Current Activities

The Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities (BAASC) activities include:

• meetings
• newsletters
• educational materials
• Media Advocacy (including multi-media work)
• participating in the Community Capital Investment Initiative, Focusing Our Vision, and Collaborative Regional Initiatives

Meetings

Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities Quarterly Meeting

Held: Wednesday, May 28, 8:30 am to 11:30 am

Will Climate Change Land Use?

Presentations:

• Climate Change and Land Use Connections
  • Stephanie Reyes, Policy Director, Greenbelt Alliance and ClimatePlan
• Adapting to Rising Sea Levels and Scurrying Animals
  • Joe LaClair, Chief Planner, Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Changing Landscapes, Changing Practices

• Making Climate Resilient Development a Financial Reality
  • Curt Johansen, Executive Vice President, Triad Communities
• Urban Agriculture and Land Use
  • Sibella Kraus, President, SAGE
• Socially Equitable-Climate Resilient Development
  • Michele Rodriguez, Principal, Michele Rodriguez Consulting

• Opportunities for Action - local, regional, state and federal
  • Ted Droettboom, Joint Policy Committee, ABAG, BCDC, MTC, and BAAQMD

BAASC has been hosting lively and insigthful disscussions since 1997.
Click here for a list of meeting agendas.

Community Capital Investment Initiative (CCII)

The Community Capital Investment Initiative is mobilizing regional business, community, environmental and government leaders to attract private investment in the 46 most impoverished neighborhoods in the Bay Area. The CCII goals are to reduce poverty, increase opportunity for residents, and promote smart growth in these neighborhoods by using market forces. For more information, click here

Focusing Our Vision

BAASC is working with regional partners to promote the designation and adoption of priority development areas and priority conservation areas in the nine-county Bay Area, in order to meet our region's expected growth. This initiative, Focusing Our Vision, is spearheaded by the Association of Bay Area Governments, Metropolitan Transportation Committee, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. For more information, visit www.bayareavision.org

Collaborative Regional Initiatives

The Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities is proud to be one of 21 Collaborative Regional Initiatives (CRIs) in California. CRIs are new regional civic organizations that draw leaders from all sectors to work on a wide range of issues and hold themselves and their communities accountable for results. The CRIs are affiliated with and assisted by the California Center for Regional Leadership (CCRL), a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes innovative regional solutions for California's major economic, social, and environmental challenges in order to help achieve a more sustainable future for the State. To learn more about the CCRL and the CRIs, visit the CCRL website at: www.calregions.org