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10 SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | DECEMBER 2022 By Linda Weiss, Resident For those of you in our community who are unaware, I would like to let you know that there is an App available at the App Store on your electronic devices like Cell Phones, iPad, etc. (it's free) called "SeeClickFix." With this App, you can report things in our neighborhoods and around the city of Hemet (non-emergency) that need to be repaired, cleaned up (junk illegally dumped, graffiti), vehicles illegally parked, and safety hazards. You can attach a picture and give the location, it will then have a drop-down menu to choose the type of problem whether it be trash having been dumped, vehicles parked on your street illegally, traffic signals out, or whatever else the city is responsible to take care of. Your report will be sent to the proper department and the cleanup or corrections will be scheduled and taken care of. You will even get a report when it has been corrected. I have used it to get mattresses and old furniture that had been dumped on Thornton Ave. picked up. There is also a program called "Vacation Property Check" through the Hemet Police Department located at 450 E Latham Ave. With this program, you fill out a form, giving them the beginning and ending date of your vacation, requesting the service they provide. They will have a Volunteer Police Patrol car come by and check on your home while you are away on vacation. They drive buy periodically and check your doors and windows to make sure they have not been tampered with. If you leave your side gate unlocked, they check the back of the house also. This program is free. Helpful Things to Know By Clare Mendez, Resident A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found methane levels in the atmosphere are now higher than at any point in the past 800,000 years. Bovine burps are the second largest culprits. A cow's four-chambered stomach is a habitat for billions and billions of microorganisms that digest the fiber. They discovered 95% of the methane released by cows comes from belching, which traps heat in the atmosphere. These emissions were detected by environmental data collected from high-resolution satellites in February of this year. In April the company's analysis confirmed the emissions came from a cattle feedlot in California's Joaquin Valley. Gas from cows and other livestock are a significant driver of methane emissions in the United States, second only to the oil and gas industry. Some good news comes from Brito, a team of New England scientists, who are experimenting with feeding a dozen local varieties of seaweed to the country's roughly 90 million cattle. Certain types of seaweed have special compounds that disrupt those microbes' ability to make methane. If you put some of that seaweed in the cow's feed, they burp less methane. Early results show methane reductions of about 15% - 20%. There's a hitch though, to date the seaweed known to reduce methane most significantly grows only in Australia. Nicole Price, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, is working to find an alternate seaweed off our coasts in the U.S. Collecting samples, the researchers hope to identify which seaweeds are most effective in disrupting the methane process in the cow's stomach. Seaweed eating cows can be part of the solution to climate change, but not all of it. Some argue there's a simpler way to reduce methane emissions from the beef and dairy industry: Stop eating beef and dairy. Chew on This

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