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Tehama County market reduces landfill food waste with grocery donations

Sponsored by: Tehama County Solid Waste Management Agency

What happens to excess food from grocery stores after it reaches its expiration date? The owners of Nu-Way Market—Beau Perkins, and Bill Patchen, who have been operating the store since 2004—use a more socially conscious approach to handling food waste. […]


Scraps to Gold in Tehama County: Composting turns organic waste into valuable fertilizer for small farms

Sponsored by: Tehama County Solid Waste Management Agency

The cost-benefit analysis of composting kitchen scraps for a personal garden can be discouraging—but when the process and payoffs of recycling organic waste are scaled up to the size of a small farm, such as Red Gate Ranch in Red Bluff, coffee grounds are as good as gold. […]


Sustainability Grant Awarded to Red Bluff Joint Union High School District is having an impact

Sponsored by: Tehama County Solid Waste Management Agency

Marissa Stevens has been the Director of Nutrition Services for Red Bluff Joint Union High School District for eight years. When she was hired, Marissa had a personal goal: to bring a sustainability-garden-to-cafeteria program to the district. Two years ago, that goal got some much-needed help. […]


Reducing the climate footprint through composting, education and collective action in Tehama County

Sponsored by: Tehama County Solid Waste Management Agency

“There’s more to composting than saving food scraps,” says Bobie Hughes, Executive Director of the Sacramento River Discovery Center.
Hughes, who has been composting food waste at the Center for the past five years, is among a growing number of Tehama County residents committed to recycling unwanted food materials and reducing food waste. […]


A woman stands under a fruit tree.

Reducing Food Waste on the Front End: Practical ways Tehama County residents can help

Sponsored by: Tehama County Solid Waste Management Agency

According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Californians throw away approximately 6 million tons of food annually. This staggering number equates to 18% of all material that goes into California’s landfills. With these types of numbers, the waste issue seems daunting, and residents may doubt their efforts could possibly make much difference, so why try? […]


Wasting No Time: Rural North Valley counties are exempt from new organic waste regulations, for now.

Sponsored by: Tehama County Solid Waste Management Agency

Under SB 1383, new organic waste regulations have begun to take effect throughout California. However, some rural counties are exempt to give them time to assess and address their unique challenges in recycling organic waste. […]


Creating a New Generation of Doctors: New accreditation will make Oroville Hospital a teaching institution

Sponsored by: Oroville Hospital

Dr. Gerald Maguire, Sr. came to Paradise in 1961. Until the end of his career in 2018, he was instrumental in creating mental health programs for underserved communities in Butte and Glenn counties, many of […]


CHIP Turns 50: 50 years, thousands of homes, countless hope.

Sponsored by: Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP)

For 50 years, the Community Housing Improvement Project has helped create affordable housing opportunities in Chico and the surrounding counties with one common factor across the motivation, work, and people—it’s plain neighborly. […]


Keeping Tehama County Safe and Clean is Under Our Control: SB 1383 aims to keep organics out of landfills

Sponsored by: Tehama County Solid Waste Management Agency

With SB 1383, California is taking steps to combat climate change and the destruction it brings. The regulation, which was enacted in 2016, requires a 75% reduction in organic waste disposal and 20% of edible food waste diverted away from landfills by 2025. […]


Organic waste diversion goals: Butte County is working to meet new state law requirements

Sponsored by: Butte County Public Works

California’s SB 1383, or the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy, aims to reduce the disposal of organics in landfills 75% by 2025, which means diverting more than 20 million tons from landfills across the state. […]


Resident Services: Workshops, after school programs and financial troubleshooting bring life to CHIP’s North Valley rental properties

Sponsored by: Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP)

The Community Housing Improvement Program believes rental complexes are more than opportunities for housing—they’re a chance for respite, self-improvement and community. […]


A Win-Win: Learn how Butte County is reducing organic waste by getting food to residents who need it

Sponsored by: Butte County Public Works

In a society where so much food ends up in the dumpster—and then the landfill—millions live without access to enough food to meet their basic needs. Somewhere between 30% and 40% of the U.S. food […]


Dreaming of Owning a Home: the CHIP Self-Help program builds communities in the North Valley

Sponsored by: Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP)

CHIP’s Self-Help Housing Program partners with USDA Rural Development to develop land or buy finished lots to build subdivisions of about 10 to 50 houses for families whose income is at or below 80% of the area’s median income. […]


The challenge of uneaten food: How Butte County plans to comply with new organic waste laws

Sponsored by: Butte County Public Works

Food waste mostly goes into the landfill. But that is changing under California’s SB 1383, or Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Organic Waste Reductions, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—namely, methane—produced by organic waste. […]


CHIP apartment complex

Welcome Home: CHIP puts stable housing within reach in California’s North Valley

Sponsored by: Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP)

California is in the midst of a housing crisis. Not only are costs and rents soaring across the state, but housing stock in the Chico area was decimated after the Camp Fire destroyed thousands of homes in 2018. Additionally, rural communities typically offer less rental housing opportunities than urban and suburban areas. In some communities, CHIP-run apartment complexes are the only apartment buildings in town. […]


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