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NEW! Interactive Sustainability Events Calendar
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Sustainable San Rafael Presents Michael Stocker "The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils" Tuesday June 23, 7 - 9 PM (meet & greet 6:30) With a background in bio-acoustics, Michael Stocker became an advocate for the ocean the day, years ago, when he first heard of the Navy's plans for extensive testing of ultra high-powered sonar signals despite the potential harm to marine life. From that start he has gone on to found Ocean Conservation Reseach, a NGO that is active on a number of fronts related to the seas and our need to establish a more sustainable relationship with them. Join us for an entertaining, inspirational evening that will point us toward ways we can realign our relationship with the seas. Click here to download the event flyer. | ||
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Join us at the Fair! July 4 is Sustainability Day at the Marin County Fair
On Saturday July 4, Sustainable San Rafael and other Marin Sustainables will be be the hosts of the Play Fair Fun Fest tent at the County Fair. It will be right inside the entrance, just past the display of electric cars. (Click here for a map of the Fair Grounds.) We'll have lots of fun activities for kids and a chance to meet some folks who are doing smart, surprising things to live green and fight global warming. Our theme is Community: the growing web of personal peronal links that is both the driving force behind - - and biggest payoff from - - re-localization and sustainable living. Come and be part of our extended family on July 4. | ||
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Climate Change Action Plan Update: San Rafael's CCAP was approved by the city's City's Green Ribbon Committee on March 18 and is now set for presentation to to the City Council on April 20. This is the culmination of a process started almost three years ago to seriously address the city's greenhouse gas emmissions. We've tried to gather the most useful documents here in our little "CCAP Online Library." The first group are the draft plan itself, as presented in January and the public commments recorded at the City's firstworkshop. 1) Climate Cange Action Plan Draft Download PDF 2) Matrix of Implementation Details (v2) Download PDF 3) Collected Public Comments Download PDF 4) Record of comments from January 21 Public workshop at Pickleweed Download PDF The second group is a collection of public comments that have emerged from a number of meetings and workshops since that January 21 meeting. 5) Comments submitted by Sustainable San Rafael at the February 18 meeting of the Green Ribbon Commission Download PDF 6) Public comments from Bob Brown's February 24 CCAP presentation, hosted by Sustainable San Rafael Download PDF 7) Comments from Dale Miller in response to the February 24 presentation Download PDF 8) Additional SSR comments, revised through February 28 Download PDF 9) Draft additions to the plan proposed by Sustainable San Rafael Download PDF | ||
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A Look Forward - Over the past few months, Sustainable San Rafael has re-examined how we're organized, how we choose our issues and how we plan specific actions and events. The goal is an organization that is better able to think strategically over a longer time-frame. This is still very much a work in progress, but if you'd like preview of where it's going, you can Click Here to download an outline of proposed action areas as well as a contact list of Board members responsible for each. A Look Back at 2008 - Here's a brief recap. . .hardly even scratching the surface . . .of what Sustainable San Rafael has been up to in the past year or so. ° Marin Clean Energy...San Rafael is in! Our biggest and most exciting success is the passage by our City Council of the resolution to participate in the Marin Energy Authority (MEA) JPA that will develop the request for proposals (RFP) for CLEAN GREEN RENEWABLE ENERGY for Marin Clean Energy. This vote in December crowned more than a year of tremendously hard work. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who spoke to City Council, walked precincts distributing doorhangers and collecting postcards, got letters, talked to friends and neighbors, gave time and money to the effort. Hooray for us! Sustainable San Rafael has earned the respect and credibility we enjoy. ° Green Ribbon Committee/Green Teams .... as noted above, many members have been part of this process. ° Tabling at many events, presentations at many meetings, participation in neighborhood associations, support of many sustainability causes, and developing relationships in city management and city government. And More .... We were involved in many activities beyond those listed above. Among them, campaigning for SMART, meeting with city officials regarding GHG reductions, and testifying on behalf of the Green Coalition's positions on Redwood Landfill at numerous public meetings and forums. Links to other Sustainable City Groups:
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