Earth Hour – Sat. March 23 at 8:30 p.m.
Because the Cool Davis Community Action Team believes that everyone has power to inspire people and to make real change and impact in Davis and the world, we challenge all of Davis – individuals, households, businesses, the city – to join in Earth Hour. This year…
Cool Davis at Picnic in the Park
Cool Davis is excited about this year’s first “Picnic in the Park” at the Farmer’s Market in Central Park from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. on Wednesday, March 20. Come find our booth near the caterpillar. Our Community Action Team (CAT) will be on hand…
Forward on Climate: Bay Area February 17
The Keystone XL Pipeline is the current battleground of the emerging Climate Movement. The time has come time for activists to draw a line against more carbon emissions into the atmosphere and hold it.
Call for 2013 Eco-hero Award Nominations
The celebration for the 2012/13 Cool Davis Eco Hero Awards is set for April 21. Each year Cool Davis selects three individuals from our community to highlight with a special award.
Solid Waste Planning Workshop
Veteran’s Memorial Center: 203 E. Fourteenth Street March 21, 2013: Club Room (Davis, CA) – 6:00 p.m. All are welcome, but an RSVP in advace will assist with our planning efforts. Contact pwweb@cityofdavis.org or 530-757-5686. The City of Davis Natural Resources Commission will hold a…
Cool Home Workshop a Success
Organizers, volunteers, and participants gathered to take action towards lowering Davis’s carbon footprint.
Call to Action: Forward on Climate
350.org, Sierra Club, Credo, NRDC, CALPRIG, Rainforest Action Network, and many other organizations have joined together to reach out to President Obama in climate rallies in cities across the country on Presidents’ Day. The grassroots effort is called Forward on Climate.
Cool Home Workshop at Davis Library
Cool Davis invites Davis households to drop-in to a Cool Home Workshop in the Blanchard room, Mary L. Stephens Library on Saturday February 9th 2013 from 10:30am to 1:00pm.
Interfaith Climate Action Conference
Several Davis Faith Groups will present a short, free conference for faith groups: “Climate Crisis: Putting Faith into Action” from 1:45 – 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at the UU Church of Davis at 27074 Patwin Road in Davis.
Photographer’s work documents ‘True Cost of Oil’
This article by Anne Ternus-Bellamy is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise The before and after photos provide a backdrop for Garth Lenz’s message. Before: A lush landscape of color: trees, wetlands and wildlife with mountain ranges in the background. After: More of a moonscape really,…
The True Cost of Oil: Images of Beauty and Devastation
“Canada’s Tar Sands are perhaps the most visually compelling example of all that is wrong with our addiction to fossil fuels and why we must change or face dire consequences for all life on Earth,” says Garth Lenz in his slideshow talk, The True Cost…
Cool Davis Festival Successes!
The Cool Davis Festival, held October 13 in Central Park, was a terrific success, drawing more participants than ever before. Participants were treated to a Bike Circus where city council members raced each other on Whymcycles . The Plug-in Electric Vehicle show was busy all…
Thanks to Cool Davis Festival Team Leaders, Volunteers, Partners and Sponsors!
We are so grateful for all the work that our volunteers, leaders partners and sponsors did to make the Cool Davis Festival 2012 so successful! With nearly 70 exhibits, great weather and all your efforts to make this new venue work, it was a beautiful…
Festival touts green changes of every size
This article by Cory Golden is cross-posted from the Davis Enterprise, one of the Cool Davis’ Festival sponsors. Allen Doyle remembers seeing craters in Alaska left behind by vanished permafrost. On Saturday at the Cool Davis Festival — the Central Park pep rally for all…
Per capita Davis: Cool Davis gets festive
John Mott-Smith is a member of Cool Davis and a regular columnist at the Davis Enterprise from which this article has been cross-posted. It’s that time of year again, when the folks at Cool Davis put on the annual funfest to make real their organization’s…
Nature’s Theater, a Cool Davis Partner
Nature’s Theater produces environmentally-themed books and plays for children and is the latest to join Cool Davis as a partner.
Village Homes Joins Cool Davis
Village Homes in Davis is a passive solar community built in the 1970’s founded on the principals of sustainability.
Festival to promote learning by seeing and sampling
The upcoming Cool Davis Festival on October 13 wl brought together four passionate expert presenters in a special demonstration booth to show visitors how they can integrate low-carbon solutions into their daily lives. Have you ever wanted to learn how to make sustainable sushi, create…
Nature’s Theater presents "The Search for King Carbon"
With a little bit of folly, a little bit of learning and a lot of laughs, Nature’s Theater returned to the Cool Davis Festival on Saturday, October 13th with a free theatrical performance for the whole family. The show is called The Search for King…
How to Hold a Zero Waste Neighbors’ Night Out
What can be better than getting together on Neighbors’ Night Out for a pot-luck? The event already includes camaraderie, good food and fun…Why not challenge yourselves to go for zero waste?
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