Written CommunicationsFrom:Jerry Kroth
To:City of Cupertino Sustainability Commission
Subject:speaker series/please forward
Date:Tuesday, February 11, 2020 7:51:17 AM
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I am a professor from Santa Clara University in California (and a resident of Cupertino) and
just published Ecocide: why radical interventions are needed to stop climate apocalypse. I
also made a video lecture on this subject going by the same name.
What is bothering me is that if Trump is reelected, the U.S. will likely do nothing until 2024,
and by that time it might simply be too late. The chances the planet will reach 1.5 degrees of
warming are already excellent, but Trump’s reelection could make that all but inevitable.
So the more people who can see this video or hear this talk before the election the better. The
book and the video suggest both conventional and more radical solutions for achieving a 50%
reduction in greenhouse gases in 10 years.
I hope you can forward this to relevant parties who are sensitive enough to know that we are
facing an even greater climate emergency than we already face if Trump reigns another four
years.
If there is any opportunity of delivering this lecture live in your speaker's series, I would be
most interested.
You can view the video lecture here https://youtu.be/C1F3sFsaBJg
Jerry Kroth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Santa Clara University
website: collectivepsych.com
PS. I do not charge any fees for my lecture.
From:Liang Chao
To:City of Cupertino Sustainability Commission
Subject:FW: Cupertino Youth Climate Action Team - 6 Items for the 2020 Council Work Program
Date:Tuesday, February 18, 2020 2:35:51 PM
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Subject: Cupertino Youth Climate Action Team - 6 Items for the 2020 Council Work Program
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PLEASE ADD THIS LETTER INTO PUBLIC COMMENT
Dear City Council,
This is just a reminder that the Cupertino Youth Climate Action Team is advocating
for these following six environmental initiatives to be added to the official 2020 City
Council Work Program. We would like to start by thanking the City Council for passing
strong reach codes to position Cupertino as a climate leader - an initiative our team
worked hard to support and advocate for. We would also like to thank Mayor Scharf,
for meeting with the Cupertino Youth Climate Action Team at the end of last year and
voicing your support for adding Green Mondays and Single-Use Plastic Waste
Reduction to the official 2020 Cupertino City Council Work Program!
Here are the six items we would like to see added:
1.
2. Green Mondays
3.
a.
b. Providing more environmentally
c. friendly plant-based foods on Monday's for city programming
d.
e.
f. Educating the public on
g. the impacts of their food choices
h.
4.
5. Plastic Reduction
6.
0.
a. Single use plastic ban-
b. already enacted by Palo Alto, San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Mateo
c.
7.
8. Water Conservation
9.
0.
a. Getting residents to plant
b. native plants instead of lawns
c.
10.
11. Carbon Negative Building
12. Materials
13.
0.
a. Mixing carbon from the
b. atmosphere with cement to reduce emissions
c.
d.
e. Already implemented by
f. Marin County
g.
14.
15. Public Education Workshops
16.
0.
a. Partnership with schools
b. and the City for speaking engagements/educational workshops with our
youth
c.
17.
18. Summer Sustainability
19. Workshops
20.
0.
a. Youth internships in the
b. City's Sustainability Department to bring more civic engagement and
provide more support to meet climate goals
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Thank you,
Cupertino Youth Climate Action Team
Brandon, Sophie, Sanat, Gwyn, Jennifer, Allison,