Advocacy Archives - Cool Davis

Per Capita Davis: I will be a hummingbird

by John Mott-Smith March 7, 2018

Wangari Maathai started the Green Belt Movement in her native Kenya in 1977 in order to, as the GBM website indicates, “respond to the needs of rural Kenyan women who reported that their streams were drying up, their food supply was less secure, and they…

Advocacy, Inspiration

100% Renewable Energy for CA with SB100

by Lynne Nittler January 10, 2018

With the beginning of a new California Assembly session this month, Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de Leon will likely focus attention on his bill SB100. The 100% clean, renewable electricity bill passed in the Senate last May would accelerate California’s current mandate to achieve…

Advocacy, Energy

Per Capita Davis: Acting locally, acting globally

by John Mott-Smith April 20, 2012

This regular column by John Mott-Smith, a member of Cool Davis, is reposted from the Davis Enterprise Bill McKibben, founder of the 350.org movement, spoke at the university on Monday. The place was packed, with all 400 seats full. McKibben is a writer and author…

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Impolite conversation about climate change

by John Mott-Smith March 4, 2012

This regular column by John Mott-Smith, a member of the Cool Davis Initiative Core Group, is cross-posted from Davis Enterprise The conversation over climate change in the public square has always been a bit strange, but it’s getting downright weird. Climate scientists and ordinary persons…

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