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We loved our woodstove but it was getting to the point that my Cranky Old Man couldn’t go out and bring back pickup loads of wood for the winter. Buying …

NO, no NO anytime, anywhere.Wood heat is a part of America, the warmth the sheerfun of both building a fire and enjoyed heat is part of it.If kept free and …

Well, we found kittens in our woodpile. We inherited the pile with the house, and it just slowly decomposed over the years; it’s lovely compost now. The kittens grew up, …

It doesn’t matter to me either way. I heat my house with the tailpipe of my truck.

Whew! I’m glad everyone is okay.

Houses are still close to one another. These are suburbs with people using wood stoves.

The existing wood burners would have to update their stoves as well.

You’ve really got an issue with people choosing their own method of heat, which seems to me to be a very personal choice. If you are very worried about small …

They still emit pollution. Pellets are just compacted wood.

The problem is, just like second hand smoke, it affects other people.

If only your wood smoke stayed in your airspace…What about more and better insulation?

I can’t tell if this a joke or stupidity, but you know that wood stoves also produce a lot of CO?

Oh for goodness sake. I can’t afford to heat my home. Wood helps me stay alive in the winter. It is a great heater of homes and if you don’t …

Beautiful mural! I love that Mark Campbell was honored with a painting of one of his bowls. Please note that the priest’s name is Fr. Mike Cloney. He is a …

I wll admit ignorance on these data: but how do pellet stoves fit into this paradigm? (they smell hinky right outta the bag)

What a waste of tax money.

Split atoms, not wood.

It’s not the 1970s anymore. A large body of research since then has made it clear that splitting wood and burning it is very harmful.

Split wood not atoms.

True—you’re right.That’s why I said that change is going to come about when people who don’t burn wood start to organize and advocate more loudly.Part of the problem has been …

That’s a fact.

I just burn coal.

Seems like you don’t see a lot of things. That’s what happens when you only focus on one thing, or person in your case.

Maybe you missed my point that PG&E has literally torched over 100 human bodies in the last decade through willful negligence to increase corporate profits. That’s not to mention people’s …

I heat with wood. My stove has a catyltic converter. As long as my stove and the existing woodburners are grandmothered in as the proposed Arcata rule does, it’s ok …

You give them a lot of credit to blame ignorance when a more likely explanation is they just don’t care. Their own convenience or aesthetic preference is more important to …

“AI Overview +5 Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) energy portfolio consists of nearly 100% greenhouse gas-free resources, heavily driven by carbon-free nuclear and eligible renewable energy.The typical PG&E electric …

I don’t see cleaning the air in a city as an example of fascism. I see that as a communty acting in the best interest of their citizens. Actual fascism …

Sadly there still isn’t a lot of awareness of this issue here. If people really understood the harm being done to themselves, their children, and their neighbors, attitudes would change.Much …

Not forced if you can get solar and storage. But if you can’t, how is forcing you to use PG&E any worse than you forcing the neighborhood kids to inhale …


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