Transition Santa Cruz is catalyzing a creative transition to a resilient, locally based, post-fossil fuel economy.
We hope you will join us.

If you don't think there's a powerful people's movement to save the climate, time to wake up and take heart! Start here with Bill McKibben's latest article, The Fossil Fuel Resistance.

There's a local campaign to get our city and county governments to divest from fossil fuel companies, as Seattle and San Francisco already have. Sign the petition here.

To get more active, consider joining our local Citizen's Climate Lobby, whose members meet with legislators to influence policy in the right direction. Meetings are the first Saturdays of each month. Contact: call Polly at 336-8368.

Worldwide: There are fracking moratoriums now in South Africa, Quebec, and New Jersey, and outright bans in Tunisia, France, and Vermont, with bills pending in many other U.S. states.

California: Three Assembly bills would restrict fracking activities pending a determination of whether and under what conditions fracking may be conducted without risk to human health or the environment.  Two of the bills, AB 1301 and AB 1323, would prohibit fracking anywhere in the state. The third bill, AB 649, would only prohibit fracking, as well as the use of clean freshwater for fracking purposes, within a yet to be determined distance of an aquifer. Learn more about the bills here. These bills face a tough road to passage. To sign a petition in support of fracking regulation click here.