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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
Partners in Stewardship
After years of courtroom fights over logging in the Clackamas River basin, environmental watchdogs and the U.S. Forest Service have learned to work together.
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Local architects awarded
The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) has announced that McCamant & Durrett Architects are the recipients of the Silver 2008 Energy Value Housing Award for their Nevada City Cohousing project.
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Revived Water Flow
The Lower Owens River has flooded for millenniums, but this flood was artificial, part of the most ambitious river restoration project in the West. The river mostly disappeared when the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, but 15 months ago engineers began redirecting some aqueduct water into the channel.
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PG&E ClimateSmart™
Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s ClimateSmart™ program announced the largest investments in verifiable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions under California’s rigorous forest carbon sequestration project protocols.
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The Next, Best West
Presented by Coldstream Creative, The Next, Best West is a documentary film that will show how our relationship to the landscape has evolved over the last one hundred and fifty years.
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Sierra Leadership InstituteSept. 22-26, 2008, Susan Carpenter returns for another powerful workshop in the Fall. Learn More and Apply |
$1 For The SierraNurture Nature. The “$1 for the Sierra” is a voluntary donation program through which guests and patrons of Sierra businesses are invited to contribute to help fund local projects. These projects benefit the healthy functioning of our forests and keep our air clean and lakes blue. ENTER $1 FOR THE SIERRA |
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Think Local FirstThe Local First Program brings market share back to our local communities and local living economies. Find out more about our programs on the East Side, Truckee/North Tahoe, and Plumas County. READ MORE |
Thriving Forests CompendiumThe Thriving Forests Compendium is a comprehensive compilation of knowledge. Accounting for the challenges and opportunities in the Sierra Nevada, The Compendium highlights an array of sustainable forestry projects. ENTER COMPENDIUM |
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