This weekend in Alameda: poppies, rally and charrette
I am delighted to report that the first California poppy of the season has blossomed in my yard—which I, for one, take as a clear sign that spring has arrived. While many of you in sunnier island spots...
View ArticleLife on the Island: Leaf blowers, no!
This week’s Life on the Island column is about the noise and particle pollution of leaf blowers. Read it in whole (or, in part, if you prefer) here. [Ed. note: The Alameda Journal blog is officially on...
View ArticleGuerrilla gardening: pathways to Alameda
For those of you who ever happen to come on or off the Island by way of the Fruitvale Bridge, perhaps driving or walking or cycling from the BART station, you know that the particular stretch of road...
View ArticleAnother “NO!” re leaf blowers in Alameda
I was glad to see Alameda Sun columnist Noelle Robbins had a piece this week on the negatives of leaf blowers. As I have said on the same topic, “It’s time for Alameda to explicitly ban the beasts....
View ArticleAlameda school pesticide policy
Michele Ellson of The Island has a post up about the Alameda Unified School District‘s pesticide use policy and what Laura DiDonato, a parent who serves on the committee that created the policy, says...
View ArticleThis Saturday: Planting daffodils near the Fruitvale Bridge
If you’d like to join a group of Alamedans and Oaklanders planting daffodils on the Oakland side of the Fruitvale Bridge (because, as you likely know, that’s one heck of an untended area) they’ll be a...
View ArticleIn Alameda: Cleaning up after your dog
It is two or three times a week at least that I clean up dog poop from my yard, or my driveway, or the sidewalk in front of my house. And I don’t have a dog. At the school near where I live, there are...
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