About our LAST Meeting:
This meeting was recorded on April 12th for the STAY COOL speakers series event titled “Careers for a Changing Climate”
Twenty years ago, it would be hard to imagine the types of careers that are so prevalent now. What effect is a changing climate having on research and innovation? What other jobs will be needed to address health, safety, and infrastructure, and how will we effectively coordinate and communicate with each other? STAY COOL is proud to host a multigenerational event that will explore what is on the horizon for future jobseekers. Be a cool “elder” and share this information with younger generations! Cleantech San Diego, the Climate Science and Policy program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Climate People will provide highlights from their organizations. Click here to watch the April 12 2023 video on our YouTube channel.
About our PAST Meetings:
This webinar will introduce you to some of the exciting possibilities just off the San Diego and California shores. You’ll learn about innovative programs from the Port of San Diego centered around aquaculture in the unseen ecosystems off the coast, CalWave’s energy wave pilot program off Scripps Pier with the potential to harness the world’s largest unused renewable resource, and California’s new initiative to generate at least 20 GW from offshore wind by 2045. San Diego is poised to become a center of this growing blue economy. This event features moderator Dr. Kaitlyn Lowder, The Ocean Foundation and speakers Paula Sylvia, Port of San Diego, Julie Mai, CalWave and Rhetta deMesa, California Energy Commission. Click here to watch the October 6 2022 video on our YouTube channel.
STAY COOL for Grandkids along with co-sponsors San Diego Audubon Society and St. Bart’s Episcopal Church – Environmental Stewardship Team hosted “Landscapes for Life: Nature-based Solutions for a Changing Climate” on Thursday, May 26, 2022.
Planners and environmental experts have highlighted the many benefits of “nature-based” solutions that will both reduce GHG emissions and make our water infrastructure more resilient to the impacts of climate change. In this webinar we heard from three experts about nature-based solutions such as community gardens, backyard gardens, and water harvesting systems, and how they can help us do our part at both a community scale and a neighborhood scale. Speakers included: Brook Sarson (pre-recorded video), CatchingH2O, Joseph Rivera, Conservation Manager, San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy and Paul L. Watson, Jr., MSHS, President/CEO, Global Action Research Center. Click here to watch the May 26 2022 video on our YouTube account.
View our YouTube playlist of past recorded webinars.
Click on the blog entries below to learn more about some of our past membership meetings.
United Nations Ocean Conference – A Firsthand Account of the Event
This article was contributed by Kaitlyn Lowder, STAY COOL Advisory Council Member. Like a tsunami wave, 6,500 delegates from over 150 countries descended upon Lisbon, Portugal at the [...]
Fix-It Clinic – How I Saved my Shredder from the Landfill
My paper shredder stopped working recently. I could buy a new one, but I hated the idea of throwing the old one away. It’s better for the planet if we [...]
STAY COOL Hosts Webinar on “Nature-based Climate Solutions”
The City of San Diego, in its Climate Resilient San Diego Plan, defines Nature-based Solutions as “projects to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, while addressing societal [...]
STAY COOL Book Club: July 14th at 7:00 pm
You are invited to join the second meeting of the STAY COOL Book Club on Thursday, July 14 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. This meeting will be hosted virtually on [...]
Drawings to Help Preserve Wetlands
Hello, this is Anna. I am an eighth-grader at Pacific Beach Middle School. Our school requires us to complete a Community Service Project (CSP). A CSP is a project you [...]
Announcing the 2022 Book Club for STAY COOL!
Cliff Colwell, STAY COOL Advisory Council member, has been in many book clubs over the years, and is an experienced facilitator. We are so pleased that he has volunteered to [...]