Newsletter Archives
October 2024 Issue
- TCEC Interview with an Environmental Champion Amos White
- UFF Tree Planting on Saturday, Oct 12 & Oct 26 at Newark Community Park – 12 more trees
- What else can be planted in the Fall? Ask Master Gardner Guy Duran
- Special for TCEC Members – Compostables
September 2024
- Homeless Strategies in Fremont: Comments from Mayoral candidates Vinnie Bacon and Raj Salwan, as well as Anu Natarajan, Managing Director, Global Housing Practice, Global Policy Leadership Academy
- Consider not approving South Bay Connect
- Ohlone Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Open House – October 19
- Upcoming Events
- Price Reduction – Biocompostable Products
- Want to Join TCEC?
July 2024
- Lemonade – A Short History Again
- Bicycles and Trees – How to Make Fremont Cooler!
- And Trees Can Also Cool Us
- The Power of Trees
- More Ways to Cool the Earth
- Some Juicy Trivia About Lemons
- Where to Go for Lemonade at the August 3-4 Fremont Festival of the Arts
- Mark Your Calendars – Another August Event
- New Price Reduction – Biocompostable Products
- Want to Join TCEC?
June 2024
- Report from Cabrillo Trail Park – Urban Forest Friends (UFF)
- Take Advantage of Fremont’s ‘Free Street Trees’
- Train Troubles in Alameda and Fremont!
- Memories from Earth Day 2024
- Special for TCEC Members – Compostables
- Want to Join TCEC?
May 2024
- The Grey Water Project’s Earth Day Art Competition
- Bicycles in Fremont? Get Ready for Bike to Wherever Day!
- Family Friendly Bike Rides
- The Third Act Returns
- Want to Join TCEC?
April 2024
- Honeybees versus Natural Bees
- Four Ps and Leaf it Bee
- Springtime Heroes
- UFF – Urban Forest Friends
- Upcoming Events: Earth Day Fair
March 2024
- Have a Happy Habitat Garden
- Parking Issues in Fremont
- Interview with East Bay Regional Park Director Dennis Waespi
- Homelessness in Fremont
- Earth Day Events
- Biocompostable Products
February 2024
- Wetlands or Housing? Climate Change Tests Shoreline Development
- Up-cycle Wooden Pallets into Artistic Projects
- UFF News
- LEAF on the Move
- City of Fremont Receives First-ever Platinum Designation for Advancing Solar Energy
- Earth Day is Coming
- Biocompostable Products
- TCEC Elections
January 2024
- How has Fremont evolved next to Newark and Union City? How Gus Morrison Gave to Fremont!
- Gus Morrison – Mr. Fremont: Thank You for Letting Me Serve
- Gus Morrison Obituary
- Full Biography of Gus Morrison
- What About Lemonade?
- TCEC Elections
- Biocompostable Products
December 2023
- Gus Morrison Memorial December 19
- The Importance of an Ecology Club at Washington High School
- Organizing A Campus Trash Pick-Up for Make A Difference Day
- Visionary Leadership Required: Letter to the Editor – by William Yraugi
- TCEC Christmas Annual Donations for 2023
- Here’s the Bad News for Christmas
- A Sustainable Holiday Guide
- TCEC Interview with Santa Claus
November 2023
- Honeybees Versus Natural Bees
- 4Ps and Leaf It Bee
- Solar
- Urban Forest Friends Update
- WHealth Worries Spur State Toward Limits on Fake Turf
- Biocompostable Products
October 2023
- Tree Planting in Fremont
- A Phone Interview with the New City of Fremont Urban Forestry Manager
- Who Will Save the Electric Car?
- Heucheras for the Holidays
- What About FalL Winter Vegetables?
- Biocompostable Products
September 2023
- Where Have All the Farmlands Gone?
- The Ramirez Farm
- Consider Arguments From Two Different Points of View
- Ohlone Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Open House
- Ecologic Interview: Ramon Ramirez
- An Interview with the Tri-City Ecology Center Lemonade Fundraiser Chairperson
- Biocompostable Products
July 2023 Issue
- Lemonade Without Covid – a Short History
- More from UFF – Urban Forest Friends
- Some Juicy Trivia About Lemons!
- ChatGPT – on Lemon Trees: How to Grow the Most Productive Lemon Tree in Your Backyard
- Ramirez Farm and Peterson Farmhouse vs. Housing/Quarry Lakes Parkway Development Proposal
- Where to Go for Lemonade at the August 5-6 Art and Wine Festival
- Events
- Biocompostable Products
June 2023 Issue
- What is Climate-Ready Fremont?
- So, What to Do? Action Plans that Reduce Municipal GHG
- Co-Housing Project Earns Enthusiastic Approval from Fremont Planning Commission
- Garden Party
- Should the Pickering Gate be Opened for Vargas Plateau Access?
- Good News Department
- Interview with ChatGPT
- Biocompostable Products
May 2023 Issue
- Earth Day, April 22 – Scenes from a Successful Gathering and a YouTube video!
- The Grey Water Project’s Earth Day Art Competition Winners
- May 24th Rally for Community Meetings to Save Ramirez Farm Threatened by a Highway in Fremont and Union City planned by Logan High School Students
- Urban Forest Friends Recent Plantings
- What’s New at the Ohlone Wildlife Rehabilitation Center?
- Interview with the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse (SMHM)
- Biocompostable Products
April 2023 Issue
- Have a Happy Habitat Garden
- A Lesson Learned About Garden Nutrients
- Heat Pump for Your House?
- Good News Department
- Eco Grant of the Month
- Events
- Interview with a Tomato
- Biocompostable Products
March 2023 Issue
- Animal Corridors in Fremont?
- The Union Pacific Rail Corridor
- The Bees are Coming! Bad Bees????
- The Third Act is Happening!
- Good News Department
- Bad News Department
- We’re Standing Tall for Trees
- Interview with a Bumble Bee
- Biocompostable Products
February 2023 Issue
- The Mighty Oak
- Acorns of the Past
- Who Plants Trees in Fremont?
- Letter to City Management
- Review the Urban Forest Management Plan Draft
- What’s Coming Up?
- What About the Third Act? Is it Still Happening?
- Interview With an Oak
- Tri-City Ecology Center Election Time
January 2023 Issue
- TCEC trip to the Fremont Boyce Road Recycling and Transfer Station
- Ultimate Recycling -Don’t throw it away, grow it today!
- Rosebud Family Farm Winter Update
- What gets recycled in the medical world – a trip to Ukraine
- Good News Report – FUSD Climate Literacy
December 2022 Issue
- Everything you always wanted to know about recycling
- The Tri-City Ecology Center Christmas Giveaway Meeting
- TCEC Interview with Rocky Raccoon
- A Sustainable Holiday Guide
November 2022
- Nonprofit of the month-Abode
- Urban Forest Friends News
- Pumpkins Aren’t Just For Composting
- LEAF news
- COP 27
- TCEC interview with Charlie
- Outing to Fremont Recycling & Transfer Station
- News Dept
- Special Offer
October 2022
- Fremont’s Animal Code – Changes
- Steelhead Trout and the Creek
- Ohlone Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center News: An Upcoming Event
- Interview with a Honeybee
September 2022
- Where have all the bicycles gone?
- Bike Trails
- Wanna buy a bike? Here’s a few on the market
- Christmas Corn
- Great News!
- A Big Urban Forest Boost!
- 2022 Lemonade Booth Fundraiser
- Interview with Arman the rooster
July 2022
- Climate Action Plan Timeline
- Message from Healthcare Industry
- Climate Action Plan 1 and 2
- Letter to the City
- Bee Here Now
- Planting Pollinator Gardens
- Onions 101
- Newark Area 4
- TCEC Interview with Darwin
- Special Price Discount
- Contribute
- Become a member
June 2022
- How to lose your lawn
- Hydroponics
- Area 4 – What next?
- Letter to the City of Fremont
- Complete Streets
- CPUC and Solar Roofs
May 2022
- Earth Day Redux
- Niles Roll and Stroll
- The Alameda Creek and the ACA
- What’s New in Divestment
- Outdoors a Pathway to Health
- TCEC Interview of the Month
- Special Price Discount
- Contribute
- Become a member
April 2022
- Niles Canyon Roll and Stroll
- The Grey Water Project’s Earth Day
- Alameda County Fairgrounds Eco grant update
- TUFA’s new name
- Wildlife habitat garden
- Nutmeg
- Natives who can rough it
- Volunteer
- Become a member
March 2022
- Strengthening Forest Resiliency
- The Third Act-Who will take a Bow?
- TUFA did it!
- Biodiversity
- Where Should One Invest Ecologically?
- TCEC Interview of the Month
- Good News & Bad News
- Volunteer
- Become a Member
February 2022
February is for solar stories and challenges:
- Sun Shares Program
- Another option to just use the sun yourself
- Vehicle Savings
- What about battery storage?
- Fremont Animal Shelter
- Animal Interview