Clean Energy Calendar

SAVE THE DATE: February 26th at 7pm for our next online teach-in on the Youth Climate Movement!

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6:00-9:00 pm, Bishop Harrison Center, 1342 Lancaster Ave. 13210. Provided by our Climate Justice Committee & NYRenews. Free! Food will be provided. (A 2nd session to be held Thursday, Feb. 27 at the same time and location.)

Audience: those that are new to climate change advocacy AND those who have already started doing this work.
Purpose of training: to bring everyone up to speed on climate change, and to develop a regional grassroots team to advocate for ways to deal with energy and climate change issues locally.

The program for this two-day training includes:
Friday, Feb. 21
-overview of climate justice (and injustice), including information about how governments and corporations have affected climate change in a way that has encouraged racism and poverty;
-a community envisioning exercise.

Thursday, Feb 27
-learn about the CLCPA (Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act) that passed last year: the original version, what was taken out, and what was added in negotiations;
-overview of the CCIA (Climate and Community Investment Act), the sister bill to the CLCPA that would provide funding for the CLCPA.

Please invite friends! Attendance at both training sessions is not mandated. You may register for either one of the dates or for both dates. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Climate Justice Committee chairperson Kitty Burns (otiscohills@yahoo.com). Let us know how many from your group will attend so that we can have enough food and chairs!

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As a result of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, and Bob Howarth and Tony Ingraffea’s groundbreaking work over the years… the DEC has initiated a rulemaking on accounting for greenhouse gas emissions – including methane – over 20 year timeframe, including full life-cycle emissions, even if out of state.

The NYSDEC Office of Climate Change is hosting an informational webinar to provide the public the opportunity to learn and ask questions about the rulemaking to establish statewide greenhouse gas emission limits per Article 75 of the Environmental Conservation Law, as amended by the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Chapter 106 of the Laws of 2019).

This webinar will be offered on two dates and the DEC plans to share the recording on their website at a later date.

On the 28th, AGREE is hosting an informal watch party for all who are interested, to watch the webinar and discuss. This proceeding will be important for all of us who have fought fracking. True accounting for the carbon impact of fracked gas – which we are still using in NY, even if it is not produced here – will be critical to good decision-making to avert the worst of climate change. This is where it starts.

Date: Friday, February 28, 2020

Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

If you can’t join us in person, you can join the DEC’s webinar by clicking on this link: [https://meetny.webex.com/meetny/onstage/g.php?MTID=e80bae4136280846aeb85e0a18097bad4]

The pre-proposal draft terms for 6 NYCRR Part 496, which provides a brief description of the gases and emission sources that DEC is considering to include in the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, is available on DEC’s Climate Change Mitigation website. http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/99223.html

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6:00-9:00 pm, Bishop Harrison Center, 1342 Lancaster Ave. 13210. Provided by our Climate Justice Committee & NYRenews. Free! Food will be provided. (A 2nd session to be held Thursday, Feb. 27 at the same time and location.)

Audience: those that are new to climate change advocacy AND those who have already started doing this work.
Purpose of training: to bring everyone up to speed on climate change, and to develop a regional grassroots team to advocate for ways to deal with energy and climate change issues locally.

The program for this two-day training includes:
Friday, Feb. 21
-overview of climate justice (and injustice), including information about how governments and corporations have affected climate change in a way that has encouraged racism and poverty;
-a community envisioning exercise.

Thursday, Feb 27
-learn about the CLCPA (Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act) that passed last year: the original version, what was taken out, and what was added in negotiations;
-overview of the CCIA (Climate and Community Investment Act), the sister bill to the CLCPA that would provide funding for the CLCPA.

Please invite friends! Attendance at both training sessions is not mandated. You may register for either one of the dates or for both dates. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Climate Justice Committee chairperson Kitty Burns (otiscohills@yahoo.com). Let us know how many from your group will attend so that we can have enough food and chairs!

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Jump into Leap Day with short films, activities, and tools for young activists from middle through high school (and their families) to get engaged in climate action! Younger siblings welcome.

Featuring a 30-minute family-oriented selection from the Climate Action Film Festival, as well as a book-signing by author and Young Voices for the Planet Films creator Lynne Cherry, this free event will help energize the Sunrise generation with stories of climate action visionaries and victories.

Hosted by SunCommon and New Paltz Climate Action Coalition.

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