Join us for informal conversation and an opportunity to get to know your fellow chapter members. Perhaps we will be able to celebrate the passage of the IRA. BYOB. Our chapter meetings are held on Zoom. Please join our chapter or our mailing list and look out for our email updates if you would like […]
Prof. Marianne Krasny of Cornell University, a member of our Chapter, will speak on how climate activists can influence the 2023-28 Farm Bill. This huge bill—slated to be funded at $648 billion ($160 billion larger than Inflation Reduction Act expenditures)—has multiple opportunities for reducing methane and nitrous oxide from livestock and dairy farms and for […]
We will discuss We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth, edited by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth. Our chapter meetings are held on Zoom. Please join our chapter or our mailing list and look out for our email updates if you would like to join in!
Our presenter will be Cal Trumann from New Yorkers for Clean Power presenting "Green the Grid and Electrify Everything.” Cal will walk us through energy and emissions targets of the CLCPA and break down how to get there. Cal says the presentation focuses on positives and give folks a sense of optimism (yes there’s a plan […]
Join us for informal conversation and an opportunity to get to know your fellow Chapter members. Our chapter meetings are held on Zoom. Please join our chapter or our mailing list and look out for our email updates if you would like to join in!
We will discuss The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Our chapter meetings are held on Zoom. Please join our chapter or our mailing list and look out for our email updates if you would like to join in!
We will discuss Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment by Maxine Bédat on Monday, January 9, 2023, 6:30-7:30 pm. From PenguinRandomHouse.com website: "A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth–and death–of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet... […]
Chapter and Individual Goal-setting for 2023 After a quick review of 2022 accomplishments, we will work through goal-setting and possible initiatives for the Chapter. This exercise will help the Leadership Committee put together our Strategic Plan for 2023. Following this, we will try to help members set some individual goals and actions for this […]
Dr. Aloja Airewele, Energy Warriors Green Workforce Training Coordinator and Equity Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County; Diane Stefani, Co-chair of our chapter, Executive Committee member of Tier Energy Network and member of the Green Jobs Corridor project; and Jeff Smith, Board Member of Tier Energy Network and member of […]
No agenda. Join us for informal conversation and an opportunity to get to know your fellow Chapter members.
We will discuss “In This Together: Connecting with your community to combat the climate crisis,” by Marianne E. Krasny. Prof. Krasny will join us for the discussion. From the Cornell University Press writeup: In This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the […]
Presentation by Don Barber, Chair, Tompkins Food Policy Council Everyone fully participates in our food system every day by the choices we make to feed ourselves and our family. Most of us are unaware there is a strong connection between the climate crisis and our food system. The global food system releases fully one third […]