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Summer Sustainability Academy Announcements
In search of fun and valuable summer experiences? The Academy offers NO-COST workshops and events for San Mateo County
community members to learn new skills and connect with their community.
We're on Facebook! If you have participated in the Sustainability Academy, join the Academy Facebook Group to stay updated about community events and learn about sustainability in your community.
www.facebook.com/groups/SustainabilityAcademy
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Academy Offerings
Home Composting Workshops
Learn how to recycle fruit and vegetable scraps into compost in your house or apartment.
Saturday, July 14, 10am-noon
Collective Roots, East Palo Alto
Register here
Saturday, August 25, 10am-noon
Pacifica Sanchez Library
Register here
Sunwork Going Solar Workshop
Understand the basics of solar PV for your home. Special focus on home owners with low electric bills averaging under $100/month.
Saturday, July 14, 12:30-2:00pm
Skyline College, San Bruno
Register here
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Volunteer Opportunities
Sunwork Volunteer Solar Installation Training
Learn how to install solar systems with SunWork to volunteer for solar installations with SunWork's staff.
Saturday, July 14, 9am-noon
Skyline College, San Bruno
Register here
Collective Roots Garden Volunteer
Plant, maintain, and harvest the Collective Roots community and educational garden in East Palo Alto as a Garden Volunteer .
First Saturdays, 11am-noon
Thursday evenings 5pm-7pm (between April and October)
Sign up here
Tunitas Creek Beach Clean Up
Be part of the effort to clean and preserve Tunitas Creek Beach by joining the TLC Locals for weekend beach clean-ups. Volunteers meet at 10am. Register here.
Sundays July 15 & August 19 |
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Community Announcements and Events
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Free Small Electronics & Tires Recycling Drop Off Event
Saturday, June 16, 10am-2pm @ Pescadero Transfer Station
Do you have old, unusable electronics and/or tires at home? Drop them off at the County of San Mateo Office of Sustainability's free small electronics & tires recycling collection event. Residents must provide proof of residency in San Mateo County (e.g., driver’s license, utility bill, garbage collection bill, etc.)
More information about items that can be collected and event details here.
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Committee for Green Foothills Community Advocates Leadership Academy
Strengthen your leadership skills and learn with other change-makers to make a greater impact. The Community Advocates Leadership Academy trains people who are working locally to make a difference on the environmental and social challenges of our time.
Participants meet one Saturday a month for half day classes in rotating venues throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Classes explore influencing electeds, leadership practices, goal setting, and more. Classes start September 2018. Learn more and apply here: https://www.greenfoothills.org/leadership-academy/
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Film Screening of “Collapse of the Oceans” and Facilitated Discussion
Monday, September 10, 6:30-8:30 pm
San Mateo Public Library
Doors open at 6:30, program begins at 7. Light refreshments served.
The San Mateo County Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby will be showing the film – Years of Living Dangerously: Collapse of the Oceans – followed by a facilitated discussion. Contact Marty Jordan for more information at Majord...@outlook.com.
Citizens' Climate Lobby-San Mateo County Monthly Meetings
July 14 and August 11
9:10am: New member intro
9:30-11:30am: General meeting
Peninsula Jewish Community Center
Citizens' Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan organization committed to developing the political will to pass carbon fee and dividend policy as a solution to climate change. Contact Ellyn for more information. Ell...@comcast.net
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Got a kitchen? Why not get a garden? Terraformers.com connects you - busy green thumb and black thumb homeowners - with local gardeners to grow your vegetable and culinary herb gardens at home and makes it easy to install and maintain an edible garden in your home or business.
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Dennis completed his volunteering for the 2017 Master Compost and Solid Waste Course with the 2018 Zero Waste Youth Convergence. This year’s Convergence was focused on empowering youth to work collaboratively towards protecting and raising the voices of communities that have been damaged by the unjust dumping of toxic and hazardous waste while creating a space for an open discussion about equitable pathways to zero waste.
Dennis reflected on his experience: “I was motivated by the environmental racism that I experienced growing up in the heavily industrial area of South East Los Angeles County. I grew up across the street from a milk factory and down the street from a roofing factory, with fumes that could be smelled with car windows rolled up.”
Dennis, we thank you and congratulate you for dedicating your efforts to bridging the gap between zero waste and environmental justice.
To see more of our volunteers in action and stay in touch - join the Sustainability Academy Facebook Group!
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