Mountain View's City Council has set a goal for our community to be carbon neutral by 2045.  

Since 2005, Mountain View residents and businesses cut our per capita GHG emissions by 50%.  This is a great accomplishment... but to achieve carbon neutrality we will need to cut ALL of our remaining GHG emissions in the next 20 years.  That is, we have 20 years to go from where we are now to ZERO. 

Of all the things that need to happen to reach that goal, the hardest to accomplish will be ending the use of methane (natural gas) in existing buildings. 

One approach on the journey to Zero is for the City Council to adopt an ordinance ending the flow of piped natural gas in Mountain View no later than July 4, 2045 -- Fossil Fuel Independence Day. 

In this meeting we will identify the best way that activists can get the Council to take action THIS YEAR to adopt an “end of flow" ordinance.  Please join this important meeting! 

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Speaker: Daniel Tahara, the leader of Fossil Free Berkeley's ballot Measure GG to levy a tax on natural gas used in large buildings

Following Daniel's presentation, we will have an open discussion about whether CFMV should try to get a similar measure on our local ballot in 2026.  For the next four years, federal support for decarbonization will be scaled back.  We need to figure out what we can accomplish locally.  Our #1 goal is still to get the City Council to pass a resolution to phase out piped natural gas no later than 2045, but perhaps we have the bandwidth to take on a second challenge.

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General Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of odd months:

January, March, May, July, September and November.

Our special guest speaker this Thursday (Jan. 18) at 7:30 PM will be Jessamyn Allen.  She is a program lead with SVCE’s Decarbonization Programs team and works on several single-family residential-focused programs, including rebates, finance, and the ‘Go Electric Advisor,’ SVCE’s new electrification concierge program. Jessamyn has been with SVCE for over 3 years and has a background in physics research.

Topic: CFMV General Meeting
Time: Jan 18, 2024 07:30 PM Pacific Time

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General Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of odd months:

January, March, May, July, September and November.

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General Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of odd months:

January, March, May, July, September and November.

TBD whether the meeting will be held in person, or via video-conference.

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General Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of odd months:

January, March, May, July, September and November.

TBD whether the meeting will be held in person, or via video-conference.

Join Carbon Free Mountain View to receive communications and meeting invitations.

General Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of odd months:

January, March, May, July, September and November.

TBD whether the meeting will be held in person, or via video-conference.

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On 6/22/22 at 6:30 the City Council's Sustainability Committee will review a staff proposal to begin the process of developing a solid, achievable and affordable plan to get Mountain View's emissions to net-zero by 2035.

Consider sharing your support for the 2035 date prior to, or during, the meeting on June 22. You can do this even if you don't live in Mountain View.

The agenda packet can be found here. It includes instructions about how to attend the meeting and comment, and also about how to email comments to the committee members (due by 4pm on 6/22/22).

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Due to the Covid-19 virus, the General Meeting, starting at 7:30PM, will be held via video-conference:

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General Meetings are typically every other 3rd Thursday of the month, at 7:30PM.

Details of our July meeting are TBD. Check back, or join our mailing list for details.

Our May General Meeting will be be a virtual video-conference. Join our mailing list for details.

Save the date for our Nov. 19 General Meeting.

Please connect between 7:25-7:30pm via “GoogleMeet” at https://meet.google.com/eyg-dwmv-tcx

Our Agenda will include guest speakers:

Los Altos High School Green Team representatives: Los Altos Reach Code

Steve Attinger, Mountain View’s Sustainability Manager: Recent & Upcoming Projects

Due to the Covid-19 virus, the May General Meeting will be held via video-conference.

Our meeting, starting at 7:30PM, will be held using GoogleMeet.  You can click on the link below AT ANY TIME to test your hardware and software to make sure that you will be able to join the meeting.  You need to have a Google ID, which GMail users and many others already have.  

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The agenda has not yet been published.

The Agenda for this meeting has not been developed. We have decided to move our General Meetings to the 3rd Thursday of odd-numbered months. This is the first meeting to be held on the 3rd Thursday.

This Thursday, Sept. 12, the Carbon Free Mountain View General Meeting will be held in the Willow Room of the Community Center from 7:30 - 9:00 PM.  I hope you will attend.  We have lots of important things to cover!

 We will be discussing:

1) Mountain View's proposed Reach Code (The Reach Code is an extension of the Building Code that would require most new buildings to be all-electric and wired for substantial amounts of EV charging)

2) Our support for the Student Climate Strike and March in San Jose on the afternoon of Sept. 20

3) Mountain View's forthcoming Sustainability Action Plan, which will lay out priorities for the next 2-3 years

4) Our participation in important local meetings, which include

* The MV City Council Sustainability Committee Meeting (Sep. 16 at 6:30PM in Plaza Conf. Room at City Hall)

* A public review of the proposed Mtn. View Reach Code (Sep. 19 at 6:00PM in Plaza Conf. Room at City Hall)

* The MV City Council Meeting to review the Reach Code & Sustainability Action Plan (evening of Oct. 22 in City Hall Council Chambers, exact time TBD)

The agenda for this meeting has not yet been developed

We will be discussing ways to sharpen the City Council’s focus on sustainability. All are welcome, there is no cost to attend.

You're invited to the second CFMV General Meeting of 2019!  It will be held from 7:30 - 9:00 PM on Thursday March 14 at the Board Room of the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce, 580 Castro St. The Chamber shares a parking lot with Wells Fargo Bank and is adjacent to Pioneer Park.

Future CFMV General Meetings will be held on the second Thursday of odd-numbered months: May 9,  July 11, September 12 and November 14, 2019.

You're invited to the first CFMV General Meeting of 2019!  It will be held from 7:30 - 9:30 PM on Thursday Jan. 10 at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto.  The address is 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.  The room is unlabeled on the site map, but it is next to room G8 and the two gyms.  We will put a sign on the door the evening of the meeting.  Map: https://cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?t=50466.82&BlobID=68297

Meetings will return to Mtn. View in July when the remodeling of the Community Center on Rengstorff has been completed.

This is a very important meeting for several reasons, and I sincerely hope you will attend.  Key topics will include:

1) an update on the work that the Cadmus consulting company has been doing for the City about how to manage sustainability from a strategic perspective

2) preparation for the City Council's once-every-two-years Goal Setting meeting on Feb. 28 at which we hope to persuade the Council to keep Sustainability as one of its top priorities

3) preparation for lobbying the City Council and senior staff to allocate more money to sustainability in the 2019-2020 Fiscal Year.

No RSVP is required.

PS -- Future CFMV General Meetings will be held on the second Thursday of odd-numbered months.  The specific dates in 2019 are March 13, May 9,  July 11, September 12 and November 14.

Our final general meeting of 2018 will be held in City Hall’s Atrium Room. It’s on the ground floor. Entering from the Plaza, go through the rotunda, turn right, and go all the way to the end of the hallway. The Atrium Room is on your left. The agenda will be posted later, but is sure to include a discussion of the results of the City Council election.