CityofSantaBarbaraSource: City of Santa Barbara
The City wants to partner with the community to reach carbon neutrality by 2035! It will host two virtual community brainstorming sessions to explore climate opportunities for Santa Barbara on Wednesday, March 3rd from 11am to 1pm and Sunday, March 7th from 1pm to 3pm. Registration is required and all are welcome to attend. The workshop will be simultaneously offered in both Spanish and English.
To register for one or both of the Climate Brainstorming Sessions visit: https://sustainability.santabarbaraca.gov/together-to-zero/
As part of the Together to Zero climate campaign, these two virtual sessions will engage attendees in conversation around potential climate solutions. The ideas that come out of these workshops will directly inspire the City’s climate response on the City’s three largest greenhouse gas emission sources: transportation, energy, and waste.
“Achieving Council’s carbon neutrality goal will require an all-hands-on-deck approach” shared Alelia Parenteau, the City’s Energy and Climate Manager, “and we believe that there is significant benefit in having the community participate in the development of our climate action strategies.”
Attending a climate brainstorming session is just one of the many ways the public can contribute to the conversation around carbon neutrality. For more Together to Zero community events and engagement opportunities visit: https://sustainability.santabarbaraca.gov/together-to-zero/.
I’m gonna have to decide whether to attend the meeting or stick a red hot poker in my ear.
Also, how much is a climate manager paid?
Your usual finger in each ear while humming response to information should work.
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Why are we implementing this United Nations garbage? https://newsroom.unfccc.int/climate-action/race-to-zero-campaign
Maybe because it’s good for people, for the state, for the country, and for the world.
While the beaches are still around you could always go stick your head in the sand.
It helps the wealth stay wealthy, and it helps the less wealthy feel better about having a reduced standard of living. It’s a win-win!
CSF: The first northbound Surfliner leaves Ventura at 11am. That’s not a commuter train.
It leaves DT San Diego at 5:55 am and LA at 9:11 am, so what’s your point? Basic stated “north and south”, so I was citing a perfectly valid example. With the already low ridership, do you expect Amtrak to burn diesel to run empty trains once an hour from each station??? But, but, what about the climate???
Great, lets start with China then.
Bill Gates is proposing the use of small modular nuclear reactors in conjunction with molten light metal energy storage. Those designs have not been tested, however. But if they can test them, and figure out what happens to the waste, maybe they are a good idea. I’m not a big fan of wind turbines and their associated bird carcasses.
Doubtless, the climate manager lives in a passive solar, “tiny house” and walks or rides a bike, never getting in a vehicle. One thing that would help reduce CO2 is to stop building completely, or they could impose fascist restrictions on new housing such that only bicyclists are allowed to live there. Climate manager….this is all simply nuts!
If only the City could manage climate. Climate Beseecher would be a better job title.
I honestly think that we would be better off relying on Native American Rain Dances and Prayers than a climate manager. It would cost less too.
Actually, much of China’s emission are technically ours and Europe’s as we buy all the stuff they make. And honestly, the US has put the largest amount of carbon emissions in the air over the last centuries. Don’t you think we should lead rather than blame a developing country? Also, China has a goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2060. I hate that there are so many negative old people on edhat who don’t care about the future of our climate and young people….
I considered Climate Shaman, but it brought mental images of the face-painted horn-hatted MAGA insurrectionist, and interpreted as possibly insulting to indigenous locals. Better to seek good karma. 🙂
I would like the city to manage and maintain the city’s existing infrastructure before they try to manage the rest of the world. They must also consider the secondary effects of any actions they take within their own little local bubble.
Great, we can look forward to suffering through what Texas did. This is just another way to have our tax money wasted so politicians “feel better”.
Alelia Parenteau, the City’s Energy and Climate Manager was paid $162,792 in 2019 https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Alelia%20A%20Parenteau.
China will have a nuclear grid by 2060. We’ll have to keep paying them for replacement wind turbines and solar panels for eternity. Our power will go out when there’s cloud cover and its not windy.
Henny Penny, more commonly known in the United States as Chicken Little and sometimes as Chicken Licken, is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end. The phrase “The sky is falling!” features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries
Renewable energy makes up a small fraction of Texas energy. The idea that renewables failed and led to that disaster is yet another GOP fairytale made up to scare their voters at night. The grid was cut off from other states, unregulated, and not winterized to withstand prolonged cold conditions. Cancun Ted and the rest of the bumbling fools with all hat and no cattle tried to blame their incompetence on opponents when they have been in charge of Texas for decades. Pathetic.
CSF: My point is that most commuters come up from Ventura (duh) and would not get to work on time if they’re working a normal schedule (duh)