| Action | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Making Your Water Heater Efficient | MV - Rising Sun Green House Call |
A no-cost program for residents! Have a trained youth Energy Specialist come to check for opportunities for resource conservation and install efficiency appliances. |
| Improving Your Cooling System | MV - Rising Sun Green House Call |
A no-cost program for residents! Have a trained youth Energy Specialist come to check for opportunities for resource conservation and install efficiency appliances. |
| Tuning Up Your Furnace | MV - Rising Sun Green House Call |
A no-cost program for residents! Have a trained youth Energy Specialist come to check for opportunities for resource conservation and install efficiency appliances. |
| Tuning Up Your Furnace | MV - Buildings and Energy Efficiency |
Information on green building, single family and multi-family home energy upgrades, and more. |
| Buying an Energy-Efficient Car | MV - Rebates for Residents |
Rebates for electric vehicles. |
| Buying an Energy-Efficient Car | PlugShare |
A map of EV charging locations around the U.S.A. Type in a city and see all of the charging stations there. You can also use the "Trip Planner" function to map out charging stations along your route. |
| Generating Power From the Sun | MV - Bay Area SunShares |
A group discount program for solar panels, home batteries, electric vehicles, and more! |
| Buying an Energy-Efficient Car | MV - Bay Area SunShares |
A group discount program for solar panels, home batteries, electric vehicles, and more! |
| Maintaining an Efficient Car | How to Maximize Your Vehicle's Fuel Economy |
Tips for saving money and reducing pollution for driving gasoline-powered cars, from the Union of Concerned Scientists. |
| Reducing Food Waste at Home | MV - Repair Café Mountain View |
Do you have things that you like, but no longer work? Don’t toss them, repair them! Volunteers will help you assess and fix your things instead of throwing them away. Repair Café Mountain View is a volunteer-run, community service dedicated to encouraging the repair and reuse of goods, rather than sending them to landfill. At any of the free, periodic Repair Café events, volunteers will guide you to tackle the repair yourself or fix it while you watch and learn. |
Our neighborhood. Our planet.
Resources
“Cities are the platform for change in our world today. The Cool Block links the challenges facing our planet to the intimate, personal, social scale of the city block. This program starts and ends with the premise and promise—that the individual, household, and neighbors are the way forward in the face of seemingly insoluble global problems.”
