| Action | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Building Resiliency and Connection on Your Block * | Palo Alto - CALOES My Hazards |
Palo Alto Office of Emergency Services (OES) encourages you to visit the CALOES My Hazards site to discover the hazards that exist near your home or work and learn how to reduce your risk. |
| Building Resiliency and Connection on Your Block * | SF - AlertSF Notification System |
AlertSF is a text-based notification system for San Francisco's residents and visitors. AlertSF will send alerts regarding emergencies disrupting vehicular/pedestrian traffic, watches and warnings for tsunamis, flooding, and Citywide post-disaster information to your registered wireless devices and email accounts. You will receive time-sensitive messages wherever you specify, such as your home, mobile or business phones, email address, text messages and more. AlertSF is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco. |
| Building Resiliency and Connection on Your Block * | LA - CERT |
Members of your team can be trained for free as a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member, where you will be trained in how to respond to medical emergencies. With this training, you can help your family, and your neighbors, in the event of medical emergency. |
| Building Resiliency and Connection on Your Block * |
AlertSCC ReadySCC - for Android ReadySCC - for iPhone |
AlertSCC is a reverse 911 service for emergency/disaster messages from Santa Clara County sent to your cell phone, mobile device, email, or landline. The ReadySCC mobile app provides critical alerts via push notification, location of emergency shelters and up to date evacuation maps. |
| Achieving Maximum Energy Efficiency | Palo Alto - Refrigerator Recycling Rebate |
Do you have an old refrigerator or freezer that you don't use any more? Let the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) come take it off your hands. They will do the heavy lifting and even compensate you with a $50 rebate. |
| Developing Your Communication Systems for an Emergency * | SF - AlertSF Notification System |
AlertSF is a text-based notification system for San Francisco's residents and visitors. AlertSF will send alerts regarding emergencies disrupting vehicular/pedestrian traffic, watches and warnings for tsunamis, flooding, and Citywide post-disaster information to your registered wireless devices and email accounts. You will receive time-sensitive messages wherever you specify, such as your home, mobile or business phones, email address, text messages and more. AlertSF is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco. |
| Reducing Food Waste at Home | PA - Peninsula Food Runners |
Our volunteers relay food for over 35,000 meals each week. Use your household wheels to transport one organization's food over-runs to the hungry people that another organization serves. |
| Reducing Food Waste at Home | Food Runners |
Our volunteers relay food for over 20,000 meals in San Francisco each week. Use your household wheels to transport one organization's food over-runs to the hungry people that another organization serves.
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| Becoming Actively Engaged in Your City | Palo Alto - Canopy |
Volunteer to help with tree planting, tree care, tree walks and more. |
| Becoming Actively Engaged in Your City | Palo Alto - Pets in Need |
Volunteer for Pets in Need, the Palo Alto animal shelter. Provide crucial exercise, socialization, training, and advocacy for our animals. We welcome people with a range of animal experience —from newbies to seasoned pet owners. |
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“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.”
