Alta Vista Gardens Pond Maintenance

Alta Vista Botanical Gardens 1270 Vale Terrace Dr, Vista, California, United States

The NCCCA is part of the Adopt-a-Garden program and our volunteers meet monthly to clip, trim, plant and maintain the beautiful Pond Garden at the Alta Vista Botanical Gardens. Please bring garden gloves and hand clippers if you have them. Meet Suzanne at the entrance to the Alta Vista Botanical Gardens at 9:30 AM or drop in anytime to help between 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM on any (or all) of the dates listed below. If there is an attendant at the entrance, tell them you are volunteering with the NCCCA Adopt-a-Garden program and the entrance fee is waived. The Read More ...

Developing Real-Time Community Dashboards that Foster and Empower Community Engagement, Sustainability and Climate Resilience

Special guest John Petersen “Environmental Dashboard” (ED) technology is now implemented in several organizations and communities.  In each installation: 1) “Building Dashboard” dynamically displays real-time resource consumption in individual buildings to promote resource conservation; 2) “Citywide Dashboard” animates whole-community resource flows and environmental conditions; 3) “Community Voices” combines images and text to celebrate thought and action that advance social, ecological and economic dimensions of sustainability; 4) interactive stories combine content to tell the story of community sustainability and resilience.  Extensive research on this city pilot demonstrates that exposure to ED content significantly enhances systems thinking and pro-environmental and pro-community social Read More ...

NCCCA Networking Gathering – NEW LOCATION Vista Library

Vista Library 700 EUCALYPTUS AVE, Vista, California

The North County Climate Change Alliance invites you to join our monthly networking event. This meeting is open to individuals and groups who are concerned about climate change.

NCCCA Book Club

Join us for an information and enlightening discussion of Mini-Forest Revolution Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World by Hannah Lewis. "Hannah Lewis describes a gift to a despairing world. . . .There may be no single climate solution that has a greater breadth of benefits than mini-forests. . . can be done by everyone everywhere." —Paul Hawken (from the Foreword) PLEASE REGISTER HERE Read: How to Start a Mini-Forest Revolution (Book Extract) Learn: A Complete Guide to the Miyawaki Method Explore: Green Pocket Forests Watch: TedTalk by Shubhendu Sharma: How to Grow a Tiny Forest Anywhere There Read More ...