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San Diego Magazine /  April 2008 /  Going, Going. . .Green /  Initiatives

Initiatives

Public and Private Sectors Pitch In

THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION, the region’s premier grant-making organization, has introduced Climate Smart. It’s the first phase of a multiyear effort to bring government, business, the research community and nonprofits together to educate the public about climate change and motivate San Diegans to take action to reduce emissions and minimize the impacts of global warming. Four institutions——San Diego Natural History Museum, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California Center for Sustainable Energy (formerly the San Diego Regional Energy Office) and the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center——joined The San Diego Foundation to help advance the initiative.

• The San Diego Foundation’s Blasker-Miah-Rose Grant Program will fund research on the impact of climate change on the San Diego region. The foundation will award up to $500,000 over the next three years and work with donors to amass additional resources to enable nonprofits to collaborate with government, business and consumers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

• Through April, the San Diego Natural History Museum hosts the lecture series “Global Climate Change: Species and Places,” featuring experts discussing the effects of climate change on wildlife species and habitats in Southern California and around the world. All lectures are free (see sdnhm.org for a schedule).

• “Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge,” an exhibit at Scripps’ Birch Aquarium, explains the science of global warming, current environmental changes and those projected for the future. The “California 2050” exhibit offers a glimpse of future environmental conditions.

• In 2007, the California Center for Sustainable Energy announced that the California Public Utilities Commission (through the California Solar Initiative) will provide more than $2.1 billion in solar incentives over the next decade to residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural solar projects. The CCSE has been allocated $203.5 million for incentives in the San Diego region. The nonprofit also hosts the annual Solar Energy Week and the San Diego Solar Homes Tour.
——JULIA BEESON POLLORENO