Susie Claxto
Good morning. Hi. How many of you remember and or participate in the Fremont Green Challenge? Please raise your hand at your higher.
Okay, so there's a use. It haven't. But that's great. Thank you for participating and raising your hand. Now we can do even better. So the green challenge was the Fremont area's first community engagement online platform that encouraged residents to learn about, adopt and count for credits. Yeah, know keeping score of herself their actions to help reduce their impact on climate change.
The Fremont, city has a new platform and it's called My Climate Ready Fremont. How many of you can read that? Yeah. Okay, good. That's good. So, this my climate ready. Fremont, developed by Bright Action, a consultant. City of Fremont, you know, hires consultants. The good news is that it won't transfer your data from the green challenge into the new system.
And I've done it myself at home. By logging in. And when I click join, and complete it, that information, it recognizes my email address. And I had my old password written down. Well, but the rest of you. But you can click forgot my password, too, and get your past data into the new system. And I personally ordered my preference for actions from large impact to easy.
I could have picked easy, but I kind of thought I'd done some of those. So.
Okay, so, let's look at something. I think we all did. And, it's one of the first things to, to, to try as a category called clean energy home. It has actions ranging from small, such as choosing green electricity, a. Okay. Green green electricity. So over here on the far right. And you can do that by looking at your PGE bill.
And there's a way that you can pick green electricity. And, then there's other ones that are pretty easy. One of our green team members thought they might try this. You can buy a small toaster oven, which is a convection toaster oven, and, it's greener. It's electric. And large actions. The. Larger actions. Now I'm going to go back.
Can't see them all, but, might be things like putting solar panels on your church. Well, we participate in. And how we help pay for on your home, and on your roof at home. And also installing electric heat pumps. Anybody done that? We who? Okay. And, electric water heaters. Same people. Yeah. Oh, good. Okay. And, induction stove tops.
Wow. I'm impressed. Okay, good. Good. And, Let's see. And and with the stove top, a convection oven, probably. I have a convection oven at home. These are big impact items to reducing fossil fuels because they're electric. And if you have a way of choosing green electricity, which you do through PGD, or if you have solar panels, you're helping pump that into the system, then you're helping.
That was big, big impact items. Okay. So another one we can choose is community actions. And I think a lot of us did this before. And one of the ways we did that is, by joining as a team, the Niles Discovery Church. And it's still active in the system. When I went in and, you know, got into my data there, I was part of the Niles Discovery Church team.
Now, some of us, the, That's a good slide for now. So some of us, participate in urban forest friends, we help plant trees, and we help take care of trees that we planted. Some of us participate in local ecology for agriculture in Fremont, known as leaf. Some people have a plot. So. And, Rich Godfrey side here, but he's very active.
And also, these are called volunteering for a local effort, a local effort. So that's one, two, three times over. So those are things that we do. We also participate in 1 trillion trees.org, led by our dear friend Leonard. And and they're our promise, our pledge for our Niles Discovery church was to plant a thousand trees in ten years.
That right? Okay. I remember it, and I forgot to call 1 or 2. I haven't figured out exactly where that would count, because I didn't dive deep into that. But, you know, it's going to count for us. Some of us, volunteer in city government. Some of us speak at city council meetings or write letters which count under the have a civic category.
If there we are in the far right city of City Hall. Fremont. Say, said Fremont. So, Let's see. Now, when an individual competes in any of these items for competing as a team. So then it aggregates all of our actions into our team. Niles Discovery Church. So later this summer, we'll have a community coordinator. Her name is Carly Silverman.
And, Jeff. And they have spoken with her. She's with pride action. And she'll present more details about the program, the platform, how to use it, troubleshoot for us if we have questions and presentation will be done by zoom. So folks on zoom can participate too. And she's a really enthusiastic person. Truly knowledgeable about the system. And, so we think it's going to be good.
Good presentation. So we'll be in the fellowship hall after worship today with a computer if you'd like to look at more of the categories. And also Jeff has provided a QR code. There we go. I have a picture of the QR code, and there's one in the back, and I'll have some inside and you can just pick up the, QR code, which will take you to my climate ready Fremont.
And, get started. Thank you. And I hope some of you, all of you will join my climate already. My climate ready. Fremont. Thank you.