The Community Forum will include a breakout session on transportation, where advocates for transit, walking, bicycling, and a responsible fossil-fuel-free transportation system will take out next steps to transform the Sacramento region. We hope that STAR supporters and others will attend both the forum and the transportation breakout. In California, 40% of greenhouse gas carbon is from transportation. The Sacramento Transportation Choices transportation principles will be released and discussed at the breakout. The info below is from 350Sacramento, the forum organizers. 

It’s time to take on the biggest challenge of our lifetime!! We need to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels that are fueling climate change and toward a livable future. With a federal government actively hostile to the climate, the real action is now at the local level. Cities are where innovation and creativity can thrive, transforming urban landscapes into low-carbon highly desirable communities. Sacramento, as the capital of California, can be a leader in this exciting and ambitious effort. Let’s get started!!

Come to the Community Forum: Leading the Way to Carbon Zero, to learn how we can get the carbon out and create a thriving Sacramento region. Your ideas, knowledge, and imagination count—it will take every bit of our creativity and ingenuity to transform our region. Be part of this historic effort to save the planet!! Register today!!

Highlights:

• Opening by Sacramento’s Mayor Darrell Steinberg.
• Keynote by renowned visionary Alex Steffen, author of Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet.
• Panel of experts to explore realistic paths to carbon zero.
• Sacramento Innovates: Cool things already happening in the Sacramento region.
• Interactive focus groups to discuss where we go from here.
• A delicious lunch provided by the Sacramento Natural Food Coop.
• Valet bike parking by SABA.

Details:

• Date: Saturday, May 13
• Time: 9–3 pm (come at 8 to enjoy the Expo and wake up with coffee/goodies)
• Location: McGeorge School of Law Lecture Hall, 3200 5th Ave, Sacramento
• Tickets: only $25 general/$10 students/limited income includes lunch. 
• Register TODAY!

• Sacramento Transportation Choices