SolarUP San Gabriel Valley: December 9 Deadline to Sign Up for Discount!
Join Sustainable Claremont in this group-discount program for home solar systems in San Gabriel Valley. By purchasing together, homeowners can save 20% on solar systems, but the reduced pricing is only available until December 9th! Add value to your home, reduce your energy bill, and help Claremont win the $5 million Energy Prize by going solar with SolarUP. SolarUP is also donating $500 to Sustainable Claremont for every homeowner in Claremont who goes solar.
Enroll HERE!
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Volunteer for CEC: Kids' Activities, Walk the Town, Phone Banking
December is the final month of the Claremont Energy Challenge, and we want every resident involved in the effort to win $5 million for our community! Help us spread the word by volunteering a couple hours of your time:
- Assist with energy conservation workshops at elementary schools--fun, hands-on activities with students age 6-11!
Info and sign-up HERE!
- Visit your neighbors in our door-to-door Walk the Town campaign, or make a few calls for our phone banking campaign.
Help out HERE!
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Put Your Garden on Tour in 2017
The Garden Club is checking out gardens for the 2017 Claremont Eclectic Garden Tour. If you have a beautiful garden and would like to share it with others, please let us know! Any style of garden, from roses and daisies to succulents and sagebrush, can be part of the event!
Share your garden style HERE!
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Garden Notes December 2016
It may be cold outside, but you can enjoy reading Decembers' Garden Notes on a cozy couch, and see beautiful photos from the editor, Sue Schenk. After reading about pruning natives, and recipes for Napa Cabbage you may even be inspired to put on gloves and trim vines or sow Savoy. Of course it also includes many more horticultural resources!
Read it HERE!
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Volunteer With SC!
Sustainable Claremont loves volunteers, and our volunteers enjoy themselves as well. Contact us now to help with Earth Day, and spreading the word about sustainability at other fun festivals. You may also assist in the office, on a limited project or an ongoing basis. If you would like to be a leader of activities such as sustainable landscaping, or participate in a group working on community composting, please reach out to us today!
Volunteer HERE!
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LED String Light Exchange at Claremont's Holiday Promenade
Exchange an old string of lights for a new LED strand during Claremont's holiday celebration! Southern California Edison residential customers may bring:
- a SCE monthly bill (or proof of payment),
- ID that matches the name on bill, and
- 1 or 2 strands of incandescent lights
to exchange for LED holiday lights. The strings must have at least 50 bulbs and work. While supplies last! Presented by The San Gabriel Valley Energy Wise Partnership.
Fri | Dec 2 | 5 pm - 7 pm
Claremont Depot
200 W 1st St, Claremont
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Claremont Composting Meeting
A joint effort in support of Claremont’s local use of commercial organic waste is underway as a cooperative effort involving Sustainable Claremont, the Growing Club, the City of Claremont, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Uncommon Good, the Claremont Colleges, and other organizations and individuals. The City will be setting up a system to collect commercial organic waste as required by California legislation. Collaborators are looking for ways to compost Claremont’s green waste locally on urban farms. SC Board Members, Freeman Allen and Richard Haskell, have been leading our efforts.
Read more HERE!
Join the waste management activity HERE!
Sat | Dec 3 | 3 pm - 5 pm
Garner House, Memorial Park
840 N Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont
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Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Free Day
Enjoy free admission to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, the lovely hosts of our C Freeman Allen Sustainability Resource Center. From 8 am to 9 am you may join the Garden Walking Club! The winter is a great time to view the mountains against the oak trees, and smell the sage. It's the perfect time of year to get a native at the nursery to plant. Also the gift shop lets you share your environmental enjoyment this season!
Sat | Dec 3 | 8 am - 5 pm
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
1601 N Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont
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Sustainability Dialog: A CARBON FEE AND DIVIDEND PROGRAM To Combat Global Warming
The Claremont City Council is asked to pass a resolution supporting a national carbon fee and dividend (CFAD). CFAD is a non-partisan, market-based, and revenue-neutral solution to counter global warming. The fee would be applied to production and imports of coal, oil, and natural gas, with the proceeds returned equally to American families. This approach can greatly reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by shifting the market away from fossil fuels to renewables and increasing energy efficiencies over the decades while improving our health, creating jobs and protecting family budgets. CFAD experts John Odell (USC) and Rob Haw (JPL) will discuss the proposal, its implications, and lead a dialogue. Free and open to all. Sponsored by Sustainable Claremont, the League of Women Voters, the Interfaith Sustainability Council, and Pomona College.
Mon | Dec 5 | 7 pm - 8:30 pm
Hahn 101, Pomona College
420 N Harvard Ave, Claremont
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Green Crew: Planting at College Park
Join Sustainable Claremont's Green Crew and Claremont Community Services to plant shrubs at College Park. Please register at least a day in advance as this is a smaller project that only needs 12 volunteers. Bring gloves, hats, refreshments, and shovels (some will be available). As always, children are welcome! To get the mandatory liability form ahead of time, or ask questions, please contact us HERE.
Register HERE!
Sat | Dec 10 | 9 am - 11 am
College Park
100 S College Ave, Claremont
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Green Drinks Claremont
Share holiday cheer and our gratitude for our community at Claremont's party of Green Drinks International! Welcoming of all, meetup with others and talk about the environment. It is agenda-free, freeform, and fun! (We may plan for the upcoming year if we want to!) If you cannot attend this Green Drinks, we meet again on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
Green Drinks Claremont Facebook Page
Thursday | Dec 15 | 6 pm - 8 pm
Claremont Craft Ales
1401 N Claremont Blvd, Claremont
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Too Toxic to Trash: Household Hazardous Waste and E-Waste Roundup
Dispose of hazardous and e-waste the right way! Households may bring 15 gallons or 125 pounds per trip. Dispose of dead batteries and fluorescent bulbs, broken computers and cell phones, expired medicines, paint thinner, cleaners, pesticides, pool chemicals, motor oil, and more! Bring items unmixed, in original containers or sturdy boxes, in the trunk of a car. (Remove all else for quick unloading.) Do NOT bring trash, tires, large appliances, controlled substances, or anything explosive. NO business waste will be accepted. Brought to you by the County of Los Angeles in cooperation with the City of Claremont. Call 1(888) CLEAN-LA for more information.
More info and a map HERE!
Sat | Dec 17 | 9 am - 3 pm
Brackett Field
1645 McKinley Ave, La Verne
(enter from Fairplex Drive, south of Puddingstone Dr)
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Sustainable Claremont will close from December 24 to January 2.
The Garden Club celebrates the holidays in December and will return with a meeting in January!
For more events and news check our website and Facebook page!
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