Where can you turn when you want an easy, natural way to produce the perfect plant food and soil amendment? Not an expensive nursery, not a months-long class in soil building, not a complicated five-foot high backyard compost pile. Just the age-old,
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At this time of year, it is a tradition for many of us to make a resolution to improve some aspect of our lives for the better. Here's what we encourage you to do this year: minimize your stuff, and maximize its value.
Minimalism: What It Is & Why It
Read more…Sustainable Contra Costa is looking for volunteer student interns during the summer of 2019 to help with a variety of sustainability programs.
Interns will work in these areas:
Launching this month, PG&E’s Solar Choice program extends the option for 100 percent solar power to all residential and business customers who are not planning to install rooftop solar panels. For a modest charge, customers can purchase half or all o
Read more…After the heavy flooding and storms in 2017, Governor Jerry Brown declared California’s five-year drought officially over last April. As a result, coverage of water conservation in the media waned, water districts cut back on rules and restrictions,
Read more…Feeling good about all that recycling you're doing? Think again - the US exports about one-third of its recycling, and nearly half goes to China for processing. That's 13.2 million tons of scrap paper and 1.42 million tons of scrap plastics!
More and more people are buying clothes at secondhand stores -- not just cool college students trying to save a buck. Not only can you find trendy and one-of-a-kind items at a fraction of their original cost, you can be environmental while doing so.
Read more…Okay, so we now know that plastics are suboptimal, at best. They contain toxics, are not easily recyclable, do not degrade and are an increasing pollutant in our waters and soils.
Now the good news. As awareness of the harms created by plastics contin
Read more…You may have heard in the news about the tricky state of recycling in the US. For decades, most of the US’s (and various other Countries’) recyclables such as plastics and mixed paper were sent to China to be recycled and manufactured into new produc
Thinking about taking vegetarian experimentation to the next level this Thanksgiving? Don’t fret – it does not have to include “Tofurkey” (unless you like that!). There are so many delicious vegetarian options to get excited about.
Check out some rec
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The hottest months of the year are upon us! With recent increases on water costs due to the severity of the drought, every little drop you save counts. While there are larger water-saving projects you can take on this summer, such as setting up rai
Read more…When you go to the grocery store, there are a variety of eggs to choose from: cage-free, free-range, pasture-raised, organic, Certified Humane, non-GMO, etc. What exactly do each of those labels mean?
Cage-Free: The chickens laying eggs “cage-free” a
Read more…One of the most rewarding sights to see in one’s garden is pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds fluttering from plant to plant. Pollinators play an important role in ecosystems, and are responsible for the growth of most flowers an
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Growing your own food is a Resilience Challenge category, and who doesn't love fruit? If you’d rather not eat fruit that was grown with toxic chemicals, picked before it was ripe, shipped hundreds or even thousands of
Read more…The Central Contra Costa Last Plastic Straw campaign is continuing to gain momentum! This month, consider taking action to help stop the use of single-use plastic straws in Contra Costa by participating in the campaign.
Actions you can take:
