| Action | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Generating Power From the Sun | Palo Alto - Pathway to Sustainability |
City of Palo Alto resources to help the community reach its sustainability and greenhouse gas reduction goals. |
| Making Your Water Heater Efficient | Palo Alto - Pathway to Sustainability |
City of Palo Alto resources to help the community reach its sustainability and greenhouse gas reduction goals. |
| Reducing Your Household Waste | Palo Alto - Pathway to Sustainability |
City of Palo Alto resources to help the community reach its sustainability and greenhouse gas reduction goals. |
| Creating a Block Welcome Wagon | Palo Alto - Places to Play |
The Palo Alto Advisory Committee on Early Care and Education produced a booklet, Places to Play in Palo Alto. This project gives very young children a chance to contribute to the well being of their city by sharing their ideas on the best places to play in the city. It is also a useful resource for new families in Palo Alto. |
| Offering Extra Help to Neighbors | Palo Alto - Family Resources |
The City of Palo Alto maintains a website with family-friendly service-providers and resources in the community. |
| Offering Extra Help to Neighbors | Palo Alto - Community Legal Services |
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto is a nonprofit offering legal services that improve the lives of low-income families throughout the region. They specialize in immigration, housing, workers’ rights, records clearance, and consumer protection. |
| Participating in Community-Supported Agriculture as a Block | PA - Review of local CSA and other produce-delivery services |
Compare California Bay Area CSA and local produce delivery services hand selected from The Chic Ecologist editors. |
| Participating in Community-Supported Agriculture as a Block | MV - A review of local CSA boxes |
"You don’t have to live on a farm to enjoy farm fresh produce in Silicon Valley. The farms in and around this region offer a bounty of quality organic food, grown by farmers who are committed to bringing nutritious, sustainably grown fruits and vegetables to our tables." A review from Edible Silicon Valley. |
| Creating a Community Vegetable Garden | Palo Alto - Bay Area Village Harvest |
Village harvest can take your extra bounty from your garden. They’ll even come and harvest it for you. Also you can form a team and go around to your neighbors to gather the extra fruit (with permission of course!) |
| Creating a Community Vegetable Garden | Palo Alto - Barron Park Donkeys |
Support the Barron Park Donkeys by using their manure for your garden! Excellent nutrients and all-natural! Delivery available. Email barronparkdonkeys@gmail.com. |
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.”
