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11 Sep 2011 |
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Like GreenTown Los Altos on Facebook
“Like” us on Facebook! In keeping with the times, GreenTown Los Altos has made a Facebook page to update the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills community on what we’ve been up to. Our goal for this year is to have 300 Facebook supporters. Please join us. Here’s how: 1. Log in to your Facebook […]
Continue Reading10 Sep 2011 |
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Los Altos’ Latest Moves to Stop Climate Change: Global Day of Action Slated for Sept. 24
By Peg Champion, GreenTown Los Altos Correspondent They’ll be rallying in Annapolis, Md., to support offshore wind power. They’ll be flying message kites on Bondi Beach, Australia, to stop pollution. They’ll be reading poetry in Vancouver, BC, to resist the construction of an oil pipeline. Los Altos joins this global effort of ...
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Los Altos to Develop Plazas 1, 2 & 3 – Now is your chance to speak up
by Joe Eyre The City of Los Altos is planning to develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the development of the downtown plazas 1, 2, and 3 (by the Los Altos Grill and Walgreens). The purpose of the RFP is to solicit bids from developers on how they would develop the land with underground […]
Continue Reading24 Aug 2011 |
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Back to the Future: Walk or Wheel Empowers Students
By Peg Champion, GreenTown Los Altos Correspondent It’s a sparkling clear September morning in Los Altos, and children are streaming into school, chattering with their friends. Bikes of every color, size and style fill the bike racks. No idling cars spew exhaust fumes in the drop-off lane, no stressed-out parents sit behind ...
Continue Reading21 Aug 2011 |
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High School Solar Panels at Work!
As part of a district-wide sustainability initiative, the Mountain View Los Altos High School District installed solar photovoltaic shade canopies in the parking lots to help offset electricity use at the two high school campuses. The system, turned on around Earth Day 2011, is expected to provide enough power to meet half of the ...
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Get Water Wise; Enter to Win $100
We are in the height of the summer, so we want to remind you that it’s a good time to get “water wise.” The Santa Clara Valley Water District offers free Water-Wise House Calls that identify water leaks and ways you can save water – and money – indoors and out. To schedule a House […]
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WoW! to School
August marks the start of the 2011-12 school year with most Los Altos tikes heading to their neighborhood school. Also returning is GreenTown Los Altos’ program to encourage kids to walk, bike, scooter, or carpool to school. The program, under the leadership of Michael McTighe, and in effect at numerous Los Altos and Los Altos ...
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Meat and the Environment
Have you ever considered going meatless one (or more) nights/week? It may be worth considering because meat, especially the four legged types such as beef, lamb, and pork, require huge amounts of water, pesticides, chemical fertilizer, fuel, and feed. Livestock also generates greenhouse gases and large amounts of toxic manure and ...
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Banning Plastic Bags – A Win for Small Towns
There has been a significant development this month in the ongoing effort to eliminate single-use plastic bags. The city of Manhattan Beach (near Los Angeles) enacted a ban on plastic bags in July 2008, but a group called Save the Bag Coalition filed suit to overturn the ban until a lengthy Environmental Impact Report (EIR) […]
Continue Reading08 Aug 2011 |
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Slow Food: Eating Well for Good
By Peg Champion, Principal of Champion Organic Communications It sounds too good to be true. You can live healthier, save money, strengthen family ties, build community, support local businesses and improve the environment – all with a simple choice. Would you be surprised to learn that the answer is … on your dinner plate? ...
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11 Ways to Eat Well, for Good
By Peg Champion, Principal of Champion Organic Communications and Board Member of Slow Food South Bay It’s simple to eat responsibly, healthily and economically. Here are 11 things you can do starting today: Shop at farmers’ markets and subscribe to a CSA (community supported agriculture organizations). Support small farms, ...
Continue Reading31 May 2011 |
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Drive Less Challenge Winners!
Did you drive less? Walk, bike, or carpool more? Inspired by the Drive Less Challenge, Tom Fenstermacher, overall winner of the Drive Less Challenge in the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills area, radically changed his daily commute to San Francisco. Instead of driving both ways from here to there, Tom took his bike to […]
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