May/June 2001
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| Power Rate Hikes: A Blessing in Disguise?
By Dale F. Mead As statewide debate continues on the expected skyrocketing cost of electricity this summer, a new wave is forming to install a long-term strategy, based on smaller, on-site power plants, for sustainable power in Silicon Valley and throughout the State. If the emerging strategy prevails, the distribution grid that sustained us through the past century could become a quaint symbol of the past. |
| Power Crisis Could Turn the Tide for Alternative Energy
By Kurt Newick and Dale F. Mead The current energy crisis may well provide the pivotal set of circumstances that pushes our society to embrace smarter solutions, giving a boost to proven technologies that dramatically reduce the environmental costs of electricity production. |
| Stop Pesticide Poisoning in our Parks and Workplaces
By Cindy Russell, M.D. Pesticide Alternatives of Santa Clara County is an organization of concerned residents who have joined together to draft and pass an ordinance to ban the use of the most toxic pesticides at Santa Clara County buildings, grounds, parks, and roadways, and to adopt an alternative pest management program. Chapter members as asked to support this important public health measure. |
| Chapter Members Speak Out
on Airport Expansion Proposal
Letters from three Chapter members expressing their opinions on the proposed expansion of the San Francisco International Airport. |
| Letters to the Editor |
| Sierra Club Environmental Justice Principles
Echoing founder John Muir's words: “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike,” the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Principles provide a vision of how the Club’s purposes should justly serve the Earth and all of humanity. |
| State Queries on Owls Go Unanswered, But Board Doesn’t Know
By Dale F. Mead Told last November by the California Department of Fish and Game that it must spell out its plans for protecting burrowing owls at Mission College, the West Valley-Mission Community College District Board has yet to do so, and most trustees are not aware of the required plans. |
| Stanford Update: Foothills Victory
By Denice Dade Led by Committee for Green Foothills, environmentalists were successful in convincing the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to uphold protective foothill policies and deliver a crippling blow to the Carnegie Foundation’s proposed headquarters for the Stanford Foothills. |
| Cooking Green: A Delicious Call to Action
By Kay Bushnell This month's recipe, “Baked Potato Fans with Creamy Cashew Sauce,” demonstrates how easy it is to produce a perfect main dish with a creamy, mouth-watering sauce without eggs, cheese, cream or butter. |
| Meandering
By John Maybury Bay Park cleanup, environmental awards, eco-shopping, superbugs, and other items of interest. |