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By 06/30/2021
Farmworker housing advocates are facing some hard lessons from a pilot project that fell drastically short of its goal. Starting in 2012, a collaborative between the Marin Community Foundation and Marin County used a combination of public and private funds to build and renovate agricultural worker housing on ranches in West Marin. The group initially planned to fund 200 units within five years, but later sharply reduced the goal to 20 units.
In the end, only a dozen units were built, while the need for more affordable housing never went away.
“There were a number of lessons learned, including that using public funding on private land is really challenging,” said Leelee Thomas, the planning manager with the Marin County Community Development Agency who led the project.
Straus Family Creamery and BMW Group work together on fuel for vehicles California dairy company Straus Family Creamery, is collaborating with BMW Group.
Through California Air Resources Board’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program, BMW can “power” their customers’ electric vehicles with ultra-low carbon intensity electric fuel produced from biodigester technology on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm.
The BMW collaboration helps Straus Family Creamery founder and CEO Albert Straus’ vision of creating a replicable carbon-neutral farming model on his farm, and it provides an opportunity for California dairy farmers to generate new income sources.
The Straus Organic Dairy Farm and BMW Group’s collaboration created a new farm-to-electric pathway in 2019 that ensured the Straus farm could recently invest in and test an advanced biodigester technology. With costs between $1m and $2m, small-scale methane digesters have not been affordable for sma
Changing how we raise crops, livestock could help combat climate change northbaybusinessjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from northbaybusinessjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.