Category Archives: ECOS Updates

Rancho Cordova General Plan community workshop, October 15, 2024

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

With new housing, evolving business needs, and changing transportation habits, it’s time to prepare for the future. What will the next 20 years bring for Rancho Cordova amidst state and regional trends? How will new technologies reshape lives?

Attend the first in-person community workshop for the Rancho Cordova General Plan Update. City staff and the project team will be sharing information on the overall process and objectives for this important document that will guide the City’s growth and development over the next 25 years.

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Environmentalist of the Year Awards, October 26, 2024

Saturday, October 26, 2024, 5:00pm
Camp Pollock, 1501 Northgate Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95815

Please join us at the Environmentalist of the Year Awards to celebrate and be inspired on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at Camp Pollock. Network, have dinner, and enjoy a walk by the river on a glowing October evening.

ECOS has a decades-long legacy of honoring local environmental leaders. The Environmentalist of the Year Awards allow us to recognize important work done by people in many fields to further sustainability.

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ECOS Mtg + Board: Nature-Based Carbon Solutions & Biodiversity at SMUD, 9/25/2024

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
6:00 pm Featured Presentation by Kathleen Ave of SMUD
7:00 pm ECOS Board Meeting

Kathleen Ave
Sr. Climate & Ecosystem Strategist, Zero Carbon Energy Solutions
Emeritus Chair, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Power in Pollinators Initiative

Kathleen Ave will provide an overview of SMUD’s activities, then launch into a discussion of SMUD’s Carbon and Biodiversity programs. She will share existing and emerging efforts to improve biodiversity at SMUD projects, facilities and along transmission lines, and will discuss a conceptual plan for a Regional Biodiversity Index.

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Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656164155
To phone in: 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 665 616 4155

Climate Justice Festival 10/5/2024

Join us at the 5th Annual Sacramento Climate Justice Festival happening on Saturday, October 5th from 10 am to 2 pm at McClatchy Park in coordination with the Oak Park Market and Sacramento Food Literacy Center. The address for the festival is 3500 5th Ave, Sacramento.

There will be lots of fun events happening on the day of the festival:

  • Inspiring talks from wide variety of community members
  • Musical groups with performances by Star Crossed Lovers, Solidarity, AJAX, Taste like TV static, etc
  • We have over ten children’s activities that include a bubble center, nature scent identification game, nature art, tactile nature game, coloring table, making paper butterflies, etc
  • Climate justice obstacle course-steer your way around the natural disasters, go through the tunnel of misinformation, bowl down plastic bottles, plant a tree, etc. to the finish line.
  • Seed planting
  • Nature photo contest/display-so submit your beautiful photos of nature in Sacramento by the end of the week to enter the contest and see the beautiful nature photos from around the Sac area at the festival. Nature photos are due today at 5PM on Sunday.
  • Vegetarian Chili Cook-off: we are still looking for a few more entries.-please consider participating.
  • “Trashion” Fashion Show at noon on the day of the festival. Take your trash and create a fun garment to put on at the festival and you might be a Trashion Fashion winner.
  • Community environmental talks: why electrify, native plant presentation, cool tips of how sustainability practices in your home saves you money, etc
  • Over 30+ vendors
  • Sacramento electric vehicles will be on display to ask questions to actual owners
  • Poetry readings
  • Dancing fun
  • Opportunity to drop off old pens and batteries to be recycled at the festival

Natomas meeting with Natomas Community Planning Advisory Council (CPAC) 10/3/2024

On October 3, the Natomas Community Planning Council (CPAC) is giving the public an opportunity to comment on the Upper Westside Project. You can submit written comments, phone in, or attend the meeting and comment in person.

Please comment – We want the CPAC to know the community is closely following this project.

How to Participate

  • Note that Upper Westside Specific Plan is Agenda Item #1.

Attend the Meeting: Thursday, October 3, 6 pm, South Natomas Community Center, 2921 Truxel Rd. If you wish to speak, fill out and give the Clerk a Speaker Request Form. You can also attend and just sit with us.
Phone: Listen to the meeting or comment by phone: Teleconference (audio only) dial: (669) 254-5252 (Conference ID: 161 026 9414 and ## to join)
Written Comment: Email a comment to BoardClerk[at]saccounty[dot]gov . For the CPAC to read it before the meeting – send no later than 4 pm.

Meeting Agenda and Agenda Packet documents are here: https://agendanet.saccounty.gov/NatomasCPAC/Meetings/Search?dropid=7&mtids=149#below
Agenda Packet includes a description of the project, DEIR Key Points, and maps.