Ojai Valley Green Coalition

With regular unleaded fuel in Ojai over $4.25 per gallon and a barrel of oil at $135, a record high, peak oil is on many people's mind. Our friends at the Santa Barbara based Community Environmental Council sponsored a half day Tri-County Energy Summit for Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties today in Santa Barbara. The 150 attendees were community activists, non-profit representatives, business leaders, city planners, elected city/county officials, and other governmental employees. I went as a representative of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition. Read the full article with links Here

Our regularly scheduled Transportation Committee meeting has been canceled for June. It was scheduled for Monday, June 2 but has been postponed until Monday, July 7.

Don't forget about the Ojai Reads event taking place on June 10 at the Ojai Library (7pm).

The Transportation Committee will meet on the First Monday of the month starting on May 5. We meet for an hour (honest!) from 7:30pm-8:30pm at 308 Drown Ave. Call 646-4832 if you have any questions. All are welcome.

If you are interested in transportation issues in the Ojai Valley, join our discussion group and help us make a difference.

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Do you stay in your house all day and all night? Though there may be a few folks out there in this category, I suspect the majority do cross the threshold into the greater Ojai Valley and beyond. This begs the question of how we choose to get around. Do you walk? Ride a bike? Skateboard? Drive a car? A motorcycle? A electric car? Perhaps you even ride the bus or participate in a car pool? We have many choices for meeting our transportation needs. Beyond our decision of mode of transportation, we then have the decision of frequency of transportation. Do we drive around the Ojai Valley multiple times in the day or do you combine trips? What about participating in a no car day?

These are some of the questions the transportation committee of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition is trying to explore. Beyond these basics, we really don't have an agenda. This is where you come in. What ideas do you have pertaining to transportation in the Ojai Valley? What are the issues? What could be done differently? Who needs to talk to whom to improve the environmental impacts of transportation. Think differently. Think radically. No idea will be dismissed.

If you'd like to actively participate on this committee, join our email list. In the meantime, post your comments below and give us some ideas.

An informal meeting has been planned by the Transportation Committee between Tim Baird, from Ojai Unified, and Jere Kershner, from the City of Ojai. Our goal is to explore methods for the school district and the City to coordinate transportation issues. The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 17th.

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