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Vision 2020 Nominations

Nominate today! Sierra Business Council is currently accepting nominations for its 2009 Vision 2020 Awards.
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Sierra Forest Carbon Blog

Past posts on this blog have covered such topics as the emerging forest carbon market, effects of climate change in the Sierra Nevada, and, most recently, the importance of biomass utilization.
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SierraNevadaGeotourism.org

A National Scenic Byways grant is giving the Sierra Nevada Geotourism project a shot in the arm to further the new tool's momentum.
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Kirkwood alternative energy

Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry. And few resorts are poised to go to the same lengths – and expense – to combat it as Kirkwood and the hardy folks who make their homes in the snowy, windswept Kirkwood Meadows.
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Support local business!

Shop Local this holiday season and check out the newest resource from Sierra Business Council; the Local First Google Map!
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Rural Broadband

The story of how the federal government helped bring electricity to rural America teaches an important lesson to those who are now deciding how to spend $7 billion on extending broadband to the countryside.
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Legislators strike water deal

Lawmakers capped months of discussions, weeks of tedious negotiations and years of chasing a water deal with approval of major legislation in a marathon session that ended Wednesday as the sun rose.
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The ungovernable state

ON MAY 19th Californians will go to the polls to vote on six ballot measures that are as important as they are confusing. If these measures fail, America’s biggest state will enter a full-blown...(Image courtesy of The Economist)
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Removing the Roadblocks

How to make sustainable development happen now - a policy paper from UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment and UCLA's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.
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Take ACTION

The Sustaining Rural Places Toolkit was created in partnership with the Sierra Business Council and Saving the Sierra because sharing stories about people, place, and innovation helps to protect our beautiful places.
Sustaining Rural Places Toolkit