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A FUTURE VISION FOR PACIFIC GROVE
So let's imagine Pacific Grove as having transitioned to a sustainable community, a place where
residents eat locally
and shop locally for their daily needs. Parks are surrounded with edible landscapes. An open-air market bustling with people buying fruits, veggies and local crafts offers a place to find fresh items grown close to home.
The city has an odorless compost drop-off for all the area restaurant food waste. Residents can claim composted soil to use in their own yards, each planted with fruit trees and edibles. Cisterns collect rainwater from roofs, reducing the runoff into the bay while offering water for the dry season. A local reservoir holds local runoff and offers water for gardens. Solar panels allow a zeroing out of the electricity bill even during our foggiest years.
Residents walk throughout town finding the goods they need and new stores open to showcase locally manufactured products. A local bike store houses a bike-lending library, and citizens ride scooters and bikes down our roads. A tool-lending library and a fix-it shop opens to allow residents to share tools and knowledge.
Pacific Grove becomes a city that demonstrates simplicity and the beauty of being sustainable and grows the one thing few towns can grow -- community. Sustainable Pacific Grove is dedicated to making such a vision a reality.
Sustainable Pacific Grove in 2012
SPG continues to work at finding more ways for Pacific Grove to transition to more sustainable practices..
( to see what SPG did
during 2011
during 2010
during 2009
during 2008
during 2007
during 2006 )
( back to About Us
for this year. )
What we are doing & did in 2012
SPG Activities
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The January Meeting
involved a panel of folks involved in "The Greening of PG".
Since SPG's Green Business presentation last year,
two more PG enterprises have become Certified Green Businesses,
and three others deserve recognition of their green practices.
We heard from our 5 panelists' inspiring achievements.
Frank O'Dowd, Director of Housekeeping, Canterbury Woods.
Tony Tersol, owner, Applied Solar Energy.
Hector Chavez, owner, Winning Wheels bike shop.
Linda Williams, Principal, Robert Down Elementary School.
Michael Reid, Associate Rector and Green Team leader, St Mary's-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.
The panel presentation was followed by Q&A and an opportunity to share ideas.
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SPG 2012 Meetings
January 11, meeting
topic was "The Greening of PG" with a panel of 6 presenters.
(Attending 33)
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