San Francisco Dept of the Environment for 18 years: Green product standards, climate action, sustainable landscapes, ecological pest management. Music, hiking
Oakland, California
Joined October 2009
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Honored to receive the IPM Lifetime Achievement Award from CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation. So grateful to all of the amazing people I've worked with - and continue to work with! cdpr.ca.gov/docs/pressrls/20…
@CAPesticides #ipmawards #ipm #urban #sustainability #pestmanagement
This week, the San Francisco Commission on the Environment presented me its Environmental Service award. Many thanks to the Commission and my many beloved colleagues!
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Nothing like a bit of Vivaldi played by The Goede Hoop Marimba Band to bring joy to any day #WednesdayMotivation
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Lisa Wayne is leaving Rec & Park after 25 years as a Park Natural Areas Manager to work for the SF Public Utilities Commission, where she’ll be land & watershed manager for the Crystal Springs Watershed. Good luck, Lisa! Read about her story here: bit.ly/3bbAdQu
Highly recommended reading (and listening):
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Bewildered - Richard Powers
"This conversation with Richard Powers is a Gift" - Ezra Klein podcast
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"What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them?”
Richard Powers, The Overstory
‘Shell Game’: How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution. Another reason #PFAS and #toxics regulation is such a challenge. nytimes.com/2021/10/20/busin…
Just when you think they can’t get any dumber. Wrong word: greedier for power
If you listen closely, you can hear the 2024 RNC crowd chanting now: "We want diphtheria! We want diphtheria!"
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After 18+ years managing the Integrated Pest Management Program and BuyGreen Program for the City of San Francisco, I'm moving on! Excited for what comes next...
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#sustainability #sustainable @SFEnvironment @UCIPM @IPMWest @ipmworks @SPLCouncil
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One of the problems with how politics is covered is many have forgotten that the purpose of politics is policy, as in solving problems. It's not about scoring points in a game of inside baseball. To cover it as such undermines the health and safety of our nation and the planet.
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"We spent a long time thinking we were engaged in an argument about data and reason," @billmckibben says about the climate movement over the last three decades. "But now we realize it's a fight over money and power."
How do we move civilization in a positive direction for #ClimateAction? How about sharing - not preaching - the possibilities of plant-based diets through a Health Care Culinary Contest shar.es/aW6Icb . Big kudos to @HCWithoutHarm ! #PlantBasedFood
1/3 What's the most inspiring #climate related project or idea you've heard of in the past month? I'll get things started. #climatechangeisreal #inspiring #positivity #ClimateNight
3/3 Or how about using insurance to promote fire mitigation? Insurance: A New Frontier for Conservation nature.org/en-us/about-us/wh… via @nature_org
2/3 Let's start with oysters - the Billion Oyster Project - enlisting nature to protect coastal cities like NYC & NOLA against climate change. Check it out: The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Protect Us? newyorker.com/magazine/2021/… via @NewYorker
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If you haven’t gotten vaccinated, please do it now. It’s the most patriotic thing you can do.
via @NYTOpinion - If you’re not willing to change, you’re not really listening nytimes.com/2021/03/03/opini…