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Just Say No to Paper and Plastic |
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San Anselmo-Fairfax PATCH, January 27, 2012
By Jennifer Hammond, Communications Chair, Sustainable Fairfax
It’s time to stock up on reusable bags for your backpacks, purses
and car trunks. The movement to eliminate single-use bags from stores
is gaining momentum.
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Sustainable New Year’s Resolutions |
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San Anselmo-Fairfax PATCH, January 4, 2012
By Merrell Maschino, Secretary, Sustainable Fairfax
Bringing sustainability into your day-to-day routine can seem
challenging. To help you out, we've pulled together 12 resolutions to
make it easy for you get on the path to a healthier, more sustainable
2012. Through the year, we'll be exploring each topic to give you more
information about bringing these practices into your daily routine!
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Sustainable Fairfax Moves Forward with a New Board |
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San Anselmo-Fairfax PATCH, December 7, 2011
By Jennifer Hammond, Communications Chair, Sustainable Fairfax
Sustainable Fairfax is honored for what is has accomplished as it moves
forward to 2012 with a new board of directors and exciting plans for the
future.
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Fairbuck Fridays are Hopping! |
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FairBuck Fridays have reinvigorated the program with multiple businesses requesting more FairBucks to keep their drawers stocked. Keep those FairBucks moving and check out these great Friday deals!
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Release of "Grassroots Sustainability" |
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Grassroots Sustainability
A Guide to Organizing a Thriving Community
by Lisa Chipkin and Pam
Hartwell-Herrero
Grassroots
Sustainability was
inspired by the real-life efforts of a handful of grassroots groups in Marin
County, California that successfully brought sustainability policy and
education to their communities. This guidebook documents their best practices
and shares important lessons learned along the way. It is intended to empower
individuals and grassroots groups near and far to facilitate meaningful change
in their communities from the ground up, without having to reinvent the wheel.
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Sustainable Fairfax Receives Certificate of Recognition |
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Sustainable Fairfax received a great honor at its 12th Anniversary Party in October. LaMonte Bishop presented us with a Certificate of Recognition from State Senator Mark Leno. The proclamation is a wonderful validation of our efforts in the community.
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We did not support the Wind "They're Not Green" movie |
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Human error by the films promoters included us on some posters. We are open to all renewable energy generation that is done well and local.
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Call to Action: Stop the PEIR Coalition |
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Sustainable Fairfax is collaborating with Moms Advocating for Sustainability
(formerly Mothers of Marin Against the Spray), the California Environmental
Health Initiative, Pesticide Watch, and other organizations to oppose the
California Department of Food and Agriculture's (CDFA) plans for a Programmatic
Environmental Impact Report (PEIR). We are asking for your support to join
this coalition.
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The FairBuck Project began in the beginning of 2011 as a collaborative effort by Sustainable Fairfax, Town of Fairfax and Fairfax Chamber of Commerce to launch and utilize a 3 dollar trade token to promote a more vibrant local economy. In June of 2011 we minted 5,000 tokens and had a very successful launch during the Fairfax Festival. With over 30 businesses participating; we were able to get almost 4,000 tokens int circulation in one week, mostly through exchanges with individuals.
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Sustainability Center is Closed |
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It is official. We are now tenants of the upstairs of 141 Bolinas Rd. Our downstairs education space is closed and the upstairs is our new community meeting, project and work space. We will continue to have events in the backyard and rent out the backyard space, especially now that we have an amazing oven!
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Fairfax Chamber of Commerce presents: Breakfast Mixer
Come hear about the Fairfax Currency Project
at Pancho Villa’s
1625 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
Thursday February 17th, 9am-10:30am
$12 Breakfast Buffet
You must R.S.V.P. Space limited
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Apologies for misinformation on the newsletter.
http://www.fairfaxcoc.com/
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How do we keep money local?
Date: Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Women’s Club 46 Park Road in Fairfax
Cost: FREE!!!!
At this educational event you will learn -
• About the FairBuck and local currency
• How and why local currencies are being used around the US
• How can the FairBuck benefit OUR community?
You will:
• Participate in an interactive demonstration on how we propose FairBucks may be used to grow our local economy
• Share your questions, ideas and feedback so we can design the best system.
• Discover how you can be a part of this movement to revitalize our local economy and strengthen our collective spending power
• Find out how you can become a FairBuck Champion and do your part in keeping OUR MONEY LOCAL
Why should I get involved? ~ Because it’s fun and profitable for EVERYONE!
This event is brought to you by the FairBuck Steering Committee - a collaboration of Sustainable Fairfax, Town of Fairfax, and the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce and your friends and neighbors.
information-visit fairbuck.org or Contact
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Accomplishments 2010
Each year we are profoundly happy to find what dedicated citizens are capable of doing in one small town.
Click on the Read More button below to learn about our highlights in the areas of Community Education & Events, Advocacy, Water Project, Volunteers, Center, Projects, Communications and Development.
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‘Compost Master’ from Paris visits Sustainable Fairfax. |
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This summer, we had a special guest –  Jean-Jacques Fasquel from Paris, France, who has a job with the city as a ‘Compost Master.’ He has been encouraging residents to set up small composting bins in their courtyards and turned his efforts into a job with the city where he goes around helping residents get started. A Paris courtyard --  Garbage is collected every day! In Paris, according to an article in TheGlobeandMail.com,“Most live in 19th-century apartment buildings that often share space withstores and restaurants, but were built without extra room to store garbage. Asa result, the city is forced to collect waste every day.” The article says that the city hopes tosell its project based on the notion that composting in the courtyard canimprove relations between notoriously aloof Parisian neighbours just as much asit can help the environment. |
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 Preserving Fairfax’s character, sustainability and quality of life for the long term In the Spring of 2010, the Town of Fairfax, Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, and Sustainable Fairfax joined to apply for certification. In July, Fairfax was presented with a certificate showing that we have exceeded the CittaSlow Intl. criteria and are the second town in the United States to join the CittaSlow movement. CittaSlow accredidation is a recognition of the history of Fairfax, work that has been done to preserve our town and work that is yet to come to keep us striving to root in the past as we move into the future. CittaSlow Fairfax is in it’s infancy and we are looking for help to make this a living breathing program. contact
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For more information www.cittaslow.org Slow doesn’t mean sluggish or dumb, it means taking the time to enjoy life; it doesn’t mean living in the past or moving backwards, it means shared values that preserve our town’s quality of life. |
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Videos on composting and rainwater harvesting |
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Not Common Sense at ALL!! |
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If you're in Marin or San Francisco, you've got a wall of junkmail coming at you from PG&E.
Oh, beg pardon. You have a wall of junk coming at you from "The
Commonsense Coalition." This is a coalition of one, and that one is
PG&E.
In teeny tiny letters, in ever more pale ink, you may be able to find the line on those mailers that says something about PacificGas&Electric. Or maybe you left your magnifying glass at home and you can't find PG&E on there.
Regardless, these 100% PG&E mailers are everywhere, they're expensive as heck, and they're clearly meant to scare the pants off us. If we didn't have brains in our heads, it might be hard to know what to do about it.
First, know that this is a straight out disinformation campaign.
These mailers are packed with the same tired ol' threats PG&E's Joe
Nation has been trotting out in council meetings (rebutted, again and
again) since 2008. Some of them are the same threats (again, examined
and rejected) used by PG&E to generate fear and confusion around
San Joaquin's CCA in a devastating disinformation campaign down there.
As they've made clear to their shareholders, PG&E has one motive
behind everything they throw at this: STOP the CCAs. Halt the threat to earnings.
It's faux grassroots on a boardroom budget, with
just that one simple goal: shut the competition down. PG&E knows
Marin Clean Energy -- if it can just survive PG&E's onslaught --
will succeed, and compete. And then replicate. Why else would they go to these extraordinary measures and $35 million dollar budgets to stop it?
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Marin Clean Energy Action Needed |
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Marin Clean Energy is on it’s way to becoming a reality in 2010! Eight towns and the County voted last fall to join together to set up our community based clean energy system. Now we’re into the nitty-gritty details and you can help all of Marin get the best Marin Clean Energy System we can have.
MCE has the potential to integrate energy efficiency and local power generation. Energy efficiency is the cheapest 'clean energy' available and we would create good local jobs. Public Goods Funds are available to Marin and we should make sure that we get the funding, because Marin Clean Energy can do better Energy Efficiency, Solar, and Low-income programs than PG&E.
Please email your MCE county representative and your MCE town councilor and say that we need to bring energy efficiency and local power generation front and center into all MCE proposals.
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Be the Change You Want to See in the World! Join us for our Sustainability Certification Corps When: Saturday March 26th & Sunday March 27th, 2011 Time: 9:00am-3:00pm BOTH days required! Location: Sustainability Center at 141 Bolinas Rd. Fairfax Participants will learn about global and local sustainability issues. Learn how to become an advocate and resource to educate and inspire others. Finally be inspired yourself, by like-minded people devoted to creating a better future for ourselves, our children and the earth! Trainees will be expected to staff our Center and get involved in community Projects. Certification is met through education, advocacy and action. Sustainable Fairfax is a local nonprofit, educational group dedicated to preserving and regenerating the social, economic and environmental well-being of our town. If you'd like to be part of the solution, join us. Sign up by emailing Kristen Coffey
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Space is limited, so please RSVP...ASAP! |
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