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SUMMARY:MCL Joint Meeting: Land Use\, Transportation and Water Committee and Climate Action Working Group
DESCRIPTION:Marin Conservation League\nLand Use\, Transportation and Water Committee\n&\nClimate Action Working Group\nJoint Meeting\n10:00 am-12:00 pm\nIn-person/ Zoom Hybrid \nPre-Election SMART Q & A\n \n Eddy Cumins and Bill Gamlen \nRegister: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeuprjgqH9XMXRT0ZVWwTUjD-JW0QNlJ \nIt’s official! A citizen-led initiative to extend SMART’s 1/4-cent sales tax for 30 years will be on the June 2 ballot. This is not a promotion but a chance to learn more. \nJoin SMART General Manager Eddy Cumins and Chief Engineer Bill Gamlen for a Q&A session focused on the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) system. \nBring your questions! We plan to cover ridership\, farebox recovery\, GHG emission reductions\, at-grade crossings and minimizing impacts to local communities\, adapting to sea level rise\, and SMART’s plans for future extensions. \nThe meeting will also include updates from MCL Issues Committees on recent advocacy and issues they are tracking. \nRead the summary from our March 2025 meeting with Eddy Cumins and Bill Gamlen on SMART’s initiatives\, strategic plan\, and key challenges. \n  \n \nPhoto via Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit
URL:https://www.marinconservationleague.org/event/mcl-land-use-transportation-and-water-committee-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Marin Conservation League\, 175 N. Redwood Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Action Working Group,Land Use, Water and Transportation
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SUMMARY:MCL Parks and Open Space Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Marin Conservation League\nParks and Open Space Committee\n2:30 – 4:30 pm\nIn-person/Zoom hybrid\nRegister: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOmgrD4vG9XtnkUk-dxDuEZFSvAuGyhD \nNote changed time 2:30 – 4:30 \nCHINA CAMP STATE PARK – “A lot’s going on!”—– \n \nThat’s what Executive Director of Friends of China Camp (FOCC) Martin Lowenstein told me when I asked him to give an update to MCL’s Parks & Open Space Committee on current activities and programs on China Camp State Park – a lot going on\, but not without the daily challenges of full financial responsibility for keeping the park open 365 days of the year. \nIt will be 15 years this coming May that the park received notice it was on State Parks’ chopping block for closure in 2012\, along with 69 other parks that the state budget could no longer support.  The story of the park’s rescue by FOCC is a saga that is well known to most\, a testament to the power of grass roots volunteerism coupled with dogged persistence. \nThe persistence has never stopped\, nor the teams of volunteers who make possible the most varied and creative programs and activities of any state park in Marin. UnderMartin’s leadership\, a small staff and myriad volunteers continue to work miracles\, often against odds that would seem overwhelming. \nMartin Lowenstein brings his own distinctive qualifications to his unusual job.  Trained as civil engineer and armed with an MBA\, Martin has been able to address the practical tasks of managing and maintaining the complex infrastructure across the park\, at the same time he has built membership\, a sense of community\, and managed the multiple funding sources that are necessary to keep the park viable. \n \nJoining the discussion will be Matt Ferner\, Director of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)\, which includes China Camp State Park. Matt is an environmental scientist and educator with a background in oceanography and aquatic sensory ecology\, and has worked with the Reserve since 2008. Based at San Francisco State University’s Estuary & Ocean Science Center in Tiburon\, he will speak to the research and stewardship work underway at China Camp. \nMartin will recount the “lot that is going on” at China Camp\, with additional perspective from Matt on the science and stewardship supporting the park at the April 9 meeting.  Attend in person\, or tune in remotely at the unusual time of 2:30. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.marinconservationleague.org/event/mcl-parks-and-open-space-committee-meeting-4-4-6-2/2026-04-09/
LOCATION:Marin Conservation League\, 175 N. Redwood Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Parks and Open Space
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T100000
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SUMMARY:MCL Climate Action Working Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Marin Conservation League\nClimate Action Working Group Meeting\nWednesday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm\nIn-person/ Zoom Hybrid \nRegister: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwoduysrDMsGt16JMYC3r6_mA1R0EYqLgKn \nMay 20th- California’s Climate Future: The Climate Center’s 2026 priorities \n \nAs California confronts worsening wildfire risk\, grid instability\, extreme heat\, and the challenge of reducing carbon emissions\, many of the decisions being made in Sacramento right now will shape how Californians power their homes\, charge their vehicles\, and manage land for decades. \nFew organizations have been more deeply involved in shaping those conversations than The Climate Center\, and few people have been more central to those efforts than Barry Vesser\, the organization’s Chief Program Officer. Barry has worked on California climate and clean energy policy for more than two decades and helped lead the Climate Center’s Community Energy Resilience initiative\, which secured $170 million in California Energy Commission investment in community-scale energy projects. \nAt the May 20 Climate Action Working Group meeting\, Barry will discuss several of The Climate Center’s major policy priorities for 2026. One of the most consequential is the future of California’s Cap-and-Invest program\, the carbon pricing system that generates billions annually for climate programs statewide. How that money gets raised\, allocated\, and spent is one of the central climate fights in Sacramento right now. \nBarry will also discuss efforts to use electric vehicles as backup power sources that could help stabilize the grid during heat waves and outages\, along with the growing movement to treat forests\, wetlands\, grasslands\, and working farmland as carbon infrastructure that can store carbon while reducing wildfire risk and protecting water supplies. \nHe will also touch on enhanced geothermal energy\, a promising source of around-the-clock clean power that could complement solar and wind. \nFor anyone trying to make sense of where California climate and energy policy is heading next\, this is a rare opportunity to hear directly from someone helping shape it. \nPlease register here to join us.
URL:https://www.marinconservationleague.org/event/mcl-climate-action-working-group-meeting-4-9-2/
LOCATION:Marin Conservation League\, 175 N. Redwood Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Action Working Group
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SUMMARY:MCL Annual Meeting and Board Election
DESCRIPTION:MCL Annual Meeting and Board Election\nJoin us for coffee\, pastries\, and light refreshments as we gather to vote for MCL’s new Board of Directors. Meet and mingle with Board members and candidates\, hear updates from our Executive Director\, and share your priorities for the year ahead. \nMCL members only. RSVP below\, or call (415) 485-6257  or email mcl@marinconservationleague.org with any question. \nThis year\, the Annual Meeting & Board Election will be held as a dedicated event\, with our awards and gala taking place separately in September. \nMCL Offices\n175 N. Redwood Drive\, San Rafael\, CA \nSaturday\, April 25 – 10-11:30am
URL:https://www.marinconservationleague.org/event/annual-meeting-and-election/
LOCATION:Marin Conservation League\, 175 N. Redwood Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
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