Giacomini is a Marin native and attended elementary and secondary schools in the county. He received his JD Order of the Coif, from University of California, Hastings College of Law, in 1965 and his BA from St. Mary's College of California in 1962. WRAP, sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, promotes public recognition of businesses that have made outstanding efforts to reduce and divert waste from landfills. Straus Family Creamery packages fluid milk products in reusable glass bottles. A one-dollar deposit on each glass bottle encourages customers to return bottles to their grocer.
Bottles then go back to the creamery for cleaning and reuse.
Straus Family Creamery is also dedicated to water conservation. Albert Straus redesigned his bottlewashing equipment to use 90 percent less water than was used in its original design. That water is reclaimed to wash floors. Waste water generated at the creamery is treated in containment ponds and is later used to irrigate pasturelands. A daughter was born Oct. 3 to Laura and Jesse Bradley of Petaluma at Kaiser Permanent Hospital in Santa Rosa.