INFORMATION
Follow these links to learn more!
Facts about climate change:
Here is a sampling of links providing an excellent overview of the climate crisis:
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzPILVfLAo&t=10s
AIR - The Search for One Clean Breath
Produced in 2008 by the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noRVg9XAl98
The Climate Disruption Challenge
Don Price, Ventura High School, 10/8/2019
https://youtu.be/vmBpW8YHwBo
Zoom with Bill McKibben - 350 San Diego - 2022
Here is background relating to VCC's campaign to urge City Council to adopt a building electrification ordinance: About Building Electrification:
Aguirre-Torres, Luis (2022). Policy Memo: Making Buildings Carbon Free to Make Real a Green New Deal. Clean Energy Finance Forum of Yale Center for Business and the Environment. https://www.cleanenergyfinanceforum.com/2022/01/03/policy-memo-making-buildings-carbon-free-to-make-real-green-new-deal
Golden, Rachel, et al (2019). Building_Electrification_Action_Plan_for_Climate_Leaders.pdf (Sierra Club) https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/Building%20Electrification%20Action%20Plan%20for%20Climate%20Leaders.pdf
Stay tuned as more links are posted semi-regularly!
What is the most important thing I can do to help address climate change?
Electrify! And recent legislation (Inflation Reduction Act) can help. A good place to start:
https://www.rewiringamerica.org (includes free comprehensive guide to the IRA and a calculator to help understand how much money you can get)
Helpful local resource!:
https://cecsb.org/electrify-your-life
A step by step and program by program guide to the IRA:
https://rmi.org/breaking-down-the-inflation-reduction-act-program-by-program-incentive-by-incentive/
