Matthew Callaway

50 posts

Blue Green Eggs and Ham 2021

Progressive Persistence ‘Blue/Green Eggs and Ham’ 2020 Election Debrief Saturday, January 23, 2021, at 10 AM-12 PM PST Price: Free Public Event *Registration will be required via Zoom for Comments   Register Now! https://tinyurl.com/BGEggsandHam Online with Facebook Live Co-sponsored by Sonoma County Conservation Action, the North Bay Labor Council, and […]

August 2020 Fire Resource List

Current incident map: The County of Sonoma updates their GIS system to provide a map of the evacuation zones during the fire. This map is interactive, and will be updated regularly. To see the map, click here.    The Sheriff uses zones to announce evacuations. To look at the complete zone map of Sonoma County, click […]

Fire Resilience and Preparedness

Resiliency in a wildfire prone area means following fire safe practices around homes. Important work in protecting homes from wildfires remains to be done. For many years, CAFÉ and SCCA have played a key role in accountability and innovation to ensure our community’s long-standing history of environmental innovation. Our outreach […]

2020 Grass Roots Gala!

Traditionally, SCCA has hosted our annual Grassroots Gala to celebrate our environmental successes and raise funds for the issues that lie ahead. Though we can’t gather in person this year, we hope you will support us by joining and sponsoring our…    Virtual Online Auction and Gala July 31st, 7:00pm Your support today will […]

URGENT ALERT: Help Defend Community Separators!

A DEVELOPER IS PROPOSING A LUXURY RESORT AND EVENT CENTER IN A VOTER-PROTECTED GREENBELT! The “Solstice” is a proposed new luxury resort and major event center in a Community Separator between Santa Rosa and Windsor at 3890 Old Redwood Highway. This is, essentially, a 24-room hotel and major event center […]

A message of solidarity

Sonoma County Conservation Action, its board of directors, staff, and many of our members have been tuned into recent events in our nation and country that have pushed our communities to take action and protest. We mourn for the lives that have been lost at the hands of police violence […]

A Just Recovery for Sonoma County Farmworkers?

By Martin J. Bennett Last year the trade publication Wine Enthusiast recognized Sonoma County as the ‘Wine Region of the Year,’ and the Sonoma County Winegrowers Association announced that 99 percent of the county vineyards achieved their ‘sustainability’ certification. But the county’s farmworkers­­­­­–who produce the wealth of the wine country–are […]