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Tuesday night, December 6, 2011  night by a 5-1 vote, the Sunnyvale City Council passed a strong single-use, carryout bag ordinance.  The ordinance bans those ubiquitous, light-weight plastic bags with handles, distributed at check-out counters.  It places a 10 cent charge, to be kept by the retailer, on single-use paper bags. These bags must contain 40 percent post-consumer recycled paper. This part of the ordinance, scheduled to go into effect in June, 2012, will apply to the 90ish stores originally the focus of this project.

Sunnyvale Cool's very first request was that the Council adopt the Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement as official City policy. Council adopted the Agreement by unanimous vote on 9/11/07.  The Agreement's first recommendation for cities was to conduct a community greenhouse gas inventory, set a target for reducing carbon emissions, and create a Climate Action Plan to reduce these emissions.
 

VTA video, A New Way to Travel on El Camino Real http://youtu.be/COVG7bps9p8

Good news from Sunnyvale's Recycling Manager--those plastic political yard signs can be recycled.  Better still, some could be saved and reused in the next election.  (If the sign can't be reused, perhaps at least the stands could be saved for reuse.)
Recycle the plastic signs at:
Lynx Recycling

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October, 2011
 
Sunnyvale City Council Election Events:

Alice Kawaguchi of the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health spoke Thursday night about the joint effort by the City of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara County to expand the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program.  The meeting was attended by 24 Sunnyvale residents from various parts of the City.  We learned about an exciting opportunity to help our youngest residents and their families develop healthier and more

Sunnyvale Cool Newsletter

Please consider urging your workplace to sign up for the Great Race for Clean Air.
The Race begins September 1 and runs though October, but registration closes Monday August 15.  Register at sparetheair.org.

This competition is a fun way to encourage us to think about more our commute options and  to experiment with more sustainable, less-polluting, more economical and maybe even more fun ways of getting to work-- walking, biking, carpooling, taking transit.   

http://losaltos.patch.com/articles/opt-out-for-the-yellow-pages-the-deadline-is-july-29