An upgraded real-time carpooling app promoted by the Climate Protection Campaign blends social media with carbon cutting in Sonoma County and beyond.

Carma app details and downloads can be found here.

There are a lot of good reasons for recycling. But one that doesn’t come to mind right away is an economic impact. A new study suggests that boosting recycling also increases employment, and today we take a closer look at that connection.

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  Capturing rainwater for yard and garden use is practical and environmental. But it’s not an investment that will pencil out anytime soon.

Below, students at Healdsburg High School installed an eight-barrel catchment system on their campus with support from Guerneville's Blue Barrel Systems.

Plans for a new asphalt production facility alongside the Petaluma River on the south side of that city have been a hot button issue for more than five years now. After the Dutra plant was approved by county supervisors in late 2010, it was promptly challenged in court by the city of Petaluma and a group of local environmental groups. That case that was dismissed by the State Court of Appeal last week, but there’s still at least one more round of legal arguments being made, as we hear today.