Newsletter Archives

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