KATHRYN PALMER ARGUS-COURIER STAFF July 8, 2021 (Read Original Article Here) As the region’s worsening drought spurs new mandatory water use restrictions, a local water conservation nonprofit is fielding more questions and ramping up its water-savings programs. Daily Acts, with a decade of experience and a presence in Santa Rosa, Cotati, Windsor and Petaluma, [...]
The Power of Small Story by Jess D. Taylor, Made Local Magazine (view original article) How our daily choices can make a big impact When Trathen Heckman was 31, he started printing a zine called Ripples, about the effects wrought by small acts of change. He’d already made a huge pivot in his own [...]
Wine Country Women Fight Glyphosate BY JONAH RASKIN Call it Wine Country or call it Glyphosate Country. According to Padi Selwyn, the cofounder of Preserve Rural Sonoma County, and Laura Morgan, a local physician concerned about the health of the environment, millions of pounds of pesticides have been applied, mostly to wine grapes, in [...]
Bohemian.com | Kary Hess | June 17th 2020 POWER PLANTS Jocelyn Boreta, co-founder of the Botanical Bus Mobile Herb Clinic, addresses food insecurity. If we want to be a community ready for transformative change, we can begin making it happen by listening to what people actually need, and then responding. Sonoma County–based Daily Acts [...]
By Laura Hagar Rush, Sonoma West Editor, [email protected] Jun 11, 2020 Over the past few weeks, the nonprofit Daily Acts, in partnership with the Botanical Bus Bilingual Mobile Herb Clinic, has distributed over 300 garden kits to members of the Latinx community and others in Sonoma County, and they hope to distribute 700 more. [...]
North Bay Bohemian Daily Acts won 2020 Best Nonprofit of Sonoma County in the North Bay Bohemian! Thank you to our community that believes in and supports this work. We couldn't do it without you. Congratulations to all of the 2020 winners. Daily Acts is found on page 82. See the magazine here! [...]
Nicole Warwick addresses ‘eco-grief’ GIL MANSERGH FOR THE ARGUS-COURIER In August, 2012, Nobel Prize recipient Al Gore led a training workshop in San Francisco for members of his Climate Reality Leadership Corps. At the end of the day, Mr. Gore told the assembled climate leaders, “I hope you will join us in facing the [...]
Daily Acts takes on climate emergency BY KARY HESS When Oxford Dictionaries names "climate emergency" its 2019 Word of the Year, it's time to take action. And that's what Daily Acts is doing. Begun in 2001 with an Eco-Zine called Ripples and a handful of sustainability tours, it's now a community-resilience organization with 13 staff, [...]
Two years ago the Tubbs fire tore through Coffey Park and several other Sonoma County neighborhoods, wiping out homes, and destroying most everything in its path. To mark the second anniversary of that disaster, volunteers descended on Coffey Park this weekend to help homeowners create beautiful landscapes that are more fire and climate [...]
MEG MCCONAHEY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT October 4, 2019 Like the thousands of other people who lost their homes in the October 2017 firestorms that tore through Santa Rosa and the Sonoma Valley, Janis Powers also lost virtually everything growing around her house. Gone were the hydrangea and the daphne flourishing against her garage. Ditto [...]
