by mvchamber | Aug 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
In 2021, Californians threw away 230,000 tons of plastic grocery bags, according to CalRecycle. Toxic chemicals leach from plastic bags into our waterways and our food, and Americans consume a credit card’s worth of plastic each week. These chemicals can have negative...
by mvchamber | Aug 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Marin County and its city and town leaders are embarking on a new effort to keep residents from being forced to leave their homes and neighborhoods. Housing “displacement” is the focus of a new countywide survey aimed at gathering data on who is at risk and guiding...
by mvchamber | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Jim Welte When I first started the Patch websites in Marin in 2010, I initially focused entirely on Mill Valley. I was still living in San Francisco at the time. I needed wi-fi access (thank you to the amazing Mill Valley Library!!), and I also needed a place to...
by mvchamber | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
This Marin Voice Comes from David Newman, of San Francisco, is an intern for the Marin Environmental Housing Collective. The history of environmental protection is Marin County’s defining pride. Outside narrow strips of development along the highways, rolling green...
by mvchamber | May 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
The local Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, a group of about 80 students from middle school and high school that play classical music through the Marin Symphony leadership, is planning a trip to Europe during the summer of 2025 to Austria to play at three different...
by mvchamber | Apr 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Artists incarcerated inside State Correctional Institute Phoenix, in suburban Montgomery County just outside Philadelphia, collaborated with their counterparts inside San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, near San Francisco, California, to stage an art exhibition. “The...
