Grab a friend and your bike and get ready to be inspired. We are thrilled to be partnering with our friends at San Diego Sustainable Living Institute and Catching H2O for an all-levels bike ride on Saturday, March 23, featuring some amazing behind-the-scenes local work in sustainable living. We’ll be cruising through the …
During the last stretch of drought, you heard us advocating consistently for a radical restructuring of our relationship with water here in San Diego. In a drought-prone region like ours – and with climate change leading to increasing uncertainty when it comes to accessing reliable water supplies – using water wisely is only growing in …
The Water-Energy Nexus Revisited: Water Conservation, Potable Reuse, and Desalination Water and energy are fundamentally and inextricably connected. In our last article on the subject, we introduced the water-energy nexus and explored the greenhouse gas and climate impacts of the 48 terawatt-hours of electricity used every year to power the transportation, treatment, and disposal of …
Loving Food, Caring About The Environment If you’re anything like me, you’re a bit of an amateur foodie. You might watch cooking shows like nobody’s business, get excited to try new trendy restaurants, or occasionally pay too much at overpriced coffee shops. Like me, you might also be constantly bombarded with doom-and-gloom messages about our …
This holiday season, you can make a difference for the health of our rivers, creeks, canyons, beaches, bays, and ocean. By San Diego Coastkeeper directly, or considering one of these great local companies when you are doing your Christmas shopping and decorating, you will be supporting clean water, showing your love for the coast, and …
Good, you should. The local-level advocacy of sharing your opinion with your policymakers is your democratic right. We’re writing this blog post in early October, 2018, because the San Diego City Council is scheduled to vote on a proposed ordinance limiting polystyrene foam on Monday, October 15, and the “styrofoam ban” could use your support. …
As San Diego Coastkeeper’s marine debris coordinator, I get to witness folks engaging in direct environmental stewardship and community action. Beach cleanups are a fun way to engage with other like-minded individuals and have an immediate positive impact on the environment. But our stewardship doesn’t need to stop on the sand. Did you know that …
Considering your water footprint Recently, we published a blog post on better understanding your “water footprint,” where we delved into some of the not-so-obvious ways we are responsible for water consumption in our daily lives. The water we use to cook our food, bath our bodies, brush our teeth, and feed our lawns is water …
Understanding Your Water Footprint As we Californians embrace smarter, more efficient water use as a way of making our relationship with water more sustainable and more secure, we often focus on our residential water use as the primary place to conserve. Truth be told, residential water use – the water we use in our homes …
