The Q3 meeting of the Cool Davis Coalition addressed local resilience, neighborhood placemaking, and a radical retrofit EcoBlock project in Oakland.

Richard Bode reports the new Bolt Utility Vehicle is more comfortable. Plus recall update 12 vehicle fires reported, EVs still safer. There's a 800 per million chance of fire for combustion vehicles. That same simple math applied to the Bolt recall equals roughly 85 fires per million vehicles.

Join Fridays for Future local climate activists Friday Sept 24 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm at the corner of 5th and B in Davis in a public demonstration in solidarity with the worldwide Youth Climate Strike being held the same day.

Cool Davis is currently seeking candidates with a background in community organizing to work with households at neighborhood level, including homeowners and rental households in single and multi-family homes.

Leslie Crenna and Don Shor presented the results of this meeting of the minds and advanced local understanding of how best to meet tree watering needs with greywater.

Yolo Co Master Gardeners provide tips to help us save water especially if we're smart about using what we have and recognize that low water use landscapes can be beautiful,too!

Our newest board member, Bapu Vaitla, is a member of the City of Davis Social Services Commission and a fellow studying gender inequality with the United Nations Foundation. His core interest is the relationship between social cooperation and the well-being of children and young people.

Harry Eldredge muses on connecting with the soil and grieving for the fires spreading across our land.

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• Building a Resilient Community with Bob Doppelt (Q4 2020 Coalition meeting)
  
• Valley Clean Energy with Mitch Sears (Q2 2021 Coalition meeting)

• July 2020: 418ppm
• Pre-industrial level: 280ppm
  
• Safe level: 350ppm
• Last time higher than 300ppm: more than 800,000 years ago
• For daily updates, visit keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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ACT NOW! Significant electric vehicle incentives are scaling back soon! Tax credits for solar and renewables extended two more years (still 26%)! Check out home energy incentives and more!

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Visit Valley Clean Energy to Opt Up and get 100% renewable energy, whether you have rooftop solar or not. All Valley Clean Energy customers are eligible to participate.

AquaHawk is a City of Davis customer water use portal included with your water service. You can use AquaHawk to monitor your hourly water usage and set and receive usage alerts.

Cool Davis gladly accept donations of used cars! What a great way to dump your dirty internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE) and get yourself into a clean electric vehicle. Cool Davis uses the proceeds to support our electric vehicle education and active transportation programs.