Catherine Stihler

Which Housing Measures Passed in This Election? Multiple states and localities brought affordable housing measures to the polls in 2025, to varying results.

When voters think about rent, housing policy wins (mostly). Read Shelterforce’s breakdown of the 2025 housing ballot results across the country. bit.ly/3LHVUNK

#Elections2025 #NextCity

Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them.

"Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them."

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A newsletter from 31 Jan 2002 showing an image of Sir Menzies Campbell receiving an honorary degree.

We are saddened to hear of the death of Sir Menzies Campbell. An alumnus of the University, he served as President of the Liberal Club and the Glasgow University Union, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2001.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

Nine years of our Seaside ReStore🎉🎉🎉

Copyright Podcast Episode · In Our Time · 12/06/2025 · 1h

For those of us out there interested in copyright, great episode👏👏👏
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Our #livestream runs 24/7. But when the microfiche scanning team takes a well-earned break, the feed keeps rolling, with #lofi music accompanying home movies, silent films & other gems from the Internet Archive.

Here's a sample.

Tune in ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

Board Leadership Transition: Doug Yount Passes the Torch to Kathy Arola Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay’s success is supported by outstanding leadership at all levels of the organization including our visionary Board of Directors. After three years of dedicated leadersh...

“Passing the torch” from one Board Chair to another 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks to Doug for his dedicated service and to Kathy for taking on this important role www.habitatmontereybay.com/post/board-l...

Shaver Lake

Evening walk😍

Enjoyed participating in both the Aptos and Watsonville 4th July parades. Great reception for Habitat🎉 Huge thank you to the team, Board, volunteers and their families who all showed up to celebrate❤️

Beautiful Asilomar. Happy Easter🎉

Celebrating 75 years of the Carmel by the Sea Rotary Club 🎉🎉🎉

Enjoyed Education Day with the Leadership Monterey County 2025 cohort🎉🎉🎉

So grateful to these talented Berkeley students who came to help Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay during their Spring Break 🎉🎉🎉

Pleased to get a letter on affordable housing into The Carmel Pine Cone

Happy 19th birthday, Alex🎉

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

How to Shop for a Home That Won’t Be Upended by Climate Change (Gift Article) Deciding where to live has always been a high-stakes financial decision, but a changing climate makes it even more critical. This guide will get you started.

NEW: After the California fires, we wanted to know this: How can people shop for a climate-safe home? Turns out there were more than 65 questions nested under that first one. @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social and I got to work on all of them, and here's the result. nyti.ms/3DREtXd

Just got to love the Squirrel Nut-Zippers. Playing tonight at the Golden State Theatre, Monterey, CA❤️

Flowers, Watsonville❤️

Handwritten recipe for "pan kakes". Incudes 2lb flour, 6 eggs, sugar and sweet milk.

Happy #PancakeDay everyone! Here's an 18th century recipe for "Pan Kakes" from our herbal notebook. Enjoy! #Pancakes #ShroveTuesday 🥞

Celebrating International Women’s Day with the incredible Women’s Education and Leadership Institute at Hartnell College. Thank you Kendra for the invitation🎉🎉🎉

A stack of different copies of Peter Pan stacked on top of a book titled Cake

Every year on #PancakeDay we make a Peter Pancake.

Pancake Day ❤️

An illustration of Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating the telephone

The Orkney island of Hoy with the rock stack known as the Old Man of Hoy in the foreground

This is your occasional reminder that when Alexander Graham Bell (born #onthisday in 1847) invented the telephone, he suggested it be answered with the phrase 'ahoy-hoy.' Which is exactly what we say in #Orkney whenever we sail past the island of Hoy.

Sunset, Carmel❤️

The Washington Post Is Dying a Death of Despair The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect.

Read and also listen to my @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social pod on my efforts on the @washingtonpost.com on Monday. It’s spicy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Married couple seated at table with runner that says Lovers Know Best

LKB tonight in Carmel!

Seven planets to appear simultaneously for last time until 2040 Planetary parade will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn line up

For a brief moment at the end of February, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial spectacle.

This so-called planetary parade, which will occur shortly after sunset on 28 February, will be the last time the phenomenon occurs until 2040.

Vance’s real warning to Europe Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America

"Europe must now start the painful process of “de-risking” its relationship with the US, looking for areas of dangerous dependence on America and stripping them out of the system.” from @gideonrachman.bsky.social
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