Posts by Marla Fields
Join A Resilient Neighborhood Team Today
Take a Climate Action Workshop with Resilient Neighborhoods. Eleven years ago, longtime Marin resident and environmentalist Tamra Peters founded a nonprofit, Resilient Neighborhoods, to help Marin households lessen their carbon footprint and prepare for emergencies like wildfires and power outages. The program was recently endorsed by Drawdown Marin as an effective solution to climate change by…
Read MoreGoing Deep Green with MCE
Guest Blog from MCE MCE’s mission is to address climate change by reducing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions with renewable energy and energy efficiency at cost-competitive rates while offering economic and workforce benefits, and creating more equitable communities. As California’s first Community Choice Aggregation Program, MCE is a groundbreaking, not-for-profit, public agency that has been setting…
Read MoreThere’s No Such Thing as “Cheap Gasoline”
Sustainable Novato joined many other venerable organizations to oppose the proposal for a new 28 pump fueling station at Novato’s Costco. Our board felt the review did not adequately address all our concerns and that adding a mega gas station while gas-powered vehicles are being phased out was not appropriate or in keeping with the…
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