire life enjoying the […]
Continue Reading12 Oct 2019 |
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Electrify Everything
~by Gary Hedden Bruce Nilles lives in Oakland and he listens to the teenagers who tell us we don’t have 30 years to solve the climate change crisis. Then he looks […]
Continue Reading03 Oct 2019 |
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Historic Bike Tour 2019
by Gary Hedden GreenTown had a great September bike ride to see the sights of Historic Los Altos. There were a couple of firsts this year – a pedicab with three happy […]
Continue Reading21 Sep 2019 |
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Game Changers: You’ve got to see this film!
~by Margie Suozzo September 16 marked the one-day only showing of Game Changers, a documentary about the “bill of goods” we’ve been sold by the meat and dairy industry […]
Continue Reading18 Sep 2019 |
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Shifting Tides – The Oceans Are Rising, So What?
~by Gary Hedden Sea level rise has already started and the “likely” projection is 10 inches by 2050. Two speakers addressed this challenge Sept. 16 at the Los Altos Library. […]
Continue Reading23 Jun 2019 |
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Keep Calm and Compost
~Chloe Olsen The Los Altos Farmers’ Market is a much anticipated time of the year, where family and friends can come together every Thursday during the summer to try some […]
Continue Reading23 Jun 2019 |
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Another Great Solstice Ride
~Gary Hedden GreenTown led 30 cyclists on this year’s Summer Solstice Night Bike Ride. We had a good group of riders including families, members of the Los Altos High School […]
Continue Reading17 Jun 2019 |
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Outputs, Outcomes
~by Gary Hedden How do you measure success? It’s important. We need to know if what we are doing is working. We need to know if all the effort is […]
Continue Reading09 Jun 2019 |
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Healthy Food, Healthy Planet
~by Gary Hedden Ocean Robbins doesn’t eat ice cream. His grandfather co-founded Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors and his grandson won’t touch ice cream. We love ice cream, but it’s dairy, fat, […]
Continue Reading27 May 2019 |
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Resilient Trees
~Gary Hedden Master Arborist Dave Muffly told a packed room at the Los Altos Library about the importance of planting resilient trees, trees that will do well now, and continue […]
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