Year: 2017
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10th Annual Ojai Valley E-WASTE Collection and Recycling Event — January 20
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Has that ancient and odd-looking scanner been a dust repository in a corner of your garage for too long? What about that box of batteries that you have rightly not thrown in the trash, but have been neglecting to take to the County for proper disposal? Next month you’ll have…
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Judge Rules against County, for Clean Air for Ojai
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On November 14 a Superior Court Judge ruled that Ventura County ignored California environmental law regarding air pollution when its commercial and industrial permit division and Board of Supervisors approved a local oil company plan to drill three new oil wells in Upper Ojai.
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How to clean up ash after Thomas Fire
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OVGC member and local air quality expert Steve Colomé has some useful advice to help you clean up your homes this week:
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Could ocean plants such as kelp become “the new kale?”
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Could ocean plants such as kelp become “the new kale?” That’s the dream of many in the burgeoning world of marine aquaculture — including Dan Marquez in Goleta. In the same way that kale, an all but unknown vegetable twenty-five years ago, became a common food for the health-minded —…
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Beyond Plastics: Greater Goods and Green Coalition partner in community effort
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The Coalition will join with Greater Goods and California Solar Electric to launch the first of a monthly gathering series called “Little Footprints.” Beginning at 1pm on Sunday, October 29, the focus will be on ways in which we as a community can more gently impact our environment. Hosting the…
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Ojai activist leader returns to help Coalition
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Caryn Bosson, a former Board member of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, the founder of the Ojai Youth Foundation, and a former executive at TreePeople in Los Angeles, has volunteered to help the Coalition’s leadership and Board formulate a new strategy for sustainability. Bosson has lived in Ojai since the…
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Coalition Team of Volunteers Cleans up Ojai Creek at Libbey Park
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In September on our annual Creek Clean up day, we cleaned trash, tennis balls and miscellaneous items out of the Ojai creek bed that rambles through Libbey Park. The day was led Noel Douglas, our Coalition office manager and board member Betsy VanLeit. They worked with twenty volunteers — including…
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Ojai activist leader returnst to help coalition
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Caryn Bosson, a former Board member of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, the founder of the Ojai Youth Foundation, and a former executive at TreePeople in Los Angeles, has volunteered to help the Coalition’s leadership and Board formulate a new strategy for sustainability. Bosson has lived in Ojai since the…
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Restoring Soils and Seas on October 12 at Ojai Retreat Center
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John Roulac, the founder of the organic superfood company Nutiva, lived in Ojai in the 1990’s, helped lead a composting movement here, and still loves the community. Even though he moved with his company to the Bay Area years ago, he continues to fund environmental activism in the Ojai area.…
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Join us for Water Wise Landscaping Workshop on Saturday, September 30
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Join us for a Water Wise Landscaping Workshop on Saturday, September 30, Yes that is this Saturday! Would you like to use less water and still have an attractive landscape around your home? Would you like to lower your water bill? Plan to attend a free water wise landscaping workshop…
