Acterra
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Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth is a nonprofit environmental education and action organization based in Palo Alto, California
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Acterra's annual budget for FY 2007-08 was $918,604. The organization has approximately 1,000 paid members and donors.
Acterra has its headquarters at the Peninsula Conservation Center, located at 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto. The PCC building is also home to several other local environmental organizations, including Committee for Green Foothills
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A complete list of Acterra's programs and services can be found here.
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
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Acterra's annual budget for FY 2007-08 was $918,604. The organization has approximately 1,000 paid members and donors.
Acterra has its headquarters at the Peninsula Conservation Center, located at 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto. The PCC building is also home to several other local environmental organizations, including Committee for Green Foothills
Committee for Green Foothills
The Committee for Green Foothills is a local-level nonprofit environmental organization working to protect open space and habitat in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.-History:...
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Mission
Acterra's mission is to bring people together to create local solutions that foster a healthy natural environment. Growing out of the merger in 2000 of two older organizations, Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation (founded 1970) and Bay Area Action (founded 1990), Acterra's long history draws on two generations of environmental leaders in serving the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay. Acterra's programs provide hands-on opportunities for ordinary people to make a difference where they live, work, learn, worship and play. Acterra's core values emphasize community, optimism and a lively, spirited approach to resolving serious environmental issues.Programs
Always ready to respond to emerging needs, Acterra's programs currently address global warming, land stewardship, and leadership development.- Green @ Home, and Cool It!, engage residents and business people in measuring and reducing their energy use.
- The Arastradero Preserve Stewardship program and Young Environmental Stewards teach teens and other volunteers about local ecology as they work on restoring native plant and animal habitats.
- Be the Change is a year long course that trains citizen leaders to initiate community projects that will "green" society from the inside out.
- The Native Plant Nursery grows native California plants for use in habitat restoration projects.
- The Environmental Library and Resource Center provides environmental books, videos, and reference information.
- The Business Environmental Awards recognizes Bay Area businesses for innovative work in conservation, pollution prevention and environmental education.
- Acterra also offers fiscal sponsorshipFiscal sponsorshipFiscal sponsorship refers to the practice of non-profit organizations offering their legal and tax-exempt status to groups engaged in activities related to the organization's missions...
services to qualifying nonprofit startup projects, such as the California Clean Tech Open business plan competition started by members of the MIT Alumni Club and sponsored by Wllson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, among other prominent local firms. - Letter with 300+ Groups Ask Senate for Stronger Climate Bill, including Acterra.
A complete list of Acterra's programs and services can be found here.
See also
- SustainabilitySustainabilitySustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
- BiodiversityBiodiversityBiodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...
- Global warmingGlobal warmingGlobal warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
- EcologyEcologyEcology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
- Earth ScienceEarth scienceEarth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences...
- Natural environmentNatural environmentThe natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
- RecyclingRecyclingRecycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse...
- Arastradero PreserveArastradero PreserveArastradero Preserve, officially known as Enid W. Pearson-Arastradero Open Space Preserve, is a nature preserve that protects most of the Arastradero Creek watershed. The preserve is owned and operated by the City of Palo Alto, in the city of Palo Alto, California, USA...
- Committee for Green FoothillsCommittee for Green FoothillsThe Committee for Green Foothills is a local-level nonprofit environmental organization working to protect open space and habitat in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.-History:...