Sustainability
Sustainability
Recycling Just A Few More Items Helps Reduce Greenhouse Gas
We can all be doing more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by recycling items we are currently throwing away. It’s getting easier to recycle curbside now that Allied Waste is collecting brown carts every week. And if that’s not enough to contain your recyclables, get an additional...
Best Western Plus Heritage Inn, Benicia joins “Clean the World” Campaign
Best Western Plus Heritage Inn, Benicia has teamed up with the Clean the World campaign to help save lives of children around the world. Every day in the United States alone, 1.5 million bars of soap are discarded along with other bathroom amenities. These unused soaps and bathroom...
Tips For Green Cleaning
Do you associate a clean home with the lingering fragrances from commercial household cleaning products? According to Deirdre Imus, best-selling author and founder of the Greening the Cleaning program, household cleaning fragrances could be harmful to your health. The Deirdre Imus...
Oops! Correct Information for Household Hazardous Waste at Devlin Transfer Station
Devlin Road Facility no longer accepts household hazardous waste from Benicia Residents
Butternut Squash Soup: A Winter Take On A Fall Favorite
Cool winter evenings demand that curvaceous flesh- toned beauty, still readily available in supermarkets for hearty, warming meals. That’s right, the sweet, long-lasting and bodacious Butternut and other squash varieties make for a delicious soup that never fails to please....
Cub Scout Pack 108 Leads Tree Planting Event
Benicia Tree Foundation held a tree planting in the Community Park on Thursday, October 13th, with the very motivated Cub Scout Pack 108 taking the lead. Pack leader Jeff Conner was there with Gretchen Burgess and many other Cub Scout Parents to support and witness the scouts plant a 24”...
Winter Vegetable Gardens
Whether you are a serious backyard farmer or just a dabbler in seasonal vegetable growing, you probably experience a pang of regret over the demise of garden-to-table summer produce. In California, however, we are blessed with weather that’s warm enough to sustain a winter garden,...
CODA and Amports Partner to Assemble Electric Cars in Benicia
For the past several years, Mayor Patterson and the Benicia City Council have discussed trying to bring green technology companies to the Benicia Business Park. On September 12 at a press conference at Amports, it was announced that a partnership between Amports and CODA, an electric car maker...
Lecture Series - Stewards of Our Children’s Future: 2011…
On Tuesday evening, April 26, the Benicia Sustainability Commission, in collaboration with Solano Community College, will be presenting the second lecture-workshop, in the series of five, called "Stewards of Our Children's Future: 2011..." For those who attended the first kick-off...
Tree Planting at Benicia High Brings Healing to a Community
On April 21, in celebration of Earth Day, the Benicia Tree Foundation held an event where Benicia’s young and young at heart came together to plant trees at Benicia High School. Wolfram Alderson, the foundation’s president, reports that the event was a huge success. I was sorry to...
