COMMUNITIES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 8 WON’T GIVE UP ON BETTER, MORE RELIABLE TRANSIT FOR ALL SAN DIEGANS!
Press release Sept 13 by Environmental Health Coalition and SanDiego350 Despite the 2022 ballot measure setback, communities south of the I-8 freeway and environmental justice advocates are committed to continuing to fight for transportation justice. They support a 2024 transportation ballot measure to fix San Diego’s broken transit system that contributes to climate change and […]
Tips and tricks to celebrate the holidays sustainably
By Alec Lundberg Trying to be more sustainable over the holidays? We’ve got you covered! There are many things we can all do to greatly reduce our carbon footprint. Changing your diet AND eating locally can significantly help reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions! Meat and dairy makes up 14.5% of all global CO2 […]
Sustainable Habits (Into the Unknown)
By Mariaisabel Blancarte How It Started Sustainable habits are vital and essential to our everyday lives and to the way the world operates. Although not always easy to adapt to, they allow us to make replacements that contribute to the overall health and conservation of our planet. In all honesty, prior to learning about the […]
The Disarray of Fast Fashion
by Vaishnavi Kuppa On average, many of the clothes in our closets are said to be used about seven months before they end up in landfills. Either they aren’t trending anymore, too big or too small, damaged, not useful or just hoard up closet space that we want to clear out so we can buy […]
Replace your Gas Appliances by 2035
By Angela Deegan Fast forward to the year 2035 in San Diego. We’ve achieved our goal of a 100% clean power supply. All our electricity needs are supplied by carbon-free power. We’re proclaiming we’re a carbon-free city. But half the energy in our homes is still from burning natural gas? Half of California residential energy […]
Food Vision 2030
By: David Pearl, SD350 Food & Soil Committee Member Our friends at the San Diego Food System Alliance are hard at work on Food Vision 2030, a plan for transforming San Diego County’s food system over the next ten years. In their own words, “The goal of Food Vision 2030 is to inform planning, policy, […]
It’s Time For a Better Deal
By: Amanda Ruetten, Public Policy Organizer San Diegans pay higher utility prices than most Californians. The high prices and San Diego’s dangerous air pollution rates are especially hard on vulnerable low-income communities, where family budgets are tight and asthma rates are growing. The utility company rakes in profits while we provide the public land necessary […]
California Should Not Risk Its Clean Energy Future on Extreme Strategies
California will soon decide whether to combine its electric grid management with western states dependent on coal mining and coal-based electricity. This massive change has been proposed in the form of Assembly Bill 813 and before that in Assembly Bill 726. If passed, either of those bills would provide an avenue for coal-fired electricity to […]
You Can’t Get Clean Energy From Natural Gas!
Originally published by the San Diego Free Press on January 26th 2018 By Edward Bergan / SanDiego350 In retrospect, branding the toxic gas that emerges from underground deposits as “natural gas” was a stroke of marketing genius. It sounds so, well, natural. But natural gas is much more like “organic tobacco” – harmful in any form. […]
Tom Steyer draws large crowd for climate change lecture
by Celeste Oram Over 400 San Diegans arrived at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Hillcrest Thursday evening to hear a decisive, energetic message on clean energy and climate action from climate advocate and philanthropist Tom Steyer. The public talk, organized by grassroots climate action organization SanDiego350, was co-sponsored by over 20 San Diego community groups. In […]