Mercury News: Palo Alto will be part of a three-city experiment to get residents to work block by block on sustainability and climate change goals in their daily lives.
Climate change often is discussed broadly, but the Cool Block pilot program takes a "bottom-up" approach, said Sandra Slater, the Northern California director of the Cool City Challenge, an initiative of the Empowerment Institute.
The program's goal is to get households to take action on climate change, be more socially connected with each...