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Key 1
Local Clean Energy Alliance Meeting
18:00

The Energy Greenprint is almost ready for peer review. We have an online process for joining the alliance at www.localcleanenergy.org.

In this month's general meeting, we'll get updates from the subgroups,and have conversations on overall strategy and outreach. Please RSVP to daveroom@gmail.com.

Please forward to interested parties...

General Meeting

Local Clean Energy Alliance
6-8p, March 13th

Location
Bay Localize
2nd Floor Conference Room
436 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612

Note: 12th St is the closest BART station.

Agenda
Welcome
Updates (Greenprint, subgroups, outreach, Berkeley Climate Action Plan)
Strategy
Outreach
Next steps
Announcements

Please RSVP to daveroom@gmail.com.

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The Local Clean Energy Alliance of the East Bay
A group of organizations, businesses, and citizens has formed to
promote local production and procurement of "clean energy" — energy
derived from renewable, non-fossil, and non-nuclear sources. Local Clean Energy Alliance
members come from groups like the Sierra Club, Pacific Environment,
Ecology Center, Kyoto USA, Rainforest Action Network, green energy companies, and the
popular Nomad Cafe. Many are just concerned citizens. We're working in
Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville to educate the public and encourage
those city councils to adopt a clean, reliable, and affordable energy
system for their residents.

The centerpiece of our agenda thus far has been forwarding a
Community Choice energy system in the East Bay. San Francisco and Marin
counties have already taken the lead by moving forward on their own
community energy plans. Navigant, a consulting firm that cities are
using to help them devise their plans, found that Marin will be able to
achieve comparable rates as PG&E while achieving more than 50%
renewable power within a few years. Key decisions on these plans will
be made in 2008.

We feel a real momentum is building in the East Bay help push
renewable energy and make it into a growth industry. With your help, we
are confident that we can accomplish our goals.

Sign on to Our Platform!
If you're a business, organization, or concerned individual wishing to pledge your support for our efforts, please
sign on to our platform! Our goals are to:

  • Provide 50% of our power from renewables by 2017
  • Maximize local production of clean energy
  • Offer stable and affordable rates for all
  • Create local business opportunities and green-collar jobs
  • Allow local businesses and residents can sell back excess energy to the grid
  • Mandate aggressive energy conservation
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03/13/2008 - 18:00
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03/13/2008 - 20:00
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Local Clean Energy Alliance Meeting
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Key 1
CEQA and Climate Change:Partnering with Local Agencies to Combat Global Warming
09:30

Co-hosted by the Local Government Commission and

the CA Attorney General’s Office

Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), local
agencies have a vital role to play in California’s fight against global
warming. Local governments are responding quickly to the challenge of
global warming Through a sum of their individual decisions, they are
making a significant contribution toward moving the State away from
“business as usual” and toward a low-carbon future. Many questions have
arisen from those cities and counties attempting to comply with CEQA.
This workshop series is intended to address these questions.Most
commonly asked are: How do we analyze the CO2 impacts of future
development? What mitigation strategies do we employ? And finally, how
can a cash-strapped county or city undertake this analysis without too
much expense?Speakers will include Attorney General Jerry Brown and
members of his staff, leaders from the Governor’s Climate Action Team,
and modeling experts from throughout the State.We will also give local
governments ideas for crafting a highly effective climate action plan
by highlighting some of the best local government plans from throughout
the State.

Details and agenda below and at
http://www.lgc.org/climatechange/?page_id=86. Registration is not yet
available so prospective attendees can save the date and check back.

For further information, you can read an article by Jerry Brown directed
to counties in the climate-change special issue of the California State
Association of Counties magazine:
http://www.csac.counties.org/default.asp?id=585, and visit the Office of
the Attorney General's website for recommended mitigation measures:
http://ag.ca.gov/globalwarming/ceqa.php


Workshop Agenda
CEQA and Climate Change:
Partnering with Local Agencies to Combat Global Warming

Co-hosted by the Local Government Commission &
The Office of the Attorney General

9:30 Registration

10:00 Attorney General's Keynote: Urgency of Global Warming

10:30 The Critical Role of Local Government (CEC or ARB)

11:00 Approach under CEQA: Overview on the Fundamentals of Evaluating and
Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Projects Subject to CEQA:
Thresholds, Modeling Emissions, and Mitigation

12:15 Lunch

1:00 The Role of the Regional Blueprint: Addressing Cumulative Effects

1:30 Case Studies: Regional, countywide, city and project specific case
studies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions

3:00 Coffee Break

3:15 Zero Emission Development and How To Achieve It

3:45 Concluding Keynote

4:15 Adjourn

 

Location

1515 Clay St
Oakland, CA 94612

start date: 
03/20/2008 - 09:30
enddate: 
03/20/2008 - 16:30
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CEQA and Climate Change:Partnering with Local Agencies to Combat Global Warming
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Key 1
Cities Addressing their Urban Sustainability Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion
14:00

"Cities Addressing their Urban Sustainability Challenges:
A Roundtable Discussion"

*when
March 25, 2008 - Tuesday
2pm to 4pm

*where
Room 150 in the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) building

Located at the corner of Hearst Ave and LeRoy Ave on the campus in Berkeley:
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/about/docs/map_general.PDF

Parking is available on the surrounding streets (some metered, some 2
hour free parking) or at the Lower Hearst Garage:
Hearst Avenue @ Scenic Avenue, Entrance on Scenic Avenue - Hourly Pay
Parking at all times only in Gold Zone on Level 2.

Despite this being a spring break parking may be difficult…so be sure to
leave yourself sufficient time.

To find BART’s closest stop and “Maps & Directions” plus “Campus Maps”:
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/about/directions.html
AC Transit buses make numerous stops close to the intersection.

*host
University of California/Berkeley Dept of Civil Engineering

*sponsors
Urban Age Institute
Economic Competitiveness Group
University of California/Berkeley - Dept of Civil Engineering

*who
co-moderated by Prof. Slav Hermanowicz (UC Berkeley)
and Gordon Feller (Urban Age Institute)

*agenda
2 special guest presenters (each w/ 15 minute presentations)
remaining time for open discussion

two special guest presenters
*Paul James
Director of the UN Global Compact Cities Programme
http://www.citiesprogramme.org
joins us from Melbourne, Australia

* Anita Palepu, MD MPH FRCPC
Organizing Chair of 7th International Conference on Urban Health
http://www.icuh2008.com
joins us from Vancouver, Canada
the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Scholar;
Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Internal
Medicine at
University of British Columbia. She is the Co-editor of "Open
Medicine"

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03/25/2008 - 14:00
enddate: 
03/25/2008 - 16:00
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Cities Addressing their Urban Sustainability Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion
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