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Oct 17, 2023
Suisun Marsh: Resilience Hotspot
Suisun Marsh is the biggest brackish water marsh west of the Mississippi. What's the plan to protect it, and the communities that border...
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Sep 27, 2023
The Inflation Reduction Act Targets Climate Change!
In honor of Climate Week, we dig into the biggest climate mitigation legislation of our lifetime - the Inflation Reduction Act. Host...
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Sep 7, 2023
Rooftop Solar - the New Regime
What's happening with rooftop solar now that the new net metering system has taken effect? What is the impact of the Inflation...
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Aug 19, 2023
Sustainable Contra Costa: What We Can Do
Sustainable Contra Costa looks for ways to encourage us as individuals to do our part. This week we talk to Laura Wehrley, the Outreach...
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Jul 20, 2023
(Un?)Healthy Martinez
Healthy Martinez is a group of residents advocating for better air quality for those living downwind of the Martinez Refinery. Since...
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Jul 8, 2023
Martinez Beaver Festival - A Dam Good Party
One more beaver episode: we visit the Martinez Beaver Festival, and it was a blast! We talk to exhibitors, and catch the vibes. Worth a...
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Jun 28, 2023
Greenbelt Alliance launches Resilience Hotspots Project
How can we confront climate change right here in the Bay Area? Where to start? The Greenbelt Alliance is tackling climate change head on...
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Jun 20, 2023
Real, Live Beavers - and Dams
Be sure to click the EPISODES tab to listen to the podcast. We can't get enough of beavers! So we toured an active beaver colony - two...
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May 31, 2023
Ranking Cities on Climate Change
Time to talk climate change! How are Contra Costa cities doing? Why bother to rank them (other than for the fun of it)? And of course,...
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May 18, 2023
Bay Area Bike Swap: All Things Bicycle
We visit the Bay Area Bike Swap Festival, which took place at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek on May 6. You'll be impressed with the...
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Apr 7, 2023
What's up with Earth Day?
Since the very first Earth Day in 1970 to the 50th anniversary event (digital because of the pandemic) in 2020, it has been the...
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Mar 30, 2023
Poop! Follow the wastewater
We love waste! In this episode, we tour the sewage processing plant of the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District. But wait - there's...
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Mar 9, 2023
Beavers!
These amazing creatures were once rare; now they are showing up in creeks all over California. The California Department of Fish and...
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Feb 14, 2023
Renewable Energy with MCE
We've done two episodes on rooftop solar. But what about those of us who don't have available sunny roof space? How do we get clean...
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Jan 25, 2023
Explore the Lower Walnut Creek Restoration Project
Where Walnut Creek -the stream, not the town - meets Suisun Bay, it is getting a new life. After many years as a sad, diked and silted,...
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Jan 4, 2023
Rooftop Solar 2 - Net Energy Metering
The rooftop solar world is in flux. In our second episode on solar electric, we continue our conversation with Pat Villano and Amit Roy...
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Dec 9, 2022
All About Solar Electric
In this two-part series, we tackle rooftop solar. To learn more, we interview Pat Villano and Amit Roy of Your Energy Solutions (YES)....
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Nov 20, 2022
Follow the Trash #1: The Recycling Center
For the first in our series on refuse and where it goes, we follow the contents of your recycling bin to the Mount Diablo Resource...
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Oct 17, 2022
Episode 1: FEMA and Flood Risk
Back in the day, floods were a regular occurrence in Contra Costa. Damming and undergrounding creeks alleviated most flooding, but there...
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