The Mission of Youth for Climate (Y4C) is to empower youth (13-25) to become climate leaders working together for an equitable, sustainable, and resilient future. Why Youth? Youth have the most to lose due to the climate crisis. Historically, youth [...]
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 end of June for the second United Nations Ocean Conference. [...]
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 challenges, improving human well-being, and providing bio-diversity benefits. A nature-based [...]
In California, the second-largest source of gas emissions (after transportation) is buildings. The state has for decades aimed to reduce energy consumption with energy-efficiency standards in building codes, and we now see growing advocacy for updated energy codes that would [...]
San Diego Community Power is up and running! We wanted to find out more about what is in store from the new Chief Operating Officer, Cody Hooven, formally the Director of the Sustainability Department for the City of San Diego. [...]
Each year since 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases an Arctic Report Card which NOAA describes as “… a timely and peer-reviewed source for clear, reliable and concise environmental information on the current state of different components of [...]
It’s not easy visiting behind-the-scenes at a major airport – security protocols, you know – but a dozen STAY COOL members got to do it this Spring, guided by Paula Morreale and Katie Altobello, Associate Environmental Specialists at San Diego [...]
By John Atcheson, STAY COOL for Grandkids Advisory Council Member One of the most remarkable revolutions in clean energy is how rapidly the price of battery storage has plummeted, and how much better batteries are performing. This means [...]
Climate Education Partners (CEP) recently hosted an event, San Diego's Climate Action Leadership: Leading the Way for Our Nation!, to highlight the ways in which our region is undertaking some of the most ambitious and innovative efforts nationwide to both [...]
Reducing transportation-related GHG emissions may be our hardest problem in holding global warming to 2°C. Worldwide, at any given time, there are millions of cars, buses, trucks, trains and planes releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. A transition to electric vehicles [...]