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- Save The Butterflies and The Bees – Our Favorite Pollinators Are in Jeopardy February 1, 2020
- Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot January 1, 2020
- Parting Wisdom: Perspective and Guidance from a Seasoned Storm Water Inspector December 1, 2019
- The Persistence of Plastic November 1, 2019
- Help Keep the Leaves and Grass Out of Storm Drains October 1, 2019
- Our Hidden Gem –Conservation Corps North Bay September 1, 2019
- Creek Week 2019 August 21, 2019
- Do You Know the Relationship Between Low Impact Development and Water Quality? August 1, 2019
- Water Conservation, Car Washes, and Water Waste July 1, 2019
- Is Overwatering Really So Bad? June 1, 2019
Save The Butterflies and The Bees – Our Favorite Pollinators Are in Jeopardy
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaThe Monarch Butterfly One morning last summer, as I watched a pair of butterflies flying from bloom to bloom on a butterfly bush, I realized I hadn’t seen a Monarch Butterfly in years. I did some research and learned some distressing news. In January of 2019, the Xerces Society’s yearly census of the western monarch […]
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaAmerica is a disposable nation. Each person, on average, produces more than 1,600 pounds of trash each year. In total, over 230 million tons of trash accumulates in landfills yearly in the United States. Growing up you have likely been taught to help reduce your waste by practicing the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. […]
Parting Wisdom: Perspective and Guidance from a Seasoned Storm Water Inspector
/in Environmental Columns /by Sabrina“The legacy you leave is the life you lead. We lead our lives daily, and we leave a legacy daily – not some grand plan, what we do each and every day, all the little decisions, because we never know what impact things will have or when you might have an impact.” -Jim Kouzes I […]
The Persistence of Plastic
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaThough plastic is durable, cheap, and common in everyday items, it comes at a large environmental cost. Plastic, a man-made petrochemical product, can take thousands of years to decompose if at all. Meanwhile, we just keep making more of it. Over time, plastics break down into smaller and smaller particles, to the point where they […]
Help Keep the Leaves and Grass Out of Storm Drains
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaFall is just around the corner, and many of us will be spending our crisp Saturday afternoons trying to catch up with the week’s falling leaves and debris from our trees and landscaping that are shedding, preparing for the winter months ahead. For the folks in urban areas with storm drains on their neighborhood streets, […]
Our Hidden Gem –Conservation Corps North Bay
/in Environmental Columns /by SabrinaSeptember 21 – 28, 2019 is Creek Week in the Russian River Watershed! Join in with this spirit of environmental conservation and community enrichment by getting educated, invested and involved. Creek Week is an opportunity for the community to collectively take on the task of cleaning the creeks of litter and debris, but did you […]