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A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
"I didn't want to be 'that guy'"Last week I went hiking in Glacier National Park. It was absolutely beautiful, the meadows filled with flowers, and lakes, streams, and waterfalls brimming with...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Jul. 30, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Aug 7, 2023 at 5:25 pm | 16 comments | 9349 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
How clean is our electricity?How clean is our electricity? Well, there are a number of ways to answer that question. You can look at the grid itself, which we plug things into. How clean is...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Jun. 18, 2023Last comment by Eduardo, on Jul 23, 2023 at 9:07 am | 10 comments | 8969 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Doing more with the natural spaces we haveI wrote last week about how difficult it is to hang onto our open spaces in the face of development pressure and land constraints. We need policies to protect...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Jan. 29, 2023Last comment by Bystander, on Feb 2, 2023 at 10:02 am | 8 comments | 8906 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Confessions of a water hogI recently got a nag email from the City of Palo Alto telling me that my house uses too much water. Not only am I using far more water than similar households,...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Nov. 5, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Dec 8, 2023 at 1:44 pm | 24 comments | 8565 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
How to electrify a boilerIf a boiler powers your home’s heating system, then warm water flowing through radiant floors, hydronic baseboard heaters, radiators, or even valance heating...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 27, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Sep 2, 2023 at 7:37 pm | 19 comments | 8494 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Electric Home Tour -- What were your takeaways?
Were any of you able to attend the Electric Home Tour on Saturday? If so, I’d love to hear what you took...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Oct. 15, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Oct 16, 2023 at 4:50 pm | 2 comments | 8450 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Contrails and aviation emissionsMany of us enjoy flying to new places for vacation, to visit family and friends, or to connect with work colleagues. Those flights, particularly the longer, high-altitude...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 6, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Aug 28, 2023 at 9:19 pm | 17 comments | 8414 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
What I learned from my high impact yard projectTwo years ago I mulched over the back lawn. It was looking increasingly awful with the prolonged drought, and mulching was an easy project. It required only some...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Jun. 25, 2023Last comment by Karl A, on Jun 30, 2023 at 5:58 pm | 5 comments | 8164 Views
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How to plant a plantThe weather is beautiful so I thought some of you might be doing some planting this weekend. It’s a great way to celebrate Earth Day on Saturday! (See below...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Apr. 21, 2023Last comment by Walter, on Apr 25, 2023 at 5:22 pm | 4 comments | 8153 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Is it "Move fast and build things" or "Move fast and break things"? And when it's "break", who loses?A few months ago our ex-Governor and ex-Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger penned an
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 13, 2023Last comment by Mondoman, on Aug 20, 2023 at 11:03 pm | 12 comments | 7380 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Sharing That Just WorksMany years ago when I was working at Google, some of the executives were upset about how difficult it was to share things. It’s supposed to be easy to share...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Mar. 26, 2023Last comment by Matt Passell, on Mar 28, 2023 at 1:42 pm | 5 comments | 7227 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
How would you go about reducing our residential building emissions?Two weeks ago, members of the Palo Alto Student Climate Coalition and 350 Silicon Valley spoke to Palo Alto’s City Council...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 20, 2023Last comment by Eddie, on Sep 2, 2023 at 6:47 pm | 14 comments | 6922 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Contact tracing and PCR tests ... for plant disease!I got an email a few days ago, courtesy of Santa Clara County’s Environmental Protection Agency, warning me that a plant I had purchased was part of a nursery...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Sep. 3, 2023Last comment by Eeyore, on Sep 6, 2023 at 10:31 pm | 2 comments | 6778 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
How to instill a love of nature in kids?When I was a kid my family used to downhill ski pretty often. We would be on the mountain for most of the day, shivering on the way up, speeding down, slurping...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Oct. 29, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Nov 4, 2023 at 10:18 am | 10 comments | 6480 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Foothill's transformational meeting about its climate goalsTwo days ago I wrote about Foothill’s...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Sep. 12, 2023Last comment by Eric Muller, on Sep 13, 2023 at 5:20 pm | 3 comments | 6003 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
An Icelandic artist's response to climate changeCharlotta Hauksdóttir is a Palo Alto-based mixed media artist whose works incorporate the stunning natural landscapes of Iceland, her native country. As...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Nov. 19, 2023Last comment by Mark Weiss, on Nov 21, 2023 at 9:43 am | 4 comments | 4964 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Burning just one "old style" light bulb can cost $150 or more per yearI last wrote about LED bulbs three years ago, when I was urging people...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Nov. 26, 2023Last comment by staying home, on Dec 1, 2023 at 1:00 pm | 12 comments | 4689 Views
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Which homes should lose gas service first?As hard as it may be to imagine, the day is coming when utilities will start turning off the gas to our homes. Not right away, but certainly in the coming years....
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Dec. 10, 2023Last comment by Bystander, 2 hours ago | 3 comments | 3430 Views
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