Before I came to work at Green Foothills, I was a farmers’ market manager for almost 7 years in the Bay Area. From opening new markets, to performing farm inspections to ensure market integrity, my time as a farmers’ market manager was both gratifying and educational. Concerned with the struggles that some local markets faced...
You did it! On Thursday, April 16, the California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to designate Central Coast and Southern California mountain lions as candidates for protected status under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). Thank you for the hundreds of emails you submitted in support of this action! What’s Happening Two weeks ago,...
As someone who supports our mission to protect open space, farmland, and natural resources in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, you may have asked yourself, how do I participate in the food economy in line with my philanthropic interests? The answer is purchase locally grown food. In this first series of tips on how...
In recent months, Doug Silverstein has created greater synergy among San Mateo County’s environmental community. By uniting multi-sector sustainability efforts of more than one hundred organizations, Doug has brought together diverse voices to stimulate ideas through discussions on shared issues, purposes and visions for the region. Doug started off this endeavor by organizing hikes for...
The Protect Coyote Valley campaign has a welcome new partner: Mothers Out Front South Bay, a grassroots group of mothers and others mobilizing for a livable climate for all children. These passionate volunteers are leveraging the relationships they built during their successful campaign for Community Choice Energy in San Jose to advocate for the permanent protection...
On Monday, February 11, the Redwood City City Council will hold a study session on the Harbor View project — four seven-story office towers for 4,500 employees on the former Malibu Grand Prix and Lyngso site. This project would worsen the housing crisis and put a massive new development in the path of sea level...
Zoe Kersteen-Tucker has been a coastal advocate for decades, helping to craft some of the coast’s most iconic campaigns like the Devil’s Slide Tunnel initiative. She has represented the coastside as a San Mateo Planning Commissioner, directed the Coastside Land Trust, and helmed Committee for Green Foothills as an Executive Director and President from 2001-2003....
John Lynch, volunteer extraordinaire, has helped propel the Dunes Beach campaign forward by personally collecting over 2,000 signatures in Half Moon Bay for a petition we crafted with members of the community to express support for protecting the area adjacent to Dunes Beach from development. John is a former member of the Committee for Green...
Smita Patel is a member of the Committee for Green Foothills Advisory Board and a tireless advocate for change. She is a co-founder of the Mountain Children’s Foundation, which provides support and empowerment for children in mountainous areas of Uttarakhand, India, and now works in education journalism. Recently she shared a remarkable episode of the NPR...
We’ve written many times before about the saga of Martin’s Beach and billionaire Vinod Khosla’s attempt to close off access to this iconic beach. We’ve asked you to write letters to the governor and the State Lands Commission, we’ve held informational sessions (and picnics!) at the beach itself, and it’s consistently been one of the...
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