Elements of strategy in Protecting Environmental Quality
Informing the public about real consequences of various courses of action in relation to the environment
What is education?
An area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife
What is a park?
Someone who works to create change
What is a community activist?
The Secretary for Environmental Protection of CalEPA
Who is Jared Blumenfeld?
Getting a large group of people to raise their voices in support or protest
What is direct action?
Composition of physical elements of the community that existed before people came, or have been reclaimed by nature.
What is the natural environment?
A group coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyze or monitor the environment
What is an environmental organization?
This department preserves, enhances, and restores the quality of California’s water resources and drinking water for the protection of the environment, public health, and all beneficial uses, and to ensure proper water resource allocation and efficient use, for the benefit of present and future generations.
What is the State Water Resources Control Board?
What is advocacy?
A theoretical framework for a participatory process by which citizens can create healthy groups of people.
What is healthy cities/healthy communities?
A person elected or appointed to a local government or special district
What is a local official?
This screening methodology can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution.
What is the CalEnviroScreen Version 3.0
Offering businesses and industry, developers, and others something positive in return for their cooperation
What are incentives?
Sidewalks and walkways that provide people with space to travel within the public right-of-way
What is pedestrian access?
Any officer of the executive, judicial, or legislative branch
What is a federal official?
A California State Law that fights global warming by establishing a comprehensive program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state.
What is the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB32)?
One way to make sure that particular environmental benefits are achieved
What is laws, regulations, or policies?
Virtually all health and community issues are affected by (or are the direct result of) economic, social, political, and/or environmental factors
What is community perspective?
A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity
What is a corporation?
This committee coordinates preparedness for and responses to environmental emergencies in California under assigned statutory authorities.
What is the Emergency Response Management Committee (ERMaC) ?