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Curbside watering
is simply too wasteful
Curbside watering with sprinklers must be banned.
The most important waste of water I see is watering of curbside strips. This holds true for industrial in addition to residential properties. A lot of the water goes down the gutter and into the storm drain.
Town ought to require that this space both be landscaped in a fashion that requires no water, for instance rock, tanbark, and so forth., or is watered solely via drip irrigation.
Ray Gamaza
San Jose
Low using passion is
wasteful, polluting
It’s past ironic that columnist Sal Pizarro is lauding the top to a San Jose ban on low using in the identical version through which there are a minimum of three articles regarding the dangerous warmth wave over Labor Day weekend.
We must always not have a good time the aimless driving round at low speeds, which contributes to local weather change at a time after we must be doing the whole lot we will to reduce using fossil fuels.
Carol Zink
Redwood Metropolis
Emotional intelligence
leans towards tribe
Daniel Hendry warns readers to not get caught in “emotional appeals from the Mutsun Tribe,” concerning the proposed quarry at Sargent Ranch (“Details demand we assist new quarry,” Web page A6, Aug. 31). If we don’t inform our selections primarily based on the knowledge of major emotion, we aren’t using the analysis that demonstrates the essential function of emotion in our evolution and growth.
Whereas reactive emotion could cause nice issues, major emotion has an essential operate. It permits attunement to 1 one other, it permits us to guard, nurture and take care of each other. After I learn Hendry’s phrases I really feel indignation when persons are disconnected from their skill to have empathy for many who have been damage. I really feel a deep major unhappiness on the disconnect that I’m seeing evident in our tradition and his phrases. The Amah Mutsun folks’s rights and wishes proceed to go unrecognized. I like to recommend utilizing emotional intelligence to information the choice at hand and say no to the quarry.
Vanessa Wilson
Santa Cruz
Electrical energy wants in
attain for environment friendly EVs
In Paul Del Vigna’s letter (“Our EV future is determined by extra electrical energy,” Web page A6, Aug. 31) there’s a flaw in his calculation that we’ll want 400 KWh extra electrical energy to energy future EVs. EVs are rather more environment friendly than gasoline vehicles. In a gasoline automotive, sometimes solely 15% – 30% of the vitality within the gasoline is used to maneuver the automobile. The remaining 70+% is transformed to waste warmth and tailpipe air pollution.
An electrical automotive can sometimes journey 100 to 150 miles on the identical quantity of vitality contained in a single gallon of gasoline. For example, our 2017 Chevy BoltEV averages 4.9 miles per KWh, which is the equal of 165 mpg in a gasoline automotive. So, we are going to want extra electrical energy, however solely a couple of 36% improve over 2021, between now and roughly 2050 when most vehicles on the highway are prone to be electrical.
Larry Reeves
Palo Alto
VTA must be really
equal alternative
Alternatives for employment with VTA to Spanish-speaking job seekers are being denied. Exams are being supplied in English solely.
A latest expertise of a pal introduced this to my consideration after being turned away by the HR division. How can this presumably be, in one of the crucial closely Hispanic areas in California? Though VTA affords “lodging” to potential workers, apparently Spanish language assessments should not included.
I’m wondering now simply what number of others have been shut out for a similar purpose. VTA wants to begin dwelling as much as its boldly touted claims of range on its web site and change into a really equal alternative employer.
James Ojerholm
San Jose
Extra to increased schooling
than earning money
After I went to public college I may pay my means with a minimal wage job. To complete grad college I did need to take a low-interest scholar mortgage that I later paid off.
What I used to be capable of do then isn’t attainable at this time. It has been prompt that faculty college students ought to select their path primarily based on possible future earnings, however the goal of all post-high college schooling is the opportunity of fascinating, rewarding work and presumably contributing to society in ways in which in any other case wouldn’t occur. There may be a couple of sort of poverty.
Whereas college students ought to study debt, they shouldn’t be blamed for the impact of predatory lending and underfunded post-high college schooling. Certain, folks ought to intention to handle themselves, however there are a lot of different legitimate objectives in life past earning money.
Kip Bryant
San Jose
Embrace Taiwan
for world options
The theme of the 77th session of the U.N. Common Meeting, “A watershed second: Transformative options to interlocking challenges” pointedly reminds us of the grave challenges
