News from Tracy Earth Project
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Volume 5, Spring 2024
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Tracy Earth Day
Tracy Green Business Directory
Upcoming Events
Environmental Events and Tours
From the Founder
2024 Earth Day Sponsors
Volume 4 Winter 2024
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Our Year in Review
Partnerships, Green Team, and Youth Council
2023 Tracy Environmental Tours
Upcoming Events
From the Founder
Featured News
MAY 3, 2024
Tracy Earth Project hosted its downtown Earth Day event on Saturday, featuring information booths on a range of planet-friendly groups and businesses in town.
Among the presentations was Mayor Nancy Young offering the Key to the City to Tracy Earth Project CEO Dotty Nygard. Also on-hand for the event were teachers and students who earned the top awards in the Tracy Earth Challenge, a competition that had 190 elementary-, middle- and high-school students submit 35 projects for judging last week, with $1,000 checks going to each of the classrooms that placed first in the judging.
APRIL 27, 2024
Dotty Nygard, the founder of Tracy Earth Project was awarded the key to the city by Mayor Nancy Young at the annual Tracy Earth Day event.
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Tracy Earth Project recently hosted an educational talk at Tracy High featuring speakers from Heirloom, a Tracy-based company whose direct air capture technology is designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Tracy Renewable Energy company founder and CEO Frank Schubert demonstrated the many facets of his enterprise to Tracy Earth Project.
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Volunteers joined the Tracy Earth Project planting more than 100 memorial trees to celebrate California Clean Air Day at different sites around Tracy Saturday morning.
MAY 5, 2023
Environmental advocacy groups, local businesses and government agencies and community groups gathered for an Earth Day event, hosted by Tracy Earth Project.
APRIL 21, 2023
Dotty Nygard, founder of the Tracy Earth Project is honored as Outstanding Adult Volunteer at the Sow A Seed Community Foundations's 2023 Youth Service Awards.
APRIL 21, 2023
Dotty Nygard and June Yasemsky of Tracy Earth Project create Earth Day Challenge for students in Tracy Unified School District.
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
On a unanimous vote the Tracy City Council agreed to create the Environmental Sustainability Commission, which would serve as an advisory body to the council for a number of issues
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The rollout of new waste containers is under way in Tracy, representing a new system for the city, its waste-hauling contractor and residents to handle and sort the waste from homes and businesses.
APRIL 29, 2022
The city of Tracy last week released a draft environmental impact report on the Tracy Alliance Project, a proposal to annex six rural parcels on the east side of Paradise Avenue between Grant Line Road and Interstate 205.