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Meeting reminders
The Planning Commission meeting January 4
City Council meeting on January 10th,
Sustainable
Transport Club meeting January 7th
Helping to create the report on - Creating a Sustainable
Transportation Dream City in Santa Monica
LA Bio diesel Co-op Launch of Fueling trailer.
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Meeting reminders
The Planning Commission meeting January 4
Wednesday at 7:00pm
Santa Monica City Hall 1685 Main Street
This meeting will focus on the circulation element of the city’s
general plan. This is your chance to get up to speed about what the
city has in store for transportation.
City Council meeting on January 10th,
Tuesday at 6:45 Pm
Santa Monica City Hall 1685 Main Street
This meeting will be a chance to get information to the city council
in the form of a report from our group. We are working on this
report and welcome your contributions. Details are below. Your
attendance will help get you going and provide support for a
sustainable future. We will be planning around this meeting at the
Sustainable Transport Club meeting on Saturday.
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Sustainable Transport Club Meeting:
Saturday January 7th, 2006 10:00AM
Everyone is invited to this meeting.
Unurban Café, 33RD & PICO (across from Trader Joes)
Santa Monica, CA 90405
The main topic of this meeting is the preparation of the dream
vision for sustainable transportation in Santa Monica. We will be
preparing something to be presented at the Santa Monica City
Council meeting. There will also be a report on the planning
commission meeting.
Sustain@rsydney.com
310-450-7419
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The following is a draft of the opening statement for the report on
sustainable transportation. We are a community group supporting
the city in developing solutions to a sustainable future. That only
works to the extent that you help make it work.
You are invited to send us your wish list of the things that would
help build sustainability, even if it is just one little thing that is
important to you. The outline of the sections of the report is
below.
How can you contribute to this process?
Creating a Sustainable Transportation future for Santa Monica
It is possible for us to transport people and goods using
technologies that are sustainable into the foreseeable future. This
means using vehicles that run on renewable energy sources and
that minimize the negative environmental effects from their use.
The present dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels threatens to
undermine our economy and our national security as long as our
country is dependent on foreign sources of fuel.
In addition, the emissions from using the fossil fuel are a proven
causative agent in destabilizing our climate. The destabilization of
our environment will have similar impacts on our economy, on our
national security and most importantly on the suffering of our
people as we have already seen from the most destructive
hurricane season on record.
The immediacy and severity of the potential problem is captured in
a few key facts. Energy demand is increasing rapidly on a global
basis. Oil production has increased twenty percent over the last
twenty years and demand is projected to increase fifty percent over
the next twenty. Add the possibility of peak oil production
occurring some time in that picture and we have a really big
potential problem.
The City of Santa Monica has already been able to lead the way
toward a sustainable future with a range of important steps. We
urge you to help build even more momentum in that direction by
promoting even more steps toward using renewable energy
sources.
There are five renewable energy sources that have currently been
identified as having great potential to provide sustainable
transportation. These are:
1. Human powered using vehicles such as bicycles
2. Electricity
from solar, wind and environmentally sound
hydroelectric generators
3. Waste
oil and oil produced by growing crops and algae
converted to Bio diesel
4. Methane
fuel converted from green waste biomass
5. Alcohol fuel converted from
green waste biomass and from
crop bye products
In addition there is a great deal of discussion about using hydrogen
as a fuel. This may fit into the picture but it should be noted that
hydrogen is not an energy source but a way to convert energy into
a transportable form.
This report will layout what we have gleaned from personal
experience and from the experts in the field about how to go about
bringing the possibilities of using these fuels into reality here in
Santa Monica.
Outline of report
This report will include a vision of what a sustainable
transportation future would look like.
It will then make detailed suggestions about what can be done in
five main areas for facilitating the transition to sustainability.
These are:
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LA Biodiesel Co-op Opening.
The Grand Opening of the Biodiesel Fueling Trailer is on schedule
for January 7th. From 1-4pm at a location near the Marina.
The Co-op is close to filling its initial membership goal but there
are still a few slots open.
Please send an e-mail Alayha
For more information on the opening and on the co-op.
Thanks
LA Biodiesel Co-op Member
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