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- Understanding Drought Tolerant Gardens Recap
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- Welcoming Kris Jensen Our New Executive Director.
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- Another Successful Creek Cleanup.
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- reCYCLE bike drive reCAP!
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- Fabulous Time for the Fishies
- Los Altos Council Directs Staff to Develop Final Climate Action Plan
- GreenTown Volunteers Make Big Impact on Permanente Creek
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- Join In: Professional Landscape Irrigation Expo Fri., Sept. 20th
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- Los Altos City Council approve greenhouse gas emission reduction.
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- Get Water Wise; Enter to Win $100
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- 11 Ways to Eat Well, for Good
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- Join GreenTown for a Tour and Cleanup of Permanente Creek
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- Drive Less Challenge: One participant’s week in review
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- Water conservation events and resources
- GreenTown Kicks Off an Exciting New Year at January Meeting
- Los Altos City Council Discusses the Lehigh Cement Co. Issue
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Rain Dancing Between Your Drought Tolerant Plants
by Kit Gordon The best way out of this drought is not a rain dance but a change of behavior. Get a landscape rebate by switching your lawn to low water plants. […]
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Styrofoam is History in Los Altos!
Four years ago, a group of GreenTown Los Altos volunteers started canvassing local restaurants to join the GreenTown Co-op in order to offer the more environmentally friendly compostables for take […]
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Drought’s Silver Lining: Solar Panels Look Hotter Than Ever
Homeowner Joseph Adler had been in his Cuesta Drive home for a year, when he and his wife toyed with the idea of doing more than just a “standard” energy […]
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Stop Dripping! Whip Your House Into Drought Tolerant Savings
Drought Declaration : Here’s what you can do. Unless you live under a rock, you know that California is in an unprecedented drought. Gov. Brown has asked for an immediate […]
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Goodbye Incandescent, Hello LED
Goodbye Incandescent Bulbs Incandescent light bulbs are essentially being phased out by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. And, in California, if you do any home remodeling or […]
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Los Altos Approves Climate Action Plan
Good news! The Los Altos City Council unanimously approved the Climate Action Plan at the council meeting Dec. 10, 2013. This culminates a two year effort, but Zach Dahl, Senior […]
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Smart Rebates + Smart Irrigation = Smart Landscapes
Winter is the best time to plan and plant your landscaping. Plants are nearly dormant, their water needs are reduced and they are more likely to survive transplanting. Sustainable landscapes […]
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Remodeling Soon? Go Passive. It’s Truly Amazing.
GreenTown is always interested in energy efficient homes. A recently completed retrofit in Sunnyvale was featured for International Passive House Days (Nov. 8-10, 2013). The 1957 home was built with typical single […]
Continue Reading31 Oct 2013 |
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Packard Foundation At 1 Year: Nothing But Net (Zero Energy)
Packard Foundation: Net Zero is Net Positive For Us All At the Packard Foundation’s open house in June 2012, hopes were high for attaining net zero in terms of energy […]
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Wheeling: Why I Choose Not to Drive
By Jim Thurber It seems we have created a land – almost literally- littered, with automobiles. They’re everywhere. Parking lots are filled, often overflowing. Junkyards of discarded automobiles and assorted […]
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Turn Down Landscape Watering, Turn Up $avings
News from the Santa Clara Valley Water District Did you know that it takes over 713 gallons of water to produce one cotton T-shirt? That’s equivalent to about 14 bathtubs […]
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I Saw The Future of Water, Pouring Out On Zanker Road
Conservation? Meet Your Match, Here Comes Treated Water With booming population growth and limited water supply, conservation has been our main means of securing reliable water for California. Not any […]
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