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Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance Teach-In & Collaboration Session

Join us on October 17th, 3pm for a virtual teach-in and collaboration session about the Cool City Challenge and Cool Blocks Program with the Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance

Los Angeles is a finalist in the Cool City Challenge which will provide funding to winning cities for innovative plans to become carbon neutral by 2030! We are a shoo-in to win this 1 million dollars of support as long as we complete the final step of recruiting 200 Cool Blocks Leaders. These folks will lead the way in launching 200 climate-resilient neighborhoods at the start of 2022 and keep building from there toward a carbon-neutral LA by 2030, community by community.

Special guest speakers include:

- Andy Shrader, Director of Environmental Affairs, Water Policy, & Sustainability, Council District 5

- Lisa Hart, Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance board member

- Loraine Lundquist, Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance board member, former cool blocks leader, Faculty Associate at the Institute for Sustainability Cal State Univ., Northridge

Join us to:

- Learn about the Cool Blocks program and how to become a leader or nominate someone from your neighborhood in small groups with current and former cool blocks leaders

- Learn about the cool city challenge and what will happen if (when!) Los Angeles wins this funding

- Take immediate action by helping craft statements of support for the motion in city council to commit to getting to carbon-neutral by 2030

- Brainstorm with us about how LA Forward can continue to support the Cool City challenge and develop innovative neighborhood-based programs to get to carbon neutral by 2030

A few more details: We are partnering with the Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance in their Cool Blocks project which provides training to become a neighborhood leader in bringing your community together around environmental sustainability and preparedness. The Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance and the City of LA piloted the Cool Blocks LA program a few years ago. It is designed to activate all of us, in our homes and in our neighborhoods, to help us reduce our carbon footprints, reduce our water use, live more sustainably, and prepare for disasters while building community. You can sign up to become a cool blocks leader right away, through the information included below, or you can join us on October 17th to learn more about this program LA has applied to be one of 5 pilot cities in California to do this work, and the Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance is working with the Climate Emergency Mobilization Office to take the lead in the Cool City Challenge which will involve creating innovative, neighborhood based-programs and mobilizing all sectors of the city to get LA to carbon neutral by 2030.

Earlier Event: October 14
Phonebank to Stop the Rightwing Recall
Later Event: October 18
October Transportation Justice Meeting

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