Geothermal Power at The Geysers

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0100

How about using the heat from the Earth’s core to power your home? Guess what: you already are. Solar, wind and water power are the big three natural and sustainable sources for electric power, but the North Bay also benefits from a fourth—geothermal energy.

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Nieghborhood Summit

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0100

The basic building block for influencing local elected officials is the neighborhood, says organizer Jim Diers, because people tend to be most involved and active closest to their homes.

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Community Clinics & Health Care Reform

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100

The federal health care bill, passed earlier this year, will also boost the fiscal well-begin of community clinics in Sonoma County, as well as the patients they serve.

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Windsor Substation

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0100

A power struggle in Windsor is pitting homeowners against PG&E, whose engineers have concluded that the best place for a new electrical substation lies in the town’s south center area. The people already living nearby think that’s a very bad idea.

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Wal-Mart, Again

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Round Two in the fight over expanding Wal-Mart in Rohnert Park is on the city council agenda tonight, a debate that can be summarized as lower prices for consumers in the short term versus constraints on local economic growth in the long term.

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Eco-Tourism in Bolivia

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

A remote Bolivian valley full of rare birds and wildlife is becoming an eco-tourism destination, thanks in part to an assist from a Sebastopol non-profit, the Conservation Strategy Fund. {play}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/7-26-10.mp3{/play}
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Revisiting the Running Fence

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Thirty-four years after Christo’s Running Fence snaked across the North Bay’s coastal landscape into the Pacific, the unique and short-lived artwork is still fondly recalled by most of those who played a part in its creation.

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Innovation Hub

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0100

The Business Cluster at Sonoma Mountain Village, an incubator for green entrepreneurs, is getting a boost from the state's Innovation Hub (iHub) initiative for new companies intended to become a prime source for new, local jobs.

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Affordable Housing Week

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:00:00 +0100

It isn’t getting any easier to build affordable housing in California. But the need for it is continuing to grow all the same.

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SMART update

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Work is quietly continuing toward the scheduled 2014 rollout of the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit commuter train, including a series of meetings this week about the designs of the train stations along the route.

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Post Carbon Institute

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0100

When the Post Carbon Institute was started in 2003, the idea behind its name was a philosophical ideal. Seven years later, it’s become a imminent necessity—one with an accelerating deadline.

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State of the County 2010

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:43:05 +0100

Each January, the chair of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors presents a Report to the community that reflects on the year just past, and looks ahead into the year just beginning. For the past several years, KRCB has been pleased to broadcast this annual State of the County address, a tradition that continues with this online posting of the audio from the event, as introduced by News DRead More...

Snow Leopards

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

From his home base in Sonoma, Dr. Rodney Jackson reaches halfway around the world to protect the endangered Snow Leopards of the Himalayas.

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Tool Library

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Obeying the old admonition to “find an need and fill it,” Dustin Zuckerman has created the Santa Rosa Tool Library.

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Earthquake Alerts

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Electrons move faster than earthquakes, giving new automated alert systems a few key seconds to warn outlying areas that some shaking is on the way.

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Ag Innovation Network

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

The pathway to sustainability depends on morphing conflict into consensus, and when it comes to food systems, that’s what Sebastopol’s Ag Innovation Network is all about.

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