Monthly Archives: September 2025

A Conversation with SMUD — The 2030 Zero Carbon Plan 10/16/2025

ECOS Climate Change Committee – October Monthly Meeting
Join us for a conversation with Obadiah Bartholomy, Manager of SMUD’s Distributed Energy Strategy, to discuss the efforts that SMUD is making to reach carbon neutrality by 2030.

Speaker: Obadiah Bartholomy, Manager, Distributed Energy Strategy, SMUD

Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025

Time: Social Hour at 5:30 pm, Presentation at 6:00 pm

HYBRID meeting: In-person at Mogavero Architects, 1322 T. St.
And online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656164155
To phone in: 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 665 616 4155

Help save Blue Oak woodland in Sacramento County 10/6/2025

October 6, 2025

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Please join us at the upcoming October 6th, 2025 Sacramento County Planning Commission meeting to tell them that you oppose destroying thousands of oak trees, native wetlands, native grasslands and numerous local and rare species.

The Sacramento County Planning Commission will be deciding on October 6th, 2025 whether to recommend to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors the approval of an approximately 1200 acre industrial solar facility in the eastern part of Sacramento County. Whereas we 100% support renewable resources, this is an unacceptable location to site such a facility because:

  • It will kill more than 3000 native oak trees
  • It will destroy habitat for numerous local and protected species
  • It will disrupt an important wildlife corridor at a time where such corridors are increasingly important because of climate change and the growing need for species to seek colder climes.
  • They are many far more appropriate sites in the county.
  • SMUD does not need this project to be able to close local fossil fuel plants or meet its 2030 net zero carbon goals
  • It disrupts the ability of the South Sacramento Habitat Conservation plan to achieve its conservation goals.
  • It runs counter to Sacramento County general plan directives for the use of this area.
  • It will destroy sacred ground and associated cultural resources for local tribes.
  • It will be a visual blight in a very scenic part of the county.
  • It will negatively impact operations and events in the state vehicular recreation area, immediately adjacent to the proposed facility. These events generate 57 million dollars for the local economy and that revenue would be at risk with the degradation of a massive industrial solar facility being installed immediately adjacent to their facility.

It is extremely important for the planning commission meeting to be packed so the commissioners will know the level of opposition to this project.

The meeting will be held at 700 H street, Suite 1450, Sacramento, CA at 5:30 pm.

Public comment is not necessary if that makes you uncomfortable. We need to fill that chamber!!!