The Ojai Valley Green Coalition is a gathering of residents and friends of the Ojai Valley actively working together to create an environmentally sustainable community in Ojai. ...
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The California Cash for Appliances rebates program is adding more choices for Californians to save - high energy efficient dishwashers, freezers, water heaters, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems will soon all be included in California Cash for Appliances PLUS.
Consumers have up to 120 days from the purchase date (beginning July 29, 2010) to submit their rebate application by mail. Read details by clicking the link below!
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* Our July Community Presentation: The Film Coal Country
* Andy Lipkis Inspirational at Dirt! The Movie
* Executive Director Deborah Pendrey on "Facing the Facts about Where Our Energy’s Been Coming From" and “State Measure 94 Becomes Proposition 23”
* An Update on the Draft Ojai Light Ordinance
* The Progress of the Ojai Creek Restoration
* Linda Harmon Interviews Thacher Grad William Logan, Author of Dirt (the Book)
Read the .pdf version:
http://www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org/OVGC_Enews_0710_Web.pdf
The Culinary Club of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition would like to invite you to their Recipe Swap and Tasting Social on Saturday, July 31, 2pm - 5pm. Join in with your favorite recipe featuring this seasons local, fresh produce - the social will be held on a small urban farm with chickens, veggies, and native plants and trees!
- Download the event flyer for details!
On June 22, a ballot measure that would suspend AB 32, California’s historic climate change law, qualified for the November 2010 ballot. Prop 23, the California Jobs Initiative, would require that AB 32 and its greenhouse gas reduction program be suspended until the unemployment rate in California drops below 5.5 percent for at least four consecutive quarters. This would essentially overturn the landmark law, because since 1976 California’s unemployment rate has rarely dipped that low.
This ballot measure would also suspend emission reporting and fee requirements for major polluters. AB 32 serves as a model worldwide, for it has already resulted in the growth of clean technology and given rise to many new jobs. A suspension of this climate change policy would freeze progress on both a national and an international scale. As reported by Margot Roosevelt in the Los Angeles Times on June 23, 2010, the battle over the initiative, launched (and mostly funded) by Texas oil giants Valero and Tesoro, will pit that industry against environmentalists and the state’s clean-tech businesses.
Let’s get the facts and then spread the word:
http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com
http://www.suspendab32.org
http://www.jobs2010ca.com
In 2009 Ojai Valley Green Coalition representatives attended City Council meetings and proposed a new Ojai light ordinance. It’s been a year now and it’s time, we feel, to get a move on!
“Please add your support by calling or writing to our city representatives with a request for Ojai to be more light responsible . . . for the skies, for the plants and animals, for money and energy savings, and for a smaller carbon footprint.” stated Energy Committee member Gail Topping
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Previously, state building authorities required homeowners to get permits to use laundry water as irrigation in their yards, but the Building Standards Commission relaxed the rules in January!
