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Reducing Your Household Waste Palo Alto - Repair Café

Repair Café Palo Alto - Repair Cafe is a non-profit that holds quarterly events where you can take your damaged and broken appliances, furniture, clothing, bicycles and other household items and work with repair volunteers to fix them for FREE!  Extend the life of appliances, save money, and reduce the environmental impacts of creating, transporting, and disposing of significant assets.
Reducing Your Household Waste Palo Alto - Compost at Home

Compost at Home - Take a FREE class to learn how to turn you food scraps into compost and to get a FREE compost bin while supplies last. Compost improves soil structure, helps it absorb and hold moisture, supplies slow-release nutrients to plants and reduces erosion. It also reduces waste, conserves water and reduces pollution. 
Reducing Your Household Waste Palo Alto - GO Box SF Bay

Reduce the environmental impacts of creating, transporting and disposing of disposable takeout containers with a reusable takeout container service currently being piloted in Palo Alto’s downtown University Avenue area.
Preparing Mentally for an Emergency Resiliency Lessons from Woodstock

Read about the resilient attitudes and behaviors that turned a near-disaster into a magical moment in history. Woodstock - the product of a grand vision and an organic design - was also an extreme lesson in resiliency.  Over-crowding, extreme weather conditions, and lack of infrastructure, food and water characterized Woodstock, as experienced by many and chronicled in Woodstock: The Oral History. This blog post teases out those lessons, providing a primer on in-the-moment resilient behaviors.
Planting Gardens Together How to Transplant your Natives Successfully

The Yerba Buena Nursery in Half Moon Bay offers these tips for sucessfully transplanting native plants.
Planting Trees SF - Urban Forest Plan

Our urban forest creates a more walkable, livable and sustainable city. Trees and other vegetation clean our air and water, create greener neighborhoods, calm traffic, improve public health, provide wildlife habitat and absorb greenhouse gases. Learn the big picture about the importance of, and challenges for, trees in San Francisco.
Developing an Alternative Cooking Source MSR Camping Stoves

Camping stoves are compact and can provide for your cooking needs when your normal appliances are inoperable. Many options are available from, for example, MSR Gear.  These include the Dragonfly, WhisperLite International and WhisperLite Universal models.
Creating Alternative Lighting Sources * Eneloop Solar Storage

For extended off-the-grid lighting needs, consider solar-powered lighting appliances. For example, Panasonic's eneloop solar storage system captures and stores solar energy to power LED lights and charge devices over many years of use. Find eneloop consumer products at these online stores.
Developing Your Communication Systems for an Emergency * Eton

From weather alert radios and backup battery packs to solar-powered sound systems, Etón keeps you connected, in the know and in tune. Etón harnesses nature's energy to power consumer products that keep people prepared, informed, entertained, and on-the-go.
Preparing Several Days' Food Stores * S.O.S Food Lab

For extra insurance, consider purchasing emergency survival food and water rations which are designed to sustain life for an extended period. These food rations "have excellent taste, are easily digestible and are compatible with drinking water restricions. Both the food and the water rations are compact and fit into extremely limited storage areas.  They may be safely stored up to five years under all climatic conditions."  Households on your block may wish to do a group purchase to share.  See the "Contact" tab to get more information.

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