The city of San Jose in California Silicon Valley has made a pledge to go carbon neutral by 2030.

To do this, leaders are enlisting help from an unlikely source, the arts sector, in a first of its kind program in America.

Jeffrey Brown traveled to San Jose to see how artists could help a city meet its climate goals.

It's part of our ongoing coverage on the intersection of art and climate change

and our series canvas.

It was the sixth annual San Jose Day.

Among the stalls of vendors and local artists lining the streets

were city officials hoping to get the word out

on a pressing issue the city is now confronting head on.

We are tackling climate change here in our city of San Jose.

And on the mind of Omar Torres, District 3 Councilman,

a perhaps unexpected connection between climate change and art.

Who would have thought, right?

You wouldn't have thought, climate policy and art?

And it, but it's a, it's an excellent idea and it's an excellent partnership and it's going to be a lasting movement.

San Jose has set a goal to achieve citywide carbon neutrality six years from now and it wants

artists to help meet that deadline. I could tell you

that when an artist posted on his social media or does a piece about climate

change I mean it it takes off and so we we are creating a new generation of artists who care about climate change.

Sustainability, environmental organization.

The effort is led by Danielle Sambietta, an artist herself and senior arts manager for San Jose's Office of Economic Development

and Cultural Affairs.

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