Electrification is coming! And there is much to learn. Rebates! Tax credits! Cheaper power! And where to get help. Brenna Shafizadeh of the Climate Reality Project shares her expertise.

We have a special holiday gift for you from our friends over at the Bay Area Chapter of the Climate Reality Project, and their podcast, "Everyday Climate Champions"!  Ravinder Sehgal of the San Francisco Veg Society talks about why and how to reduce meat consumption to benefit you, the animals, and the climate. It's a win-win-win!

What's new at the Martinez refinery? They have added flares and stinky gas releases to their repertoire. Meanwhile, there is a December 21 court date with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and a class action lawsuit is getting underway. In this bonus minisode, we get an update from Heidi Taylor of Healthy Martinez.

We're back and planting! Learn about native plants, and efforts to bring them back in the Bay Area. We get to work at an annual event planting native plants, and also learn about their history, how they almost got wiped out, and the fun of resoring them to a part of their former territory. Spoiler alert: we ask about beavers.

Greetings listeners!  We haven't forgotten you.  Jeanne was on vacation in Spain, and came back with a A+ cold - (or should we say F-?).  We are taking a short break, but we will be back in a few weeks with another exciting episode.  Meanwhile, this is your opportunity to catch up on any episodes you may have missed, either on your favorite podcast player, or at linksploration.com.

Back in June, we began a conversation with Sadie Wilson of the Greenbelt Alliance about their Resilience Hotspots program.  Now we take a closer look at the Suisun Marsh, one of the first group of 5 hotspots, with Sadie and Alex Lunine of Sustainable Solano.

In honor of climate week, host Jeanne puts on her CPA hat and gives listeners a tour of the Inflation Reduction Act, the giant legislation giving tax incentives for all kinds of climate mitigation, plus rebates.  It's wild!

What's happening with rooftop solar now that the new net metering system has taken effect?  What is the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act?  What else is new in the rooftop solar market?  We thought we knew it all, but there is lots to learn.  Join us as we chat again with our solar experts, Pat Villano and Amit Roy of Your Energy Solutions.

When we think about climate change, we often focus on the big picture; after all it is an earth-wide problem.  This week we zoom in and talk with Laura Wehrley of Sustainable Contra Costa about what they do and what we can do as individuals, right here, right now.

Following a release of toxic dust from the Martinez Refinery, which looms above the historic town of Martinez, local residents banded together to form Healthy Martinez, a group advocating for cleaner air and more transparency from the refinery. We interview Heidi Taylor of Healthy Martinez about what happened, what's happening, and what they want to happen.