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Bringing the Community Together to Create Solutions

The Palo Alto Community Environmental Action Partnership, a collaborative citywide initiative, engages the various segments of the Palo Alto community to identify opportunities and create and implement sustainable environmental solutions.

Next Meeting: Wednesday September 10th, 4 - 6 pm

Stanford Y2E2 Building, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford Campus

Meeting will include a tour of the Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy (Y2E2) Building and short presentation on the Stanford Initiative on Environment and Sustainability. Map to Y2E2 Building

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Minutes of August 7th CEAP Meeting

About CEAP	Goals	Structure	Segments
CEAP Priorities	Activities	Join CEAP	Meetings & Minutes

Upcoming Environmental CIty of Palo Alto Meetings

Tuesday, August 19th: Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission will meet to discuss the Baylands Master Plan. At end of this discussion, they will receive comments from the public on the issue of whether Palo Alto should maintain its own composting facility at the landfill site, or ship green waste to Gilroy. Location: Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue.

Upcoming Talks and Events

Talk: Reducing Dependence on Fossil Fuels with Solar Thermal Power

Thursday, August 14th @ 7:30 PM

Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, Main Hall

505 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto

Description: The Green Sanctuary Committee of UUCPA will sponsor a talk illustrated by power point images on the generation of electricity from solar power, to be given by John O'Donnell, Executive Vice President of Ausra of Palo Alto. Ausra manufactures a solar thermal system that delivers low cost electricity at prices competitive with gas-fired generation. The system includes energy storage, providing reliable operation into the evening hours and overnight. Ausra has a contract with PG&E to build a 177 megawatt installation in San Luis Obispo County. A study by Ausra shows that this system can deliver over 90% of California's grid energy with similar findings for the national US grid. Plan to attend this informative event!

"A Taste and a Talk" Series: Simple Tips for An Energy Efficient Design

Thursday, August 21st, 2008, Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Green Building Exchange, 305 Main Street, Redwood City

David Edwards of Earth Bound Homes, builder of the highest scoring GreenPoint Rated

home (304 points), will describe how to incorporate simple design features that can

greatly improve the energy performance of a building. These best practices utilize a

whole systems approach to design so that all components work together; this can save 30% or more on energy costs over a conventional building without significantly

increasing construction costs.

For directions visit:

www.greenbuildingexchange.com

Join the CEAP Yahoo Group

One of the goals of CEAP is to: Create a vehicle for communication, education and awareness among the City and all segments of the community. The Yahoo Group was created to further that goal. Please join so you can communicate with other CEAP participants. We will also be transfering our meeting updates, minute notices and agenda emails to this group. Keeping a separate email list is labor intensive and becomes easily outdated and duplicative.

Click here to join

Review the CEAP survey responses.

This survey was created to help CEAP to better fit the community’s needs, become more inclusive and improve our communications with the whole community.

Survey Summary

Open Ended Responses Only

Full responses (in a large spreadsheet)

Join in the CEAP discussion: Go to CEAP Forum and share your ideas and thoughts

Recent Local News and Milestones:

8.2.2008 Public Transit Benefits Mandate Proposed for San Francisco Employers [Planetizen]

7.24.2008 Roche may leave Palo Alto if it buys Genentech [Palo Alto Online]

7.18.2008 State is first to OK green building standards [SF Chronicle]

7.15.2008 City of Palo Alto Earns Award for Its Climate Protection Plan

7.12.2008 Palo Alto Landlords to Help Small Businesses get Green Certified [PA Daily News]

7.8.2008 Dartmouth's Big Green Bus to visit Palo Alto on July 17th! More info on this fun educational event >>>

6.27.2008 New City Manager Hired for Palo Alto!

Story at PaloAltoOnline. Press Release. Speech. Q&A.

James Keane, new City Manager for Palo Alto, stated in his Q&A remarks "But really, the issues (of) environmental protection, sustainability, and civic engagement and economic health, all of those are fundamental, both for this community and obviously for the state and world as a whole."

6.24.2008 Re-Imagining the House (PA Online)

6.24.2008 Palo Alto to Implement Restaurant Food Waste Composting and other Recycling Contract Enhancements (PA Online)

4.30.2008 Local Communities Reach for Renewable Energy Sources

4.14.2008 Palo Alto's Terradex Wins 2008 USEPA Environmental Achievement Award for Google Earth Content

4.10.2008 Green Rules Emerging For Palo Alto Buildings

3/27/2008 New Report Defines Current Western Climate Change

3/7/2008 Palo Alto Utility Rates may jump 10% in July

3/7/2008 Palo Alto Weekly to build & occupy new LEED Silver building