Local community protection groups
http://www.friendsofedenvalley.com/
Located in the Harmony Grove area this community groups is an unincorporated association dedicated to maintaining consistency through responsible development in our area. Sign up for regular emails at EdenValleyNews@aol.com
Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council
http://www.efhgtc.org/
Dedicated to preserving our rural environment in Harmony Grove area.
Lakes,
streams, oceans, water quality, marine habitat
Birds, Wildlife, and Habitats
www.palomaraudubon.org
www.ehleague.org
www.sdrvc.org
The San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy is a non-profit, citizen-based organization helping to implement the San Dieguito River Park and its Coast to Crest Trail stretching 70 miles from Volcan Mountain near Julian to the ocean between Del Mar and Solana Beach.
www.sandiegoaudubon.org
San Diego Audubon leads the way in fostering knowledge and appreciation of the natural world and seeks to become an even more significant resource for our communities through our education, environmental recreation, and numerous conservation programs.
Conservation
www.cnff.org
WILDCoast
www.wildcoast.net
San Diego County Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP)
http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/pds/mscp/
http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/programs/mscp/summary/index.shtml
http://keepsandiegomoving.com/EMP/EMP-management-monitoring.aspx
The Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) is a comprehensive habitat conservation planning program for southwestern San Diego County. The MSCP will preserve a network of habitat and open space, protecting biodiversity and enhancing the region's quality of life
Climate Change
www.sandiego350.org
SanDiego350.org is an all-volunteer team of San Diegans dedicated to raising awareness, developing leaders, and advocating for climate change action.
Whether you are an activist, lawyer, scientist, designer, educator, programmer, speaker, student, videographer, nurse, or musician, you can make a difference.
Join us to work on public education, public policy, demonstrations, coalition building, and more.
Climate Action Campaign has a simple mission: to stop climate change.
It’s a simple purpose to protect the people and places we love from the ravages of a warming world.
Recently published climate science overwhelmingly demonstrates that previous actions by local, national, and global actors are not enough to solve this problem. In order to stop climate change, we need experienced advocates at the local, state, and national levels promoting relevant, achievable, and legally binding climate policies. Climate Action Campaign is unique in the San Diego region in that it is solely focused on stopping climate change through policy action. 100% of our time, energy, and finances are dedicated toward achieving this essential mission.
Our Approach
We believe change happens from the bottom up. That’s why we’re focused on working with civic leaders and policymakers at the local level to enact legally binding policies designed to stop climate change. Our work in the City of San Diego has already resulted in the passage of the City’s groundbreaking 2015 Climate Action Plan, which has made San Diego the largest city in the United States with a legal commitment to reach 100% clean energy by 2035. We are also working with eleven other city, county, and regional government agencies located throughout San Diego County to help them implement similar 100% clean energy climate plans and other important climate action policies. We believe our locally based actions toward stopping climate change will yield measurable improvements in our communities and will create the momentum necessary to pass similarly effective and enforceable policies at the state and national levels.
Community Groups
www.campodeldios.com/index.html
News from zip code 92029
www.campodeldios.com/delDios_fireSafeCouncil.html
The Lake Hodges FireSafe Council is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to providing fire safety information and education to residents of the Greater Lake Hodges Area in the 92029 zip code, west of the San Pasqual Valley and east of the Lake Hodges Dam.
Sustainability and Sustainable Living
www.skymountain.org
Sky Mountain Institute's Expressive Arts Therapy Trainings and Ecological and Community Programs have the living earth at their core. They are designed to realign us with an ecological vision of a sustainable human-earth presence, imaginal competency, and relational depth as members within our global and local communities.
Escondido Garden Club
http://www.themulch.com/component/mtree/associationsclubs/escondido-garden-club
Come together with other gardeners and permaculture practitioners and learn how to care for yourself and care for the earth—and eat well! Monthly meeting.
Environmental Justice
www.environmentalhealthorg
The region’s leading environmental justice organization working in San Diego and Tijuana region to empower people, organize communities, and achieve justice in communities heavily burdened by toxic pollution.
California Environmental Justice Alliance
www.caleja.org
CEJA is a statewide coalition of grassroots, environmental justice organizations. We are working to achieve environmental justice by organizing in low-income communities and communities of color – those most impacted by environmental hazards – and by pushing for policies at the federal, state, regional and local levels that protect public health and the environment.
Media and Information Specific to North County and Escondido
Coast News Inland Edition
Legal
We are always open to suggestions about other groups to include and events to promote. Please send us your ideas.
Government
City of Escondido
www.escondido.org/
Email your elected officials here:
Mayor Paul McNamara, pmcnamarapmcnamara@escondido.org
Councilmember Olga Diaz, odiaz@escondido.org
Councilmember Consuelo Martinez, cmartinez@escondido.org
Councilmember Mike Morasco, mmorasco@escondido.org
Councilmember John Masson, jmasson@escondido.org
Jay Petrek, jpetrek@escondido.org
Bill Martin, bmartin@escondido.org
County of San Diego
www.sdpublic.sdcounty.ca.gov/
Supervisor Kristen Gaspar (District 3)
Kristen.Gaspar@sdcounty.ca.gov
Environmental Regulators
Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)
www.dtsc.ca.gov/InformationResources/
The mission of DTSC is to protect California’s people and environment from harmful effects of toxic substances by restoring contaminated resources, enforcing hazardous waste laws, reducing hazardous waste generation, and encouraging the manufacture of chemically safer products.
State Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Diego Region
www.waterboards.ca.gov/sandiego/
The mission of the San Diego Regional Board is developing and enforcing water quality objectives and implementing plans that will best protect the area's waters while recognizing our local differences in climate, topography, geology and hydrology.
State Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/
OEHHA’s mission is to protect and enhance public health and the environment by scientific evaluation of risks posed by hazardous substances.
San Diego Air Pollution Control District (APCD)
http://www.sdapcd.org/
The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District strives to protect the public from the harmful effects of air pollution, achieve and maintain air quality standards, foster community involvement and develop and implement cost-effective programs meeting state and federal mandates, considering environmental and economic impacts.