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Support Climate Resiliency in East Palo Alto

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ORGANIZATION: Acterra

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 6 people are interested

East Palo Alto's Climate Change Community Team (CCCT) along with community volunteers are conducting a community-wide survey on sea level rise and climate change in East Palo Alto. A little background, Acterra has helped initiate East Palo Alto’s Climate Change Community Team (CCCT). Our work has only just begun, and we aim to advocate, lead, and coordinate climate change efforts with a focus on building community resilience in East Palo Alto. The team is composed of East Palo Alto residents, city officials, representatives from key community-based organizations, leaders of the faith and business communities.
With the survey, the team seeks to accomplish the following:

  1. Understand the community’s awareness of climate change, in particular to sea-level rise
  2. Educate the community about climate change, in particular about sea-level rise, and
  3. Use the survey results as a guiding tool to identify local vulnerabilities, increase climate resiliency, and advance adaptation-related strategies to help meet the needs of the community.
Our goal is to survey 400 households, and we need all the help! We need volunteers to conduct surveys at community events, centers, and also door-to-door as necessary.

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About Acterra

Location:

3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, US

Mission Statement

Acterra is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that brings people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet. We work with residents, businesses, local governments, students, and organizations to support advocacy and education for climate action. We have been a community based organization since 1970.

Description

Acterra is an environmental non-profit serving the Silicon Valley. We provide people with tangible, hands-on activities they can do to improve the environment. All of our work is solution-oriented. We offer several thousand volunteer opportunities each year for adults and youth. Because people get excited by different things, we offer a broad range of programs, from habitat restoration to carbon reduction and more. As importantly, we teach people how to become effective environmental change agents in their communities, neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Currently our programs include: Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet; Karl Knapp GoEV, You(th) Be the Change; Green@Home; HomeGrown Bay Area, and Acterra's Student Ambassadors Program.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Education & Literacy
Environment
Community, Education & Literacy, Environment

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

550 Bell StEast Palo Alto, CA 94303

(37.465103,-122.14258)
 

DATE POSTED

August 22, 2019

SKILLS

  • Community Outreach
  • People Skills

GOOD FOR

  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18
  • Extremely flexible, and location is all East Palo Alto.
  • Spanish, Tongan, and Samoan language skills will be helpful, but not required.

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