After 9 million miles traversed across 25 cities, self-driving car company Waymo is working to bring fully autonomous vehicle testing to Silicon Valley streets.
Although Bobbi Wilmoth never considered herself an activist, the Mountain View resident is on a one-woman mission to rid her city of plastic straws – one restaurant at a time.
Her Strawless September campaign is just the beginning, said Wilmoth, who is undeterred by critics who question how much of an impact the elimination of straws would have on the amount of plastic contaminating the oceans. She tells naysayers that at least it’s somewhere to start.
Kit Gordon wrapped plastic around her prop at last month’s Los Altos Hills City Council meeting.
“If anyone wants to have a closer look – anyone in the audience – of what stinkwort is,” said Gordon, raising the bundle of spindly green vegetation Aug. 16. “I don’t know if you want to pass it around.”
A new bright blue and green bookmobile will soon be hitting local streets – powered by electricity. Thanks to funds from the Los Altos Library Endowment, the main and Woodland Branch libraries have one of four new electric bookmobiles in the county.
The audience assembled for the Aug. 27 Palo Alto City Council meeting included a crate of tiny black kittens. Asleep for most of the proceedings, the cats perked up when speaker Winter Dellenbach delivered a warning to council members.
According to the city of Los Altos and the Santa Clara Valley Water District, public outreach on the Permanente Creek Channel Improvements Project has been ongoing for more than 15 years. But longtime resident Madelyn Miller of Mountain View Avenue, whose home sits at the intersection of Hale and Permanente creeks, begs to differ.
