The sun and sand on Lanikai Beach. My wife and I have challenged ourselves to always use local mass transit to get around every destination we visit on vacation. We recently traveled to the Hawaiian island of Oahu and we had no problems meeting that commitment; from getting to and from the airport and the […]
Turning Brown to Go Green by Greg Larkins We always pride ourselves on having one of the nicer yards on the block. Something I inherited from my father, who had my brother and I always doing yard work while all the other kids were playing down the street. I thought then that when I grew […]
First Person Report: Foreign Travelers Using Mass Transit to The Max by Greg Larkins My wife and I recently challenged ourselves to use mass transit as much as possible on a trip to Paris and Amsterdam. This started from our journey from our home in San Jose to San Francisco International Airport and concluded with […]
At the end of my weekly, half-hour ritual of mowing my lawns, my old gas-powered lawn mower choked and coughed its last dying breath, and with it, about the same amount of pollution as driving 150 miles, according to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. For the past few years I had heard that […]
SSV team members were among a crowd of 500 people who packed the Menlo-Atherton High School Theatre on January 15 to observe the California Senate District 13 Climate and Environmental Forum. Five of the seven candidates for the office of state senator in District 13 participated in the event: Democrat Josh Becker, Democrat Michael Brownrigg, […]
Photo of Climate Strike September 20, 2019 in Mountain View, CA. Many of use recognize we have a climate emergency. However, the CoP (Conference of Parties) in Madrid produced little to go forward with.1 The conditions are accelerating the Climate Emergency, but we are standing aside. Instead of action, we are letting the climate emergency […]
It is the Thanksgiving season, a time to count blessings. So, those who are concerned about minimizing GHGs (Green House Gases) are looking to REACH codes to reduce GHGs from buildings. They are thankful REACH codes can do this. So, how does that work? REACH codes amend the building code that determines how a building […]