Drought Tolerance and Climate Resilience in Street Trees
When the City of Emeryville was developing our Sustainability Action Plan, one of the major issues we looked into was the climate resilience of the city street trees. The idea was spurred by Ruth Akins, one of the City Council members, who was interested in whether specific tree species were better at sequestering carbon than others.
The Little Red Stirrer
My wife Gail and I were camping for a few days about three hours north of San Francisco on the coast, overlooking the forest and the Pacific. As we were talking I happened to be holding one of those little red plastic stirrers that you often find in a hotel or anyplace serving drinks — a bar, a coffee joint. Gail asked a very simple question: “where did that little red stirrer come from?” What ensued has become one of my personal favorite stories that exemplifies the extraordinary waste in our society and is an example of our company’s collective thinking around sustainability.
8 Talking Points For City Leaders
By Matt Bogoshian, Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel, REV When I saw the title of Dan Kreeger’s article last week called “6 Easy Steps to Turbo Boost Climate Action In Local Government”, I thought to myself, “Easy? no way!” As...REV Featured in San Francisco Business Times
REV was featured in the March 4th SF Business Times article, San Francisco’s REV helps businesses save money — and the planet.