A place to get ideas on lowering your expenses and your footprint...
How low can we go while adding more adventure to our life?! Find out more information about Climate Recovery efforts at the Issues page, and how you can help on the Get Involved page.*****
There are a total of 7 ENTRIES at the Letters section INCLUDING "Low Carbon Travel Adventures" and more. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please submit your own adventures and challenges to VJacobi@sonic.net
Or better yet JOIN US ON FACEBOOK AT Our Green Challenge.
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Nurture Your Inner Eco-Hero Series... We are having a fun Eco-Hero Makeover Video session at 3:30 PM on Saturday August 28th. Call 322 - 5842 and leave a message with contact information if you would like to join us. We would love to include you, but space is limited.
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Veronica Jacobi is creating this website to help Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, and anywhere else to create small and large changes to create a better future.
The way we guide development in the next few years will be critical to our quality of life for generations. To continue a traditional subdivision approach will result in forced reliance on automobiles, excessive water use, and destruction of greenbelts. We can encourage improving and increasing affordable housing by clustering growth around schools, shopping, and public transportation hubs as well as encouraging safe and attractive pedestrian and bicycle routes.
One of the best ways to solve problems is for neighbors to sit down with neighbors. Let's join with or create community groups to address neighborhood challenges including reducing our individual and collective footprint.
(Google Energy Wise Neighbors for some great ideas!)
Our water and waste water systems need serious attention to support our current residents & future development in an environmentally responsible way.
Please let us know if any of these ideas are helpful to your community.
Please share your success stories and new efforts towared greater sustainability and lower community and individual carbon footprints.
Thank you!
Veronica Jacobi, Santa Rosa Councilwoman