Yolo County Bulletin Board

Pa’ia, `Īao, and Up-Country to Haleakalā

It wasn't all beach time in Maui. I mean it mostly was, plus pool time, plus playing the ukulele looking at the ocean time, plus expensive cocktail time. There was a lot of looking out at the suns...

the helpful cat

I worked from home for a couple of days after getting back from Maui, just before the new academic quarter began. I don't think anybody wanted this quarter to start. I'm still in two minds about w...

A Wave from Wailea

Maui No Ka Oi. That mean's ‘Maui is the Best', and it is a beautiful place. Looking out at the Pacific Ocean from where we were staying in Wailea, towards the island of Lanai, the barren lan...

sacramento to kahului (and back)

We flew over the Pacific to the Hawaiian island of Maui just after Christmas, for our festive tropical new year break. That was amazing. We did have to get up super early in the morning to get to ...

2024 Dry January Mocktail Recipes

Davisville, Jan. 8, 2024: Catching up with Davis housing

Housing in Davis has kept evolving since we last talked about it on Davisville in summer 2022. The supply has grown, more new housing is in the works, and the city logged just 354 home sales in 20...

skipper bob

This is the ‘Skipper Bob' tiki mug that I got for my wife for Christmas; it definitely needed sketching. It's the ‘De Nile' themed one from Tikiland Trading Co, and in the theme of the...

Opportunity in the Eye of the Storm: Global Climate Good and Bad News

This past year has been a quiet one for climate impacts locally. While California always experiences wildfires, they did not result in significant poor air quality in Yolo County. While we have re...

Green Your Finances: Expert Panel to Focus on Investing

Wed Feb 21 6pm to 8pm Online

DMA to livestream Annual City of Davis Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration on January 15

Trifecta: A Leading Force in Organic Meal Delivery, Takes Center Stage in Netflix Documentary

Trifecta, a Greater Sacramento Economic Council board member, and the nation’s largest organically sourced meal delivery service, is making waves on Netflix with a captivating documentary that has...

christmas eve in front of the telly

We all have our holiday routines. For us, Christmas Eve has become our family day. Since on Christmas Day we will typically get up and go over to Santa Rosa for the day with my wife's family, wher...

Happy New Year! Thank you to all our donors, partners, and volunteers!

2023 has been an amazing year So many people have contributed to our success in returning our programs to the community and practicing with new hybrid tools to reach more and more people where the...

CAAP Workshop: Exciting Night Steeped in Discussion, Concerns, and Appreciation

By Brittney Nial and Brandon Rueda County level climate emergency In 2020, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors declared a climate emergency in response to higher temperatures, more frequent wildf...

Youth Art Contest for the Yolo County CAAP Awareness Calendar

Yolo County's Sustainability Team needs your help to create our 2024 Back to School Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) Awareness calendar! Applicants must be Yolo County residents and a stu...

I-80 Freeway Widening: Teach In, Update, and Next Steps

The I-80 Teach-In hosted by Cool Davis working groups Davis Futures Forum and Yolo Mobility on Dec 7th was well attended in person and online with over 180 registered participants.  The video of t...

Aggie House Promotes Resilience Among UC Davis Students

The unhoused are among the most vulnerable people in our community during an emergency. Unfortunately, many UC Davis students are currently experiencing housing insecurity. Thankfully, Aggie House...

Chat with the Chief: “Are You Ready?”

Are you ready for the next power outage or localized flooding? Cool Davis is working to help community members build confidence (and make a plan) around emergency preparedness as part of the Yolo ...

Veganuary-31 Days of Plant-Based Eating

Cool Davis Partner Meeting 2023: Reducing and Managing Building Energy and Community Transportation

The Cool Davis Annual Partner meeting was held Monday, December 4th from 5pm to 7pm at the US Bicycle Hall of Fame. Representatives from local businesses and organizations shared their wisdom and ...

Cool Davis Thrilled to Join Yolo Commute; Your Organization Can, Too

Cool transportation solutions are available to any organization! Last month Cool Davis officially joined Yolo Commute, our local Transportation Management Association. Yolo Commute is dedicated to...

shipwrecked and pizza

There is a new tiki bar in Davis. Well it's been open a few months now, but we've not yet been. My wife is a big fan of tiki bars, we recently went to an interesting exhibition in Napa of all the ...

Your Bank Account Could Be the Biggest Part of Your Carbon Footprint

“If you put your money into a bank account, it doesn’t just sit there. It helps the bank lend money out to someone else.” Depending on who that someone is, “Your bank account could be the biggest ...

Communications Interns Digging Deep with Cool Davis

 Note:  Cool Davis Communications interns Brittney Nial and Maggie Maue interviewed and wrote about each other for this article of introduction, which is coming long after they began volunteering....

The Beans Have Been Counted! A Full Report

Note: Jon Bjornstad has taken up the plant-based eating gauntlet with his plant-based eating booth at the Davis Farmer's Market on Saturdays and his Bean Counting Contest. Jon also volunteers for ...

Protecting our Environment and Responding to Climate Change: Updates from Supervisor Frerichs Dist 2

Yolo County Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Development In 2020, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors set the goal of achieving a carbon-negative footprint by 2030, with a focus on equity and j...

Davisville, Dec. 25, 2023: Expanding Interstate 80 through Davis

Traffic on Interstate 80 is often frustratingly slow through Davis, and has been for years. What’s the remedy? Caltrans proposes adding a fourth lane, and the options include allowing free use of ...

December Day in D Street Davis

As the long busy Fall quarter drew to a close, meetings were cancelled, tasks put off to the new year, everybody was just knackered. It was like the staff of the whole campus really needed a break...

some of them fell into heaven

I made an ornament this year with Shane MacGowan on it. My way of honoring him this year, after he died at the end of last month. Christmas Day would have been his 66th birthday. He lived a life a...

engines of old sacramento

Last Saturday I was feeling bored of Davis, but not motivated enough to go down to San Francisco for a day of sketching. Then I remembered that it might be interesting to go to old Sacramento and ...

old sac at christmas

Still in Old Sacramento last Saturday, I went and stood by the big Christmas Tree on Front Street, where people were gathering for photos, and there were different singers nearby filling the stree...

Protected: Embracing Indigenous Wisdom to Build More Resilient and Adapated Communities

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going for gold

The golden autumn keeps on giving. I drew this over a couple of days, starting on my way home from the sketchcrawl, I was heading up B St and passing the Lutheran Church, and I always loved this b...

Per Capita Davis: Curtain comes down on COP28

This is my last column of 2023. It’s about the end of the 28th Conference of Partners as representatives from 200 countries tried once again to grapple with the climate crisis. Many have trumpeted...

christmas time at the farmers market

A couple of weekends ago we held our latest Let's Draw Davis meet of 2024, a small group in Central Park sketching at the Farmer's Market. It had been a cold week and I was expecting a chilly morn...

festive times on campus

The long Fall quarter is finally over, though it hardly seems possible, and we've entered the holiday break before the winter quarter, which is also shaping up to be quite busy. So it's the time f...

Amplifying Nonprofits' Work: I-80 Teach In

Where to Get Great Last-Minute Gifts in Yolo County

Christmas is just days away, and there are those among us who still have holiday shopping to do. If you happen to be one of them— no judgment — there’s [...]

The Arboretum in December

Back in October I sketched this view of the Arboretum (which is where that big old Japanese Zelkova tree used to stand before it started splitting in two, and was eventually removed; I drew that t...

The Food Legacy of Winters, CA

Long before Sacramento became the official Farm-to-Fork Capital of the nation, the Yolo County town of Winters was on a food journey of its own. Like many great food towns, [...]