Per Capita: One step forward, five steps backlash
Remembering isn’t really my strong suit, but I do recall points in the evolution of my thinking about the climate crisis. There was the beginning, when it seemed that if all us individuals changed our light bulbs and rode a bike that would take care…
Four Tips to Improve Your Next Climate Change Conversation
Do you care about climate change but don’t know how to bring that up with your friends, family, or colleagues? Climate change is already happening, and many of us have experienced its impacts on our daily life. Despite the growing scientific literature on this global…
Success on Big Day of Giving! You Are the Hope!
On the Big Day of Giving over 170 donors joined our match fund donors in reaching a total of over $36,000 in funds raised for Cool Davis programs. But they didn’t stop there and by the end of the weekend Cool Davis met its Big…
Electric Vehicle Fair Followed Sunday Services at Methodist Church
The Davis United Methodist Church sponsored an Electric Vehicle Fair April 24th coinciding with other Drive Electric Earth Day activities. The event was co-sponsored with assistance from Cool Davis and the Davis Electric Vehicle Association (DEVA). Sixty-three “EV” curious participants examined 11 battery electric and…
“Coming Clean” Film Screening, Town Hall, Summit Events at UC Davis
“Coming Clean” Film Screening On Friday 5/13/22 4-6 PM the College of Biological Sciences, Fossil Fuel Free UC Davis, and the Campus Advisory Committee on Sustainability are screening the film ‘Coming Clean’. This event is part of the Campus Global Theme: Transformative Energies: Repowering and Empowering the Planet. Coming Clean is a film directed by Carolina…
Students Turn Anxiety to Action, Move Out Week Tips
Turning Green Turns Anxiety to Action for College Students Worldwide Environmental nonprofit Turning Green has launched a global survey: Anxiety to Action: Insights from college and university students about climate change and pathways to action open April 19 until May 15 to empower and unify…
Renewed Rebates, Utility Assistance, and No-Cost Income-Eligible Solar
Updates and standbys from our Incentives and Assistance page Utility Bill Assistance Programs CARE and FERA are discount programs that help eligible customers pay their energy bills. Over 1.4 million customers receive a bill discount through these two programs. Complete an online CARE/FERA enrollment form…
A 21st Century Wagon Trail along the Super Charger Highway
by Julie Haney and Bill Dakin Watch the video presentation of this article at the LiveCoolDavis channel on YouTube (coming soon) Why take a Tesla road trip to Maine? After a year of Covid captivity we needed to go on an adventure. Our good friend…
NRC Holds Special Meeting to Discuss CAAP
The NRC held a special meeting to discuss results of the CAAP actions analysis requested by City Council, which includes Cost Effectiveness Analysis (CEA), greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction potential and other factors for each prioritized action in the draft 2020-2040 CAAP (in progress). This meeting was…
Drought Hits California – Again or Still? Some Facts to Ponder
A compilation from the City of Davis website and writer Michael Kluk In October 2021, the Davis City Council reinforced the Governor’s call for a voluntary 15% reduction in water usage and adopted sprinkler irrigation watering restrictions as a preventive measure to assist the City…
Loopalooza a Doosie This Year
May 1st 2022
Big Day of Giving All Day Thursday May 5
now through May 5 at midnight
May Is Bike Month!
May all month long 2022
Like the Hot April Sun: Ken Kirsch Sustainability Story
I remember reading Bill McKibben’s book The End of Nature during my lunch breaks while working as a carpenter in San Francisco. I don’t know why I picked up that book. I wasn’t particularly focused on those kind of issues at the time. But I…
Bicycle Film Festival to Benefit SABA
May 8 thru May 31
City Celebrates Community Solar Achievement, Proposes More Renewables
Peregrine School April 20 2022
Earth Month Goings On 2022
So many events throughout April & May 2022
Hope Needs You to Act on Climate! Personal and Policy Responses to the Recent IPCC Report
Cool Davis knows that the state of the climate, the pandemic, racial injustice, and the effects of an exploitive economy are powerful forces that weigh heavily on all of us to varying degrees. We know … because we struggle with these things, too! We’re in…
Big Day of Giving 2022: Hope Needs You!
Donate starting April 21 thru midnight May 5
“Swerve” with Poet Ellery Akers: Environmental Poetry Reading and Workshop
May 18 reading and discussion, May 22 poetry writing workshop
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