The consequences of climate change will be serious even if we act now, and severe if we don’t act fast enough. Everything is going to change. Will we be driving the change, or the roadkill?
We must create policies and regulations that:
1) Stop expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.
2) Electrify everything.
3) Help people make the change through education, and financial and other incentives.
4) Provide clean renewable energy to run our electrified society.
Gas stoves are not only damaging the Earth’s climate, they are also directly damaging the health of children and adults in the homes where they are used.
There is tremendous demand projected for people to design and install electric heat pump systems for hot water, heating, and cooling, as well as other climate-friendly technologies like solar and wind power generation.
We need to develop the training capabilities to supply the human resources to tackle this demand.
Oakland has taken important steps toward addressing this issue, however, as indicated by the latest report from the United Nations IPCC, time is running out. Therefore, I urge the City to significantly speed up the timeline in the ECAP, to do this in the most equitable way possible, and to create a concrete timeline with well-specified milestones to achieve this, along the lines of the San Francisco CAP. The City of Ithaca, New York, has undertaken a plan to convert all buildings to electricity, and can serve as a useful model for Oakland.
The ECAP has set a 2040 goal for electrifying all existing buildings. This timeline needs to be moved up to 2035, as the urgency of the crisis continues to worsen. And to ensure equity, we must incentivize/make affordable and prioritize the transition to all-electric appliances in current homes and buildings in Oakland’s marginalized communities (East & West Oakland) by 2030. Other cities are electrifying all residential and business buildings by 2030, and Oakland should be no different.
Hello, I am a member of the Climate Reality Project Alameda County/Oakland City Chapter and wish to express support for the ECAP with specific attention to requiring a JUST transition to all-electric in new homes and buildings in Oakland, CA by 2023. I commend the council for the work that has been done in developing ordinances that support the 2040 goal for electrifying all existing buildings, but would like to stress the continued urgency and recommend a shortened timeline with significantly more concrete steps to achieve our transition to zero. As a general contractor, licensed in California, I understand that home remodels are a collaboration between homeowners, builders, and planners, and urge than any action in further developing the ECAP roadmap should not only look to expedite the timeline across the board, but prioritize building electrification in marginalized communities and support early education for general contractors and builders that specialize in the upgrade and replacement of home heating and cooling infrastructure.
The consequences of climate change will be serious even if we act now, and severe if we don’t act fast enough. Everything is going to change. Will we be driving the change, or the roadkill?
We must create policies and regulations that:
1) Stop expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.
2) Electrify everything.
3) Help people make the change through education, and financial and other incentives.
4) Provide clean renewable energy to run our electrified society.
Gas stoves are not only damaging the Earth’s climate, they are also directly damaging the health of children and adults in the homes where they are used.
There is tremendous demand projected for people to design and install electric heat pump systems for hot water, heating, and cooling, as well as other climate-friendly technologies like solar and wind power generation.
We need to develop the training capabilities to supply the human resources to tackle this demand.
Oakland has taken important steps toward addressing this issue, however, as indicated by the latest report from the United Nations IPCC, time is running out. Therefore, I urge the City to significantly speed up the timeline in the ECAP, to do this in the most equitable way possible, and to create a concrete timeline with well-specified milestones to achieve this, along the lines of the San Francisco CAP. The City of Ithaca, New York, has undertaken a plan to convert all buildings to electricity, and can serve as a useful model for Oakland.
The ECAP has set a 2040 goal for electrifying all existing buildings. This timeline needs to be moved up to 2035, as the urgency of the crisis continues to worsen. And to ensure equity, we must incentivize/make affordable and prioritize the transition to all-electric appliances in current homes and buildings in Oakland’s marginalized communities (East & West Oakland) by 2030. Other cities are electrifying all residential and business buildings by 2030, and Oakland should be no different.
Hello, I am a member of the Climate Reality Project Alameda County/Oakland City Chapter and wish to express support for the ECAP with specific attention to requiring a JUST transition to all-electric in new homes and buildings in Oakland, CA by 2023. I commend the council for the work that has been done in developing ordinances that support the 2040 goal for electrifying all existing buildings, but would like to stress the continued urgency and recommend a shortened timeline with significantly more concrete steps to achieve our transition to zero. As a general contractor, licensed in California, I understand that home remodels are a collaboration between homeowners, builders, and planners, and urge than any action in further developing the ECAP roadmap should not only look to expedite the timeline across the board, but prioritize building electrification in marginalized communities and support early education for general contractors and builders that specialize in the upgrade and replacement of home heating and cooling infrastructure.