Actions
Quick Links to Some Actions You Can Take
Learn more about divesting your money from fossil fuels:
Support the work of the Auburn Sustainability Advisory Committee
Divest your money from banks and investments that support the fossil fuel industry
Listen to climate activist, Greta Thunberg, reciting one of her powerful essays over ambient music in this 2019 track “The 1975” (featured on the The 1975’s album Notes on a Conditional Form ).
Eat Well
The Eat Well program, adopted by Placer County and Cal Recycles, connects food generators (like restaurants and food stores) with community members in need. Local partners (such as the Auburn Interfaith Food Closet) identify community members who are food insecure. The food generators benefit by being able to give away near expiration food goods that would normally be thrown out. Food waste that ends up buried in our landfills will generate methane, so by donating instead the climate benefits! It is a win-win-win for all involved. So, if you are dining out at your favorite restaurant, consider bringing THIS FLYER with you to give to the restaurant owner when you ask if they would sing up for the program.
A new app launches in Placer County, aiming to reduce food waste while also helping those in need.
Polluter’s Pay Bill in California
The nonprofit California Environmental Voters is co-sponsoring the The Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 (SB 684 and AB 1243) act along with the Center for Biological Diversity, The Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California (CSHC), and many other environmental groups. This bill addresses the financial injustices imposed on taxpayers and working families from climate related disasters by requiring fossil fuel polluters to offset the costs pushed down on the taxpayer for the damage caused and enhanced by their products. Similar bills have been passed recently in NY and VT.
If you would like to sign the petition in support of this bill, click on the button below.
Community Regeneration Project
Take action on ecological regeneration (of local soil, croplands, and forests) by joining Allen Edwards and a group of volunteers in the forests outside Colfax and on ranch/farmland near Auburn. Build connections between the land and our community, and in the process build a local a sustainable future.
To learn more, watch the video’s below!
Allen Edwards’ June 2, 2024 PECA Presents offering
Bill Jackson's companion video showing Allen's forest management activity and his burning philosophy.
Climate Action California
Climate Action California works in teams focused on pollutants and emissions sources, and advocates for local, state, and federal legislation and policies that move the needle on climate. We track bills, work in coalition to promote our positions, and keep in close touch with legislators and agency decision-makers on a wide range of issues from building decarbonization and plastics to energy policy and the California budget.
Effective Climate Change Conversations
According to Katharine Hayhoe, the most important thing every single one of us can do about climate change is talk about it. This is What We Did has free well-run workshops on how to have effective climate Change conversations. A number of PECA members have done this workshop and found it useful.
Move Your Money
This is What We Did is supporting Third Act in their campaign to stop big banks from financing climate chaos. They provide free support and education to people who want to move their money from climate-bad banks. A number of PECA members have done this workshop and found it helpful in inspiring us to make changes in where we put our money.
Get the Climate Action Now App!
Watch this video to learn how easy it is to use the Climate Action now app.
Are you looking for a quick and easy way to advocate for Climate Action in your busy life? Get the Climate Action Now app and begin writing your representatives and others about issues that are important for the climate. The Climate Action Now folks stay abreast of the causes that matter and provide appropriate content that you can modify to send out in emails and tweets. If you activate the notifications on the app, they you will get a gentle one-time reminder every morning to take some action. Within 5 minutes, you can discover current issues related to the climate and send emails (or tweets) to let the people in power know that you are paying attention.
Partnering with Auburn Sustainability Advisory Committee
PECA members have partnered with the Auburn Sustainability Advisory Committee (SAC) in their efforts to reduce single use both plastic waste and food waste. Our current partnership involves targeting local restaurants to offer more sustainable options for take out containers and food waste. Teams have been visiting restaurants within Auburn city limits, in North Auburn (both up 49 and by the Foresthill exit/Bowman), and in the Loomis/Rocklin area. Come to any one of our events to find out how you can be involved in this effort! Read more about their sustainability efforts in Auburn here.
Click below for some of the resources the teams give to the restaurants:
Get the Too Good To Go App!
Watch this video to learn about using the Too Good To Go app in the Bay Area. There is no reason we can’t make this work in Placer County too!
Did you know that about 24% of all the food in the U.S. (54 million tons) goes to waste? Given that one in ten Americans are food insecure, wasted food is just plain wrong for people. It also is wrong for the planet because much of food waste ends up in the landfill where it rots to form methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Part of the food waste problem can be addressed using the app, Too Good to Go, which was developed in Denmark, but began making its way to the United States in the Fall of 2020. The purpose of the app is connect consumers with surplus food in the form of “surprise bags” that food stores and restaurants would otherwise throw away. Currently (March 2023) only one store in our area is signed up for the service (it is free to both consumers and sellers), but PECA members plan to advocate for restaurants to take advantage of the app and for consumers (that’s you) to get the app.
Click here to download a pdf of our flyer for customers
Click here to download a pdf of our flyer for business owners