Keeping the Lights on with Microgrids
Self-reliance is an appealing concept, evoking the image of pioneers taking control of their own destiny, but it can be difficult to achieve in our modern world. The electrical grid which [...]
Monitor Notes: Dairy Discussion, Thanking Parks, Transit Governance, and Drought Event
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Dairy Alternatives Nonprofit group Sustainable Conservation is [...]
A Burning Issue: Reducing Both Wildfire Fuel and Carbon Emissions
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, goes the old saying — and Northern California has learned that where there are wildfires, there is smoke, sometimes blankets of irritating, unhealthy smoke. A [...]
A New Definition of Home Equity: Healthy Housing for All
Many Bay Area residents are addressing climate change by altering their purchasing habits, driving electric vehicles, and replacing natural gas appliances in homes. More are needed, though. [...]
Healing the Planet, One Plate at a Time
The COVID-19 pandemic has restructured the way Bay Area residents eat, with more people ordering groceries and prepared food online, more people cooking at home, and many people increasingly [...]
Monitor Notes: Post-Election League Activities (Plus Our Usual Policy Coverage)
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Wait for It… As expected, the final push of the 2020 [...]
Monitor Notes: Inspired Voting, Plastic Pollution, New Parks, Accessible Transit, Green Cooking
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Voting Matters “Did you vote ‘Yes’ on that one?” “And [...]
Driving Away Diesel
The steady deep throb of a diesel engine is not as menacing as a villain’s laugh, but it is a threat nevertheless. Diesel exhaust is full of tiny sooty particles made up of black carbon, toxic [...]
Monitor Notes: Rising Seas, School Energy, Caltrain Measure, Bay Trail
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Seas the Day A new Legislative Analyst’s Office report breaks [...]
Avoiding Disaster
Given the unprecedented turmoil that 2020 has wrought thus far, we understand if you have more pressing concerns on your mind right now than the upcoming November 3 election. But the League of [...]