Learn the facts about refrigerants, how to safely manage, and the role they play in electrifying our buildings via heat pumps to get off fossil fuels!
Speakers include:
Michael Helme, New Yorkers for Cool Refrigerant Management
John Ciovacco, Aztech Geothermal
Christina Theodoridi, Climate & Clean Energy Program at NRDC
Young climate activists and advocates from across New York State talk about the work they do to #ActOnClimate and how you can take action!
Ilyas Khan – Western New York Youth Climate Council – Buffalo
Melissa Hoffman – Sunrise Movement – Vassar College
Berenice Tompkins – Sunrise Movement – NYC
Shenequa Perry – Student Climate Coalition – SUNY ESF
Hridesh Singh – New York Youth Climate Leaders – Rochester
Kellianne Ticcony – New York Youth Climate Leaders – Long Island
Hear from knowledgeable speakers about practical emission reduction targets and what strategies we’ll need to reach those targets. Learn how you as an individual or business owner can take action to be a part of the solution for a cleaner New York!
Speakers:
Allison Considine, NY Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club
Bruce Ho, Senior Advocate in Climate & Clean Energy Program at the NRDC
Victoria McGarril, Consultant for Sustainable Transportation Solutions at Energetics
We need large-scale renewable projects to be built and to stay in New York if we want to meet our goal of 70% renewable electricity by 2030. Hear more from Anne Reynolds, Executive Director of Alliance for Clean Energy New York. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and learn how you can take action for renewable electricity!
Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gases in New York State! Tune in to learn about the Transportation & Climate Initiative (TCI): one of the many solutions needed to electrify New York’s transportation system and reduce our main source of emissions.
Hear from knowledgeable speakers working on TCI at a national level, and reach out to nyforcleanpower@gmail.com if you want to help electrify transportation and make your community more sustainable.
Moderated by Betta Broad, New Yorkers for Clean Power (NYCP)
Speakers:
Allison Considine, Sierra Club
Uchenna Bright, Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)
Stephan Edel, New York Working Families
Heat pumps 101 with Hugo Jule, a clean energy & EV expert consulting with the HeatSmart Ulster-Sullivan campaign.
Learn what you can do to promote comprehensive utility energy efficiency & heat pump (not pipelines) programs!
In partnership with Renewable Heat Now, New Yorkers for Clean Power is collecting comments on the joint utility filing for the utility energy efficiency programs.
The public comment deadline is July 1st, 2019.
Submit a comment (you can use our sample): https://actionnetwork.org/letters/renewable-heat-now-for-all
The utility efficiency programs need to be well funded, accessible, provide incentives for renewable heating and cooling and not gas!
Speakers include:
Bob Howarth, Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology at Cornell University
Valerie Strauss, Director of Policy & Regulatory Affairs at Association for Energy Affordability
Jessica Azulay, Executive Director of Alliance for a Green Economy
Jens Ponikau, Owner of Buffalo Geothermal Heating & Vice President of New York Geothermal Energy Organization
Support Renewable Energy & Save Money on Your Electricity Bill Each Month!
Tune in for information on New York’s community solar and hydroelectric projects, updates on the Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER), and the policies needed to move forward to improve solar energy in New York. Our speakers will be available to answer questions and provide information on what you can do to get involved in the renewable revolution!
Speakers:
Juan Parra, Solar One Community Solar Program Manager
Sarah Bower, Natural Power Group Co-Owner
Cal Trumann, SunCommon Solar Community Organizer
Emmett Smith, Northern Power Light Founder
Jessica Azulay, Alliance for a Green Economy Executive Director
Time to Get Pumped! Renewable heat pumps are good for the planet & can save you money.
Learn about renewable heat pumps in our homes and communities. Today’s heat pumps are more efficient and fossil-fuel free. Heat pumps extract heat from the air or ground to heat the air or water in your building. They can also work in reverse as air conditioners!
Speakers:
John Ciovacco, President of Aztech Geothermal
Zeyneb Magavi, District Heating Advocate with Mothers Out Front
Donovan Gordon, Director of Renewable Heating & Cooling at NYSERDA
Betta Broad, Director of NYCP and Co-founder of Renewable Heat Now!
What Will it Take to Achieve New York’s Renewable Energy Goals? Join us for an online teach-in with Anne Reynolds, the Executive Director of Alliance for Clean Energy New York (ACE NY) to find out how large-scale renewable energy is vital to ending our reliance on fossil fuels. Reynolds will speak to the challenges that wind and solar project developers face in our state and the next steps for New York’s renewable future.