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11 Mar 2018 |
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Checking Out Our Local Water
Linda Ziff with GreenTown Los Altos partnered with Jeremy Merckling and Erin Banks Rusby of Grassroots Ecology Saturday, March 10, to host the annual World Water Monitoring Challenge and learn about good water management and check the quality of the water in Permanente Creek at Heritage Oaks Park. This year we still have water in ...
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Beyond the Climate Action Plan
Sunnyvale is making good progress on their Climate Action Plan, but they want to do more. They want to be carbon-neutral says Mayor Glenn Hendricks. To help them, IDEO, the Palo Alto design company, ran a six hour meeting Saturday, March 3, to gather ideas. Applying the IDEO principles of determining a need with in-depth […]
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We have clean electricity, let’s use it!
Our electricity is carbon-free, so let’s use it, but how? GreenTown hosted a smart energy talk Feb. 1 with two presenters. The first, Steve Schmidt, provided some answers. The HomeIntel program run by Steve’s company can use your smart meter data, analyze your energy use, tell you if you are wasting energy – and most […]
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Not One but Two Winter Solstice Night Bike Rides!
The first one ‘sold out’ almost immediately, so we scheduled two bike rides this year. One the day before the Winter Solstice and one on the day itself. We had over 20 riders each night, and with our bikes all tricked out with twinkly lights, we were a festive couple of groups. It was cold […]
Continue Reading22 Nov 2017 |
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Twenty Years of Bike Recycling!
Kathleen Santora started collecting gently used bikes 20 years ago at St. Nicholas School in Los Altos Hills. Her good friend Lori Johnson has been helping over the years and she commented, “Every time we always wonder, will anyone come?” They always do. GreenTown Los Altos started helping 5 years ago, and this ...
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