We can all make an impact in reducing our species’ carbon footprint.
Though January is almost in the rear view window, it’s still close enough to the beginning of the year to think about breaking old habits and picking up new ones. That desire to make positive changes got us to thinking about the city of Santa Cruz’s new Climate Action Plan 2030, adopted by the Santa Cruz City Council back in September, which aims to get the city operating as a carbon-neutral entity by 2035. These plans are being prepared around the state, spurred by a state-government-level mandate.
When the plan came out, local news website SantaCruzLocal.org offered a detailed report and also made the city’s 147-page plan available online.
As a starting point, it outlines the many goals that city officials must pursue—promoting efficient energy use, protecting natural resources, eliminating food waste, and building “people-centric transportation infrastructure”—while also ensuring “equity in all policies.”
Much of the plan focuses on those goals for local government entities. But the last section, titled “Call to Action,” outlines how all of us—individual renters, homeowners and property owners, business owners and employers, and commercial and residential developers—can do our part.
“Bay of Life,” a project from Bonny Doon photographer Frans Lanting and writer Chris Eckstrom, is on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History,
(01/28/2023) → Read the full Lookout Local report
Marilyn Liddicoat, former Santa Cruz County supervisor and staunch conservative who was among the first women lawyers in county history, died at her home in Corralitos late last month.
(01/27/2023) Santa Cruz Sentinel
Sentinel columnist Gary Griggs writes that four forces combined this January to recreate the conditions of the destructive winter of 1983, now 40 years later.
(01/27/2023) Santa Cruz Sentinel
Just weeks after historic wage gains in new labor contracts, the question of how to pay for them is roiling UC campuses as they consider cutbacks in grad student admissions.
(01/26/2023) Santa Cruz Sentinel
With more than 100 employees unable to return to work due to prolonged restaurant closures, chefs from Reef Dog Deli, Trestles, Home and Shadowbrook are teaming up for a Feb. 6 gala.
(01/23/2023) Lookout Santa Cruz
Evan Morrison’s Santa Cruz Free Guide, which has been running the Safe RV Parking program at the Armory, has caught the attention of others who keep a close eye on homelessness response efforts.
(01/23/2023) → Read the full Lookout Local report