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Fight Climate Change by Electrifying your Home
Fight Climate Change by Electrifying your Home
January 14, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
| Our ongoing dependency on fossil fuels for everyday living is a major contributor to carbon-induced climate change. To supply sustainable energy experts agree that two transitions must occur simultaneously, both of which are already underway: First, supply the electrical grid using cheaper, cleaner renewable solar and wind energy from distributed sources. Second, switch housing, transportation, and other energy intensive sectors from fossil fuel to clean electricity.
This webinar will focus on electrification of domestic housing. Connecticut residents will demonstrate how they converted oil or gas components like furnaces, hot water heaters, or gas stoves to new, more efficient electrical versions. Alternatively, we will demonstrate how older generations of electrical equipment, such as clothes dryers or solar panels, can be upgraded to more efficient technology to better interoperate with the distributed grid.
At the end of this series of live demonstrations we will host a panel discussion consisting of the presenters as well as selected industry experts.
To register, click here.
Organized By: Shoreline Group
Event Organizers: Connecticut Sierra Club Shoreline Group
Jeffrey Gross, jcgoss8@gmail.com
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CT Renews Legislative Convening
CT Renews Legislative Convening
January 15, 2021 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Online
CT RENEWS is hosting a Legislative Convening with Legislator Co-chairs and Committee Members from Energy, Environment, Housing, Transportation- and others.
Please join us as we present these Legislators with the CT RENEWS initiative and get their responses to it. There will also be a special presentation about Green Justice Zones from Monica Huertas, Environmental Justice Organizer from Providence, Rhode Island.
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CT League of Conservation Votors 2021 Virtual Environmental Summit
CT League of Conservation Votors 2021 Virtual Environmental Summit
January 19, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Every year, the CTLCV Education Fund hosts our Environmental Summit to bring together lawmakers, advocates, policy experts, & the public for panel discussions and informational briefings on the key issues facing our environment. The Summit will again be held in January, but this time it will be VIRTUAL!
Throughout the event, we will cover a range of issues that advocates and lawmakers will be working to advance in 2021. Key areas include protecting wildlife, restricting toxic PFAS and Chlorpyrifos, reforming our electric grid, requiring climate change education, reducing waste, updating & modernizing the Bottle Bill, expanding composting, establishing a Municipal Funding Option, implementing the Transportation and Climate Initiative & more.
To register, click here.
2021 Summit Agenda
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
Panel on Waste Reduction
Louis Rosado Burch, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Sam King, Blue Earth Compost
Modernizing our Electric Grid
Deborah Donovan, Senior Policy Advocate at Acadia Center
Break
CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection 2021 Legislative Priorities
Katie Dykes, DEEP Commissioner
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
Environmental Justice
Representative Geraldo Reyes, Chair, Black and Puerto Rican Caucus
Municipal Funding Option for Open Space
Amy Blaymore Patterson, CT Land Conservation Council
Wildlife 2021 Legislative Priorities
Annie Hornish, Humane Society of the United States
Break
Environment Committee 2021 Priorities
Senator Christine Cohen, co-chair
Representative Dorinda Borer, co-chair
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
PFAS and the Chemicals in Packaging
Anne Hulick, Clean Water Action
Transportation & Climate Initiative
Charles Rothenberger, Save the Sound
House of Representatives 2021 Legislative Priorities
Representative Matt Ritter
Break
Panel on Remote Lobbying & Advocacy
Representative Christine Palm
Sena Wazer, Sunrise Connecticut
Akia S. Callum, Connecticut State Conference NAACP Youth & College Division
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CT League of Conservation Votors 2021 Virtual Environmental Summit
CT League of Conservation Votors 2021 Virtual Environmental Summit
January 21, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Every year, the CTLCV Education Fund hosts our Environmental Summit to bring together lawmakers, advocates, policy experts, & the public for panel discussions and informational briefings on the key issues facing our environment. The Summit will again be held in January, but this time it will be VIRTUAL!
Throughout the event, we will cover a range of issues that advocates and lawmakers will be working to advance in 2021. Key areas include protecting wildlife, restricting toxic PFAS and Chlorpyrifos, reforming our electric grid, requiring climate change education, reducing waste, updating & modernizing the Bottle Bill, expanding composting, establishing a Municipal Funding Option, implementing the Transportation and Climate Initiative & more.
To register, click here.
2021 Summit Agenda
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
Panel on Waste Reduction
Louis Rosado Burch, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Sam King, Blue Earth Compost
Modernizing our Electric Grid
Deborah Donovan, Senior Policy Advocate at Acadia Center
Break
CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection 2021 Legislative Priorities
Katie Dykes, DEEP Commissioner
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
Environmental Justice
Representative Geraldo Reyes, Chair, Black and Puerto Rican Caucus
Municipal Funding Option for Open Space
Amy Blaymore Patterson, CT Land Conservation Council
Wildlife 2021 Legislative Priorities
Annie Hornish, Humane Society of the United States
Break
Environment Committee 2021 Priorities
Senator Christine Cohen, co-chair
Representative Dorinda Borer, co-chair
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
PFAS and the Chemicals in Packaging
Anne Hulick, Clean Water Action
Transportation & Climate Initiative
Charles Rothenberger, Save the Sound
House of Representatives 2021 Legislative Priorities
Representative Matt Ritter
Break
Panel on Remote Lobbying & Advocacy
Representative Christine Palm
Sena Wazer, Sunrise Connecticut
Akia S. Callum, Connecticut State Conference NAACP Youth & College Division
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Environmental Racism: How does it affect us?
Environmental Racism: How does it affect us?
January 23, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Join the Windham-Willimantic NAACP Environmental Justice Committee and engage with a panel on “Environmental Racism: How Does It Affect Us?”. This event will feature remarks from the following activists experienced in the struggle for environmental justice, with the opportunity for questions by audience members:
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, Flint, MI, pediatrician and public health scientist, has graciously agreed to speak at this panel. Dr. Hanna-Attisha exposed the Flint water crisis that brought nationwide attention and remedial measures to the lead poisoning of Flint's children, documented in her highly acclaimed book, "What The Eyes Don't See."
Sharon Lewis, Executive Director of the Conn. Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) which was instrumental in the closing of Connecticut's last coal-fired power plant in Bridgeport, after a ten-year battle. Ms. Lewis describes the mission of CCEJ is "to create systemic change within the institutions that have kept people of color and low-income people sick and poor by abolishing the policies, rules and laws that adversely affect the environments where people live, work, play and go to school." She brings invaluable success in Connecticut's environmental justice efforts to our panel.
Martha Klein, RN, MPH, is a seven-year volunteer for Sierra Club Conn., focusing on climate disruption intervention and on stopping state-sponsored subsidized expansion of fracked gas here in Conn. Martha has worked with local Windham County opponents of the NTE Killingly fracked gas power plant, helping to delay and hoping to prevent its construction. As a public health RN, she works in underserved communities, advocating for medicare for all and open space protection. Martha also chairs the Norfolk Conservation Commission.
We are honored and delighted to present this top-level panel of activists to our membership and statewide to allies and others interested in learning more about the effects of environmental racism on us all.
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CT League of Conservation Votors 2021 Virtual Environmental Summit
CT League of Conservation Votors 2021 Virtual Environmental Summit
January 25, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Every year, the CTLCV Education Fund hosts our Environmental Summit to bring together lawmakers, advocates, policy experts, & the public for panel discussions and informational briefings on the key issues facing our environment. The Summit will again be held in January, but this time it will be VIRTUAL!
Throughout the event, we will cover a range of issues that advocates and lawmakers will be working to advance in 2021. Key areas include protecting wildlife, restricting toxic PFAS and Chlorpyrifos, reforming our electric grid, requiring climate change education, reducing waste, updating & modernizing the Bottle Bill, expanding composting, establishing a Municipal Funding Option, implementing the Transportation and Climate Initiative & more.
To register, click here.
2021 Summit Agenda
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
Panel on Waste Reduction
Louis Rosado Burch, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Sam King, Blue Earth Compost
Modernizing our Electric Grid
Deborah Donovan, Senior Policy Advocate at Acadia Center
Break
CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection 2021 Legislative Priorities
Katie Dykes, DEEP Commissioner
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
Environmental Justice
Representative Geraldo Reyes, Chair, Black and Puerto Rican Caucus
Municipal Funding Option for Open Space
Amy Blaymore Patterson, CT Land Conservation Council
Wildlife 2021 Legislative Priorities
Annie Hornish, Humane Society of the United States
Break
Environment Committee 2021 Priorities
Senator Christine Cohen, co-chair
Representative Dorinda Borer, co-chair
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
12:00 Opening Remarks
Lori Brown, CT League of Conservation Voters
PFAS and the Chemicals in Packaging
Anne Hulick, Clean Water Action
Transportation & Climate Initiative
Charles Rothenberger, Save the Sound
House of Representatives 2021 Legislative Priorities
Representative Matt Ritter
Break
Panel on Remote Lobbying & Advocacy
Representative Christine Palm
Sena Wazer, Sunrise Connecticut
Akia S. Callum, Connecticut State Conference NAACP Youth & College Division
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