New Extinction Rebellion group - Western Mass.
Meeting Monday, 5/20 at UMass Amherst. All welcome.
Website for US extinction rebellion: https://extinctionrebellion.us/
Extinction Rebellion Western Mass organizing meeting
Meeting Monday, 5/20 at UMass Amherst. All welcome.
Website for US extinction rebellion: extinctionrebellion.us/
We'll find out where and put it here asap
Where in Herter Hall? Big place.
XR is just what WMass needs. We especially love the youthful energy, creativity and theater.
TODAY - Gardener - Speak out at Mass Department of Energy Resources Hearings
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling
Should burning trees & garbage count as clean energy? Should our state clean energy $$ go to burning trees?
Massachusetts' Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) was one of the first programs in the nation that required a certain percentage of the state's electricity to come from renewable energy.
The proposed rules change will allow Biomass to take clean energy subsidies that currently go to solar and wind, and allow electric companies to count biomass as a clean energy source.
May 17 Gardner
1 to 3 p.m. at Mount Wachusett Community College,
444 Green St. in Gardner.
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling
Visit http://www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Gardner Speak out Biomass at DOER Public Hearing, carpool
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 17 Gardner
(Also: May 16 Amherst, May 13 Boston)
Visit www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
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Guest Column: Stand with sixth graders for the Green New Deal
gazettenet.com
“...tell themthat we don’t want to leavewe’ve never wanted to leaveand that weare nothing without our islands”— Kathy Jetnil-KijinerThis passage from a poem entitled “Tell Them” is about the effects of global warming on the Marshall Islands. It talks...
Action alert! Thursday in Amherst.
Speak Out About Biomass at DOER Public Hearing
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 16
1:00 – 3:00 PM
UMass Amherst
NEW LOCATION for Thursday 5/16 UMass hearing:
UMass Amherst,
Integrated Science Building, Room 221
661 North Pleasant Street
Visit www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
LOCATION CHANGE FOR Thu MAY 16 UMass: different building: The Department of Energy Resources (“DOER”) wishes to notify stakeholders that the location of tomorrow’s public hearing on the RPS Class I and RPS Class II Regulations on May 16th has been moved on the UMass Amherst campus from the Olver Design Building to the following location: Location: UMass Amherst, Integrated Science Building, Room 221 661 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003 Date: May 16, 2019 1:00 – 3:00 PM
If you plan to attend, please fill out this organizing form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczi9zr_qc90ZL8B9JcokZAfzT50W20BqVPPRWkJEhya733Kw/viewform
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling to the Gardener Hearing Go to this page for details about preparation for hearings: www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder
'We Don't Know a Planet Like This': CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years
commondreams.org
"How is this not breaking news on all channels all over the world?"The US military is the largest institutional emitter of ghg’s in the world.
A Green New Deal Needs to Fight US Militarism
jacobinmag.com
We can’t heal the climate if the US war machine keeps raining destruction, absorbing resources, and gobbling up fossil fuels all around the world. Here’s how to stop it.
Clean air and climate justice for Springfield (Guest viewpoint)
masslive.com
House Bill H2810 does three things. It establishes a carbon fee for Massachusetts. It returns most of the revenues from that fee to Massachusetts households and businesses.And it invests the remainder in local renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, clean transportation, and resilience projects...
Events and Networking opportunities with MA Smart Growth Alliance
great-neighborhoods.org
Learn about the Great Neighborhoods legislation, the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance and networking events like TODrinks. Connect with your neighbors that care about affordable housing, transportation, biking, walking and environmental stewardship.Petition to tv news outlets to name the CLIMATE CRISIS .
actionnetwork.org
In 2018, only 3.5 % national television news segments that mentioned climate change referred to it as a crisis or emergency. When media outlets consistently fail to use language that conveys that climate change is a crisis or emergency, they unwittingly put a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of com...Speak out at Mass Department of Energy Resources Hearings
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 17 Gardner
(Also: May 16 Amherst, May 13 Boston)
Visit http://www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
Gardner Speak out Biomass at DOER Public Hearing, carpool
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 17 Gardner
(Also: May 16 Amherst, May 13 Boston)
Visit www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
Speak out at Mass Department of Energy Resources Hearings
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 13 Boston
(Also: May 16 Amherst, May 17 Gardner)
Visit http://www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
Speak out Biomass at DOER Public Hearing-Boston- carpool
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 13 Boston
(Also: May 16 Amherst, May 17 Gardner)
Visit www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
Speak out at Mass Department of Energy Resources Hearings
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 16
1:00 – 3:00 PM
UMass Amherst
NEW LOCATION for Thursday 5/16 UMass hearing:
UMass Amherst,
Integrated Science Building, Room 221
661 North Pleasant Street
Visit http://www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
Speak Out About Biomass at DOER Public Hearing
Proposed regulations weaken biomass standards in the Renewable Portfolio Standard
May 16
1:00 – 3:00 PM
UMass Amherst
NEW LOCATION for Thursday 5/16 UMass hearing:
UMass Amherst,
Integrated Science Building, Room 221
661 North Pleasant Street
Visit www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder for details & more about how the Baker Administration is aggressively promoting polluting biomass
Partnership For Policy Integrity offers a point-by-point rebuttal to a misleading industry-led letter attacking our claims about the impacts of burning biomass
Photo copyright 2016 Rene Theberge
Remove polluting biomass energy and garbage incineration from the Alternative Portfolio Standard
Speak out in support of H.853 at the May 7th legislative hearing on energy-related bills at the Statehouse
AND
Support taking biomass out of the Renewable Portfolio Standard!
Detailed explanation at:
http://www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling-let Dave know if you can drive.
photo Rene Theberge copyright 2016
Energy/RPS/biomass hearing and carpools
Remove polluting biomass energy and garbage incineration from the Alternative Portfolio Standard
Speak out in support of H.853 at the May 7th legislative hearing on energy-related bills at the Statehouse
AND
Support taking biomass out of the Renewable Portfolio Standard!
Detailed explanation at:
www.pfpi.net/ma-bioenergy-backgrounder
Contact droitman1@verizon.net for car pooling-let Dave know if you can drive.
photo Rene Theberge copyright 2016
docs.google.com
The Baker Administration is currently seeking to increase subsidies and incentives for polluting biomass energy in all three of Massachusetts’ major clean energy programs: the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), the Alternative Portfolio Standard, and the proposed Clean Peak Standard.* Massachuset...
Hurricane Maria and the impact of ‘climate injustice’ on Puerto Rico (Guest viewpoint)
masslive.com
To deepen the horror, Trump and Senate Republicans are pitting the Puerto Rico’s recovery against urgently needed emergency aid to the Midwest, itself battling climate change-fueled record-setting flooding. To force one suffering group to compete against another for survival is unconscionable.
Massachusetts grants $1M for farm equipment to fight climate change
gazettenet.com
For the GazetteBOSTON — Nearly $1 million in state grants will be awarded to 40 farms across Massachusetts, including nine from Hampshire County, to help the farms install sustainable practices to reduce their impact on climate change, the governor’s...That's it? Just one? That's pathetic. Massachusetts can do better than that for climate change.