Visionary, inclusive, equitable, and regenerative are just a few adjectives woven into the community that Jered Lawson and Nancy Vail have built at Pie Ranch over the past eighteen years. Now, in addition to COVID-19, they face tremendous new challenges due to destruction of some critical parts of the farm’s infrastructure, including the historic Steele Ranch...
If you hadn’t noticed, it’s election season! Here’s everything you need to know about where and how to vote in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
On Tuesday, October 20, the Half Moon Bay City Council voted unanimously to submit the city’s updated Local Coastal Land Use Plan (LUP) to the California Coastal Commission for certification as to the Plan’s conformity with the policies of the Coastal Act. We sent a letter to the City Council thanking them for the diligence...
For over half a century, Green Foothills has worked to preserve farmland, because local, well managed farms are indispensable to our community’s resilience. Here in our region, our local farms not only offer us fresh healthy food, but they also provide us with open space, carbon sequestration, flood control, fire hazard mitigation, and wildlife habitat,...
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve won our lawsuit against the Trump administration over their decision to abandon Clean Water Act jurisdiction for the Cargill salt ponds. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled on Monday that the Trump administration ignored its own regulations and misapplied the law in its decision. Now the Trump administration will...
No on Measure N – Let Us Count The Ways to Say No From time to time, we encounter proposals that have so much wrong with them that the only unifying theme responding to the problems is simply, “No”. Welcome to Measure N, the San Benito County ballot measure that would approve the massive Strada...
On October 29, the San Jose General Plan Task Force will have the opportunity to choose a new future for Coyote Valley — a future that’s focused on nature, not industrial development. Please email the Task Force to tell them to protect Coyote Valley! A New Vision For Coyote Valley Last year, the City of...
In the midst of this catastrophic wildfire season, we need to reassess our approach to fire risk reduction. We cannot rely only on removal of fuel through prescribed burns or forest thinning; instead, we must also restrict new building in fire-prone areas and ensure that existing homes are made fire-resilient. It’s up to us to...
In the foothills just west of Cupertino, the Lehigh Permanente Quarry forms a 3500-acre scar in the otherwise green and undeveloped hillsides of the Santa Cruz Mountains. For decades, mining operations there have discharged toxic selenium into Permanente Creek and contributed to air pollution, noise, and dust in the region. Up until now, Lehigh’s mining...
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