We will host Jeremy Liskar, Legislative Coordinator for Climate Reality. While studying political science and public policy at George Washington University, Jeremy led a successful fossil fuel divestment campaign and helped significantly up the ambition of his university’s climate plan. Before joining Climate Reality, he organized with the Sunrise Movement to help create the conditions […]
We will discuss The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis, by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac. The authors present our options and tell us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster. Our chapter meetings are held on Zoom. Please join our chapter or our mailing list and look out […]
We will celebrate the New Year, hoping that BBBA will have passed by then. This will be an informal meeting to get to know each other better, with no agenda. 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 […]
FLGR Chapter member and former Leadership Committee member David Kay will talk about his experiences at the COP26 Conference in Glasgow. He will present “Hurry Up Please, It’s Time: A COP26 Experience.” David attended as a representative of Cornell University, City of Ithaca and Mediators Beyond Borders International, Climate Change Project. He is a Senior Extension […]
We will be reading Solved: How the World’s Great Cities are Fixing the Climate Crisis by David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto. 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!
Come meet other members for informal conversation, no agenda. 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!
Tim Guinee, Legislative Coordinator for NYS Coalition, will discuss the different factors used in evaluating a NYS bill for possible support, the important bills for this session and how the NYS Coalition is working with other groups. Our chapter meetings are held on Zoom. Please join our chapter or our mailing list and look out […]
Join us for the February meeting of the Finger Lakes Greater Region NY Climate Reality Chapter Book Club! We'll be discussing "Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future," by Saul Griffith. The book has been described by the publisher as "an optimistic—but realistic and feasible—action plan for fighting climate change while creating new […]
Our chapter meeting will feature guest speaker Mark Lowery, who is the Assistant Director of the Office of Climate Change at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. He will share a presentation about the development of the CLCPA Scoping Plan. Our chapter meetings are held on Zoom. Please join our chapter or our […]