Get inspired! Listen to Cool Petaluma’s Campaign Director Natasha Juliana tell the story of how we can lead with love as we reimagine our relationship to the planet and each other.

The city of Petaluma announced this week that it has appointed Deb Fox, co-founder of a leading local climate action effort and a recognized bike advocate, to be its “climate action manager.”

A Petaluma resident, Fox helped establish Cool Petaluma – originally a local program of the global nonprofit Cool Cities – and served as its director of collaboration and operations after it became an independently run nonprofit. The program has championed community-focused climate change efforts in Petaluma since its start here in 2021.

On a sunny and crisp spring morning, Petaluma resident Natasha Juliana gazes out her window at the tall redwood trees and the green hills beyond, taking another moment to appreciate the wonderful nature her town has to offer…

Like many others, Petaluma residents Natasha Juliana and Pete Gang have long been aware of our society's impacts on ecosystem health, on biodiversity, on the Earth’s climate system, and on the prospects for a livable future. After years of educating themselves and educating others, they each followed the call to move from environmental awareness to action.

There is a movement happening that has been proven effective in helping individuals do their part in alleviating the effects of climate change. This movement relies on building social capital that includes concrete, inclusive, and non-political actions taken at a grassroots level to mitigate the effects of climate change. We don’t need to feel like we have to act alone, all this can be done in neighborhoods, block by block.

Our Program Manager Deb Fox joins Cool Petaluma participants Julia Menga, Leslie Curchack and Maia Hirschbein for a conversation with Lou Zweier of Petaluma Community Relations Council on their Community Connections radio show.

With help from their parents and other adults, kids “Walk and Roll” to Petaluma’s Grant Elementary School in the Mountain View area.

As the state enters a fourth year of drought, state and local water officials continue to call for all Californians to do a better job conserving water. But as KCBS Radio news reporter Jeffrey Schaub says, Petaluma residents don’t appear to need any cajoling: they have the highest water conservation rate in the Bay Area.

PETALUMA, Calif. (KGO) -- A North Bay community is leading the way when it comes to conserving water during our ongoing historic drought.

"I'm super proud of Petaluma," said Natasha Juliana.

Water conservation efforts in Petaluma appear to be working, according to the latest data from the California State Water Resources Control Board.

Read on to see how Cool Petaluma has partnered with local non-profit Daily Acts and the City of Petaluma to help this effort.

Bay Area Bountiful explores living with climate change in this first of a three-part series. Their Norcal Public Media crew visited our Cool Block Leader Coffee meeting and interviewed a few of our amazing leaders!

San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Julie Johnson followed Petaluma’s Cool Block program as it got started and reported it here.

The Argus Courier has asked our Campaign Director, Natasha Juliana, to write a monthly climate column for the newspaper. Here is the April installment: