Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:01:45 -0800 Subject: arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: The CoolCalifornia City Challenge: A Statewide Program to Enable Low Carbon Communities From: tclarksj@arb.ca.gov The CoolCalifornia City Challenge: A Statewide Program to Enable Low Carbon Communities. Daniel M. Kammen, Ph.D., and Chris M. Jones, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:30 pm, PST (WEBCAST) Coastal Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California This presentation will highlight the programmatic development and research findings of the CoolCalifornia City Challenge ("The Challenge"), a statewide competition among California cities to motivate residents to reduce household carbon footprints and build more vibrant, sustainable communities. The Challenge uses techniques common to behavior incentivized programs, including comparative feedback, local messengers, social networks, goal setting, persuasive messaging, incentives, and competition to recruit and motivate participants. Participants earn points for engagement with the program, such as tracking household energy consumption and motor vehicle emissions, inviting friends to join, uploading stories, completing a research survey, and for actually reducing their carbon footprint by lowering emissions from household energy use and vehicle travel. Every point earned by households counts toward their city's ranking on the statewide scoreboard. At the end of the program (which lasted one year in 2013 and six months in 2014) the city with the most points is named "Coolest California City" by the California Air Resources Board. The two runners up are each named "Cool California City." The Challenge is sponsored by Energy Upgrade California, which last year distributed $100,000 among cities based on the level of participation by residents in each community. For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/eisenstein/eisenstein.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm For “external” users please check the external webcast calendar at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 For “internal” users please check the internal webcast calendar at: http://epanet.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Tabetha Willmon at (916) 322-4357 or Tabetha.Willmon@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: cc, climatechampions, localaction, research, seminars. ====================================================================== You are subscribed to one of the lists aggregated to make this particular ARB combination listserve broadcast. To UNSUBSCRIBE: Please go to http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and enter your email address and click on the button "Display Email Lists." To unsubscribe, please click inside the appropriate box to uncheck it and go to the bottom of the screen to submit your request. You will receive an automatic email message confirming that you have successfully unsubscribed. Also, please read our listserve disclaimer at http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/disclaim.htm . The energy challenge facing California is real. Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ====================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:02:40 -0800 Subject: arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: The CoolCalifornia City Challenge: A Statewide Program to Enable Low Carbon Communities From: tclarksj@arb.ca.gov The CoolCalifornia City Challenge: A Statewide Program to Enable Low Carbon Communities. Daniel M. Kammen, Ph.D., and Chris M. Jones, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:30 pm, PST (WEBCAST) Coastal Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California This presentation will highlight the programmatic development and research findings of the CoolCalifornia City Challenge ("The Challenge"), a statewide competition among California cities to motivate residents to reduce household carbon footprints and build more vibrant, sustainable communities. The Challenge uses techniques common to behavior incentivized programs, including comparative feedback, local messengers, social networks, goal setting, persuasive messaging, incentives, and competition to recruit and motivate participants. Participants earn points for engagement with the program, such as tracking household energy consumption and motor vehicle emissions, inviting friends to join, uploading stories, completing a research survey, and for actually reducing their carbon footprint by lowering emissions from household energy use and vehicle travel. Every point earned by households counts toward their city's ranking on the statewide scoreboard. At the end of the program (which lasted one year in 2013 and six months in 2014) the city with the most points is named "Coolest California City" by the California Air Resources Board. The two runners up are each named "Cool California City." The Challenge is sponsored by Energy Upgrade California, which last year distributed $100,000 among cities based on the level of participation by residents in each community. For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/kammen2/kammen2.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm For “external” users please check the external webcast calendar at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 For “internal” users please check the internal webcast calendar at: http://epanet.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Tabetha Willmon at (916) 322-4357 or Tabetha.Willmon@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: cc, climatechampions, localaction, research, seminars. ====================================================================== You are subscribed to one of the lists aggregated to make this particular ARB combination listserve broadcast. To UNSUBSCRIBE: Please go to http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and enter your email address and click on the button "Display Email Lists." To unsubscribe, please click inside the appropriate box to uncheck it and go to the bottom of the screen to submit your request. You will receive an automatic email message confirming that you have successfully unsubscribed. Also, please read our listserve disclaimer at http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/disclaim.htm . The energy challenge facing California is real. Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ======================================================================