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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 2010
SPG continues to work at finding more ways for Pacific Grove to transition, thus becoming more green
and sustainable.
( to see what SPG did
during 2009
during 2008
during 2007
during 2006 )
( back to About Us
for this year. )
What we have done in 2010
1. Table at PG Farmers' Market,
many Monday afternoons.
2. SPG Action Groups were set up to start and or continue the work of transition, as applied to Pacific Grove.
Active working groups are;
WATER, WASTE, FOOD, ENERGY,
HEALTH/ARTS, & EDUCATION.
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For 2010, SPG offers these small measures for each of us to keep in mind:
Growing gardens, keeping chickens, composting, putting up clothes-lines.
Installing cisterns and tanks for rainwater.
Going to farmers' market, walking or using a bike to get around town.
Reduce, re-use, re-cycle.
Engage with your neighbors and your government (City Council,commissions, town meetings).
Form habits of practical sustainability and resilience.
Share what you discover. Continue exploring.
SPG 2010 Meetings
(January, no meeting)
February 2 Review of SPG in 09. Set up groups for transition work.
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Updated
February 15
, 2010.
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