Articles from the July-August 2008 Yodeler
Energy and climate change - a Bay Area perspective
The threat of global climate disruption is the most critical challenge we have ever faced.
Climate disruption and energy in a nutshell
A brief explanation...
East Bay advances towards Community Choice Energy
What would Community Choice Energy (CCE) mean for the East Bay?
Activists needed to help Marin achieve Clean Energy
Show your support for the Marin Clean Energy campaign, as it enters its critical phase.
San Francisco takes lead on reducing global warming
One of the great pleasures of being both an environmental activist and legislative aide for a San Francisco supervisor is
getting to meld activist ideas with concrete policy.
PG&E - our off-green utility - company invests in gas, nuclear, and hot air
Electrical generation is the largest single source of carbon-dioxide emissions in the country.
MTC sets goal of driving down Bay Area emissions
Try this: go to a party, get into a conversation about global warming, and announce: "we all need to drive less."
Pushing the climate-change genie back into the bottle
How California is developing limits for greenhouse gases.
The free-trade fly in the green ointment
Globalization is the frame for addressing climate change.
A little plug for every car, a giant cut for carbon emissions
Short of Americans giving up cars, the plug-in electric car is one of our most powerful tools to cut carbon dioxide
(CO2) and pollution.
Strong regional "cap and trade" plan can reduce global warming
California is part of the Western Climate Initiative, a group of states working together to develop a "cap and trade"
system for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
When 'oil' and water mix
20% of California's energy use is for water supply; to conserve energy we have to conserve and recycle water.
Global warming and the water crisis
Beyond energy concerns, we need water conservation and innovative water recycling for many reasons.
Re-peating the Bay and Delta, not repeating our mistakes
A natural feature that makes up just 5% of our landmass, a feature that humanity has spent millennia trying to destroy, is now
recognized as crucially important in our struggle against climate change.
Health and global climate change in the U.S. and California
In the summer of 2006, a heat wave struck California..