NAPA CLIMATE NEWS!
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Climate Action Pledge
Join other Californians across the state taking the Climate Action Count Pledge, and learn how you can make a difference right here in Napa County. The Climate Action Counts campaign aims to unite ONE MILLION Californians to take everyday climate action. Each of the...
Greener Living workshop series
Some great workshops from Napa RCD!
Lookin’ good on Earth Day 2024
Ale, Bayard, Linda, Lori, and Councilmembers Painter and Chouteau (with daughter) at Napa Climate NOW!'s Earth Day booth on Earth Day.
Napa Climate Solutions Showcase
The Napa Climate Solutions Showcase hosted by Napa Climate NOW! and sponsored by MCE Clean Energy was a fun, successful event, attracting well over a hundred folks who were interested in making their homes more energy efficient.
Climate restoration resolution
Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-04), Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Joseph Morelle (NY-25), and Shri Thanedar (MI-13), alongside students from Napa Schools For Climate Action, announced House Resolution 1563 which formally recognizes Congress’ responsibility to...
350 Bay Area in the news!
Watch this excellent interview with Zoe Jonick, Lead Organizer, 350 Bay Area on KTVU's giving day. Zoe did an impressive job representing our work!! https://www.ktvu.com/video/1434814
McGlashen Award Announcement
Our own Chris Benz received the McGlashen Award from MCE for NCN! activities. Here is the link to check out the amazing work our local activists are doing:
https://www.mcecleanenergy.org/mce-news/these-bay-area-changemakers-are-building-a-brighter-tomorrow/
MLK Day Clean-up for NCN!
NCN! Waste Reduction Team members Chris McClure, Susan Crosby, Martha Blanchfield, Gwyneth McKay Baron helped clean up the Napa Valley Vine Trail during the January 15 Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service. Eighty volunteers showed up and cleaned
up 420 pounds of trash!
A plane fueled by fat and sugar has crossed the Atlantic Ocean
For the first time, a commercial plane flew across the Atlantic Ocean yesterday without burning fossil fuels, The Washington Post’s Nicolás Rivero reports.
Virgin Atlantic said the test flight from London to New York was powered by 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, a broad category of jet fuel that generates fewer carbon emissions than standard kerosene blends.
This flight’s fuel was made from waste fats and plant sugars and emits about 70 percent less carbon than petroleum-based jet fuel, according to a news release.
Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California’s South Coast Range
An important De Young exhibition of portraits by Kirti Bassendine (b. 1962) features Indigenous community members from the South Coast Range: the San Francisco peninsula through the Santa Cruz mountains, Monterey Bay, and lower...