California community action

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Location	California, USA

The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 02, 2024)
California proposes fracking phaseout, making good on Newsom’s pledge, thehill.com (Feb 19, 2024)
To save its coastal rail line, California will need to move it away from the ocean, Editorial, latimes.com (Feb 09, 2024)

Community involvement[edit | edit source]

Participatory Budgeting Vallejo

Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]

Eco Vista Community, Taking The Community Of Isla Vista Into The Future added 09:02, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
NorCal Community Resilience Network, "...activates and supports community-based and ecological solutions to climate change, economic instability and social inequity toward a Just Transition away from fossil fuels. Our vision is to transform our homes, neighborhoods and communities into self-sufficient, regenerative places." NorCal Resilience Network on facebook
Communities for Sustainable Monterey County, A Transition Initiative
A Place for Sustainable Living, Oakland
Sustainable Fairfax
Transition United States, listing of official (local) initiatives
Transition Joshua Tree
Transition Pasadena
University of California, Santa Cruz, Office of Sustainability, UCSC Education for Sustainable Living Program
UC Santa Barbara Environmental Affairs Board

Bioregionalism[edit | edit source]

Regenerate Cascadia, 501(c)3 social movement organization developing a long-term bioregional vision and process that works with on-the-ground communities to design and implement new frameworks of governance, ecology, and economy for the regeneration and health of the Cascadia bioregion along the northeast Pacific rim of North America and beyond.
Bay Delta Trust, "a convening and weaving initiative seeking to improve bioregional coordination in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta." added 14:51, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Localism[edit | edit source]

Fibershed, Local fibres, local dyes, local labor - Willits Economic Localization

Climate action[edit | edit source]

The Cool Block—A Deeper Dive

Authors: Empowerment Institute, 2016

Cool Block

Resources

From Wikipedia:CoolCalifornia.org

CoolCalifornia.org is a website for Californians with resources to help them reduce their impact on the environment and combat climate change. The website is geared towards different audiences, including: individuals, small businesses, local government, youth, community organizations, and schools. The website currently features two carbon footprint calculators. One is for individuals and households and one is for small businesses; a similar tool for local governments is under development.

Cool California

From Wikipedia:Climate change in California § Legislation

California has taken a number of legislative steps and extensive measures and initiatives targeted at the broader issue of climate effects seeking to prevent and minimize the risks of possible effects of climate change by a wide variety of incentives, measures and comprehensive plans for clean cars, renewable energy, and pollution controls on industry with overall high environmental standards. California is internationally known for its leading role in the realm of ecoconscious legislature not just on a national level but also globally.

Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]

High Speed Rail[edit | edit source]

The California High-Speed Rail Authority was created in 1996 by the state to implement an extensive 700 mile (1127 km) rail system. It would provide a TGV-style high-speed link between the state's four major metropolitan areas, and would allow travel between Los Angeles' Union Station and the San Francisco Transbay Terminal in two and a half hours. Voters approved Proposition 1A in November 2008, approving a $9 billion state bond to finance the project. Then in 2012, the California legislature and Governor Jerry Brown approved construction financing for an initial stage of the project. However, the High Speed Rail Authority still estimates that the initial stages will not be completed until 2021. ^W

Plug-in electric vehicles in California[edit | edit source]

From Wikipedia:Plug-in electric vehicles in California

The stock of plug-in electric vehicles in California is the largest in the United States, and as of December 2023, cumulative plug-in car registrations in the state since 2010 totaled 1.77 million units. Between November 2016 and until 2020, China was the only country market that exceeded California in terms of cumulative plug-in electric car sales.

Hiking trails[edit | edit source]

Wikipedia:Category:Hiking trails in California (category)

Cycling activism[edit | edit source]

Advocacy Academy - Lessons From the Best Biking Cities - San Luis Obispo, CA.

Authors: PeopleForBikes, Nov 17, 2020

Streetfilms-Bike Boulevards (Berkeley, CA)

Authors: StreetfilmsVlog

California Bicycle Coalition
Davis Bicycles!, 501(c)(3) nonprofit citizen group dedicated to promoting bicycling in Davis, California
Wikipedia: Bike paths in California (category), Bike paths in Orange County, California (category)

Urban sustainability[edit | edit source]

Adapt Oakland

Ecological restoration[edit | edit source]

From Ecological restoration California

This page is the beginnings of a portal for California community action in response to Ecological emergency. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...Near you. Please see Ecological restoration for a topic overview.

Towards sustainable economies[edit | edit source]

Cooperation Humboldt, building a solidarity economy on California's north coast, added 16:34, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives
California Center for Cooperative Development
Cooperation Richmond

From Wikipedia:Stockton, California § Experiment in Guaranteed Basic Income

As part of a privately funded experiment in Universal Basic Income in 2019, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (S.E.E.D.) conducted a pilot project that gave a $500 stipend to 125 randomly selected residents for an 24-month period with “no strings attached." It was made possible by the Economic Security Project, an advocacy group chaired by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, which provided the first $1 million for the program, and a dozen other Silicon Valley organizations and private donors who funded the rest of its $3 million budget. The positive benefits of the program during the first year were described in an interim report published in March 2021.

Social inclusion[edit | edit source]

Santa Cruz Warming Shelter Program

Campaigns[edit | edit source]

Californians Against Fracking on facebook

About California[edit | edit source]

California is known for its relatively progressive policies on sustainability and support of renewable energy, as well as its natural beauty, including redwood forests.

From Wikipedia:California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and the Mexico to the south. With 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km²), it is the most populous U.S. state, the third-largest by area, and most populated subnational entity in North America. The Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, with 19 million and 10 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is the state's most populous city and the nation's second-most, after New York. Sacramento is the state's capital.

Prior to European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its successful war for independence, but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The California Gold Rush started in 1848 and led to social and demographic changes, including depopulation of indigenous peoples in the California genocide. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state in 1850, as a free state, following the Compromise of 1850.

Near you[edit | edit source]

Los Angeles - Long Beach - San Diego - San Francisco

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Authors	Phil Green
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Created	November 18, 2011 by Chris Watkins
Modified	May 18, 2024 by Phil Green
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