ECA Mass Event Calendar

Boston Area Sustainability Group 4th Annual: Invite to Ignite

Tuesday, February 4⋅6:00 – 8:30pm

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Kendall / MIT T stop.

We believe the best antidote to the atrocities of the day is ACTION. So if you're among the many frustrated by current events, we invite you to come be uplifted and maybe even enticed into getting involved.

For the last three years in February, the Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG) has hosted a special evening to celebrate the positive actions of local groups with the goal of providing a breadth of opportunity for our members to sample volunteer opportunities. We do this in a rapid-fire manner to leave ample time for our "Speed Dating for Cause" portion of the evening.

Several ECAers will be there to network .We could use another person or two, who would get in FREE. Come join us if you can to represent ECA or just to join in the fun. Only $5! Get your tickets today and see you there!

– Carol, Holly, Tilly, Eric, and Amy

Confirmed 2020 Invite to Ignite Featured Organizations:

Change is Simple

Citizens Climate Lobby

Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design

Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

Elders Climate Action

Environmental Voter Project

Meadowscaping for Biodiversity

Mothers Out Front

Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos (USA)

New Entry Sustainable Farming Project

Provision Ministry

Speak for the Trees

The Carrot Project

Waypoint Adventure

SAVE THE DATE & SPREAD THE WORD!
Draft Agenda

1. Plug into the new Stop The Money Pipeline campaign
           Feb 25 is for Boston/Mass. There is also a national webinar Feb 9 at 8pm. RSVP here for that.
   
   
2. Why Target The Financial Sector?
   • Banks
   • Asset Managers
   • Insurance
   • Institutional Investors (i.e. Pensions)
     
     
3. Current Targets: 
   • BlackRock, Chase, Liberty Mutual, Pensions
     
     
4. How To Get Involved? 
   • National Climate Finance Mobilization on April 23 
   • Do you have insurance with Liberty Mutual? Let us know!

A talk by Neta Crawford

Comments following talk by members of the Sunrise Movement and other local groups

Neta Crawford is Professor and Chair of Boston University’s Department of Political Science and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at BU. She is co-director and co-founder of the Costs of War project at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, which has recently been expanded with the addition of the “20 Years of War” research series.

6:30pm – Refreshments and networking
7:00pm – Program

ECA is co-sponsoring and will have a table at this event. Come join us if you can!

Admission free - please sign up to attend: http://bit.ly/climate-pentagon  

As Enbridge continues their rogue construction of the compressor station we will be holding space at the site on 02/19/2020 to collectively witness the injustice firsthand. All opponents of this short-sighted project are invited to gather for a mass demonstration calling on officials to shut the project down.

Enbridge has a long track record of violating state law and Indigenous sovereignty. This project would export fracked-gas to Europe, by way of so-called Nova Scotia where a gas storage cavern would illegally violate Mi’kmaq treaty rights.

We will be gathering from 8am until 2pm when the weekly Wednesday standout on the bridge will take place. There will be coffee tables and food available. Parking is available at 352 Bridge Street or the Quincy Point Congregational Church.

ECA has several carpools going from Brookline - contact Dave Damm-Luhr  <dldluhr@hotmail.com>

For help organizing carpools from Cambridge and other areas, contact MaiyimBaron@gmail.com

*Important parking info available here.* If parking at the church, place a FRRACS sign on your dashboard and use the spaces indicated in the map below. See maps for parking areas at both sites. On public transportation, take the Red Line to Quincy Center, then bus 220 or 222 to Bluff Road, which is across from the proposed site.

RSVP on Facebook here.

Talk to your Representatives about Climate Change

Monday, February 24, 2020 
 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Main Library 
McCarthy Meeting Room (whole room)
Join Massachusetts state senator Michael J. Barrett and local Chelmsford Representatives for a discussion about pending legislation on climate change. Have your questions answered and you voice heard. Presented in partnership with The Union of Concerned Scientists.

Getting Wind and Solar Energy from Far Away to Power our Electric System.
Attleboro Public Library, 74 North Main Street, Attleboro.
Many people would like the US electrical system to be powered by renewable sources of energy such
as wind and solar. Unfortunately, the biggest sources of wind and solar energy are far from the areas that need them the most.
Join Larry Rosenberg from Elders Climate Action for a presentation and conversation about needed changes to the electrical grid so that it can transport electricity from solar in the Southwest and wind in the Great
Plains to the coast.

This event is funded by a grant from the Climate Change Conversations in Libraries program in partnership with the Sustainable Future Fund of
the Vermont Community Foundation.