To: Julian Cuyamaca CERT members, Julian Cuyamaca CERT/TEEN CERT has taught over 400 adults and 250 teens the CERT program with 55 adults having taken the Train The Trainer Program (TTT), program from San Diego, to Beaumont, to Mexico. Johnny has been the Lead Instructor for the CERT program as well as the TTT Instructor…
Developing and adopting cost-efficient and renewable energy sources are important tasks on the minds of many Americans. With every year, more homes and businesses are utilizing innovative forms of energy generators, particularly solar panels using photo-voltaic technology, to help the environment and their wallets. However, as with all technology, innovation can come at a price.…
Southern California’s fire ecology is unlike that of anywhere else in the United States. Fire control strategies developed for mountain forests don’t have the same results here. So can science help uncover new answers to help Southern California communities manage and live with wildfires? The fires in Southern California are genuinely different than in the…
CPUC shows its inbred corruption Over a period of several years, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) cozied up to its buddies at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which cares about utility profits, but not about ratepayer fairness. SDG&E wanted its ratepayers to pick up uninsured costs for the damage it caused in the…
SDG&E’s ‘Wood to Metal Power Poles,’ which weave in and out through the Cleveland National Forest and private lands, have raised some legitimate concerns amongst residents and numerous community Organizations. The U.S. Forest Service renewed the utility’s’ Master Special Use Permit and Power Line Replacement Project permits in order for SDGE to continue to operate its’…
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for the environmental review for the construction of the San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) Tie–Line 637 Wood-To-Steel Project located in central San Diego County, near the communities of Ramona and Santa Ysabel, California. An application for this project was submitted to the CPUC on March 13, 2013 (Application A.13-03-003) and…
Plans for another solar field in Ramona were met with skepticism by the planning group and public at a Ramona Community Planning Group RCPG meeting. Residents near the proposed project site voiced concerns about potential affects to views, glare from the panels, and trucks traveling the dirt road that accesses the site, and residents around the Sol Orchard solar field…
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