“Whereas the city of Claremont, in avoiding budget shortfalls, has cut funds for sustainability programs…
Freeman AllenOctober 18, 2019
2019 Articles
We’ve been hearing scientific assessments that there has been a massive loss of insects worldwide…
Susan SchenkJune 14, 2019
I’ve been reading Bill McKibben’s latest book about climate disruption, Falter: Has the Human Game…
Freeman AllenMay 24, 2019
Most of the time when we walk through gardens, we “Ooo” and “Ahh” about the…
Susan SchenkMarch 22, 2019
This month Claremont customers of Southern California Edison (SCE) are being asked to choose whether…
Freeman AllenFebruary 8, 2019
2018 Articles
Do you have a rain barrel and want to know how to best connect and…
Drew ReadyOctober 26, 2018
It’s not hard to imagine that being stuck literally in one place permanently creates some…
Susan SchenkAugust 17, 2018
Spoiler alert: there is actually no agreement on this. Everyone is happy to identify soil…
Susan SchenkJune 15, 2018
Have you ever considered how having a public library card is good for our environment?…
Amy Crow, Library ManagerApril 6, 2018
Without being deliberately planted, “volunteers” appear in our gardens from seed released by plants we…
Susan SchenkMarch 16, 2018
2017 Articles
As we know, the Chinese government is extremely interested in the future of renewable energy…
Peter Coy and Freeman AllenDecember 22, 2017
Claremont is considering an arrangement under current legislation and under the auspices of the California…
Freeman AllenNovember 3, 2017
Not many people go on to become professional scientists, but most of us start out…
Susan SchenkOctober 20, 2017
CHERP — then “Claremont” now “Community” Home Energy Retrofit Project — launched with the goal…
Tom ErbAugust 25, 2017
You hear assorted terms tossed around relating to the provenance of plants and animals, but…
Susan SchenkJune 23, 2017
Claremont recently took two major actions towards a sustainable economy and environment. Both actions further…
Freeman AllenMay 19, 2017
The vision of Sustainable Claremont’s Schools Action Group is to create and support high quality,…
Ron MittinoApril 14, 2017
Like most discussions of sustainability, the questions and responses at a recent council candidate forum…
Susan SchenkMarch 3, 2017
Claremont is becoming an oasis of homes with energy upgrades that make them more comfortable…
Freeman AllenJanuary 20, 2017
2016 Articles
It is estimated that American consumers, businesses, and farms spend $218 billion a year growing,…
Patrick MobleyDecember 16, 2016
Claremont is competing with 50 other cities nationwide for the $5 million Georgetown University Energy…
Sustainable ClaremontOctober 21, 2016
Where there are plants, there is mulch. Leaves, flowers, and stems die and fall off…
Susan SchenkAugust 19, 2016
So, you’ve reduced what you can, reused what you can, recycled what you can, but…
Susan SchenkMay 20, 2016
Being rooted to one spot has disadvantages, like not being able to evade others that…
Susan SchenkApril 22, 2016
Look northward from the center of Claremont and the closest mountain you’ll see, just above…
Ted Trzyna, President of the InterEnvironment InstituteMarch 18, 2016
Most people in Claremont now see that we need to live more sustainably. So let’s…
Mark von Wodtke, FASLAFebruary 19, 2016
Try to imagine the U.S. Army patrolling Claremont’s Village Venture. I saw something like that…
Ted TrzynaJanuary 22, 2016
2015 Articles
The City is being proactive by alerting Claremont property owners to avoid potential problems from…
Mark von Wodtke, FASLANovember 20, 2015
Plastic is everywhere. With a quick look around me, I see pens, mugs, furniture, utensils,…
Alexis ReyesOctober 16, 2015
Claremont’s Sustainable City Plan, adopted in 2008, included establishing a community organization to work closely…
Sustainable ClaremontSeptember 11, 2015
I wanted to visit homes on Forbes Place to talk about the Claremont Energy Challenge,…
Freeman AllenSeptember 4, 2015
We hear about it all the time — continue to use fossil fuels as we…
Freeman AllenJuly 17, 2015
When people who had grown up in the East and Midwest started moving to California,…
Susan SchenkJune 26, 2015
Contemplating your monthly water bill? Bigger than your former bi-monthly bill? Want to eliminate your…
Richard HaskellJune 5, 2015
Books are a home decorator's nightmare and an ecological mess. If you are a book…
Lanore PearlmanApril 17, 2015
On March 11, Sustainable Claremont celebrated the opening of its new Resource Center. Why should…
Alexis Reyes and Freeman AllenApril 3, 2015
Many educated consumers understand the danger to health posed by pesticide and herbicide use in…
Nancy Minte, Executive Director, Uncommon GoodMarch 20, 2015
Claremont should develop a community-wide Sustainability Action Plan! Much is happening in Claremont. Organizations, institutions…
Freeman AllenFebruary 27, 2015
It's official — Claremont has been accepted into the Georgetown University Energy Prize competition (see…
Devon HartmanJanuary 23, 2015
2014 Articles
Whether it is in the context of the individual, family, community, nation, or world, the…
Claremont Mayor Joe LyonsDecember 19, 2014
When Claremont’s Sustainable City Plan was adopted in 2008 it included the concept of establishing…
Freeman AllenAugust 1, 2014
"Future generations will look back at the time we are living in now. The…
Dave LutzJune 27, 2014
In order to understand the environmental issues of California, you must have intimate knowledge of…
Jennifer ScheetzMay 16, 2014
Please sign up with the CoolCalifornia City Challenge at coolclimate.berkeley.edu/challenge. Claremont will appreciate your help!…
Freeman AllenApril 18, 2014
When I walk around the City, I look for gardens, big and small, that seem…
Susan SchenkMarch 21, 2014
Plastic, plastic, plastic. It seems like every year more plastic products appear in our lives.…
Wesley MasonFebruary 21, 2014
Pomona College, in the heart of Claremont and the founding member of the Claremont Colleges,…
Virginia RoutheJanuary 24, 2014
2013 Articles
In the initial drafting of Claremont’s Sustainable City Plan, how to implement the Plan was…
Freeman AllenDecember 20, 2013
Claremont City Council invites all residents to a Town Hall meeting at Taylor Hall on…
Freeman Allen and Marilee ScaffNovember 1, 2013
Remember the old adage about the man who knows the cost of everything but the…
The Tree Action GroupOctober 18, 2013
For so long, the term "global warming" has been just an abstract concept to me,…
Jennifer ScheetzSeptember 20, 2013
Companion planting is based on the idea that certain combinations of plants affect each other…
Susan SchenkJuly 19, 2013
From now through the end of July there is an extraordinary opportunity to participate in…
Freeman AllenJune 21, 2013
I heard the water splashing long before I saw its fall. The sound — a…
Char MillerApril 19, 2013
Claremont residents recently received mailers charging a "water grab" as the City moves toward reacquiring…
Marilee ScaffMarch 22, 2013
An earlier Claremont Courier article in May 2012, “Active Transportation in Claremont”, outlined the benefits…
Claremont Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory CommitteeJanuary 30, 2013
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could wean the United States completely off coal and…
Freeman AllenJanuary 12, 2013
2012 Articles
Late on Thanksgiving Day, Devon Hartman sent an email message from his retreat in the…
Freeman AllenDecember 1, 2012
"And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with daffodils." (William Wordsworth) This pretty…
Susan SchenkNovember 17, 2012
It was in the Negev Desert on an archaeological excavation when I first thought about…
Steve SabicerSeptember 26, 2012
It’s no wonder control of our water supply is a big issue in Claremont these…
Freeman AllenAugust 22, 2012
In our February article we reported that a team of 5 students in the Environmental…
Freeman AllenAugust 8, 2012
Now is a time of extraordinary promise for planning a sustainable future. Claremont’s Sustainable City…
Freeman AllenJune 27, 2012
In Claremont today many of us have become overly dependent on PSCs — personal space…
Claremont Bicycle Advisory GroupMay 23, 2012
There is so much to report on sustainability I almost forgot to write this article.…
Freeman AllenApril 25, 2012
Now that spring has once again arrived, thoughts are turning to how to make the…
Susan SchenkMarch 7, 2012
Much is happening in Claremont! Water: In November, Council Member Naisali suggested forming a committee to…
Freeman AllenFebruary 22, 2012
Why not reap the benefits of a home energy retrofit project? Jerry Klasik called me…
Freeman AllenJanuary 25, 2012
Is the Keystone XL project dead? Not at all — it’s just the end of…
Susan SchenkJanuary 11, 2012
2011 Articles
Global warming is arguably the greatest problem humankind has ever faced. What should we do…
Freeman AllenNovember 16, 2011
Water in Claremont is so expensive some residents are talking of moving elsewhere. Only Golden…
Freeman AllenNovember 9, 2011
HOT TIP! Tomorrow evening, October 27, Bill McKibben will be at Bridges Auditorium to speak…
Freeman AllenOctober 26, 2011
You are invited to celebrate the end of Sustainable Claremont’s third year on Monday, October…
Freeman AllenAugust 24, 2011
Those of us who live less sustainable lifestyles are frequently alienated by absolutist rhetoric coming…
Weston WestonborgAugust 10, 2011
For years I’ve been thinking about putting solar panels on my roof. Using sunlight to…
Freeman AllenJuly 20, 2011
Last month at the Sustainable Claremont Board meeting there was talk about climate change action…
Freeman AllenJuly 6, 2011
There are compelling economic and environmental reasons to recycle and reduce solid waste. Claremont is…
Freeman AllenJune 8, 2011
The government of China has declared as its goal becoming an ecologically-sensitive civilization. That it…
John B. Cobb , Jr.April 13, 2011
Three years ago, a couple of friends and I began an experiment in urban agriculture…
Weston WestonborgMarch 16, 2011
Life without a black bin…could you live a week or even a day without throwing…
Sustainable ClaremontFebruary 16, 2011
Historians tell us that conservation and environmental movements in the United States have a history…
Richard WorthingtonJanuary 26, 2011
2010 Articles
Landscape designers, state and local governments, garden magazines, and water distributors have all had a…
Susan SchenkDecember 8, 2010
In 1954, when I came here to join the chemistry faculty at Pomona College, Claremont…
Freeman AllenNovember 24, 2010
Sustainable Claremont, a local grassroots organization dedicated to reminding us that sustainability should always be…
Sally SevenOctober 30, 2010
Please join us to hear Mary Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board, share…
Freeman Allen and Susan SchenkSeptember 29, 2010
The damaging consequences of non-sustainable development are apparent in countless ways — some dramatically foregrounded…
Carl WeltySeptember 1, 2010
Southern California has a wonderful climate, suitable for growing plants from many places around the…
Susan SchenkJuly 14, 2010
There is incredible diversity in the Earth's ecosystems, from rain forest to desert, from tundra…
Susan SchenkJune 23, 2010
What if someone offered you the opportunity to improve your health, help the environment, have…
Carla JacksonMay 26, 2010
Save the date of June 2 from 7 to 8:30 PM for an informative session…
Dave LaybournMay 5, 2010
Nearly every Claremont school has a garden of some sort, even if it’s just a…
Katie Tenneson and Weston WestenborgApril 28, 2010
Food to eat and scenery to enjoy — pleasures brought to you by ‘ecosystem services’.…
Susan SchenkMarch 17, 2010
Global warming is a world-wide air pollution problem, likely to affect our children and grandchildren. …
Freeman AllenFebruary 24, 2010
2009 Articles
Think about oak, pine, jacaranda and orange trees. Each species has its own natural shape…
Susan SchenkDecember 16, 2009