I found more signs of hope in the battle to eliminate single use plastics:At the Anchorage, Alaska airport I saw paper tops for coffee cups and now Amazon is eliminating plastic pillows in their packaging by replacing with recycled paper!Seemingly small steps but many small steps move us forward.
Although there is much to be negative about with the many challenges facing us with the changing climate, tune into Project Drawdown at www.drawdown.org for a refreshing dose of positivity.
Thinking about all the organizations that have been working for years toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the progress (yes progress) that has been made in green energy production, EV sales and major federal and NYS legislation, I have come to one conclusion: It can all be undone November 5, 2024!
The most important task we can all undertake is to VOTE for representatives at all levels of government who will support legislation to reduce greenhouse gases. The MOST important by far!!
Announcements
BREAKING NEWS: Just as we went to press, Dr. Jennifer Jones, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued this statement:
“Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that the federal courts can overrule the experts at federal agencies whose job is to implement public health and safety laws. Instead, federal courts would be the arbiters of regulatory questions, including those involving science. The ruling, which combined two cases, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, means that if Congress was not absolutely explicit when it crafted a law—which essentially would require Congress to possess the scientific and technical expertise of federal agency experts—it opens the door for corporate polluters and others who dislike the statute to get it overturned. This is an indefensible ruling that will make it harder to protect people and enforce laws against pollution and other public health threats, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).”
On June 28, 2024, Ethan Gormley, Regional Climate Justice Organizer for Citizen Action of New York, sponsored an online debriefing of environmental legislation in New York State. Here’s what we learned about the status of legislation:
–The Climate Change Superfund Act requires companies that contributed to the buildup of greenhouse gases bear some of the costs of infrastructure investments; mandates projects funded by the program comply with prevailing wage requirements; requires the funded projects to use U.S produced iron and steel; established the climate change adaptation fund. More details HERE.STATUS: passed both the Assembly and the Senate and is waiting for the governor to sign it.
–The CO2 Fracking Bill: Both the Senate and the Assembly passed this legislation which prohibits wells that use CO2 to complete or recomplete natural gas or oil resources. Details RIGHT HERE.STATUS: It is waiting for the governor’s signature.
–The NYHEAT ACT (Heat Energy Affordable Transition) calls for decarbonizing buildings; eliminating subsidies for new gas hookups; ensuring energy affordability for low- and moderate-income families; capping utility bills at 6% of income for low to moderate income families; and aligning utility regulations with climate laws.More details HERE.STATUS: neither the Senate nor the Assembly has passed this.
–JETA: the Just Energy Transition Act This bill requires a study of competitive options to facilitate a phase out, replacement and redevelopment of NYS’s oldest and most polluting fossil fueled facilities and their sites by 2030. More details HERE.STATUS:passed the Senate but not the Assembly.
–The Package Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act Governor Hochul has indicated that she would veto the bill as it is now. The substance of this bill aimed to reduce plastic packaging by 30% incrementally over 12 years and after 12 years, 70% of all plastics. This bill requires a phase out of the worst toxic chemical, called out chemical recycling as not real recycling; put a fee on packing that would be paid by producer and returned to local taxpayers; and established the office of Inspector General to enforce these provisions. More details HERE.STATUS: passed the Senate but ran out of time in the Assembly.
–The Bigger Better Bottle Bill raises the refundable deposit from a nickel to a dime; supports redemption centers by increasing the handling fee from 3.5 cents to 5 cents; and sponsors improvement of recycling and work to reduce since use materials. More details HERE.STATUS: no movement in either the Senate or the Assembly but has progressed further than in the past.
On May 14, 2024, Dr. Kim Cameron presented a workshop on COP28 at the Fayetteville Library at the CCAA monthly member meeting. In addition to sharing inside information on the workings of this prestigious international gathering on climate, she focused on the exciting possibilities of the Museum of the Future Contact her at kimberlycameron4@gmail.com.
On June 11, 2024, CCAA former president Yvonne Chu presented a workshop on The Carbon Challenge at the Manlius Library. If you missed this opportunity to sign on, you can do so NOW.
Share Your Climate Concerns… and
Vote
Submitted by Jan Kublick, CCAA Legislative Committee Chair (jan.kublick@gmail.com)
The State legislative session has concluded with widespread disappointment in the climate and environmental community, as all but one of the bills supported by CCAA and many other groups failed to pass. Moreover, Governor Hochul failed to implement the Congestion Pricing measure that would have charged commuters driving into NYC a fee and used the monies to support the MTA.
Between Hochul’s inaction and the Assembly leadership’s unwillingness to bring bills to the Assembly floor where they likely would have passed, the Session failed in most respects to advance the Climate Plan’s implementation. Only a Climate Superfund Act advanced for the governor’s consideration. Opposition to these measures came from many directions, including campaigns and intense lobbying supporting fossil fuel’s interest in slowing the transition to clean renewable energy and away from forever chemicals and single use plastics made with fossil fuels.
A wide range of citizen groups including CCAA lobbied in favor of the bills by contacting local members of the Assembly and Senate. State Senator Rachel May continues to provide leadership and support for climate, renewable energy and the environment, for which CCAA is deeply grateful.
This year, climate will be on the ballot up and down the political races. Of key importance is the now set race for the 22nd District between incumbent Brandon Williams and John Mannion. All voters concerned about climate should determine where each candidate stands, and then share their support, or their concern. Voting matters, more than ever.
Environmental Podcast Coming to CNY
WAER Syracuse Public Media plans to launch a new podcast aimed atdeepening people’s knowledge about a wide range of environmental issues.Deeper Shade of Green will examine problems, new technologies, policy concerns, and the science and regulatory factors that impact the methods to fight the climate crisis and help keep our natural world clean and healthy. Topics will include things such as:off-shore wind power and its promise; the growth and barriers to electrifying transportation; heat pumps and other ways to rid homes and buildings of fossil fuel use; ways to minimize the plastics and chemicals that foul our environment.
Longtime WAER reporter Chris Bolt, Ed.D. wants to help people gain deeper understanding on projects or developments they might have heard of, but invariably have many hidden aspects that get in the way of implementation or progress.Bolt is also drawing on his dissertation research around environmental education and behavior.
“The factors I found that really cause people to change their minds go deeper than just awareness,” he said.“People need to feel their actions and ideas — whether at the individual or community level, or in voting and advocacy — can make a difference.”
Image provided by Chris Bolt
Shifting norms are also a powerful way to change behavior over time. “People are impacted by what they view as more normal or a trend,” Bolt added. “We already see changing norms on electric cars and solar panels.”
Through guest interviews, the podcast will incorporate ideas about how to change people’s attitudes and behaviors, along with information on the various issues and topics. WAER, Syracuse Public Media plans to launch Deeper Shade of Green in late July or early August.Information about the launch will be on WAER.org and on WAER FM 88.3 in the coming weeks.
The Goal: A Stable Climate on a Living Planet
Submitted by Janet Allen, President Wild Ones Habitat Gardening, CNY chapter (centralny1@verizon.net)
Image provided by Habitat Gardening of CNY. www.hgcny.org.
Undoubtedly our centuries-long use of fossil fuels is an important cause of climate change. There’s no question that shifting to renewable energy and reducing energy use are essential.
This summer’s heat is making it painfully obvious that we must act quickly to stabilize the climate. But in the process of focusing on climate, we must not forget the concurrent decline in biodiversity – that magnificent variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms that make Earth so much more livable than Mars. And after all, what good is a stable climate on a dead planet?
Climate change itself has contributed to the decline in biodiversity as habitats change and species must move out of homes they’ve inhabited for millennia, breaking ancient relationships. Indirect effects of climate change such as droughts and wildfires lead to further declines in biodiversity.
But the reverse is also true. The loss of nature has resulted in climate change. The destruction of forests, wetlands, and development in general directly release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Buildings, roads, and other infrastructure that have replaced former natural areas absorb and re-emit the sun’s heat resulting in heat islands.
So, in addition to addressing energy use, we need to restore nature. More nature, less climate change! Happily, at the same time, restoring nature helps return the biodiversity essential for a living planet. The closer these nature-based solutions come to restoring what was there originally — “rewilding” — the more effective they will be for both climate and biodiversity. In addition to global and national projects, communities are adding green spaces, and some are even creating pocket forests, such as Miyawaki forests.
But everyone can help restore the climate and increase biodiversity in their own yards by preserving native trees, limiting hardscaping, and replacing lawn — a net contributor of CO2 — with lots of native plants!
Submitted by Peter Wirth, CCAA Vice President (pwirth2@verizon.net)
Image provided by the Department of Energy www.energy.gov.
If you have a natural gas furnace, you’re contributing to climate change, more extreme weather events, heat waves, droughts, death of coral reefs.Don’t feel guilty because almost all the homes in CNY were built using fossil fuels for heating, hot water and even cooking.
While I reduced my use of fossil fuels considerably through air sealing, new windows, insulation, electric heat pump, roof top solar, I am still part of the problem. I’ve lived in my home for over 20 years and have slowly chipped away at reducing my fossil fuels consumption. It is never too late to start, and nothing is too small to consider. Every pound of CO2 kept out of the atmosphere helps.
Be Part of the Solution!
The first step is educ ation. Learn about electric heat pumps! There is an excellent ARTICLE, “Heat Pumps Outsell Gas Furnaces.” If your furnace or air conditioner needs replacing, consider a heat pump which provides both functions.
If you are past the midway point in life, consider leaving behind a legacy of a fossil free home. If you have discretionary income (inheritance), consider allocating some of it for a retrofit of your home. A fossil free or reduced fossil fuel home is a gift to the next generation. Your home will also have more resale value.
As I write this there is a worldwide coral bleaching event taking place. Abnormally hot ocean temperatures across the world are stressing and, in some cases, killing coral reefs. Scientists are reporting they have never seen temperatures this high. Hotter ocean waters also mean more powerful hurricanes as warmer waters act as fuel for hurricanes.
We all have a role to play in solving the climate challenge from actions on the home front to supporting policy decisions from the village level up to the federal government. Feel free to contact me to learn what I’ve done on my home and actions you can take on your home
Demolishing I-81: Environmental Impacts
Submitted by Olivia Eden Fried, CCAA Intern (oefried@syr.edu)
Now that a New York state court has ruled that demolition on the I-81 viaduct can begin, experts and community advocates are considering the implications of doing so. Charles Driscoll, a distinguished professor of environmental systems in Syracuse University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, said that his concern is for the environmental impact of taking down this aging highway.
“There’s a lot of degraded concrete and to pull that down would be a major disturbance. I’m sure there’d be a lot of short-term air quality issues… a lot of dust that would be kicked up…the worst of those is what’s known as fine particulate matter,” Driscoll said. The health problems associated with an increase of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere include cancer, asthma and other respiratory illnesses, Driscoll said. But he also stressed that this is a short-term problem that will not pose a risk once the demolition is concluded.
Noting that the project has immense political support, Driscoll and other environmentalists believe the demolition will be a positive step for the Interstate in the long run. According to Driscoll, the vehicles on the overpass create a constant flow of toxic emissions that lead to air pollution in the area surrounding it. “If traffic is routed around the city, there will be air quality improvements in the area of the viaduct because the density of the traffic will be less in the rerouted areas.”
Overall, the environmental impact of the destruction of the viaduct will likely not be any greater than what is currently resulting from the structure as it is standing, Driscoll explains. While he is indeed concerned about the demolition’s short-term impacts, he agrees that, in the end, when the viaduct is removed, most of the environmental impacts surrounding it will dissipate.
“So once [the viaduct] goes away, that problem will be eliminated in the area. The impact will be transferred to a lesser extent in other areas. So, I think the overall problem would diminish.”
Project Retrofits Housing for Energy Efficiency
Submitted by Alice Maggiore, Director of PR for Strategic Communications (Alice@stratcomllc.com)
A local affordable housing leader is making a significant investment to improve energy efficiency at one of its properties this summer. The project, praised by NYSERDA as a model for other to follow statewide, will bring energy efficiency, comfort and health benefits to residents.
Rock Property Management Company’s Christopher Court in Phoenix, NY, is the first upstate affordable housing project in NYSERDA’s Retrofit NY Program, and the first affordable housing community to be retrofitted with the newly designed HydroPod, a prefabricated heat pump system.
Assembled locally by TK Fabricate, the HydroPod incorporates a high efficiency heating, cooling, and hot water system, and adds continuous ventilation to the apartments. This improves indoor air quality, while allowing Rock PMC to identify and mitigate potential issues much faster, in some cases before residents notice.
Construction on the project –which also includes new triple pane windows, new roofs, and other upgrades to enhance the buildings’ exteriors– began in May. These investments will help modernize the buildings, improve energy efficiency, and help meet the state’s electrification goals.
“Our priority is to create healthier, happier, more comfortable living spaces for individuals and families,” said Patrick Rock, owner of Rock PMC. “All of our investments are focused on long-term operations. This retrofit project preserves existing affordable housing buildings – and homes for families. Employing pre-fabrication saves energy, time, and resources.” This project offers the opportunity to enhance existing buildings instead of tearing them down for more expensive, energy consuming new builds.
Family owned, locally operated Rock PMC is working with TK Fabricate, Syracuse-based King + King Architects, Ithaca-based Taitem Engineering, and Watertown-based Purcell Construction.The $4 million project is being completed in partnership with NYSERDA’s RetrofitNY Program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The project received additional supporting loan funds from the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC).
As a family-owned local company with 40+ years of serving residents in Phoenix and communities throughout Central New York, Rock Property Management Company (Rock PMC) believes in the power of community-focused, environmentally conscious investments. Rock PMC has fourteen affordable housing and senior living communities in Onondaga, Oswego, and Wayne Counties, serving an estimated 400 residents. This affordable housing leader is committed to ensuring the health and safety of tenants and creating pathways to long-term efficiency and sustainability. Learn more about Rock PMC by visiting RockPMC.com.
Editor’s Note: Strategic Communications is the PR firm that is assisting Rock PMC is getting the word out about their efforts.
Hello, and thank you CCAA for your important work and outreach in raising awareness of the challenges we have facing us. I am a new member with this group, but a long-time student of our current predicament, how we got here, and how we would more wisely move forward. I hope to bring in essential information that is not yet well known even among climate activists, let alone world leaders, so that we can choose the best of the possible paths that remain.
There is a field of research that began 50 years ago but is just now becoming quite mature which attempts a wide boundary, systems view of how everything fits together to determine our true opportunities and constraints. Energy, materials, economy, ecology, resource depletion, pollution, human behavior…How does this all fit together to define
the possible futures that we can yet strive for?
Is it realistically conceivable that we can increase our current global average power from solar and wind of 0.33 TeraWatts to the 7TW that we would still need after the perfect electrification of everything reduces our demand from the current total primary energy continuous average of 19TW that we are currently blowing through? And then double this again and again, every 30 years, to maintain the current exponential growth of the global economy by 2.5%, as energy from fossil carbon leaves us by decision and depletion? What are the simple things that we really need in order to be happy?
Please join me in learning about this new information and then venture out as citizen educators to speak about it at any opportunity. Our current society and world leaders still have many blind spots. A good first glimpse of these concepts is provided by the Nate Hagens 30-minute educational movie HERE and I encourage you to watch it.
Many reading this newsletter may spend considerable time and effort toward ‘saving the planet’. So small pleasures can be restorative when weighed down by the enormity of this challenge, especially if the indulgence is a novel that imaginatively paves a way forward in a parallel endeavor.
Take the book, Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, an author who has garnered several awards for fiction, most notably, science fiction. His first chapter will have you scorch-melted to your seat. Yes, it’s a presentation of some of those anxieties you, yes YOU: Dear Climate Activist, harbor in your brain, yet dare not wallow within.
So, this is a recommendation? Well, since Robinson will have seared your flesh to the chair with his opening words and to avoid peeling off more precious flesh by rising, you will probably—as I did—feel compelled to keep flipping pages forward hoping for denouement into a livable FUTURE. The “Ministry for the Future” is a newly formed arm of our global body of hope, the United Nations. Help must be at hand, right?
Once past the shock, you will be carried along in a relatively detailed projection of actions taken by Ministry personnel, like Mary Murphy who heads the organization, attempting to save the Future over a span of many years. So therein is some emotional uplift making the wade worthwhile. Along the way, Robinson anchors his narrative with cameo mentions of several people with real-world prominence, like Greta Thunberg, Thomas Piketty, possibly Al Gore, and others. The scenes have a contemporary feeling but resist high-tech and even retreat from that over-indulgence.
Overall, it’s a reminder of what is at stake for all of us. Might that disincline you to open it? Well, having survived the opening chapter, events along the way may well satisfy you, even smugly, though mostly these are quiet sparks of accumulative relief along a process that bears enough familiar tribulation to seem plausible.
I am laughing a bit at myself as I begin to write this article for the next CCAA newsletter. Why? Because becoming a “greener” person is a learning curve and not necessarily linear. It may have its domestic ups and downs, too!
Image from Jane Tretler
My husband Peter Wirth and I have tried to be intentional about moving toward sustainability as we have made upgrades on our home through the years. We have solar panels, a heat pump, plug-in vehicles, and we compost. So, who would think that the dinner plates that we chose to use for a recent CCAA gathering at our home would end up being the source of both conflict and laughter? Well, let me fill you in!
I admit I wasn’t interested in washing lots of dishes when the party was over at our house. Peter said he would do them and I groaned. Yes, groaned. I just didn’t want to be bothered. Isn’t it true that the easier thing is not often the greenest thing to do?
So, I bought compostable paper plates at Wegmans. When I came home with them it was Peter’s turn to groan, but he reluctantly said he was OK with them. It wasn’t until the following day, the day after the party, that we looked at all those compostable paper plates in our kitchen garbage that a lightbulb went on. Hey, why aren’t we putting them in our compost pile out back? That’s what compostable means right?
So, we did. We dug all those compostable paper plates out of the garbage, and they are now under the soil mixed in with our compost. We think that is pretty cool.
So, at your next party, consider the brand Repurpose for your compostable paper plates. They are a great product and I have included some photos of the plate’s packaging and their WEBSITE for your reference.
Kinda neat to think those plates may be fertilizing our garden beds next year. Pretty cool.
Meet The New Interns
Image Submitted by Lydia McFarland
Image Submitted by Anna Montgomery
Image Submitted by Kira Donegan
Lydia McFarland is a sophomore at SUNY ESF pursuing a Bachelor of Science in environmental science. She is most interested in ecology, climatology and social justice. She’s from Hagerstown, Maryland and her hobbies include hiking, video games and visiting museums.
Anna Montgomery attends Lemoyne College and is majoring in political science, with minors in environmental studies and marketing. She is a member of the women’s lacrosse team. She anticipates graduating in Spring 2025 and then pursue a master’s degree in public policy. Future plans include working in the field of sustainable urban development.
Kira Donegan is an honors student at Syracuse University, working towards her Bachelor of Science degree in Magazine, News and Journalism.Her minors in geography and writing have given her an understanding of how different backgrounds and cultures influence decisions and writing. Donegan exemplifies the impact and thought that goes into professional writing and has used this to spread awareness of climate change and other topics pertaining to the environment.”
Are you lost? puzzled? confused? when you see a myriad of acronyms connected to the environment and climate?Fear not! Here are the answers to your questions:
CLCPA: New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is among the most ambitious climate laws in the nation and requires New York to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 and no less than 85 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels.
UCAN: United Climate Action Network, a grassroots group in NY’s 22nd Congressional District. They actively advocate for environmentally sustainable policies from local, state, and national officials and engage with businesses, schools, and other local community.
NYSERDA: New York State Energy Research and Development is a New York State public-benefit corporation, located in Albany, New York, with regional offices in New York City, Buffalo, and West Valley, working to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, and emissions reduction across New York’s economy and energy system.
CLCLA: This bill is among the nation’s most aggressive climate and environmental justice laws. It is commonly referred to as NY’s landmark climate law and was passed after years of campaigning by NY Renews.
NY RENEWS: is a coalition of over 300 environmental, justice, faith, labor and community groups, and the force behind the nation’s most progressive climate law.
JETA: The Just Energy Transition Act. A NY State Senate Bill that requires a study of competitive options to facilitate the phase-out, replacement and redevelopment of New York state’s oldest and most-polluting fossil fueled generation facilities and their sites by the year 2030.
On This Earth Day
I would dance and sing
grow wild with life
grow into a forest
embracing all creatures
predators and prey
giving them sanctuary
becoming a sanctuary
a place of Holy Earth
submitted by David Forest Hitchcock Image provided by www.earth.org
on Earth Day 2024
(daforest@aol.com)
Board Highlights
Editor’s Note: Your CCAA Board of Directors meets monthly to conduct CCAA business, plan member meetings and continue its role to raise awareness and educate the public regarding climate change.
We have begun the process of incorporation. This is the first step in ultimately obtaining 501-3C status.
We are continuing our search for a secretary for the organization.
We are looking for someone to work with our current treasurer to learn the ropes.
We are focusing on providing speakers and presentations for our monthly member meetings.
ORGANIZATION: Beyond Plastics
EVENT: Presentation: “3M’s Decades-Long Attempt to Cover Up the ForeverChemicals in Our Blood”
This cooking course will go over vegan recipes using locally sourced and home-grown ingredients while discussing the effects of food and agriculture on our climate. The event has two parts: a short 30 minute garden tour that is free and open to the public, then a cooking class that REQUIRES registration as space and supplies are limited. Attendees will receive a recipe booklet of the dishes that they will be creating that evening.
ORGANIZATION: 350.org
EVENT: National Week of Action to Take Back Our Power
WHEN: August 12 – 18, 2024
TIME:Variable/ on Zoom
LOCATION:Wherever you are!
This is the first ever week of action targeting the fossil fuel utility industry. Our message: we demand affordable energy for all, the transition to renewable energy, health and safety for ratepayers, and energy democracy. Fill out this interest form if you’re interested in organizing an action in your community. More info coming soon.
Project 2025. Former President Trump’s plan, which he promotes and promises to enact, would spell the end of climate change mitigation. John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, discusses the climate challenges young people will face for the rest of their lives if Trump becomes president and bans efforts to reverse anthropomorphic climate change. He warns that Project 2025 would be “absolutely unimaginable and destructive. It’s all EXPLAINED HERE:
New techwon’t save us from climate change. HERE’S what will!
The Antidote to Doom is Doing! Professor Michael Mann, presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvaniadiscusses that NOW!
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GOOD NEWS! Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity. They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in
other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly. You can read about it HERE.
La Niña Watch Is Officially On! To follow its impact, check on it HERE.
UPDATE ON CAZENOVIA LAKE: As previously reported in this newsletter, Anne Saltman (anne.b.saltman@gmail.com) has competed a report that documents long-term climate trends (up to and including 2023) in Cazenovia and surrounding regions. The report focuses on documenting changes in precipitation, snowfall, wind, air and water temperatures, ice duration on Cazenovia Lake, drought, and extreme weather events. Download this UPDATED CLIMATE REPORT.
INTERESTED IN CO2 LEVELS? Read THIS REPORT which highlights notable trends in energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States in 2023, based on preliminary data.
HOW ABOUT SOME CLIMATE CHANGE FUN!Watch these funny and informative climate change videos, only 10 – 45 seconds long. Available RIGHT HERE.
NOTE theongoing Utilities Public Education Series with new sessions each Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.ET. Upcoming sessions will cover how to take on utilities at Public Utility Commissions with experts Nancy LaPlace, Susan Miller, and John Qua; Power Mapping and Campaign Research with Little Sis; and how to take advantage of the IRA’s Direct Pay opportunity with the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center. Check out the schedule and RSVP HERE.
Electric cars are suddenly becoming more affordable. If you want to something about climate change, consider buying an all-electric car. No exhaust system to rust out, no radiator, no spark plugs or oil to change. Be a part of the solution – go electric and not part of the problem. Check it out HERE.
Carbon Offsets, a much-criticized climate tool, gets federal guidelines.You can check it out right HERE.
The stench of climate change denialis discussed in this ARTICLE.Check it out to be able to explain.
The best induction cooktop. If this is something you’ve been wondering about, this will help you DECIDE.
“It’s climate crunch time” when it comes to tackling rising carbon emissions the U.N. Secretary General said, while stressing that while the need for global action is unprecedented, so, too, are the opportunities for prosperity and sustainable development. READ IT FOR YOURSELF HERE.
Thermal Energy Storage to Beat Natural Gas in US Northeast. One of the problems with renewable energy sources is getting output to match demand. This is especially important with industrial processes. But bGen, a new thermal energy storage technology, has shown great promise at a pilot installation at SUNY in Purchase, NY. By using excess energy to heat rocks, the 650°C thermal energy can be available to create steam for hours or days. The steam can be used directly for industrial processes or to generate electricity. Based on the success of the pilot, the collaboration will now roll out the technology through the Northeast. READ about it HERE:
Energy and climate:Reasons to hope! Seven reasons to give you hope. While Climate Change awareness has continued to grow, Climate Change action is finally showing real growth. HERE are seven signs that show that efforts to address Climate Change are taking off.
CCAA members are encouraged to attend the monthly member meetings, either in person or via Zoom. Below is a schedule of upcoming presentations. Be sure to mark your calendars and plan to attend!
UPCOMING HIGHLIGHT:August 10th’s Climate and Cooking Class. Scheduled for a 3:00 p.m. start with a free garden tour on the premises that is open to the public, the class beginning at 3:30 p.m. will go over vegan recipes using locally sourced and home-grown ingredients while discussing the effects of food and agriculture on our climate. Registration required.Click HERE. You won’t want to miss this!
Within NY Renews, the Youth Committee is a space mostly for high school and college age individuals. We’re moving towards bi-weekly trainings followed by community organizing to support our campaigns. Joining the youth committee is a great opportunity to level up your organizing, learn about campaigning, and get involved in the climate justice movement.
We meet every other week with additional time on projects for those interested. If you are interested, please fill out the sign-up form so we can get more info about your interests and experiences (it’s not competitive). We would love to hear from you!
