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A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Worried about the cost of climate change? Here is some hope.Many of us are wondering how we are going to fund efforts to limit global warming and adapt to the changes we cannot prevent. In California we are rapidly building...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Sep. 17, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, 17 hours ago | 21 comments | 3193 Views
INVEST & INNOVATE
Where I Spend and What I See Downtown
My wife and I live downtown (DTN) and my office is DTN. I walk DTN 2-3 times a day mostly to visit and spend money at businesses.
Here is what...
Original post made by Steve Levy on Sep. 2, 2023Last comment by JAFO, 17 hours ago | 8 comments | 3406 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Make Palo Alto prettier than just its parklets, pleaseCheers to the PA City Council for acknowledging that its two downtowns (University and California Avenues) need some sprucing up – at least their new “parklets”...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Sep. 14, 2023Last comment by marc665, on Sep 18, 2023 at 4:32 pm | 7 comments | 1992 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Irish pub Molly O’s celebrates its grand opening in San CarlosBy Julia Brown
==I Fish and chips at Molly O's, the new sister restaurant of longtime Millbrae Irish pub Fiddlers Green. Courtesy Carly...
Original post made by The Peninsula Foodist on Sep. 8, 2023Last comment by John Livingstone, on Sep 17, 2023 at 11:54 pm | 12 comments | 3681 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Aspiration or commitment? Foothill College weighs its climate goals.Foothill College has a decision to make. Last summer the school was forced to close its pool due to a substantial leak. A subsequent investigation found that the...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Sep. 10, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Sep 17, 2023 at 6:36 am | 19 comments | 4911 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Palo Alto's Power PortfolioPalo Alto is currently reviewing its power portfolio and developing a plan to guide procurement in the coming decades. Senior Resource Planner Jim Stack gave an...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Jul. 9, 2023Last comment by BobB, on Sep 14, 2023 at 8:55 am | 16 comments | 7571 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Surprising facts and factoids about trees in our fair cityPalo Alto loves trees -- it has about 66,000 of them, about one per resident. Our city is responsible for the upkeep of about 46,000 trees in parks and public areas;...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Sep. 3, 2023Last comment by Lenora Jackson, on Sep 14, 2023 at 7:59 am | 6 comments | 3010 Views
THE FOOD PARTY!
Summer - Get Out There – How Many More You Got Left Anyways?
Happy Solstice.
The longest day.
Light cracks into the horizon at 3:30 AM.
One of summers gifts to us is a warm and...
Original post made by Laura Stec on Jun. 21, 2023Last comment by Raymond, on Sep 14, 2023 at 4:39 am | 10 comments | 3140 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Foothill's transformational meeting about its climate goalsTwo days ago I wrote about Foothill’s...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Sep. 12, 2023Last comment by Eric Muller, on Sep 13, 2023 at 5:20 pm | 3 comments | 2406 Views
THE FOOD PARTY!
GRAND OPENING – Menlo Park’s Springline Offers Experiential Community Events
You're invited and it’s going to be a party!
The Grand Opening of Springline, an award-winning 6.4-acre mixed-used...
Original post made by Laura Stec on Sep. 7, 2023Last comment by willam23, on Sep 12, 2023 at 1:41 am | 1 comment | 3025 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
'We wanted to go out swinging': San Mateo brunch spot Morning Wood is closing at the end of SeptemberBy Julia Brown
The loco moco at Morning Wood. Courtesy Morning Wood.
Morning Wood, a San Mateo eatery serving Hawaiian-Japanese-Korean...
Original post made by The Peninsula Foodist on Aug. 31, 2023Last comment by Claudette, on Sep 7, 2023 at 7:30 pm | 2 comments | 2646 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Contact tracing and PCR tests ... for plant disease!I got an email a few days ago, courtesy of Santa Clara County’s Environmental Protection Agency, warning me that a plant I had purchased was part of a nursery...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Sep. 3, 2023Last comment by Eeyore, on Sep 6, 2023 at 10:31 pm | 2 comments | 3507 Views
CREATING A MORE VIBRANT MENLO PARK
Menlo Park Makes Meaningful New Investments In Its Downtown. UPDATED: September 5, 2023 The City Council needs to do even more this year! After living in Menlo Park for almost 35 years, I have accepted the reality...
Original post made by Dana Hendrickson on Aug. 30, 2023Last comment by Westbrook, on Sep 4, 2023 at 9:38 pm | 2 comments | 4646 Views
COUPLE'S NET
Taking a Break. “And I Forgive Myself.”Dear Readers, I’ve completed the first book in the series of I Do, I Don’t: How to Build a Better Marriage! 
From inception in April of...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Sep. 1, 2023Last comment by Leonardbrit, on Sep 4, 2023 at 7:30 am | 1 comment | 4009 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
How to electrify a boilerIf a boiler powers your home’s heating system, then warm water flowing through radiant floors, hydronic baseboard heaters, radiators, or even valance heating...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 27, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Sep 2, 2023 at 7:37 pm | 19 comments | 4796 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
How would you go about reducing our residential building emissions?Two weeks ago, members of the Palo Alto Student Climate Coalition and 350 Silicon Valley spoke to Palo Alto’s City Council...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 20, 2023Last comment by Eddie, on Sep 2, 2023 at 6:47 pm | 14 comments | 4617 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Palo Alto: Urgency is out, delays are in
Something seems a bit askew at Palo Alto City Hall. What I sense is an escalating laissez-faire attitude, like “We’ll do it when we get...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Aug. 21, 2023Last comment by d. erp., on Aug 30, 2023 at 12:32 pm | 13 comments | 5585 Views
CREATING A MORE VIBRANT MENLO PARK
Does Replacing All Street Parking On Middle Avenue With Bike Lanes Actually Make Sense?. What About Removing Most of the Parking In Front of the Popular Nealon Park Playground? Or are these well-intentioned but unnecessarily draconian measures? ==I...
Original post made by Dana Hendrickson on Feb. 8, 2023Last comment by Dana Hendrickson, on Aug 29, 2023 at 12:40 pm | 5 comments | 2887 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Contrails and aviation emissionsMany of us enjoy flying to new places for vacation, to visit family and friends, or to connect with work colleagues. Those flights, particularly the longer, high-altitude...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Aug. 6, 2023Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Aug 28, 2023 at 9:19 pm | 17 comments | 5880 Views
INVEST & INNOVATE
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and Some Data
In their recent letter on the Palo Alto Housing Element, HCD asked for further information on how the city was addressing the requirement to affirmatively...
Original post made by Steve Levy on Aug. 19, 2023Last comment by Allen Akin, on Aug 28, 2023 at 10:36 am | 58 comments | 5169 Views
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