Interesting how anti-corporate folks don’t want to know it when it is pointed out that the wood stove industry and the fossil gas industry actually overlap and lobby together. The …

If I can adapt to life without radiant heat, so can you. I even had a wood stove for heat in Oakland for decades, as well as Humboldt for as …

Fabulous!

It’s actually worse when you consider the localized emissions. Residential wood heating causes air pollution hotspots.Research has been done that has shown neighbors of wood burners can be exposed to …

Plus lead, and anyone who works in healthcare in this community knows that’s a problem in Humboldt. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/15/wood-burning-for-heat-reintroducing-lead-pollution-into-the-air-us-scientists-find

Wood stoves release tiny particles that lodge deep in the lungs. They also release carcinogens like benzene and formaldehyde. Exposure to wood smoke over an extended period of time is …

People are starting to catch on in other parts of the world.The Australian Capital Territory’s Office of the Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment put out a report that noted …

Being exposed to the smoke from a wood stove for several hours is as bad as smoking a pack a day. Wood smoke contains tiny particles that lodge deep in …

Extremism does only seem to exist on the other side, how lucky you are!!

No. These are people’s real-life experiences.This topic is usually framed around the needs of the people who burn wood. We need to start acknowledging the profound effects (and costs) on …

There are no solutions, just the illusion of certainty and a deep need to feel good about yourself at someone else’s cost.

The science is not in dispute, even if you find it personally inconvenient. Can you tell me what level of lead exposure is considered safe?

Wood burning is never neutral as far as carbon released into the air.

Both involve poisoning a shared resource.

Absolutely valid equivalence.

“Death Rates Across Heating and Energy SourcesThe mortality burden varies enormously depending on the fuel type, with heavily polluting solid fuels and fossil fuels presenting the highest risks.Solid Biomass (Wood, …

In the long run they are the cheapest option, though better public policy is needed to make them more accessible by covering upfront costs.Forced air systems also don’t work when …

In this state most electricity comes from non greenhouse gas renewables, and it’s quite possible to get that number to 100% as a local consumer.

Not BS. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-11/dbca-prescribed-burns-targets-questioned-air-fire-forum/102327200 https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/news/stories/2025/0325-smoke-from-u.s-wildfires-proscribed-burns-caused-premature-deaths-billions-in-health-damages

Controlling point source pollution is efficient.”AI Overview Controlling point source pollution from industrial smokestacks involves capturing, neutralizing, or destroying toxic gases and particulates before they are released into the atmosphere. …

It’s happening on it’s own. Actually, driven by Trump.”Why BBQ Restaurants are StrugglingSkyrocketing Meat Costs: The cost of beef and pork has surged due to inflation, drought, and the smallest …

No, it isn’t. Residential wood heating is actually a wildly disproportionately large source of harmful emissions. And because this pollution is emitted right where people live, the exposure is greater …

Repub right to harm others is the freedom this country was founded on!

Possibly..Did you buy flowers?

Next, Arcata will want to ban BBQs. Gentrification anyone?

I bet you want to eliminate BBQs as well?

And that is wrong of them to do

And how much do they cost? Do they work when the power is out?

Lets see your localized studies…

In Arcata? Nonsense