What Lackluster Progress at COP28 Means for California

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January 24, 2024 10:00 am PST - 11:30 am PST - Zoom. The final agreement reached at COP28, the annual United Nations climate conference that concluded in December, recognized the need to transition away from fossil fuels. But it contained almost no details about how nations can wean themselves off of oil, gas, and coal. […]

North Bay Induction Cooking Expo

Here is an event in collaboration with BayREN and Sonoma and Marin Counties. It will be an induction cooking demo on Saturday 1/27 from 11AM-2PM at Premier Bath & Kitchen in Santa Rosa (3201 Cleveland Ave. Santa Rosa, CA 95403). It will free and open to the public. Welcome to the North Bay Induction Cooking […]

The Last Fire Season by Manjula Martin

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman’s experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Held at Napa Bookmine. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what […]

Community Forum: Candidates for District 4: Amber Manfree & Peter Mott

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Join the League of Women Voters of Napa County for a District 4, Napa County Board of Supervisors Candidate Forum, on Thursday, February 1, 2024, from 6pm – 7pm Via Zoom. Attendees will hear directly from Candidates, Amber Manfree and Pete Mott, vying for the District 4 County Board of Supervisors seats in this spring’s […]

How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis

An inspiring event at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA. February 1, 2024! Doors open at 6:30. We are at a choice point for humanity. As social and ecological crises escalate globally, it is clear that the dominant cultural worldview, informed by colonization, patriarchy, capitalism, and racism is displaying a relationship with Nature and […]

Indisposable Live: Defining “Reuse” for Policymakers

An Upstream presentation. As the legislative season ramps up, it’s promising to see increased momentum behind policies involving reuse. Even as these policies are being developed, the definitions of “reuse” are scattered and often ill-conceived. Now is the time to properly define reusable packaging in the policy context.