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March 2021 Edition.

 

• “A Political Analysis of Microgrids & California’s Over-the-Fence Rule.”

•      Whiskey Hill Farms and Sustainable Systems Research Foundation receive            Western SARE Grant

•      SSRF’s Calendar of Events

•      “What is Sustainable Architecture Essay”

Recommended Readings:

• “Premature or precautionary? California is first to tackle microplastics in drinking water,”

• “Draft 2020 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update Volume II”

• “Preliminary Analysis: SEED’s First Year“ 

February 2021 Edition.

• “New UCSC LRDP is based in fantasy, not fact”

• Watch Sustainability Now! Podcast Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture on a Small Farm.

• Meet Jasmine Krause, our Intern for the Sustainable Urban Food Initiative Project.

• SSRF’s Team spent Valentine’s Day volunteering at Common Roots Farm.

• Listen to the latest Sustainability Now Podcast, Reconnecting with Nature through Ecospirtuality: A Conversation with Dr. Michelle Merrill.

Recommended Readings:

• “What CAISO didn’t tell you about the August Blackouts,”

• “Bringing Reusable Packaging Systems to Life,”

• ” Short-Circuiting Policy-Interest Groups and the Battle over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States,”

 

 

December 2020 Edition

• End of Year Fundraising Appeal.

• Donate Now

• Meet our Exceptionally Talented Team Members

• “Environmental Justice through building Green, Healthy and Sustainable Communities”

Recommended readings:

• “Toward a political economy of public safety power shutoff: Politics, ideology, and the limits of regulatory choice in California,”

• “Choked, Strangled, Drowned: The Plastics Crisis Unfolding in Our Oceans,”

• ” Socio‐eco‐evolutionary dynamics in cities,”

• “ADUs in CA: A Revolution in Progress,”

November 2020 Edition

• SSRF is developing a research & teaching partnership with Whiskey Hill Farms

• Whiskey Hill Farm’s in Watsonville
• Empowering Students Fundraising Campaign on Facebook
• Sustainability Now Podcast, Forests, and species after wildfires & climate change

• Recommended readings:

• “Overcoming Barriers to Bringing Accessory Dwelling Unit Development to Scale,”
• “Rethinking Energy 2020-2030,”.
• “Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution,”
• “Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution,”

October 2020 Edition

 

• Bioplastic Experiment at Hard Core Compost visit: www.compost.bike

• Empowering Students Campaign

• Take part in our ADU Survey

• Listen to the latest Sustainability Now Podcast, guest Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Recommended readings:

• “Microplastics negatively affect soil fauna but stimulate microbial activity: insight from a field-based microplastic addition experiment,”

• “Gated gardens: Effects of urbanization on community formation and commons management in community gardens,”

• “Unpacking the complexity of community microgrids: A review of institutions’ roles for development of microgrids,“

September 2020 Edition

• Empowering Students Fundraising Campaign.

• Geopath Internship & SPIN
• Earth to Earth bag Proposal OpenIdeo Challenge

• Accessory Dwelling Units in our Backyards Sustainability Now! Podcast

Recommended readings:

• “The Broken Algorithm that Poisoned American Transformation”

• “Tracking California’s sinking coast from space: Implications for relative sea-level rise,”

• “An innovative viable model for community-owned solar PV projects without FIT: Comprehensive techno-economic assessment,”

August 2020 Edition

• The Sustainable Urban Agriculture Initiative
• Santa Cruz Westside Microblock
• Hard Core Compost in Santa Cruz
• Environmental art by Board Member Marisha Farnsworth
• Sustainability Now! interview with Marisha

• Recommended readings

  • “Infrastructuring the Circular Economy”
  • “Beyond the Shopping Bag”
  • “The 2035 Electric Decarbonization Modeling Study”

JULY 2020 EDITION

• Ending Poverty in California with Solar Press Release
• The Procurement Project
• Sustainable Urban Agriculture Initiative
• After the Pandemic: Will Sustainability be Possible?
• Plastics Webinar
• Sustainability Now podcast with Jo Chamberlain Executive Director of The Coastside Land Trust in Half Moon Bay
• Six propositions on the need for public power
• Request a free ebook of” Solar Dividends” written by Robert Stayton