CA Climate Legislative Alert – Act This Week!
California Climate Legislation Update Climate bills SB 32, SB 185, and SB 350 will hit the floor of the Assembly next week. Thanks to hundreds of letters, phone calls, and constituent meetings they made it through the State Senate and through policy committees in the…
CA Climate Leadership Bills: Powering the New Economy
California is a national and international leader in climate change legislation. The promising words in Governor Brown’s State of the State Address in February, 2015 have been transformed into a dozen powerful bills comprising the California Climate Leadership Bill Package found here. The subtitle is…
Per Capita Davis: The battery bonanza
By John Mott-Smith From page A4 | July 16, 2015 Cross posted from the Davis Enterprise | Photo Credit: Davis Enterprise This is the second of three (I think) columns on the topic of energy storage; specifically, electrical energy storage. Why so much time spent…
Davis Enterprise Endorses Moving Forward on Community Choice Energy
Cross posted from Davis Enterprise By Our View From page B4 | June 07, 2015 The issue: CCE represents a better way to achieve conservation goals Energy independence, a long-sought goal by local activists, was back on the agenda for the Davis City Council this…
Cool Davis Neighborhood Transportation Fairs
Cool Davis will be wrapping up the summer with two Transportation Fairs! Alongside our transportation partners we want to help you get to your favorite community destinations while cutting back on emissions.Come down and explore your transportation options, ride a Whymcycle, test drive an electric…
Davis residents protest oil trains through town!
Over eighty Davis residents showed up on Saturday, July 11, in fiery red, yellow, and orange shirts to awaken the town to the danger of oil trains transporting highly flammable Bakken crude and toxic tar sands crude oil to refineries in Benicia and San Luis…
The Pope’s Encyclical and Climate Change: Two visitors at the Vatican
The Pope’s Encyclical on Climate Change is an amazing document. It is poetic, visionary, insightful, pragmatic, beautiful… Addressed to “every living person on this planet” it lays out the interconnected problems facing humanity and calls for urgent dialogue and action. His words will open you…
Stop Oil Trains – July 11 Action
Saturday, July 11 from 9:30-10:45 a.m. There is NO safe way to transport extreme tar sands and Bakken crude. Two years after Lac-Mégantic, oil trains keep exploding and carbon pollution keeps rising. Oil trains are a disaster for our health, our safety, and our climate….
A New Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for Davis
(By Shelby Kelley) Davis just got a new Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator! And she is raring to go bringing exciting ideas of how to boost biking and walking from her times in Tucson and Calgary. Please welcome Jennifer Donofrio to Davis. I sat down with…
Electric Vehicle Charging Update
(By Shelby Kelley, Transportation coordinator) Cool Davis is currently working alongside the City of Davis, Valley Climate Action Center, and the UCD Institute of Transportation Studies to plan the next 10 years of electric vehicle (EV) charging in Davis. Cool Davis outreach to the community led to…
Thank You Cool BDoG Donors!
A special thank you to all the Big Day of Giving donors! Cool Davis is one of many Davis organizations who benefited from the May 5th event. Cool Davis raised $4295, an increase of 15% over 2014 and we added several new donors to our…
Rethink, Refresh, Rebound…The Sustainable Enterprise Conference 2015
Jennifer Ann Gordon, a writer and communications consultant and volunteer with Cool Davis attended the Sustainable Enterprise Conference in April in Rohnert Park, Sonoma County and came back inspired and motivated by businesses committed to solutions to sustainability. This is an edited version of a…
A Call to Pinners
You probably already know about our facebook and twitter accounts and if you haven’t already done so let this serve as a reminder to like and follow us respectively. What you might not be aware of is our pinterest account. We want to know if you…
Portabella Mushrooms with 2 fillings
offered by Lynne Nittler This is my favorite main dish for guests who might not be used to vegetarian meals. They’re filling, delicious and easy besides! Look for the fresh portabella mushrooms at the Farmers’ Market!
Vampire power: how much your house can be losing
A new report by the National Resources Defense Council reveals that as much as $19 billion worth of electricity may be wasted in U.S. homes by devices when they’re not being actively being used. That is equal to the output of 50 large power plants…
Dear Future Generations: Sorry!
For our 45th Earth Day Celebration, Rapper Prince EA wrote a letter for the future to startle us into action in the present. Set in the stark Amazon desert where once a dense canopy of trees teemed with life, he spoke apologetically of extinctions and…
Videos of Kathleen Dean Moore, Panel, and Workshops
Cool Davis and the Yolo Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice brought an eloquent climate speaker – author and nature advocate Kathleen Dean Moore – to Davis for a community talk on March 6 and as the keynote speaker for the third annual Interfaith Climate Conference on…
Cool Davis Awards: photos of Davis’ 2015 eco heroes
On Earth Day, April 22, Cool Davis was very proud to honor members of our community for their efforts to reduce our city’s emissions and to model a low carbon green liveable future. Here are some photos of the awardees and the ceremony held in…
The Ecological Hopeful
Karen Klussendorf, UU Worship Associate Earth Day, April 26, 2015 I did NOT want to come up here and tell you how you can get involved in the Environmental Movement, or give you “new” ideas for recycling, reducing, reusing or even to give you statistics…
A shout-out to Cool Davis
Cross posted from the Davis Enterprise, May 7, 2015. On Earth Day last month, Cool Davis announced awards to several local residents in two categories: Climate Solutions and Eco-Heroes. I couldn’t really tell what the distinction was between the two categories; everything seemed important. Cool…
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