Los Altos Town Crier
By Jennah Pendletown
Palo Alto-based nonprofit Acterra hosted a webinar Jan. 14 educating Bay Area policy makers and residents on actions they can take in response to climate change.
The webinar, titled “Code Red for Humanity: What Municipalities Can Do,” focused on strategies cities can adopt to eliminate carbon emissions by 2030, an objective far loftier than most cities have committed to...
State Sen. Josh Becker attended the webinar, detailing California’s current approach to mitigating climate change. He emphasized the role of small and medium-size cities in effecting widespread change, noting that local jurisdictions allow new policies to be tried out on a small scale before being replicated by other cities or enacted at the state level.
“Understand that your policies can become the law of California and then the law of the land,” Becker said.