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Honorable Mayor and Esteemed Council Members: Attached is recent e-newsletter from the SISTER CITIES program in Palo Alto, known as Neighbors Abroad. As you can see, they are very active, despite the effects of Covid. Similar to Menlo Park, they serve multiple cities. One of them they call a SIBL...
Here’s a relevant excerpt from Carl Pope’s comments on why local leadership is critical. Non-federal leaders can go farther and faster than the federal government. State governments can set the pace of transition and lock in stringent standards and emissions reductions. And action from cities, bus...
Councilpersons - Just after sending my own text about natural gas, I received this weekly email from Bill McKibben, probably the best English-writing science writer of our time. [https://link.newyorker.com/img/5be9dfb22ddf9c72dc359fccer70o.8t9/1577ad62.gif] The smokestack of a ship might hel...
Dear City Council, Please pull the Menlo Update project, so the City Council and the Planning Commission can discuss the project as part of an overall discussion on ConnectMenlo. I suggest a joint meeting out of respect to the residents serving, and so they can hear the concerns -- including the o...
Dear Mayor Combs and Council Members, Thank you for starting the long process of leading on climate preservation! It is a sobering place to be, and a sobering time to be here just as all plausible deniability of the climate problem has gone up in smoke. I can empathize with people who are not...
