California Energy Commission Talk, Dec 18

ECOS Climate Change Committee Meeting

Thursday, December 18, 2025
6 PM (drinks/snacks starting at 5:30)
Hybrid meeting: In-person at Mogavero Architects, 1331 T Street, Sacramento
and on Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656164155 (copy and paste link)
To phone in: 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 665 616 4155

Speaker: Gypsy Achong, Program Manager in the Efficiency Division, California Energy Commission

Topic: Gypsy will discuss Assembly Bill 130, recent updates to the Building Energy Code, and the impacts of these changes on local efforts to build green.

Major legislative changes have adversely affected the state building standards adoption process and its contribution to residential building decarbonization. This summer, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 130, which pauses new updates to the California Building Standards Code, including the Energy Code, that affect residential units until January 1, 2032. The law also limits cities and counties in adopting stricter local building codes on or after October 1, 2025. Join us to discuss this topic with Gypsy Achong, Program Manager from the California Energy Commission.

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ECOS Water Committee Meeting, Dec 16

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 5:30 pm

The ECOS Water Committee will host a discussion with committee members, ECOS Organizational Members, Executive Committee members, and more to strategize future partnership on local and regional water issues. Please join this important conversation to strengthen our advocacy on important water issues!

In light of a scheduling conflict, the ECOS Water Committee meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 5:30 pm. This will be an opportunity to identify efforts that would benefit from cross-organization collaboration and strengthen our partnership. Please email Luz Lim (luzlim[at]live[dot]com) to confirm that you plan to attend.

Click here to view the letter sent to ECOS Organizational members on November 4, 2025.

Click here to join the Zoom for the Water Committee meeting on December 16, 2025.

Click here for the agenda.

Habitat Fundraiser: Art Sale and Show, Dec 12

Please join us for an environmental art sale benefiting Habitat 2020, the habitat committee of ECOS comprised of environmental non-governmental organizations working to protect habitat and nature.

Friday, December 12, 2025, 6pm-8pm
Curtis Hall, Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community, 2791 24th St, Sacramento, CA

Professional ART BY

Mary Szechan
Nature-themed drawings, prints, paintings and silverpoints

Veronica Espinoza
Watercolors of birds that evince a Japanese woodblock-like feel

Also featuring:

Paintings and drawings by Maurice Bisharat
Hand-painted porcelain by Barbara Carr
Photos by Lloyd Roberts
Wildlife works by local photographer Sean Wirth will also be available.

Flyer/Poster

Click the image below for a PDF of the full page flyer/poster we have created.

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Community Meeting to Save Coyote Creek, Dec 9

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Shepard Garden & Arts Center
3330 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento, CA

Background:

On November 18, 2025, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Solar Project that will:

kill over 3000 native oak trees
destroy sensitive and increasingly rare habitat (vernal pools, valley grasslands, and one of the last continuous blue oak woodlands in California)
destroy cultural resources that are unique, sacred, and irreplaceable to local tribes
set a precedent for poorly-sited development that conflicts with local and regional plans in Sacramento County.

Join environmental and OHV (Off-Highway Vehicle) activists to stop this project.

Cal4Wheel | California Native Plant Society | Defenders of Wildlife | Habitat 2020

ECOS Letter on Airport South, 12/1/2025

On December 1, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the Mayor and City Council of Sacramento regarding Airport South Industrial Annexation (P21-017). Below is an excerpt from our letter.

We write to address your vote on the biggest environmental decision to come before the City Council in decades, again. We believe you should vote no on the Airport South Industrial Project.
ECOS has previously submitted a number of letters and e-comments expressing our concerns about the project.

Click here to read the letter.

Airport South Vote, Dec 2

December 1, 2025

On December 2nd, 2025, Sacramento City Council is scheduled to vote on Airport South Industrial.

Take Action:

Attend the City Council meeting at 5 pm, Tuesday, December 2nd, 915 I St, Sacramento. It is important to have you there, even if you do not speak. We need to demonstrate strong opposition in the room.
Submit a comment. You can submit a comment here. You can read the comments of others too.
Write a letter/email to the entire City Council. How to write the City Council – email information is here. Suggestions on what to say – here.

What to Expect:

As far as we know, the public hearing is still open and the public will be allowed to speak. On November 18, Council members, Talamantes, Dickinson, Guerra and the Mayor, asked questions of City staff and tasked them with returning with answers on December 2. City council members may ask further questions and will likely state their perspective on the project. And then they will vote.

UNLESS they feel that there are still too many unanswered questions to vote at this time.

ECOS will ask that Council members vote no.

The neighbors will ask the Council to vote no but will also submit a list of conditions and request that the Council require these conditions of the developer, if the Council votes yes.

Articles of Interest:

Capitol Public Radio article about the November 18 meeting.

A Sacramento Business Journal article on November 21, 2025, by Ben van der Meer included this quote: Sacramento County officials have said Metro Air Park overall has about 9 million square feet of built industrial space, out of 22 million expected at full build-out. A Buzz Oates leasing flyer for 7275 Metro Air Parkway earlier this year stated that about 350,800 square feet of buildings were currently under construction.
Which means, there are 13 million square feet of industrial space that have not yet been built out. Why is Airport South Industrial needed for warehouse space if there is so much undeveloped space still at Metro Airpark?

Thanks:

One reason that the City Council is putting so much time and effort into this decision is the strength of the lobbying efforts on both sides. Please help us to keep the opposition strong.

See you Tuesday.