Projects

Local businesses can play a positive role in the fight against climate change

Cool Davis has been supporting local businesses who have pushed for a city-wide food scrap collection. In early 2011, the City of Davis Recycling Program and Davis Waste Removal (DWR) agreed  a food scrap collection pilot program  in order to determine the feasibility of a larger commercial program. Read more

Cool Davis' communications team tries to communicate better than this..!

Cool Davis communications group was set up to:

• coordinate and run the core communications of Cool Davis including the website, newsletter, facebook, twitter and other social media
• develop an overall communications strategy that can help Cool Davis achieve its goals
• support the communications work of different Projects Read more

Cool Davis mascot Gotita promotes the Cool Davis Festival at Farmers' Market

The events committee is an ad-hoc committee that comes together to promote Cool Davis in events throughout the year. The biggest event in previous years has been the Cool Davis Festival – a weekend long extravaganza held in Fall 2010 and 2011 of hands-on environmental service work, exhibitions of low carbon technologies and ideas, music, theater, dance, kid’s activities and much more. Read more

A hydration station is great for both drinking and filling up water bottles

The Hydration Stations Project has been adopted by the Cool Davis Initiative to encourage and support the restoration of public water fountains and to diminish  plastic waste.

A modern hydration station produces a water flow that encourages the use of a personal water bottle, and thereby both provides drinking water and reduces pollution. The target areas for these stations will include our green belts, Central Park, heavily trafficked bike routes, and our Davis schools. Read more

The goal of the Lite House Network is to have homes throughout Davis that can be beacons of household best practices, energy retrofit, and behavioral change in their neighborhoods. None are perfect or complete in their carbon reduction and sustainability, but all are committed to achieving their goals. Read more

Cool Davis showed the film 'No Impact Man' on Colin Beavan's amusing and insightful experiment to reduce his carbon impact

The Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds is one of the most effective ways of reducing carbon emissions in Davis. This project group is specifically focused on engaging households in carbon reduction through community meetings and educational programs using the methodology developed by David Gershon.  Their most recent action was the showing of  “No Impact Man” and the concurrent week long Low Carbon Week challenge. Read more

How can Cool Davis measure its impact?

Measurement & Learning Group – CDI is trying to measure what we are accomplishing. Do you like data collection, surveys and crunching numbers? Contact Chris Granger at cgranger AT dcn.org Read more

Community outreach will be critical for achieving Cool Davis' goals

Cool Davis believes that it will only be successful when it engages the full community in working together to implement Davis’ Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. It is therefore actively involved in recruiting new community partners who agree to support the mission of Cool Davis and have committed to the Cool Davis pledge of reducing carbon emissions. Read more

Students at Cool Davis Initiative Rally in 2009

Make Davis Cool is the UC Davis student arm of the Cool Davis Initiative. We look to engage students in adopting lifestyle and behavior changes to reduce their carbon footprint.

In Earth Week 2011, Make Davis Cool organized an apartment canvass day where students canvassed over 500 apartment units: raising awareness of Earth Week events on the campus as well as resources to get involved. Read more

Wanted! Davis' latest eco-accessory: the veggie bag!

While the City is currently considering a ban on plastic grocery bags, they are only part of the plastic bag problem.  The goal of this project is to gradually replace and eliminate plastic bags in the produce and bulk aisles of grocery stores by making washable, reusable cloth bags.  They are fast becoming the must-have item in Davis! Read more

A conscious zero-waste policy can stop trash going to the landfill and reduce carbon emissions

The Zero Waste Working Group will gather ideas and resources to help individuals and groups host small and large events aiming for zero waste.  Please refer to Resources/Zero Waste on our website now for some information.  Read more