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San Mateo Promotes Green Living

Published: February, 2009  The Green Bag Lunchtime Lecture Series is hosted by RecycleWorks, a county program offering resources and technical assistance to residents, businesses and schools interested in green practices, and co-hosted by the County of San Mateo’s Employee Green Team, which promotes sustainability within the county workplace. The idea was to teach people how […]

Deal in the Works to Bring Mammoth Cruise Ships into the Bay

By JB PowellPublished: February, 2007  When the Queen Mary 2 steams into Pier 27 on Feb. 4, she will truly lord over the Embarcadero. At 1,132 feet long and over 200 feet high, the Cunard Lines’ flagship will be the biggest passenger liner ever to docked in San Francisco. But officials at the Port of […]

Delta Water Tunnels Would Do Far More Harm Than Good

By Deb Self Published: September, 2014 The proposed 35-mile tunnels to carry fresh water from the northern end of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to pumps on the southern end would harm San Francisco Bay. This $25 billion project would also devastate the Delta ecosystem and wipe out California’s salmon fishery. Two major rivers, the Sacramento […]