Welcome! Sustainable San Rafael is an all-volunteer group of folks dedicated to advocacy and education to help bring about a healthy and aware society. We are organized around the idea that we can-and must-do more to fight climate change and encourage sustainable living. Click the pictures above for a closer look at SSR in action and [...]
May 28 hearing on Novato Solar Project
Greenpoint Nursery in Novato has proposed building a 660 Kilowatt solar PV project on the unused ground at the periphery of the nursery. (That would be about the same size as the solar project at Las Gallinas Sewage ponds in the picture above.) This would be the second project in in the county to be [...]
“Plan Bay Area” Forum Draws Crowd (Video)
On May 9, 2013 Sustainable San Rafael, along with Sustainable Marin, The Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative, The League of Women Voters, The Marin Conservation League and Dominican University sponsored our second forum on the topic of planning the future of our communities in the era of climate change. “Planning the Future We Want (part 2)” [...]
“Moving to Zero Waste” Forum
When? Tuesday June 4, 7 PM Where? San Anselmo City Hall, 52 San Anselmo Ave Here’s an opportunity to engage with leaders from a number of initiatives in the campaign to get to zero waste: Patty Garbarino, Bea Johnson (Author of The Zero Waste Home) Nicole Siminoff, Carrie Bachelder (founder of The Away Station) and [...]
Sonoma Clean Power Moves Ahead
On April 23, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to move ahead with setting up a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) clean power agency just like Marin’s MCE. This vote means that approximately 100,000 homes in the unincorporated parts of the county will start receiving their electricity from “Sonoma Clean Power” in [...]
Take Action to Fight Keystone XL
The battle to stop the Keystone XL pipeline is not over yet. Even inside the Obama administration, the EPA has publicly rebuked the State Department for an inadequate Environmental Impact Statement. Done be a spectator! Here are some ways to have your voice heard in Washington. Here’s a prototype letter to the President or anyone [...]
Novato Switches to MCE
On March 16, the Novato City Council joined the other cities in Marin by votong unanimously to switch all 121 of that city’s municipal electric accounts from PG&E to Marin Clean Energy. (Most Novato homeowners and businesses switched to MCE last summer.) The Staff Report recommending the change noted that moving to MCE will save [...]
The First 100% Solar City?
The high desert city of Lancaster, CA is seriously planning to be the first city in the world to produce more electricity from solar panels than it uses. It’s an ambitious plan, but they’ve already taken a number of measures that are more far-reaching than anywhere else in the world. For example, all new houses [...]
