Resources
Original Elements of the existing Thousand Oaks General Plan: https://www.toaks.org/departments/community-development/planning/general-plan
The Thousand Oaks General Plan provides a long-range comprehensive guide for the physical development of the City's Planning Area. The General Plan comprises a statement of goals and policies related to the community's development, and various elements which provide more detailed policies and standards in certain topic areas. Together, these serve as the foundation for guiding public and private activities related to the City's development.
Coming Back Into Balance | Examining Agriculture’s Role In Combating Climate Change: https://vcreporter.com/2020/11/COMING-BACK-INTO-BALANCE-EXAMINING-AGRICULTURES-ROLE-IN-COMBATING-CLIMATE-CHANGE/
Tension is growing between politicians claiming to be “climate leaders”; those who say that enacted policies are too little, too late; and industry sectors lobbying to maintain the status quo. Environmental activists are pushing hard against the fossil fuel industry and commercial agriculture — two sectors that helped build Ventura County but are now being put under the spotlight for activities that contribute to global warming.
California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment, Published August 27, 2018: https://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/
California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment provides information to build resilience to climate impacts, including temperature, wildfire, water, sea level rise, and governance. Here you can view a snapshot of the key findings of the Fourth Assessment. For additional information, please download the Key Findings brochure, “California's Changing Climate 2018.”
Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C approved by governments, Published October 8, 2018: https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/
Ninety-one authors and review editors from 40 countries prepared the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C in response to an invitation from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) when it adopted the Paris Agreement in 2015. The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require “rapid and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching ‘net zero’ around 2050. The report also highlights a number of climate change impacts that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C, or more. Allowing the global temperature to temporarily exceed or ‘overshoot’ 1.5°C would mean a greater reliance on techniques that remove CO2 from the air to return global temperature to below 1.5°C by 2100. The effectiveness of such techniques are unproven at large scale and some may carry significant risks for sustainable development.
Project Drawdown, Climate Solutions by Sector: https://drawdown.org/solutions
Project Drawdown conducts an ongoing review and analysis of climate solutions—the practices and technologies that can stem and begin to reduce the excess of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Our work shows the world can reach Drawdown by mid-century, if we make the best use of all existing climate solutions. Certainly, more solutions are needed and emerging, but there is no reason—or time—to wait on innovation. Now is better than new, and society is well equipped for transformation today.
En-ROADS Interactive Climate Change Solutions Simulator: https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/
En-ROADS is a transparent, freely-available policy simulation model that gives everyone the chance to design their own scenarios to limit future global warming. You can try your own experiments and assumptions, and get immediate feedback on the likely impacts. The simulation, developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, and MIT Sloan, runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is available online, offers an intuitive interface, has been carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate and energy models.
The Basics of Carbon Fee and Dividend: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/
It’s good for the economy AND even better for people. A study from REMI shows that carbon fee-and-dividend will reduce CO2 emissions 52% below 1990 levels in 20 years and that recycling the revenue creates an economic stimulus that adds 2.8 million jobs to the economy. A structured rising price on greenhouse gas emissions will focus business planning on optimizing investment priorities to thrive in a carbon-constrained world. Additionally, Carbon Fee and Dividend is projected to prevent over 230,000 premature deaths over 20 years from improved air quality.
How Data Science Can Help Fight Climate Change: https://datascienceprograms.com/learn/how-data-science-can-help-fight-climate-change/
Global warming is one of the most pressing and severe challenges confronting our planet. This urgent problem is primarily fueled by the rising levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
Data science is a powerful tool in the fight against global warming. It uses different methods, such as machine learning (where computers learn from data) and data visualization (turning data into pictures), to analyze the details and understand the most challenging components of climate change.
Data science works with vast amounts of information about the climate, helping people understand all the different ways climate change is affecting our world. Scientists use data science methods to look at how climate change changes things like life in the oceans, how we use land, our food supplies, and the spread of diseases.