Monitoring HABs is a fun way to spend time on the lakeshore and participate in an important community science effort! This fast and accurate information about HABs helps lake-goers make safe decisions about recreating on the lake and betters our shared understanding of the risk these blooms may or may not present.
How do you envision the future? What could a Green New Deal do for you? Tonight from 6-7 PM on Zoom, join the new City of Ithaca Sustainability Director Luis Aguirre Torres and his colleagues for a brief information session on a new project, called 1,000 Conversations About Our Future.
The Climate & Community Investment Act and Build Public Renewables Act will make polluters pay, create green jobs, protect ratepayers (YOU!), & help to build a renewable economy. Let’s get them passed this session; Come out tonight (Thursday, June 3rd) at 6:00pm to the Bernie Milton Pavilion (on the Commons) in Ithaca.
“In our efforts to nip an extractive, exploitative industry in New York in the bud, we are hosting a critical demonstration at the DEC Region 8 Headquarters this coming Saturday, June 5th. We have media interest from Germany, Italy, France, Japan, China, and national news (CBS, NBC, ABC, Now This News). This is our opportunity to put pressure on Governor Cuomo to put his money where his mouth is, If he wants to be a leader on Climate, he must act on the extractive industry of Proof of Work cryptocurrency, which could cripple New York’s climate goals. Please share these memes, tweet them, do whatever you can to encourage people to SHOW UP on Saturday, June 5th.
Will you help us keep the crypto industry at bay? Here’s what to do:
Contact your Senators and Assemblypeople. Here is a list of important people to contact. Please use it to pick a few and call or tweet them! Here is a sample call/email script and sample tweets to make things quick and easy. We want to reach as many reps as possible! Sign on here if you are an individual or sign on here if you are an organization to support Assembly Bill 7389 / Senate Bill 6486, which will establish a moratorium on any new or expanding cryptocurrency mining centers (unless a full EIS is done and it’s found that the center will not adversely affect the state greenhouse gas emission targets outlined in the CLCPA). Call Governor Cuomo at (518)-474-8390. Tell him that unregulated “behind the meter” Bitcoin operations completely evade his Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), and that he must direct his DEC to deny Greenidge’s Title V air permit renewal.
Governor Cuomo’s Public Service Commission (PSC) is once again prioritizing gas utility profits over the survival of our planet. In their current gas planning proceeding, they ignored the demands of 200 elected officials and 130 organizations. Now, we need thousands of comments to flood the PSC. Write a comment today!
We only have until June 10th to pass the CCIA this year. So, NYRenews is having rallies all across the state on Tuesday, May 18th! Now that we are nearing the end of this legislative session, it is crunch time to lift up our champions and build pressure on the major political players left to join us. Find a rally near you!
The Greenidge Plant on Seneca Lake will spew, “hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide from the plant’s stacks, pump billions of gallons of hot water into a nearby trout stream, and pipe in and burn billions of cubic feet of fracked natural gas.”
Climate Stewards is a new volunteer program through Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County that builds upon the successful models of CCE’s existing Master Gardener and Master Composter volunteer programs. Trainees will learn what is already taking place in Tompkins County to combat climate change, and how, as volunteers, they can help our municipalities implement even more changes.
Leadership of the NYS Assembly and Senate Agriculture committees have recently announced that they hope to pass the Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Act (S4722/AO5386) this session, which ends June 10, 2021. The bill will create a soil health program that will be truly beneficial for New York’s organic farmers and conscious food eaters. Here’s how you can help:
The time for incrementalism is over. We need a managed, equitable, affordable transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy now! Let’s flood the Public Service Commission with comments. Our goal is 5,000 comments by June 4, 2021. Can you join the movement to push for a real plan to phase out gas?
Here’s some opportunities to plug in in the Finger Lakes region (and virtually!)…
Join Clean Heating and Cooling community teams from across New York and the Renewable Heat Now Campaign to learn about the movement for #BuildingElectrification and how you can be a part of it: on a personal, municipal, state and federal levels. Let’s push #HeatPumpsNotPipelines!
Continued investment in a dying industry is putting the financial stability of the teacher’s pension fund at risk.
Teachers must demand that NYSTRS DIVESTS to save their pension and to save the planet. Here’s what you can do…
Join Metro IAF & their partners — BlocPower and the Community Purchasing Alliance — launch a 2-year push to convert congregations & other buildings in NY to clean energy on Earth Day (Thursday, April 22nd) from 11:00am to 11:45am.