Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet is a nonprofit environmental education and action organization based in

Palo Alto, California Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was es ...

. Its main focus is on addressing climate change. Its mission is "Bringing people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet." Program areas include education, clean energy equity,

climate adaptation Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to current or expected effects of climate change.IPCC, 2022Annex II: Glossary öller, V., R. van Diemen, J.B.R. Matthews, C. Méndez, S. Semenov, J.S. Fuglestvedt, A. Reisinger (eds.) InClimat ...

, and corporate sustainability. In 2015, Acterra received the Tall Tree Award for Outstanding Nonprofit from the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and the Palo Alto Weekly.

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