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Have you heard? The "final draft" of the City of Santa Cruz Climate Action Plan (CAP) is out.

But it's not quite final. We still have some important work to do to see to it that the City Council means business as they put their stamp of approval on this vital document. (Click here to read Michael Levy's opinion piece for the Sentinel explaining why.)

Join us as we host City Climate Action Coordinator Ross Clark and leaders from local environmental groups in an open discussion of the CAP. What's new in this draft? What's still missing? What more would you like to ask the City Council for? This meeting will be a good place to find out. 

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Transition Towns across the nation are finding ways to join hands with the Occupy movement. Occupy, with its focus on economic justice and democracy, and Transition, with our focus on local resilience, can inform each other, build bridges and support each other where our aims overlap.

For this month's Potluck-With-A-Purpose, we will host representatives of Occupy Santa Cruz for a discussion of questions like:

--What changes are Occupy Santa Cruz looking for?
--What ideas and resources can Transition Santa Cruz supply that support the goals of both of our movements?

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$12 general and $8 student/senior
Advance tickets here

Welcoming the author of Diet for a Small Planet
and EcoMind

Yes, this is the legendary paradigm-buster, who in the 70s blew the whistle on the idea of food scarcity by discovering that the real problem was one of irrational and unfair distribution. Now she is providing brilliant new alternatives to some of environmentalists' favorite myths with her book, EcoMind. She will be joined by John Robbins, Wallace Nichols, and Michael Levy.

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Join us for a presentation from the City's Cathlin Atchison about the proposed plans to protect Santa Cruzans from rising sea levels, higher temps, and other effects of climate change.

Whatever you may think about preparing for climate change, this presentation concerns you because the City is proposing spending many millions of dollars on projects, including sealing underground pipes downtown as the water table rises, building walls to protect the sewage treatment plant from inundation, raising the Hwy. 1 bridge to reduce flooding risk, etc.