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Bay Localize News #16: How to Leave Oil (Spring '10)

Horrifying. As miles of BP's oil slicks spread over a once-vibrant ocean, you're probably feeling just as sickened as we are.

Now, while our nation looks on at the oil industry's inability to squelch its monster, we are reaching a moment of greater national clarity about the need to end our oil addiction. The drug appears uglier than ever.

Like all addictions, getting off oil is no easy matter, but it starts the day you decide to quit. Now is our moment to act.

What does quitting oil look like? It's local action supported by systems change:

  • Fix transit. Bay Localize and our allies are urging regional governments to get serious about climate action, including making it more practical to get out of our cars. We need the state to get serious about transit funding as well. Learn more from TransForm. Long-term, the Local Clean Energy Alliance is working toward a vision of powering our transit systems with local renewable energy. More clean energy starts with defeating PG&E's Prop 16!
  • Build low-carbon local economies. Our region imports fossil fuels in the form of food, water, and almost everything we buy. Bay Localize's Community Resilience Toolkit and workshops are guiding organizers in planning for locally resilient green economies.
  • Have more fun, buy less stuff. Sure shopping can be fun ... but as much fun as meeting new friends while planting an urban garden or dancing to Soulfege's Afripolitan grooves at Take Back the Mic? We can cut back on fossil fuels by buying less, and spend more time enjoying nature and creating community. Get plugged in at one of Bay Localize's many local events!

We can kick the oil habit and thrive. Join the movement today!

—Aaron, Ashley, Belinda, Dave, Jenni, Linda, Kirsten, Nile, Rachel, Rosa, and Tad


Help Us Bring the Bay Area to the US Social Forum!

This June 22-26, the US Social Forum will take place in Detroit, Michigan, bringing together a powerful multi-racial, cross-sector movement to push grassroots solutions to our deepening economic and ecological crises. Bay Localize is working with Movement Generation and other allies to co-organize workshops and other activities at the Forum, and we're also planning a reportback event later this year to share what we learn.

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Local Clean Energy Campaign:

Use Your Roof! Project:

Special Features:


Bay Area 2020 Program:
Community Resilience Workshop Brings Together Leaders Around the Bay

On April 17, Bay Localize and Transition San Francisco co-hosted the Bay Area's first Community Resilience Workshop. Local leaders from around the region dug in to evaluate resilience in their communities, identify priorities, and plot campaigns to create change. The San Francisco breakout group launched new commitments to strengthen local food systems, folks from the South and North Bay took on transportation, and Transition Santa Cruz conspired to repeat the training in their region.

Bay Localize is excited to partner with Movement Generation and CommuniTree later this month on a community resilience and power building workshop at the US Social Forum in Detroit, with Ella Baker Center's Soul of the City campaign on a workshop this fall, and a participatory theater-style presentation with Bay Localize's own artist-in-residence Rosa Gonzalez! We're actively looking for more community partners to co-present workshops, especially groups organizing in low-income populations and communities of color. Contact Kirsten at kirsten@baylocalize.org.

Movement Builds for Regional Sustainable Communities Strategy

In consultation with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Bay Localize, Breakthrough Communities, and other allies are bringing together key organizations in public health, transportation, climate justice, housing, land use, and local resilience to ensure that regional climate planning truly benefits all Bay Area communities. Under SB 375, a recently passed state planning law, California's 18 regions are charged with developing a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through smarter land use and transportation planning.

Bay Localize has been working with our allies to ensure that equity and regional self-reliance in food, water, and energy are included in this process. Toward this end, veteran environmental justice leader Dr. Carl Anthony and his organization Breakthrough Communities have convened a Social Equity Working Group of agency and community stakeholder organizations to infuse social equity and cross-sector opportunities into the strategy and planning discussions.

Together, we've begun an open process to harness the wisdom, experience, and passion of Bay Area communities so that the Sustainable Communities Strategy:

  • Empowers all residents to participate as full partners in the public decision-making process
  • Ensures that the benefits of new transportation and associated development accrue most to those communities that have suffered the greatest destructive impacts of past planning and that the burdens of such development are reduced for all communities
  • Provides all residents access to family-supporting jobs and careers, affordable and reliable transit, safe and stable housing, quality education, vibrant public spaces, and healthy and sustainable food

For more information about this effort, please see www.OneBayArea.org or contact Aaron Lehmer at aaron@baylocalize.org.

Urban Ag Groups Discuss Ways to Scale Up Locally

On May 24, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted Scaling Up Local, a half-day forum on expanding local food production. The forum brought together local producers, institutional purchasers, urban ag enthusiasts, and food security advocates to discuss scaling up urban, peri-urban, and rural agriculture to meet local market demand, both sustainably and equitably.

This forum also offered participants the chance to build mutual support around the work we're all doing to strengthen our regional food system here in the Bay Area. Bay Localize and People's Grocery co-facilitated a special session on "Scaling Up Urban Ag" to explore the possibilities of aggregating local production and passing public policies to help meet the growing demand for healthy food by local institutions, farmers markets, and diverse communities.

Localization News from Around the Bay

San Francisco: San Francisco Meets Kyoto Climate Change Goals

On Earth Day, San Francisco announced that it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions to 7% below 1990 levels. This puts the city in voluntary compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, which the United States agreed to but never ratified. San Francisco is still working toward its own goal of 20% reductions below 1990 levels by 2012. Kudos to San Francisco!

North Bay: Sonoma County Faces Major Challenge in Transportation

Greenhouse gas emissions in Sonoma County in 2009 decreased slightly, but are still not on the path needed to meet the county's goal of 25% emissions cuts by 2015. While savings were made in electricity use, transportation remains the county's major challenge. See this report card from the Climate Protection Campaign. How will the creative folks in Sonoma County get residents out of their cars?

East Bay: Approving Bus Rapid Transit and Blocking Power Plants

Oakland and San Leandro gave a boost to bus service when they agreed to collaborate with AC Transit on plans for a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line. Bus Rapid Transit is a cost-effective way to make buses more convenient by helping them move faster through traffic. TransForm played a major role in organizing this effort. Berkeley did not agree to BRT due to intense opposition from merchants on Telegraph Ave. near campus, which may mean a loss of some federal investment funds. AC Transit continues to struggle financially, with a public meeting on June 3 on declaring a fiscal emergency. Genesis, a regional interfaith network, has launched an Eco Bus Pass for Youth campaign to help kids get to school on buses, and get transit agencies the funding they need to make it happen.

Meanwhile in Contra Costa County, residents of Oakley scored a victory by defeating plans for one of two new dirty power plants slated for their town. Thankfully, a judge at the California Public Utilities Commission rejected plans for one of the plants. Kudos to Pacific Environment for their hard work on this victory!

South Bay: Plans for Bus Rapid Transit Moving Ahead

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) plans to bring over 30 miles of Bus Rapid Transit service to the Alum Rock, El Camino, and Stevens Creek Transit Corridors. TransForm is engaging communities in shaping Santa Clara County's planned Bus Rapid Transit projects so that it works well and reflects the needs of the surrounding neighborhoods. They encourage local residents to get involved!

Around the Bay: Social Justice Organizers Embrace Permaculture

Organizers from social justice organizations from throughout the Bay Area got their hands dirty at a Permaculture for the People design certification course organized by Movement Generation and Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. Follow-up plans include translating permaculture speak into "slanguage" for the street — as Movement Generation puts it, "greening the browns and browning the greens."



Local Clean Energy Campaign:
No on Prop 16 Effort Ramps Up, Community Choice Energy Powers Ahead

Proposition 16, also known as the "PG&E Power Grab," would force on local governments the same 2/3 majority vote requirement that has brought our state to a standstill. Additionally, Prop 16 would lock in PG&E's monopoly status and make it more difficult for local governments to provide low-cost green energy options. This would give PG&E a free hand to increase rates and invest in dirty energy like coal and nuclear.

Thankfully, No on Prop 16 endorsements from businesses, nonprofits, and elected officials continue to stream in, even from several conservative groups. But PG&E has upped the ante, contributing over $44.1 million to the Yes on 16 campaign, which represents 99.8% of all YES on 16 funds. The Local Clean Energy Alliance has produced a set of films that can be seen at the NoProp16Films.org site. Our colleague Ben Zolno has also produced several funny, quirky films for his 1 Million Strong Against Prop 16 effort, with 1 millionth the budget of PG&E campaign. For more information on how to get involved in the campaign, go to NoProp16.org.

Marin Clean Energy, Clean Power SF Begin Community Choice Programs

They said it could never happen. But since May 7, Marin Clean Energy has been delivering 25% renewable power to 6,500 customers at the same rates as PG&E. San Francisco's Community Choice program, CleanPowerSF, is close to a final contract, and our allies at Our City, Global Exchange, and Brightline Defense are working hard to make sure that local, distributed solar is central to the plan.

Thanks to the advocacy of the Local Clean Energy Alliance and volunteers, Community Choice was also recommended as a priority action in the first draft of Oakand's Energy & Climate Action Plan (see the Alliance's Dave Room at right speaking at a recent Oakland City Hall hearing). The Oakland Climate Action Coalition is recommending that an energy subgroup be convened as part of a community implementation task force charged with ensuring that recommendations like Community Choice receive fair consideration.

UPCOMING MEETING!
The Local Clean Energy Alliance invites you to join us for a conversation on Community Choice Energy in the Bay Area. We will have a short debrief on the Prop 16 campaign, status updates on regional Community Choice efforts, and discussion on the next steps for Community Choice advocacy in the Bay Area.

WHEN: Thursday, June 17, 9:30-11:30 am

WHERE: Central Historic Building, 436 14th St., 2nd Floor, Oakland
(Just up the stairs from the 12th St. BART station)

Please RSVP to belinda@baylocalize.org today!

Oakland Releases First Draft of Energy and Climate Action Plan

The first draft of Oakand's Energy & Climate Action Plan was released on Earth Day 2010. It is one of the best municipal climate action plans to date, but still needs some work, especially with respect to including equity, energy security, and integrated economic development strategies throughout the plan.

The Local Clean Energy Alliance and Oakland Climate Action Coalition are refining our feedback and will submit our recommended changes to Oakland's Department of Public Works by the June 11 public comment deadline. For more information on the plan, or to submit your own feedback, please visit SustainableOakland.com.

Green Faith in Action Forwards Richmond Energy Efficiency Ordinance

How much energy and money do basic home efficiency measures really save? Bay Localize is crunching numbers on how energy bills changed in homes that received basic energy tune-ups from youth last summer as part of our Green Faith in Action program.

The Green Faith in Action project has afforded Bay Localize a tremendous opportunity to learn and understand the multiple aspects of energy efficiency: home performance testing, local green job training and weatherization programs, stimulus funding opportunities, ways to collaborate with faith-based and other organizations, and the power of local ordinances that help boost building efficiency and create green jobs.

Based on what we learned, we see reaching out to already-established communities like churches as vital to implementing residential energy efficiency on a broad scale. Stay tuned in the coming months for more on our partnership with Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO) on passing local energy efficiency ordinances in Richmond!

Use Your Roof! Project:
Rooftop and Community Gardens Thrive in Oakland, SF, and Richmond

Oakland Youth, Community Come Together to Revitalize Rooftop Garden

This Spring, Oakland Food Connection, Bay Localize, teachers, students and members of the community gathered to revitalize EC Reems' school rooftop garden located in the heart of East Oakland. Students bustled about, transferring water to their very thirsty seedlings. Community members taught students how to saw wood in the courtyard, while others taught students how to assemble new garden beds on the rooftop. Members of Oakland Food Connection demonstrated the basics of permaculture, while teachers and students planted side-by-side among the garden beds. It was a beautiful day filled with people from all walks of life working towards a healthier, resilient community. Check out our flickr photo set from the workday!

Lessons Learned: Right-sizing a Rooftop Garden in San Francisco

The first consideration for rooftop gardening is how much weight your roof can hold. Bay Localize has been emphasizing this point for several years, but even so, we learned this lesson the hard way when one of our partner gardens on the roof of the Mission District office of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) began to sag! The planter boxes our team designed turned out to be too heavy, and would have been better placed around the perimeter of the roof instead of near the skylights.

In response, POWER held a workday in early May where Bay Localize and members of the community came together to help relieve the weight and redistribute the boxes for a more structurally secure design. Fortunately, POWER is using the excess soil to start a patio garden in their Bayview office. On June 5, we're inviting volunteers to improve the garden by helping to break down and reconstruct several of the beds and moving the excess dirt to its new home. RSVP Today!

Bethlehem Baptist Breaks Ground on Church Garden

Last month, Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Richmond broke ground on their garden plot, with some help from Bay Localize and Urban Tilth. Urban Tilth, a Richmond-based nonprofit, helps schools, businesses, government agencies, and community-based organizations learn to grow their own food in west Contra Costa County. Church members worked with Urban Tilth to create a garden plan complete with fruit trees, berry bushes, vegetables, areas for herbs and barrels for catching rainwater. Several of us from Bay Localize rolled up our sleeves with church members and youth from Urban Tilth to install the garden over several work days. The church hopes to share the food grown in the garden with a local shelter, the neighborhood and church members as a ways to strengthen community and promote good health.

Available Online and at Bookstores: Use Your Roof Guidebook!

Rooftop revolutionaries rejoice! Check out Bay Localize's popular publication, Use Your Roof Guidebook: Resources and Considerations for Rainwater Catchment, Living Roofs and Solar Power. The booklet draws from the groundbreaking research of Tapping the Potential of Urban Rooftops, as well as other research findings from the field, and offers guidelines for selecting an appropriate rooftop system and embarking on the design and implementation process.

GET YOUR COPY TODAY!

Use Your Roof is available at select bookstores around the San Francisco Bay Area — help us keep the sales going! Purchase your own copy for as little as $7.00! It's vital that we continue demonstrating the rising interest and help the local economy and the movement grow — so let people in your network know or buy a few copies for friends and family! Our growing list of stores includes:

East Bay

  • Bookshop Benicia, 856 Southampton Road, Benicia, CA 94510
  • Berkeley Horticultural Nursery, 1310 McGee Ave., Berkeley, CA 94703
  • Berkeley Indoor Garden Hydro, 844 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94710
  • Builders Book Source, 1817 4th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
  • Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley, CA 94702
  • Mrs. Dalloway's, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

San Francisco

  • Dog Eared Books, 900 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110
  • Flora Grubb Gardens, 1634 Jerold Ave., San Francisco, CA 94124
  • Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110
  • Needles and Pens, 3253 16th St. (bet. Guerrero and Dolores), San Francisco, CA 94103

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The Fire in the Belly
Building a Truly Sustainable Bay Area for All

"The Fire in the Belly" is a regular feature in our newsletter on what personally motivates people to work on localization. These essays are personal statements exploring the diverse viewpoints that lead to localization as an organizing framework, and as such do not necessarily reflect the positions of Bay Localize.

This issue features an essay from Colin Miller — an organizer, visionary, and activist with Greenlining Institute's Green Assets Program. This essay is a personal reflection and does not necessarily reflect the views of Greenlining Institute.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

- Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 1963

We live during an exceptional moment in history. Human beings' unprecedented levels of technological development and resource extraction have put us on a collision course with the survival of life on this planet, threatening all our relations: millions of other living species. Furthermore, our window of opportunity to prevent the most catastrophic consequences of global warming is closing fast: we have less than ten years to avert the disaster of runaway climate change.

The American and global economic system as currently structured serves only a small fraction of human beings to such an extent that it really serves no one: neither humans nor our larger extended family of living things. The current economic system is premised, like a kind of global cancerous tumor, upon limitless growth, and justified by ever-greater short-term profits for an ever-dwindling privileged few. The current system also distributes opportunities unequally according to hierarchies of power and privilege according to race, class, gender, and every other dividing "ism" invented by the defenders of the status quo, which prevents us from seeing ourselves as unified by a common purpose.

Despite the many valid reasons for despair, we must remember one thing: it is always darkest and coldest just before the dawn. I count myself as incredibly fortunate and blessed to find myself surrounded by a community of individuals working tirelessly and hopefully for the coming dawn. It is members of organizations such as the Greenlining Institute and Bay Localize, who give me reason for more hope than ever before. Once you start looking, you can't help but see undeniable signs of hope and positive change.

In the spirit of thinking globally and acting locally, the potential of what can be accomplished in the Bay Area and in California is stupendous. The Sustainable Communities Strategy mandated by SB 375, a state law which requires every metro region in California to adopt goals for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions through changes in urban planning and transportation systems, may represent one facet of the coming dawn. Here in the Bay Area, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) are jointly responsible for establishing regional GHG reduction targets, which will ultimately be approved by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

An informal coalition of well-respected organizations working broadly for justice, equity, and sustainability has come to the decision-making table demanding representation as equal stakeholders in the process. Collectively, these groups (including Greenlining Institute, Bay Localize, and many others) are arguing that the poor and people of color are the 21st century canaries in the coalmine of our present collision course with economic and environmental limits.

Together, we are arguing for mutual aid and localization as the highest manifestation of values which can be traced back to those espoused by America's Founding Fathers: independence, self-reliance, democracy, and freedom. Together, we are asking for energy independence from fossil fuels by relying instead on the abundant renewable energy we can harvest from the sun, the earth, the wind, and the water for free. We are asking for regional self-reliance with closed-loop systems of consumption and production that support both human beings and other species' survival in a web of mutuality and interdependence. Together, we are arguing for authentic democracy: not just in our political systems but in our economic systems as well. Together, we are working for a Bay Area region that can, and must, meet its needs locally, in turn providing a dignified and healthy livelihood for ALL members of our communities.

We need a new economic paradigm, premised not on struggle and competition, but on cooperation and mutual aid. Not on scarcity, but on abundance. Not on bust-and-boom cycles of resource exhaustion driven by short-term gain, but on resilience and long-term sustainability. Not on unfettered corporations with more rights than individual human beings, but on worker-owned cooperatives grounded in principles of equity and democracy. Ultimately, we must remember that we invented our economic systems to serve us, not the other way around.

With our Federal and State governments mired in horse-trading politics and short-term advantage, we must heed the call of Bolivian president Evo Morales, who during the recent Peoples' Summit on Climate Change implored civil society and governments to join hands and work together for a paradigm of Climate Justice that respects the sanctity of life itself, and of human beings as equal members of the family of living things.

In considering our priorities and deciding between economy and nature, we must also remember that the project of civilization and of our entire human enterprise, including our economic systems, are a smaller subset of Nature, not the other way around. In valuing diversity, we must value every facet of human diversity: race, class, culture, religion, gender, sexuality, ability level, religion, ethnicity, and nationality.

A regional Sustainable Communities Strategy that takes only transportation and urban planning into consideration is already doomed to fail in fulfilling the full potential of its lofty title. The City of Oakland, having already developed an Energy and Climate Action Plan that sets goals for true sustainability in the areas of waste, transportation, buildings, water, and energy, is setting a positive example for such a regional plan. Further systems to consider when designing a Bay Area that meets the needs of all members of our community and that prioritizes justice and equity as central tenets should include: education, health, finance, communications, media, outdoor recreation, arts, culture, political representation, and access to clean land, air, and water.

Ultimately, the crisis of our planet depends on us deciding — collectively as a species — to tell a different story about how we relate to ourselves, to each other, and to life itself on our one and only home, our Mother Earth.

Take Back the Mic Features Community Voices
Bay Localize and Allies Kick Off National Storytelling Campaign

On May 20th, Bay Localize, CommuniTree, and Destined Nation Media presented Take Back The Mic, featuring Afropolitan groove band Soulfège, Audiopharmacy, Seasunz & Ambessa FiyaPowa, the Aaron Ableman Ensemble, and Rise Up. About 200 people came through Ashkenaz to enjoy music, community storytelling, and live art, kicking off a National Community Storytelling campaign.

Beginning early next year, Derrick Ashong and his bandmate Jonathan Gramling of Soulfège will train community groups in five cities to tell their stories. And the first location will be the Bay Area! Lead-up events in each city will offer opportunities for community participation. The events and the trainings will be filmed and a documentary on the campaign will be released in 2012. For more information on Tack Back the Mic, visit our Facebook fan page.


Events Roundup: Upcoming Gatherings and Conferences

  • An Evening in Transition
    June 9, 6 pm
    Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, San Francisco
    Transition US, TransitionSF, and Bay Localize will host a lively introduction to transition towns, discussing their potential to ease our communities into the shift that peak oil, climate change, and economic downturn are bringing about. Join Bay Localize Co-Founder Dave Room and a panel of Transition leaders for a lively introduction to Transition, locally, across the US, and worldwide. Cost: $12 members, $20 non-members>
  • Harmony Festival
    June 11-13
    Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa
    This annual music festival and exposition celebrates new ideas, community activism, environmental awareness, and spiritual wisdom. This year's festival boasts an all-star lineup, including Ms. Lauryn Hill and Slightly Stoopid.
  • Green Roof Alliance Gathering
    June 16, 6-8 pm
    EcoCenter, Cargo Way & Jennings St., San Francisco
    The Green Roof Alliance is hosting a special gathering at the newly opened EcoCenter in San Francisco. Come hear about the successes-to-date and future plans of the Alliance, and get a guided tour of the Center's innovative wastewater treatment, rainwater capture, and living roof systems! RSVP to Leah at leah@baylocalize.org.
  • The Future of Community Choice Energy
    June 17, 9:30-11:30 am
    Central Historic Building, 436 14th St., 2nd Floor, Oakland
    The Local Clean Energy Alliance invites you to join us for a conversation on Community Choice Energy in the Bay Area. We will have a short debrief on the Prop 16 campaign, status updates on regional Community Choice efforts, and discussion on the next steps for Community Choice advocacy in the Bay Area. RSVP to belinda@baylocalize.org.
  • Oaklavia
    June 27, 10 am – 2 PM
    Downtown/Uptown Districts, Grand Avenue to Jack London Square, and West Oakland
    Walk Oakland, Bike Oakland (WOBO), the East Bay Bicycle Coalition, Oaklandish, Oakland YMCA, and other local organizations are closing off the city streets to automobiles, and opening them to residents for a car-free experience. Stroll, bike, skate, hula-hoop – whatever you please.
  • Power to the Peaceful
    September 11-12
    Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
    Conceived by Michael Franti, this internationally-acclaimed festival is one of the largest free music, art, and action events in the world. With over 50,000 in attendance, along with a wealth of exhibitors, environmental and humanitarian organizations, DJs, artists and speakers, this event is truly the place to be.
  • 10/10/10 Global Work Party
    Local Events Around the World
    350.org invites people around the world to participate in a Global Work Party, a day to celebrate climate solutions. Round up a group, and tackle a project of your choosing – just be sure and make it green! Tell leaders, "We're getting to work – what about you?" Find or register a local work party at http://www.350.org/oct10

Look for announcements of other upcoming gatherings on our website.

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EDITORS: Aaron Lehmer, Kirsten Schwind

CONTRIBUTORS: Aaron Lehmer, Colin Miller, David Room, Jenni Perez, Kirsten Schwind, Linda Currie, and Rachel Ortega

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