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ECOS Orientation 6/17/2025

Come learn what ECOS is all about! Attend our monthly orientation session on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from 6:00 – 6:30pm via Zoom to get a broad overview of what ECOS does, why it matters and what you can do to help! This orientation can also help anyone wanting to learn more about environmental issues in the Sacramento region. We will cover our current goals that involve climate change prevention, promoting infill over sprawl development, transit, habitat protection and the wise use of water resources, among others.

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Big Day of Giving 2025

“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is the one thing all of us share.”
-Lady Bird Johnson

Get ready…get set…and give!

By giving to ECOS, you empower us to keep building a more sustainable, just, and livable region for all. Your support helps break down environmental inequities, strengthen communities, and bring together people and organizations committed to real change.

Your gift clears the air, plants the seeds, and lights the trail toward a better future.

Be the spark that guides us forward!

You can find our donation page for Big Day of Giving at: https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/organization/Ecos

Interested in knowing how your donation will be put to action?

Your contribution funds will help support ECOS volunteers and staff in the areas of policy analysis, legal action, administration, and site maintenance related to the following goals:

  • Protect open space in Natomas from proposed development.
  • Win Yolo-80 lawsuit so that Caltrans follows SB743 and SACOG’s Blueprint on future projects.
  • Expand the public transit network within Sacramento County.
  • Build relationships with high schools for the Environmental Justice Team.
  • Urge Sacramento County to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through better land use toward infill and away from new greenfield/sprawl developments.
  • Conduct our South Sacramento Park 99/infill study.
  • Ensure our region’s climate action plans are comprehensive and meet state laws and goals.
  • Work to achieve a beneficial Water Forum Agreement 2.
  • Ensure environmental/equity concerns are met in multiple multiyear water supply projects.
  • Increase support for a Natural Lands Campaign Resolution for better management of natural areas within urban parks.
  • Craft a strategy for implementing California’s 30×30 initiative in the SACOG Region.
  • Protect Blue Oak Woodlands from harm from a solar field development in east Sacramento County.
  • Continue resistance to the huge Delta conveyance project.

Golden 1 Credit Union Returns!

When you donate during Big Day of Giving using a Golden 1 Credit Union debit or credit card, gifts can be matched by Golden 1 Credit Union — up to $100,000 distributed proportionately!

**If your Apple Pay or Google Pay is connected to your Golden 1 debit or credit card that also counts towards the donation matching.

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Sacramento’s council never approved an expansion study. Why did it happen? April 1, 2025, The Sacramento Bee

By Tom Philp | April 1, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee

Now opponents are crying foul before a decisive vote over this expansion proposal on Wednesday before the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission, also known as LAFCO. They have good reason: This has all the fingerprints of Howard Chan, now the former city manager of Sacramento, acting yet again as if he was as powerful as the mayor when he most certainly was not.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article303190516.html#storylink=cpy

New! Streets for People Draft Plan – Comments due 4/6/2025

New! Sacramento’s Streets for People Draft Plan is out! We want to make it easier for everyone to choose walking, rolling, or biking for the short trips they take every day.

Sacramento’s Streets for People Draft Plan is available for review through April 6. You can comment on the Plan in the link below or by sending staff a comment.

Part two will include completing the Streets for People Active Transportation Plan, with the public review of the Draft Plan available March 5 through April 6, and Plan adoption in summer 2025.

Comment on the draft plan at sacstreetsforpeople.org.