A recent rumor has been circulated that Sunnyvale’s government proposes projects enormous changes housing, industry, and traffic, and the rumor quotes significant, scary numbers in its claims. Unfortunately, the author made major factual errors in his claims, and the result … Continue reading
Category Archives: Sustainability
FollowThe State Water Resources Control Board issued its draft recommendations for mandatory water cuts for the various CA jurisdictions today. If I’m reading it correctly, they are telling Sunnyvale to achieve an additional 16% reduction in water use. They based … Continue reading
I had the pleasure of cutting the ribbon on the new Iron Construction building in Moffett Park today, and I was pleasantly surprised by the facility. It isn’t often that a ribbon-cutting catches me off-guard, but this one did. Moffett … Continue reading
Wednesday night, I was honored to be awarded Environmentalist of the Year by the California League of Conservation Voters. The award was specifically given for my work on advancing single-use bag policies and banning expanded polystyrene food containers (capped off … Continue reading
The latest Sunnyvale Quarterly Report is now online, and it’s a great read. This quarter’s issue focuses on a number of different topics: It discusses city employee pensions in great detail, showing the history of both state and Sunnyvale actions … Continue reading