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Fall 2024 Webinar Series in Review: Recharging California

Missed any of the conversations in our Recharging California webinar series? We’ve got you covered with a full recap of each event, plus recordings!

Bowles Farming Company Receives 2024 CA Leopold Conservation Award

Congratulations to Bowles Farming Co., our 2024 California Leopold Conservation Award recipient!

Healthy Soils Week 2024: How Sustainable Conservation Leverages Circularity for Soil Health and Water Security

Celebrate circularity for Healthy Soils Week 2024 with Sustainable Conservation!

Champion Collaboration this Giving Tuesday!

This Giving Tuesday, we’re celebrating Sustainable Conservation’s core value: collaboration. Join us to build smart climate solutions that last!

Welcome, Julia Ravella!

Join us in welcoming our new Donor Database and Prospect Research Specialist, Julia Ravella! In supporting Sustainable Conservation’s fundraising efforts, Julia carries out reconciliation and data entry processes for the development team and manages donor prospect research.

2024 California Leopold Conservation Award Finalists Profiles

Learn about the three outstanding farm operations in line for the 2024 California Leopold Conservation Award!

Here’s how California can conserve 30% of our lands and coastal waters by 2030 | Ashley Boren & Wade Crowfoot in the Sacramento Bee

In their recent Sacramento Bee op-ed, Sustainable Conservation CEO Ashley Boren and California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot call for California to deepen its commitment to achieving the state’s “30×30” goal of conserving 30% of its lands and coastal waters by 2030. For Boren and Crowfoot, this ambitious target isn’t just a policy objective; it’s…

Community-Driven Solutions for Groundwater Resilience StoryMap

Practical strategies for how to manage and broaden recharge benefits for communities, ecosystems, agriculture, and flood risk reduction.

Here’s why Central Valley farmers should champion this California climate proposition | Don Cameron in the Fresno Bee

Read Don Cameron’s Fresno Bee op-ed on why a vote for California’s Proposition 4 presents historic investment in nature-based solutions to safeguard both natural resources and the communities that rely on them.

Proposition 4: Holistic, Sustainable, and Equitable Water & Climate Investments

Proposition 4 offers a significant opportunity to mitigate these disasters and bolster our state’s environmental resilience for decades to come. This critical funding initiative — which will appear for all Californians on the November ballot — presents historic investment in nature-based solutions to safeguard both natural resources and the communities that rely on them.

Welcome (Back) Modibo Keita!

We’re thrilled to welcome back Modibo Keita (he/him), who was previously with the Sustainable Conservation team as a GrizzlyCorps Fellow for 2 years before joining staff as the Central Coast Project Associate this fall.

“Recharging California” Webinar Highlights Featuring Climate Scientist Dr. Daniel Swain

Photo: Kelly M. Grow / California Department of Water Resources On September 4th, we had the distinct privilege of kicking off our 2024 fall webinar series, “Recharging California,” with a conversation between Sustainable Conservation CEO Ashley Boren and Climate Scientist Dr. Daniel Swain. Daniel holds joint appointments as a research scientist within UCLA’s Institute of…