As California endures yet another drought of historic proportions, municipalities are finding innovative ways to incentivize reducing water use among residents. After the Marin County Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency in May, Marin Water, the water...
CCNB’s Zero Waste Program added a new recycling stream to the variety of services offered to the public—carpet recycling! In partnership with Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE), this project is aimed towards diverting carpet and padding material from the landfill...
Whitney joined CCNB in November 2020. Since then, she has steadily been working her way up, earning multiple months of perfect attendance awards and her Sawyer II certification. Her sawyer skills came in handy as she worked many hours on our Sonoma Resource...
Readers may recognize this highlighted corpsmember from our e-news and social media postings six months back: Roxana was one of a small cohort that walked in the 2020 graduation ceremony for John Muir Charter School, our onsite high school. Since graduation, Roxana...
Many of our project sponsors love to work with up-and-coming conservation leaders, and Sonoma Land Trust is no exception. Their team has provided both work and skill-building opportunities on numerous occasions over several years for a few different small but mighty...
One of the projects our crews have been consistently working on with our regular partner Sonoma County Regional Parks is trail-building and trail-maintenance at Helen Putnam Regional Park outside Petaluma. With several days of dedicated crew training provided by the...
Fernando has been with the CCNB team for about a year; he started on the Intern Crew with Sonoma Water and he has grown significantly since then. In the past few months, he has stepped up and is now a person who actively takes interest in the work and his crew. He...
One of CCNB’s longest-standing partnerships is with the Marin County Flood Control District. In fact, a significant driver of our initial growth was our response to the infamous heavy flooding in San Anselmo in 1982. In the time since then, the partnership has...
Erin is one of our most decorated corpsmembers at CCNB. Erin consistently takes advantage of opportunities to develop her skills, earn her high school diploma, and discover her career goals. Because of this, she has been part of our family for almost four years while...
Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) has completed the first phase of a capital improvement plan designed to improve the energy efficiency of its job training and education facilities and upgrade common areas frequently used by corpsmembers and staff. CCNB’s buildings...
