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: A freshly-planted tree in Swansboro Park. (Photo: Patrick Larsen/VPM News) Volunteers and community members planted 50 trees at Swansboro Park on Saturday. They dug holes, spread mulch and watered the new additions around the mostly empty field. It was the first such event in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s ‘Greening Southside Richmond Project,’ which aims to vegetate neighborhoods long-term and provide green job training for young people. It includes more events like Saturday’s, as well as efforts to distribute new trees to community members and teach them proper care. T...

Print Three members of the San Diego City Council say they want a new electric and gas franchise agreement to run no more than five years — significantly shorter than a 20-year deal set in the previous round of bidding. “I believe a five-year agreement timeframe is essential,” said Councilwoman Marni von Wilpert, saying a shorter term would help make sure the company that wins the bid will be a good partner for the city. At a meeting Thursday night of the city’s Environment Committee, fellow council members Joe LaCava and Sean Elo-Rivera also called for a five-year term. In a memo to...

David Ismay, Massachusetts Undersecretary for Climate Change (which is a real job if you can believe it) said in a video conference that it’s time to “break the will” of everyday drivers and homeowners over climate change. He was arguing that they’d already cracked the spines of business and government, and that it just isn’t good enough, so it’s time to crush everyday Americans. “I know one thing that we found in our analysis is that 60% of our emissions come from – as I have it started to say you and me, except you guys are in Vermont – 60% of our emissions come from resid...

Posted by Jan Wondra | Jan 27, 2021 Even as winter snows cover the ground, the unease is growing across this state and the nation that the steady march of climate change is impacting our western forests in ways we cannot stop. Here in Colorado, our timberlands are beset by drought, being eaten alive by a variety of beetles, loved to death by human beings over-running public lands, with their  resiliency damaged by decades of fire suppression that has left the dead timber load at historically high levels. The Colorado Forest Service estimates a backlog of $4.2 billion in forest-thinning, just...

Today Kamala Harris is making history as not only the highest-ranking female elected official in US history, but also the first African American and first Asian American to ever be vice president. After she was picked by (the incoming) President Joe Biden as his running mate last year, supporters were quick to highlight the former California Attorney General's accomplished political and legal background. But what about her record on environmental issues? At the Iowa Democratic caucus in early 2020, over 20 per cent of voters cited the climate as the most important issue for them when deciding...