Climate change adaptation

This is from Josh...

University of Oregon sponsors a Climate Leadership Initiative. Among other things, it facilitates workshops for communities to plan for and adapt to climate change. Some communities in Oregon have already done workshops and written reports. There may be useful information or beneficial suggestions in the reports.

http://climlead.uoregon.edu/programs/scenariosplanning.html

Notes from May 13 Task Force Meeting

Again - nothing official - just my notes - Pamela

My notes from May 13, 2009 SCTF Meeting

Here: Joanne/Molly/Jeff/Bill/Mike/Travis/Paula/Josh/Nabiel/David/Me/Dawn Feldhaus

Started off with a Blog tutorial - Thanks David!!

*Post next meeting date on blog* Next Meeting : June 10, 2009 5:30 pm

Jeff – Metrics Project – No sub-meeting has occurred yet. Still collecting raw data
Waiting for final report from Eva
Nabiel – Problem with methodology CDP vs ICLI - Josh and Jeff will review
There is a possibility that we will need to track both
Eva will be publishing our 2nd Annual Sustainability Newsletter – June sometime

The Whole pig – Organic Pig Farmers in Washougal – Jim and Lisa Kaiser

Green pages – links on City website

Transition Initiative - Presentation occurred May 6th – Moderate turn out – those who attended very much appreciated the material and how it was presented.

Will continue the speaker series – would like more lead time so we can invite more folks to these talks.
Mike will line up speakers for the following topics over the next few months:
Energy
Climate Change
Economic/Finance
Josh will look into finding a speaker for a Water discussion
Jeff will look into speakers for :
Architecture 2030
LEED

A wind technology for residential buildings presentation to City Council, Planning Commission and SCTF will occur on June 8, 2009 at 5:30 pm.

Pamela – Green Eye for the Sustainable Shy
• Molly will get recommendations of some Senior Citizens that could use an energy update for their home from a contact at Loaves and Fishes
• The participant will need to be willing to provide their energy cost data and allow us access into their home.
• Once we have a willing participant; a group of SCTF members will go into the home and determine what improvements can be made
• Acquisition of the necessary items – raid our garages, contact local retailers, etc.
• Return to the home and make improvements.
• Current members signed-on are Molly, Travis and Pamela
• Areas we would like to focus on are: Energy Conservation / Water Conservation an Trash/recycling

April Meeting Notes

These are not official minutes by any stretch of the imagination - just my notes - Pamela

My notes from 4/15 SCTF Meeting

Here: Bill/Travis/Paula/Molly/Mike/David/Jeff/Me/Nabiel/Steven/Josh

A professional will come and give a talk to City Council, Planning Commission and SCTF regarding wind technology for residential buildings soon – no date yet. The purpose is to educate decision makers. Jeff and Josh will review the presentation prior.

Waste Connections meeting – Molly met with some WM folks – All of Washougal will be going to the Big Blue Bins by this summer. They are open to working with us in community outreach type projects.

Travis London became the newest member of the SCTF to fill one of our two openings.

Transition Town – Presentation including a step by step process on how to get your town more sustainable – covers energy, climate and financial issues. Would like to have a presentation to the SCTF – Mike will set up.

Nabiel – Worms – many folks went to a worm presentation

At next meeting will start off with a blog tutorial

Jeff Cross – Project – Baseline Metrics
Measure Impacts
Quantify efforts to improve
Top 5 Metrics per Household: Water/Gas/Electric/recycle/solid waste/wastewater
Work with city and other entities to gather information
Intend to start 4/15 and end 6/30

Deliverables: Power Point presentation and calculations

Cost: Jeff, Josh, Dave, Pamela, Molly and Mike

All data needs to be from within the city limits

Nabiel – Use current #’s to publish City of Washougal Baseline performance metric 2009 report

Pamela brainstorm – Washougal home green-over – Green Eye for the Sustainable Shy
Idea was liked – need to type up a proposal….

Earth Day activity: Kerr Park 10-2 Tree planting, ivy removal, trail building – 4/18

Next Meeting : May 13th 5:30 pm
Adjourn: 7:25 pm

Mark your Calendars

The Sustainability Task Force Meeting will be June 10, 2009 at 5:30 pm.

See you all then!

Carbon Disclosure Report - Draft

From: Tom Carnac, Head of Public Sector, Carbon Disclosure Project

Link to the draft of the CDP Cities Report:

http://washougal.biz/cow/CDP_Cities_2008_draft.pdf

Please find attached the draft of the CDP Cities Report (link above). We are happy to present this for your review and comment and would ask that you provide feedback by the 24th April. We look forward to receiving your comments and incorporating them ahead of launching the document.

We are presenting this as a draft in order that you can have a voice in the final publication. However I would stress that it would be impossible for us to incorporate multiple potentially conflicting views and would therefore ask that you focus on the following areas when you review the report:

1. How you as a municipality are presented.
2. Broad comments on the overall tone and style of the report.
   

We would also invite you to provide any quotes, perhaps from a Mayor or elected official, that you would like included.

In addition to what is being circulated here, there are a few additional sections to be added once we have received comments. These include the graphs of data generated, the introductions to each participating municipality,  the Executive Summary and general typesetting and lay out.

We have enjoyed working with you on this project very much and hope that you find the report useful. I would also like to acknowledge at this point the crucial role that has been played by ICLEI, and underline that without their support this project would not have been possible.

Link to the draft of the CDP Cities Report: http://washougal.biz/cow/CDP_Cities_2008_draft.pdf

Best regards

Tom

Tom Carnac
Head of Public Sector
Carbon Disclosure Project
tel: + 44 20 7415 7109
mob: + 44 7823770689
tom.carnac@cdproject.net
www.cdproject.net
40 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R 0NE, United Kingdom 

Meeting Minutes - March 11, 2009

Prepared by Steven Clark

March 11, 2009

Minutes

1.) Present: Steven Clark, Tammy Mackey, Josh Seeds, Pamela Tuite, Paula Clark

2.) Discussed Earth Hour.  Will post announcement on website.  David Mackie suggested that we might be able to see how many people visited the Earth Hour posting.

3.) Members? report

a.) Steven, Pamela and Jeff Cross developed a ?project filter? that attempted to help the Task Force to focus our work and to give us a means by which we could have a degree of input into our various projects.  Steven presented the idea.

b.) Discussion ensued.

c.) Steven would address suggested changes and post the results on the blog and by email.  Members would give the revised filter a vote if yes or no.  If the filter was accepted, members could begin developing projects in advance of the next meeting.

4.) Non-members posting on the blog.  Steven agreed to contact members to survey their opinions

5.) John Eidman brought up an upcoming City Council/Planning Commission meeting in late MARCH.  It is open to the public.  An informational presentation on wind power will be made.

Meeting Adjourned

Next Meeting: April 15 

Vermicomposting Hands-On Class

We have room for four more people. Nabiel wanted to extend the class invite to the Sustainability committee. Individuals will need to contact Rose Jewell if they are interested.  
 
Rose Jewell
Email: rjewell@ci.washougal.wa.us
Phone: 360.835.8501 extension 17

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Vermicomposting Hands-On Class (Carpooling is encouraged)

When: Friday, April 10, 2009, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Where: 806 NE 202 Avenue, Camas, WA

The class is located in the middle of Friberg st (NE 202 Ave is the same road). We are surrounded by a grove of fir trees just past (north side of) 8th st.

806 NE 202 Ave
Camas, WA 98607


Contact Vermicomposting: dougknippel@northwestredworms.com
Website: www.northwestredworms.com