The Climate Justice Working Group is tasked with establishing criteria for identifying disadvantaged communities for the purposes of co-pollutant reductions, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, regulatory impact statements, and the allocation of investments pursuant to the CLCPA.
This informational meeting will not take any official action but include presentations on mapping analysis and will be conducted by teleconference. Members of the public are welcome to listen to the meeting via webcast.
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Learn how to create a land acknowledgement that is living and full of action. Join WMA JDEI and Scenic Hudson on Zoom as Heather Bruegl, M.A. (Oneida/Stockbridge-Munsee) Director of Education for the Forge Project Fellowship Program presents, “More Than a Land Acknowledgement.”
Have you ever wondered about the history of the land that you are on? Do you understand the impacts of colonialism on the land and Native Nations? Do you want to do more than just acknowledge the land? This workshop gives you a history of Federal Indian policy that led to land loss and provides 5 steps on how to create a land acknowledgement that does more than just putting words on paper. Learn how to create a land acknowledgement that is living and full of action.
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The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Dutchess County Environment & Energy Team is hosting a program with Dutchess County municipal officials and volunteers (CAC, CSC Task Force, Planning Board, Town Board, ZBA), watershed groups and local residents.
Pollinators are a critical component of our ecosystem, fertilizing the plants in our yards and parks as well as on our farms and orchards. They play an integral part in our local food system and help us grow our local agricultural economy. However, pollinator populations are in sharp decline due to activities such as loss of habitat. Participants will learn about various native pollinator species and the benefits they bring, the activities negatively impacting pollinators, and best management practices for managing our local landscapes with pollinating insects in mind, at both a residential and municipal scale. Participants will hear from two Dutchess County communities about ongoing efforts to establish pollinator gardens and “pathways”, helping to restore habitat connectivity and biodiversity to the region using a collaborative approach.
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Attention Vassar students! Join the Environmental Cooperative for some tie-dye fun on Saturday October 30 from 1-3 PM! Please register so that we have enough materials for all attendees.
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Up-cycled t-shirts will be available, but you could bring your own piece of clothing instead if you wish! Materials will be provided.
In this webinar Sustainable Westchester will present on Repair Cafes, a new concept where neighbors help neighbors fix broken things and connect over the shared idea of repairing rather than treating items as disposable. Participants will learn how to set up a ‘Take it or Leave it’ aka TIOLI shed in our community and promote the concept of one person’s trash being another’s treasure.
Chantal Bilodeau, Co-Founder of Climate Change Theater Action will speak to the Hudson Valley and Catskills Climate Reality Chapter on Sunday, October 17th at 6pm. All are welcome.
To attend via Zoom, please email evemorgenstern@gmail.com
Chantal is a Canadian playwright now living in NYC who has been instrumental in getting the theater and educational communities, as well as audiences in the U.S. and abroad, to engage in climate action. Founded in 2015, Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings. Every other year, 50 professional playwrights, representing all inhabited continents as well as several cultures and Indigenous nations, are commissioned to write five-minute plays about an aspect of the climate crisis based on a prompt. This year’s prompt is The Green New Deal. The collection of plays is then available to producing collaborators interested in presenting an event during the project’s time window, typically in the fall. Events can be in-house readings, public performances, radio shows, podcasts, film adaptations and more. Chantal Bilodeau is also Founding Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle and she is writing a series of plays that look at the social and environmental changes taking place in the eight Arctic states. In 2019, she was named one of “8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation” by Audubon Magazine.
As the impacts of climate change intensify worldwide, there is an urgent need for resilience in ecosystems and human societies.
How can we contribute to this on the scale of our homes and neighborhoods? This workshop will explore the contributions home, community, and neighborhood gardens can make to multiple forms of climate resilience – food security, wildlife habitat, watershed restoration, and community building. Bring your ideas, questions, and dreams for playing an active role in the health of the living systems that you are part of!
Connor Stedman, M.S. is an ecological designer, farm business planner, and climate change educator based between the Hudson and Connecticut river valleys. Connor has spent over a decade supporting businesses and communities to implement industry-leading carbon farming and climate adaptation systems, and to reimagine how they affect and can be guided by land. He is lead faculty at the Omega Institute for Sustainable Living and a professional affiliate instructor with the University of Vermont’s innovative Leadership for Sustainability graduate program.
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Join Sustainable Hudson Valley for a detailed briefing on the policies, programs and funding behind New York’s Climate Act, and the Hudson Valley Regional Climate Action Strategy developed by Sustainable Hudson Valley and partners. ($20 suggested donation.)
Featuring:
- Andrew Revkin (New York Times climate science writer and Founding Director, Initiative on Communication & Sustainability – The Earth Institute, Columbia University)
- Maureen Leddy (Director, NYS Office of Climate Change)
- Sameer Ranade (Climate Justice Advocate, NYSERDA)
- Dr. Evelyn Wright (Deputy County Executive for Ulster County, NY; Ulster’s Green New Deal)
- Melissa Everett (Executive Director, Sustainable Hudson Valley)
- Rev. Gregory Simpson (HV Environmental Justice Coalition)
- Cynthia Nikitin (Sustainable Hudson Valley) and others.
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Interested in conservation and preservation of our natural spaces? Want to help contribute to an ongoing scientific project? Or maybe you just want to learn a new tool? If you said yes to any of these, join the Environmental Cooperative for our iNaturalist Workshop on Wednesday, October 6 from 5-6 PM at College Hill Park as part of our AquaBlitz 2021!
During the workshop, you will learn how to identify a variety of local plants and animals using an app on your phone. iNaturalist is an open-source phone application where you can share your findings with the world: remember, every observation can contribute to biodiversity science, from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed.
This event would be highly useful for anyone wishing to participate in the AquaBlitz 2021. The AquaBlitz is a yearly event where we go out to sites in the Fall Kill Watershed and try to identify as many living things as possible during the month of October — participants include students and community members alike!
Although this is an outdoor event, masks are strongly encouraged for everyone. All attendees will receive a free AquaBlitz t-shirt!
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Join Scenic Hudson at Pershing Avenue Neighborhood Farm + Gardens on Saturday, October 2 for Harvest Fest!
Activities include:
?Food (masks required in food tent)
?Dancing + music (dance battle)
?Family/kids craft activities
?Sign-ups for community garden beds
?Help plant blueberries for the farm
?Fun + games
?Giveaways
?Parking on the Street?
Spanish interpretation and/or bilingual assistance will be provided
