Cool LA – Transitioning LA to Carbon Neutrality

Climate
Community
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Resilience

Impact

Our neighborhood. Our planet.

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Become more planet friendly, disaster resilient and community rich.

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What is a Cool Block?

At the core of "what’s cool” for the 21st century is the cooling of our climate-changing planet. But in addition, “what’s cool” is an ethos of collaboration, caring, and sharing. You and your household are invited to embark on a journey of discovering and making cool choices in collaboration with other households on your block.

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Changing the way we think about change!

Climate scientists tell us we must achieve by 2030 what humanity is trying to accomplish by 2050 to avoid irreversible ecological tipping points. To achieve this, we need to change the way we think about change.

The Cool Block is the foundation program of a larger initiative called the Cool City Challenge whose mission is to accelerate the decarbonization of the world’s cities which emit 70% of the planet’s CO2. It does this by integrating bottom-up and top-down climate solutions enabling a city to accelerate the speed and magnitude of change.

LEARN ABOUT THE Cool City Challenge —>

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Making Life Better on the Street Where You Live

Cool Blocks that take the livability actions will make themselves: safer, healthier, greener, kinder to the environment, friendlier, quieter, more economical and better places to raise kids. The program provides a detailed menu of actions that you and your team can take to create such a block.

Water Stewardship

This section of the Cool Block program provides you the water stewardship practices to help conserve LA's precious water resources and reduce the environmental impact on our watersheds.

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Personal and Shared Resilience

A premise of the Cool Block program is that taking prudent precautions against energy disruptions and the possibility of a natural disaster is a form of insurance. And the best insurance is the group insurance we get when our neighbor's security is tied to our own. This topic will help you become more energy and disaster resilient.

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Empowering Others

This final topic helps you and the team sustain the actions you have put in place, deepen the social connections you have established with each other and expand to other blocks. It is the foundation for scaling the program into a Cool City.

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Upcoming Events

Events

Apr

Cool LA Info Session

2023-04-11 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Online Event

Cool Block Information

Cool Blocks evolve naturally into a Cool Neighborhood of approximately 10 Cool Blocks in geographic proximity that wish to become more self-sufficient and resilient. A carbon neutral neighborhood is built upon the foundation of a Cool Neighborhood. The long term goal of Cool LA is to scale up carbon neutral neighborhoods citywide as the foundation of a carbon neutral city.

Future

Our Vision

EMPOWERING LA TO BECOME CARBON NEUTRAL AND CLIMATE RESILIENT BY 2030... ONE BLOCK AND NEIGHBORHOOD AT A TIME.

LEARN ABOUT LA's CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2030 CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION —>

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