Battery Recycling–County Takeover Slated for November
Lois Courchaine from CCCSWA (Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority) presented the progress made by her agency on taking over the battery recycling. Potential recyclers will submit their proposal before the end of the month and target date for take over is November 20th. Contract with Longs to be a recycling site throughout central Contra Costa County is in process,; another dropoff site in Moraga will likely be Moraga (Ace) Hardware.
Reusable Shopping Bag Sales Growing, Volunteers Still Needed
Bags are being sold very steadily at Safeway on Sunday morning. So far more than 600 bags have been sold. Bill will be our treasurer; and his job will include keeping track of our bag and tabling inventory. Dean manages the list of the volunteers selling bags on Sundays. If you want to participate email him at sustainablemoraga@yahoo.com
Town Council Enviro Candidates’ Night
Last Thursday the Enviro Night with the candidates to fill the 2 vacant seats on the Moraga Town Council was very successful, with more than 70 Moragans attending. It had been organized by us with PfSE and Preserve Lamorinda Open Space. The Candidates’ Forum was very interesting and some of the people present at the event expressed their choice at our meeting to help Ken Chew get elected.
Those interested may get in touch with him by phone (247 4247) or by accessing his web site. Some of us will go to the October 12th Moraga Town Council Candidates Night hosted by the League of Women Voters at JM at 7:30 .
ICLEI “Carbon Footprint” Event Dec. 6
On December 6th we will host a presentation by Timothy Burrows of ICLEI who will talk about actions local governments are taking to reduce carbon emissions. ICLEI is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. More than 475 cities, towns, counties, and their associations worldwide comprise ICLEI’s growing membership. Neighboring cities of Lafayette and Orinda may be interested in this conference. A committee could take charge of the marketing of this event. The December regular meeting is moved to the 13th, for November it is the regular first Wednesday of the month: the 1st.
Sustainable Moraga Website
Web Developer Tiraporn came to discuss the web site. Written documents were given to her and the electronic files will be sent on Wednesday the 11th. A few weeks ago she got the registration and site back from Bruce, who had originally agreed to host our site (thanks Bruce !). Tiraporn, who is hosting and setting up Sustainable Moraga’s site pro bono. Many thanks, Tiraporn!!
Meetings Secretary or Secretaries Needed
We didn’t decide on a secretary or secretaries to take notes–just like you’re reading–that we could send out and post on our website. Dean will ask for a volunteer (consider this the asking right now!!).
New Member
We had the pleasure of welcoming a new member: Matt, a new graduate of UC Santa Cruz, who is working at Campolindo and has some significant experience in grassroots action.
Next Sustainable Moraga Meeting
Get involved and join us at our next meeting: Wed., Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the Moraga Library