Ships ahoy!
The Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel is about to get deeper.
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Pruning season
With his selection of Kathleen Merrigan as deputy secretary of agriculture, President Barack Obama cracks open the door for organic and sustainable farming.
Farm boy
SN&R’s president and CEO interviews state Secretary of Food and Agriculture A.G. Kawamura.
Back in business
SN&R’s publisher goes to Washington, meets Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and returns to Sacramento feeling more confident about America.
The chamber in me
For one novice, Cap-to-Cap was an eye-opening trip.
Waste not, want not
The Sacramento region is developing a plan to recycle more construction and demolition debris, and send less to local landfills.
Bike smack
May Is Bike Month, and SN&R president and CEO Jeff vonKaenel has challenged The Sacramento Bee to a bicycle-riding grudge match.
Power down
SN&R president and CEO Jeff vonKaenel takes a look at energy conservation and SMUD’s proposed rate hike.
Bicycle envy
Get those bicycles out, Sacramento region, because May Is Bike Month.
Two for one
Legislation proposed by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg would reduce drop-out rate and create green-collar jobs.
Here comes the bus
Regional Transit has a great plan for the future. Too bad the state’s not funding it.
Seeing the elephant
When it comes to household hazardous waste, what you don’t know can hurt you.
No excuses
We can’t afford not to go green.
Cultivating conservation
JVK weighs in on landscaping-revision guidelines.
Meet the architect
Kip Lipper helped craft some of California’s most crucial green laws.
Yes, we will
How can Sacramento create a sustainable future?