Sustain-a-Palooza! Highlights

I’ve been asked “What’s your favorite part of Sustain-a-Palooza! ?” more than a few times now in the days following SSV’s inaugural Sustainable Life event. While the answer fundamentally is the equivalent of picking out your favorite child, I can honestly use the over-used “It’s all good.” My real answer starts with a question about the questioner’s interests and needs, because Sustain-a-Palooza! has something for everyone, provided you were looking for information on…

• SSV programs in AQ, Mobility & Water
• Community Choice Energy programs form PCE, SVCE, SJCE and BayREN
• Air District shorts on Wildfires
• Sunnyvale Mayor Larry Klein’s Restaurant Project
• Sunnyvale’s FoodCycle Program
• Acterra’s Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
• Expert advice on healthy buildings
• Insight into the world of chocolate and its home-makings
• Felicia Marcus discussing drought and our increasingly thirsty atmosphere

And that was just the Day One! To be fair to Day Two… 

• Santa Clara County Sustainability programs
• Silicon Valley Bike Coalition work on planning and design
• Monterey Bay Aquarium’s programs on on Seafood, Plastic and Climate
• The movement across the Bay Area and beyond for all-electric building codes
• A Gridizen’s Guide to smart all-electric home retrofits
• VOCA’s citizen engagement micro-polling efforts
• Bill Weihl on the urgency of our finding our Climate Voices 

So the point here is that with Sustain-a-Palooza! and our Sustainable Life program, we really want to deliver a whole bunch of good stuff from a whole bunch of sources. This modern life we’re in involves tons of decisions both small & large on issues ranging from immunology and public health to climate impacts and meaningful actions to finding good food for dinner (and chocolate for after). Our hope is to build a community that together can fill in answers to all these questions, one plant-based meatball at a time.