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Thank you for making Giving Tuesday 2018 the most successful one for Save Mount Diablo yet! Giving Tuesday is a day when charities, families, businesses, and community members around the…

It’s easy to become frozen with fear by scary global reports, politcs, election results, man-made and natural disasters–but it’s important to remember that each of us has the power to…

Interviewed by Roxana Lucero, Land Stewardship Associate About Jasmine How long have you lived in the Bay Area? I’ve lived here since 1985. How did you learn about Save Mount…

WALNUT CREEK, CA—According to a new report, The Path Ahead, “Today, kids spend less time outside than prison inmates, with the average child playing freely outside for just four to seven minutes a day.” This report, commissioned by the REI Co-op, notes that the average American now spends about 95 percent of their life indoors. It further reports that we are becoming an “indoor species” which comes with consequences: “Our health and well-being may suffer. And the less we value our outdoor spaces, the less likely we are to protect them.”