Vanessa Warheit

City Council Candidate, El Cerrito, CA

Vanessa Warheit is a filmmaker, climate policy advocate, communications specialist and educator who has dedicated her life to building community-first social and environmental justice.

Vanessa has spent decades advocating for equitable solutions such as: defending a woman’s right to choose, supporting Indigenous sovereignty, divesting California's pension funds from fossil fuels, and supporting renewable energy and public transit.

Vanessa works in sustainable transportation, ensuring equitable access to electric vehicle charging for underserved Californians. If elected, Vanessa is prepared to lead the City of El Cerrito, which declared a climate emergency in 2019, to a fossil free future.

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Vanessa’s Vision

 

Sustainable Transportation

 

  • Micro-mobility to and from El Cerrito BART stations

  • Transit-oriented development of new affordable housing

  • Comprehensive network for safe walking, biking, and rolling throughout El Cerrito

  • Regional sustainable transportation planning with neighboring communities

  • Electric vehicle charging reach codes ensuring equitable access for new multi-family residents

  • Electric vehicle carshare and public charging stations

 

Net Zero Buildings

 

  • Incentives and streamlined permitting for energy efficiency

  • Acceleration of building electrification

  • Ban fossil gas in new construction

  • Expand minimum standards for rental properties to include efficiency standards and electrification

 

Just Transition

 

  • Use seat on county and regional governing bodies to push for an end to fossil fuel extraction and refinement and ensure high quality family-sustaining job opportunities for former fossil fuel industry workers

“We need elected officials prepared to advance real climate solutions from their first day in office. I’ve spent the last decade working on solutions to the climate crisis – I’ve been a grassroots organizer advocating for bus rapid transit, community-based clean energy, public banking, fossil fuel divestment of banks and public pension funds, and equitable access to EV charging. If elected, I will fight for all of this and more from the moment I’m sworn in.”

— Vanessa Warheit

 

 

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