Citizens for a Sustainable Monterey County
Our mission: to help our communities meet the challenges of Climate Change and Peak Oil. We do this through community education and by organizing Local Action Groups.
We promote:
• decreased use of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources
• protection and restoration of the natural environment
• buying locally, especially locally grown food
• sharing the costs and benefits of a sustainable society fairly
Local Action Groups
CSMC helps people who share a common interest in sustainability to form Local Action Groups. These groups have worked on ordinances to ban styrofoam, wise water use projects, ‘green’ building codes, community gardens and many other issues. Join an Action Group in your area.
Education
CSMC offers presentations on topics such as Climate Change, Peak Oil and Sustainability and has audio-video resources to share. If you are interested in a presentation, Contact Us.
Urban Environmental Accords/US Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement
We encourage cities in Monterey County to join the global community in addressing climate change by signing the Urban Environmental Accords and the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.
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Board of Directors
Virginia Chomat
Virginia Chomat grew up in California’s Sacramento Valley. She spent most of her adult life in France where she and her husband raised two daughters. Since her return to California in 1998, she has been a guide and teacher’s aide at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Virginia helped her husband Pierre Chomat research and edit his recently published books entitled Oil Addiction: The World in Peril and The Delusion of Progress, A Fallacy of Western Society.
Mark Folsom
Mechanical Engineering consultant.
BSME, University of Vermont; ABD in MSME.
Mark is President of the Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area.
Denyse Frischmuth
Worked in international business development for software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley, in international market research at the NASA/Ames Research Center, and for Xerox as a Customer Satisfaction Analyst.
B.A., Laval Université, Québec; graduate work in Linguistics, University of Illinois.
Environmental activism has been important for Denyse for many years. She worked for the adoption by the City of Sunnyvale of a curbside recycling program and for solar panel requirements for new commercial buildings. She formed a study group that brought about environmentally friendlier practices at her work place, where she also initiated and organized a car-pool program.
Robert Frischmuth
Worked in research and development in the energy and electric power industries:
Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI – Project Manager; Occidental Petroleum – Section Manager, Energy R&D; Shell Development Company – Research Engineer, Process Development; Plastonium, Inc. – Chief Engineer, Product and Process Development; NASA, Lewis Research Center – Aerospace Engineer.
B.S., Case Institute of Technology; M.S., Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University.
Robert serves on the Sanctuary Advisory Council of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and on the Board of Directors of the Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers. He is a tour guide for California State Parks at Point Sur Lightstation, and a docent a Point Pinos Lighthouse. He is a member of the Sierra Club, the American Cetacean Society, Save Our Shores, the United Nations Association of the USA, and Friends of Moss Landing.
Ruth Smith
Career in cytogenetics. Taught anatomy, physiology and general biology.
Degree in Philosophy.
Ruth serves on the County Council of the Green Party of Monterey County and is active in a number of progressive organizations.
Larry Telles
Began his career teaching philosophy at Brooklyn College in New York City. After moving to California, worked variously as staff, manager, director and administrator of programs serving psychiatric patients, the homeless, and those coming out of State and federal prisons.
MA, Philosophy, University of Cincinnati; PhD, Philosophy, Graduate Center City University of New York.
Larry was Chair of the Board for the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. He has a long standing interest in social, biological and physical systems.
George Wilson
Retired Protestant clergyman, served congregations in Thailand, Greece, Palo Alto, CA, Lousville, KY, and Los Angeles, CA. since retiring in 1988, volunteered as a Mediator with Monterey County conflict Resolution Center and been a member of the Bio-Ethics Committee of Natividad Hospital. Has done interim work as a pastor and traveled about the world- Africa, China, south America, Europe, etc. He and his wife have fourteen grandchildren. He lives in Pebble Beach. George is a guide at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Advisory Board
Thomas Blood, Website
Helga Joshua, Research
Megan Tolbert, Political Action