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It’s 2022, and we’ve weathered another challenging year. Our ongoing public health crisis and seismic climate paradigm shift revealed a critical truth: we are in this together. The only way we can envision and enable a bountiful water future for all Californians is by working for change with and alongside one another. Us humans, the…
Industry Alliance Honors Sustainable Conservation’s Work to Protect Water Quality and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions With California Dairies
Earlier this month, John Cardoza attended the Dairy Sustainability Alliance Fall Meeting in Las Vegas to receive our 2020 U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award for Outstanding Community Contribution for our subsurface drip irrigation system that uses manure instead of synthetic fertilizers. We received the award along with our amazing partners Netafim USA, Western United Dairies, De Jager Dairy and Michael McRee Dairy. You can read more…
Water in a Warming World: Fortifying California’s Water Resilience
Missed the latest webinar in our Water in a Warming World series? We’ve got you covered with highlights and a full recording of the event. Sustainable Conservation’s Director of Resource Stewardship Dr. Daniel Mountjoy moderated a fantastic panel of experts who discussed how groundwater recharge and multi-benefit projects can help California fortify our water resilience. Our…
Securing California’s Water Future: A Decade of Aquifer Recharge
In 2021, we’re celebrating 10 years of Sustainable Conservation guiding groundwater recharge in the field and at the state level. Groundwater is critical to the health of our communities, farms, and wildlife habitat. This subterranean resource also makes up a whopping 2/3 of our water supply in drought years. Capturing water when it is available…
Giving Together for Generational Impact: Staying True to CA
Behind every environmental win in California are the people who work to make collaboration and progress possible. We couldn’t do what we do every day without folks who are willing to think differently, see possibilities, and make change together. We recently sat down with Jim and Rebecca (Becky) Morgan and their children, Jeff Morgan and…
Witcher Creek Ranch Receives 2021 CA Leopold Conservation Award
Photo: Paolo Vescia The votes have been tallied, and thanks to our esteemed panel of judges, we’re pleased to announce that this year’s California Leopold Conservation Award recipient is Witcher Creek Ranch! 2022 Nominations Open Now Finding Balance The Nader family – Marie, Glenn, and their son, Alan – are dedicated to promoting water conservation…
Doubling Down on Soil Health: Healthy Soils Week 2021
by Sarah Castle, Ryan Flaherty, Elliot Grant and Christa Harader Happy Healthy Soils Week! We’re thrilled to join the California Department of Food and Agriculture in highlighting this year’s theme: Solutions from Soil: Improving California’s Drought Resilience. Healthy soils are critical for drought-resilient agriculture and to combat climate change. Farming practices like cover cropping, compost application, and…
Become a California Conservationist on #GivingTuesday2021!
This Giving Tuesday, become a California Conservationist! We’ve faced many challenges together , and climate change is accelerating our already intense drought and deluge water cycle. Make a gift today to help put water back into our underground aquifers in ways that protect community water quality. If you have already made a generous gift to…
Water in a Warming World: Protecting Drinking Water While Replenishing Aquifers
Missed the latest webinar in our Water in a Warming World series? We’ve got you covered with highlights and a full recording of the event. Sustainable Conservation’s Water Program Director Aysha Massell moderated a fantastic panel of experts who discussed how San Joaquin Valley communities are impacted by drinking water issues, the negative and positive potentials of groundwater…
California Restoration Gets Legislative Boost: Habitat and Restoration Enhancement Act Renewed!
By Charles Delgado & Christa Harader Last year, we celebrated the 5-year anniversary of the Habitat and Restoration Enhancement Act (HREA.) This year, we’re thrilled to announce that Governor Newsom signed SB 716 (McGuire) to extend HREA until 2027! This bill builds on the progress made when Sustainable Conservation sponsored AB 2193 (Gordon) in 2014…
Water in a Warming World: Bonus Q&A
We kicked off our fall webinar series last month with a great conversation between CEO Ashley Boren and E. Joaquin Esquivel of the California State Water Resources Control Board. You all had so many amazing questions that we couldn’t fit into our time with Joaquin, so we pooled our staff’s brainpower for some answers. Read…
GrizzlyCorps Fellow Mikayla Tran On Her Work So Far: “Planning and Implementation”
by GrizzlyCorps Fellow Mikayla Tran, originally posted on the GrizzlyCorps blog. Photo courtesy of GrizzlyCorps. We’re so excited to work with Mikayla Tran as she delves into a complex water policy nexus related to our water program work! the GrizzlyCorps program is an important step on Mikayla’s journey as part of the next generation of…