How do the five different scenarios for Plan Bay Area measure up to the 10 goals and targets we’ve set for ourselves as a region? Let’s take a look.

More is less when it comes to the environment, and a report from Mountain View confirms it.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments presented the Initial Vision Scenario for Plan Bay Area, the region’s plan for the next 25 years.

More than three years after Greenbelt Alliance endorsed Station Park Green in San Mateo, the City Council unanimously gave its support to the project on January 18, 2011.

Greenbelt Alliance’s newest publication, Green Your City’s Blueprint: A Toolkit for Climate-Friendly General Plans, provides local advocates with clear instructions to change a general plan to be more climate-friendly.

In late January, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission approved an ambitious set of targets to increase the sustainability and decrease the car dependency of the Bay Area.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide additional input as you prepare initial staff recommendations for a full set of SCS Performance Targets.

The 21 undersigned organizations urge the Commission to recommend GHG reduction targets of at least 7% by 2020 and at least 15% by 2035.

This November Santa Rosa and Cloverdale can set some good boundaries. City councils in both Sonoma communities voted this week to put urban growth boundary measures on the November ballot.

Greenbelt Alliance, Save Mount Diablo, Sierra Club, and Brentwood residents have organized an opposition campaign to Measure F. If all goes well June 8, this development scheme will be beaten back, again.