The Press Democrat, California’s largest paper north of San Francisco, profiled Jonathan in a September 17 article titled “Did this Sebastopol journalist’s timely column help nudge Biden out of the race?” The article follows his efforts during the 2024 presidential election. Jonathan Greenberg, whose personal hist...
In one key race after another, Biden is running far behind his 2020 performance against Donald Trump This article first appeared in the Washington Post on July 20, 2024. President Biden has resisted calls by leading Democrats and pundits to step aside and make room for a younger, stronger candidate. These calls are not signs of disr...
January 14, 2024 4 min to read
Town & Country: Inside the Forbes 400 List
Category : Articles, Politics, Trump
This article first appeared in Town & Country here on January 15, 2019. How to Get a Spot Among the Billionaires on the Forbes 400 List Jockeying, backstabbing, fraud: How far will rich people go to be on—or stay off—the list. “We have much better locations!” barked the future president of the United States. “We shou...
This article first appeared with audio excerpts of the tapes in the Washington Post on April 20, 2018. Explosive story with tapes of Trump posing as John Barron to win his way onto the Forbes 400 In May 1984, an official from the Trump Organization called to tell me how rich Donald J. Trump was. I was reporting for the Forbes 400, ...
October 6, 2023 5 min to read
RENEWABLE ENERGY ACCELERATION LAW BALLOT INITIATIVE
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Why the REAL Solar Family Farm Bill Could Be the Most Impactful Climate Solution Ever! This story first appeared in the Sonoma Independent on August 16, 2023 California’s Renewable Energy Acceleration Law of 2024 (REAL) would be the most impactful climate solution ballot initiative in history. It could double the deployment of ne...
February 24, 2023 2 min to read
New Climate Advocacy Team Formed with Scientist Anthony Wexler
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The Climate Solutions Advocacy Institute (CSAI) was formed in response to the urgent call by the United Nations in February 2022 to “implement changes now in terms of how we organize our societies,” in order to avert global climate catastrophe. CSAI’s mission is to facilitate that reorganization so that our government...
First published in the Sonoma Independent, December 27, 2022 Thousands of Sonoma County residents living in trailers and tiny homes will feel safer in the new year, thanks to a December 6, 2022 vote by Sonoma County Supervisors to end a code enforcement process that has caused the eviction of 200 residents per year from alter...
February 24, 2023 1 min to read
Solar Solution Practicum Taught at UC Davis Law School
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CSAI’s university program was launched with a graduate practicum course called, “Climate Solutions Advocacy: Be the Media,” during the Spring, 2022 semester at the University of California’s top ranked College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. World renowned climate scientists Anthony Wexler and Thomas Tomich...
February 27, 2023 1 min to read
Progressive Source Air Pollution Videos for CARB
Category : Environment
In 2022 Progressive Source was contracted by the Air Quality Research Center, based at the University of California, Davis, to produce a video series for the California Air Resources Board(CARB), a division of the California Environmental Protection Agency. The video series consists of ten videos covering the fundamentals of air qu...
February 24, 2023 2 min to read
Campaign for EPA Wood Stove Swap Out Program
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Progressive Source designed and managed an outreach and marketing campaign for the Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District (NSAQMD). We created the campaign to promote their wood stove change out grant program and to educate the community about the best practices for home heating. NSAQMD is a public agency with mandates from ...