In case you haven't had a chance to learn about Sustainable Conservation's newest Board Member, Celeste Cantú, check out our welcome blog for her!
Sustainable Conservation
Environmental Services
San Francisco, CA 3,209 followers
Solving the toughest challenges facing California's land, air and water.
About us
Sustainable Conservation helps California thrive by uniting people to solve the toughest challenges facing our land, air and water. Every day, we bring together business, landowners and government to steward the resources that we all depend on in ways that make economic sense. Because we know that common ground is California’s most important resource. Too often, conflict overshadows common ground when solving environmental problems. For decades, fighting it out in court or the state house has been the default approach to addressing tough challenges facing California’s land, air, and water. Each conflict deepens the distrust and animosity between environmental groups and business, while the pressure on our vital natural resources only increases. California deserves better. When we unite all those who are affected by a problem, understand their perspectives, and find common ground, we succeed in stewarding the resources we all depend on for a thriving future.
- Website
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http://www.suscon.org
External link for Sustainable Conservation
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1993
Locations
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Primary
98 Battery Street
Suite 302
San Francisco, CA 94111, US
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201 Needham Street
Modesto, CA 95354, US
Employees at Sustainable Conservation
Updates
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We're looking for a new a Grants and Contracts Administrator to work out of the San Francisco office! This role will help secure government and private support for our initiatives to protect California’s land, air, and water. The ideal candidate has experience in grant management, exceptional writing skills, a keen eye for detail, and a willingness to collaborate across diverse teams. Learn more at the link below!
Careers | Sustainable Conservation
https://suscon.org
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This Vox article explains how extreme weather events are interconnected, with past droughts and wildfires amplifying subsequent floods and landslides. It also highlights the increasing frequency and intensity of such events, emphasizing the need for better data and forecasting models to mitigate these compounded disasters
How one weather extreme can make the next one even more dangerous
vox.com
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Read the Executive Summary or full "Cover Cropping in the SGMA Era" report from this May! The report highlights the role that cover crops can play in pursuing groundwater security in the Central Valley https://buff.ly/3zXvnWs
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Sustainable Conservation reposted this
In the water industry, it can be very hard to quantify the impact we're having. How much water did we save through our efforts? How much did we replenish or restore? Are we even making a dent? At Sustainable Conservation, we had a unique opportunity to quantify our organization's impact through a recent report by the Public Policy Institute of California, "Replenishing Groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley: 2024 Update." This report compared groundwater recharge activities between California's two most recent wet years, 2017 and 2023. What caught our attention? 👩🌾 On-farm recharge went from an "experimental" to a "mainstream" practice. 📈 On-farm recharge nearly doubled in 2023 to 493,000 acre-feet, up from 260,000 acre-feet in 2017. 📊 On-farm recharge made up nearly 10% of the total volume of recharge reported. These results are huge to us. Here's why. In 2011, Sustainable Conservation first worked on recharge with an innovative farmer, Don Cameron, who took quite the risk by applying extra water to his fields in an effort to replenish the aquifer beneath. While recharge in dedicated basins was common practice, recharging on active cropland was decidedly NOT. A mere 12 years later, and this innovative practice is considered mainstream and makes up 10% of the region's recharge portfolio. This is especially impressive given how much was overcome, including policy and legal barriers, risk aversion amongst farmers and water managers, and funding and program development at local, state, and federal levels. Usually, changes in water management happen over generations. This was accomplished in 12 years. I'm new to this team and can take ZERO credit for what Sustainable Conservation achieved with its partners to test and safely scale on-farm recharge. And this impact is EXACTLY why I wanted to join this amazing team. Sustainable Conservation is pragmatic and works with diverse partners to find and scale solutions for California's most pressing water challenges. I am so proud of what my coworkers, and Sustainable Conservation's many partners, have achieved to date -- and I'm very excited for what's in store the next 12 years. 📰 Read more about what we've learned from this report in Ashley Boren's excellent op-ed in the Sacramento Bee.
A resilient water future for the San Joaquin Valley is within reach. Here’s how | Opinion
sacbee.com
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Revisit Christine Souza's Ag Alert article that discusses the potential water benefits associated with cultivating cover crops, largely based on May's "Cover Cropping in the SGMA Era" report
AG ALERT: Cover crops offer water-holding benefits
https://mavensnotebook.com
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Do you know a grower whose conservation ethic is second to none? Only 1 MORE DAY to nominate a farmer, rancher, or forestland owner for the 2024 California Leopold Conservation Award https://buff.ly/3xVK101
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"All Californians benefit when their freshwater ecosystems—meadows, streams, lakes, rivers, floodplains, wetlands, marshlands, estuaries—are healthy enough to support multiple human uses as well as biodiversity." Read Ted Sommer and Jeffrey Mount's vision for climate-adaptive conservation of our state's vital freshwater ecosystems in the California WaterBlog
Conserving California’s Freshwater Biodiversity Under Climate Change
https://californiawaterblog.com
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2 DAYS LEFT to nominate a grower or yourself for the 2024 CA Leopold Conservation Award. Each year, the Leopold Conservation Award recognizes a standout steward of working lands and their “ethical relationship” with the land they manage https://buff.ly/4cHZ2lc
Nominations for the 2024 CA Leopold Conservation Award close July 18 | Sustainable Conservation
https://suscon.org
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Great article by Vicky Boyd in Ag Alert on the climate and economic benefits of implementing Manure Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) systems on dairy farms. Rich Mayo from DeJager Dairy said the farm has increased its water-use efficiency by 36% and its nitrogen-use efficiency by 45% compared to flood irrigation
Ag Alert
agalert.com