| Action | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Planting Trees | Urban Canopy |
Urban Canopy helps you see the "hot spots" that are contributing to urban heat by taking high resolution thermal images at the peak of summer by aircraft. They put these images on their publicly available web-based app so home owners, city planners, architects, schools, businesses, and sustainability managers can look up a property and see what structures to target for urban greening or cooling projects. |
| Achieving Maximum Energy Efficiency | Energy Lollipop |
Keep an eye on your carbon footprint with this new monitoring system. Energy Lollipop shows the real-time CO2 emissions of your home, workplace or region – in color. Like a "Fitbit for the Planet." Sign up for tips, tutorials, products, and an early invitation to our movement to get us to zero. |
| Keeping Your Block Cool * | Energy Lollipop |
Keep an eye on your carbon footprint with this new monitoring system. Energy Lollipop shows the real-time CO2 emissions of your home, workplace or region – in color. Like a "Fitbit for the Planet." Sign up for tips, tutorials, products, and an early invitation to our movement to get us to zero. |
| Developing Your Communication Systems for an Emergency * | PG&E - Outage Notifications |
Stay informed about outages affecting your service—or service anywhere in PG&E’s territory. When you sign up for outage notifications, we’ll let you know the cause, when crews are on their way, the estimated restoration time and when power is restored. And if extreme fire danger conditions threaten a portion of the electric system serving your community, it may be necessary for us to turn off electricity in the interest of public safety. This is called a Public Safety Power Shutoff. When possible in advance of an outage, we will send notifications to the phone and email contacts we have on file. |
| Developing Your Communication Systems for an Emergency * | PG&E - Outage Notifications |
Stay informed about outages affecting your service—or service anywhere in PG&E’s territory. When you sign up for outage notifications, we’ll let you know the cause, when crews are on their way, the estimated restoration time and when power is restored. And if extreme fire danger conditions threaten a portion of the electric system serving your community, it may be necessary for us to turn off electricity in the interest of public safety. This is called a Public Safety Power Shutoff. When possible in advance of an outage, we will send notifications to the phone and email contacts we have on file. |
| Offering Extra Help to Neighbors | CA - Cal-Fresh |
Cal-Fresh is for people with low-income who meet federal income eligibility rules and want to add to their budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. This organization greatly assists students and other IV residents who do not earn enough money to afford groceries. |
| Reducing Food Waste at Home | CA - Cal-Fresh |
Cal-Fresh is for people with low-income who meet federal income eligibility rules and want to add to their budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. This organization greatly assists students and other IV residents who do not earn enough money to afford groceries. |
| Offering Extra Help to Neighbors | IV/UCSB- Food Banks |
Local food banks can greatly benefit IV residents that face food insecurity. Eco Vista maintains an updated list of Food Bank resources. Note: A subset of Food Banks are specifically for UCSB Students: |
| Reducing Food Waste at Home | IV/UCSB - Food Banks |
Local food banks can greatly benefit IV residents that face food insecurity. Eco Vista maintains an updated list of Food Bank resources. Note: A subset of Food Banks are specifically for UCSB Students: |
| Offering Extra Help to Neighbors | IV/UCSB - IV Food Coop |
Are you shopping on a Cal-Fresh ($50/week) or Limited Income Budget? Check out our sample shopping guide for how best to spread your monthly food budget, from pantry staples to incorporating fresh produce, and more! |
Our neighborhood. Our planet.
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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.”
