{"id":247810,"date":"2026-04-02T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:22:21","slug":"california-neighbors-cut-carbon-together-yale-climate-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247810\/","title":{"rendered":"California neighbors cut carbon together \u00bb Yale Climate Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript:<\/p>\n<p>In Oakland, California, 15 properties on a single block have new rooftop solar panels, electric heat pumps, and insulation.<\/p>\n<p>The homes were renovated together as part of a project called <a href=\"https:\/\/ecoblock.berkeley.edu\/about\/ \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EcoBlock<\/a> that\u2019s exploring the potential of cutting carbon pollution a whole block at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Peffer: \u201cLooking at how do you engage a community to adopt solar, to adopt electrification, and how do you do this in a way that\u2019s affordable for the community?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therese Peffer of the University of California, Berkeley, leads the project. <\/p>\n<p>She says a grant funded the EcoBlock renovations. But this approach could help homeowners in other communities save money. <\/p>\n<p>Peffer: \u201cWe did see some economies of scale. For example, for bulk purchases for solar, for the appliances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it can be more cost-effective for contractors to do multiple projects in one neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>Pfeffer: \u201cWe had to replace about half the roofs. \u2026 And the roofer gave us a better price because he had eight roofs to do all on one block.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she says the benefits of teaming up with neighbors go beyond money alone. <\/p>\n<p>Peffer: \u201cThis provided a lot of opportunities for people to get to know each other.\u201d\t<\/p>\n<p>So the approach has the potential to cut climate-warming pollution and build community. <\/p>\n<p>Reporting credit: Sarah Kennedy \/ ChavoBart Digital Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transcript: In Oakland, California, 15 properties on a single block have new rooftop solar panels, electric heat pumps,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,1073,143,145,144,435],"class_list":["post-247810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california","tag-home","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}