Hotel Lucent The Hotel Lucent, formerly known as the Mermaid Inn, undertook a full renovation in 2015. They have installed Electric Vehicle chargers, a solar system, they have replaced all of the utility infrastructure, including new pipes, wires, insulation, low flow...
Green Garden Siblings Menlo Park residents and siblings Amrita and Karan Bhasin say: In order to reduce our carbon footprint, we have made many changes. We removed our lawn and started growing vegetables instead. We built custom vegetable boxes and planted flowers and...
Teaching, Practicing Conservation Hillview Middle School has done a lot to reduce its carbon footprint! The school added rooftop solar panels, saving about $80,000 per year on its electric bill. To date, the solar panel system has also saved 843 tons of CO2, which is...
Composting and Recycling Cooking Oil Kimberly Williams is manager of LuLu’s on the Alameda. The restaurant won a 2015 award for leadership in recycling and composting by Recology. Kimberly lists the various ways the restaurant is helping reduce carbon emissions and...
Inspiring Action Through Art Menlo Park artist Michael Killen paints large oil canvasses in sustainability and climate action themes (see Killen.com) to raise awareness. NASA, Stanford, USGS, and the City of Palo Alto frequently display his paintings that raise the...
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