ECA Mass Event Calendar

Lindsey Kerr, Democratic Chief Counsel/Staff Director
for the U.S. Senate Rules Committee
Will Speak About Protecting the 2020 Election

       
We are very lucky to have Lindsey Kerr, the Democratic Chief Counsel/Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Rules Committee addressing our group for about 30 minutes, beginning at 4 PM. She will speak about Congress’s role in protecting the 2020 election. 

We will follow her presentation with discussion about the importance of the election and how we can organize our members to join in protecting it, including ECA's new campaign, Elders Stand for Fair Elections.

Our campaign is working to galvanize elder support for the principle that every eligible voter gets to cast a vote safely and have that vote duly counted. ECA is researching barriers to fair voting, organizing advocacy campaigns in support of legislative and administrative fixes, and joining forces with other organizations concerned about environmental action and social justice.The path to responsible public policy requires a fair election in 2020.

If you'd like to read more about these important issues before our Deep Dialogue, we recommend this excellent article by the Brennan Center for Justice, “How to Protect the 2020 Vote from the Coronavirus,” 
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/how-protect-2020-vote-coronavirus.

The Zoom link for Monday's Deep Dialogue is:
https://zoom.us/j/826836378
Meeting ID: 826 836 378
 
To join by phone, dial 646-876-9923 and enter the Meeting ID number above. 
 
If you haven't used Zoom before and want to test it out, you can go at any time to zoom.us/test. And you can connect to our Zoom call a few minutes before the start of the meeting to be sure all is working well for you.

We are sending this Deep Dialogue notice to our entire ECA Massachusetts list, but at some point will drop back to sending reminders only to those on the "Activist" list. If you have been getting our weekly "Action Alerts" and other announcements from eca-mass@googlegroups.com, you are an "Activist." If you are not yet on our "Activist" list and would like to be, please email our membership database coordinator, Dawn Edell, dawnedell1017@gmail.com.

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            U.S. forests store the equivalent of 52 years’ worth of the country’s carbon emissions, and even in today’s highly partisan political climate, conserving our forests, planting more trees, and improving agricultural practices are initiatives with bipartisan support. But how exactly can policy effectively incentivize farmers and landowners to reforest their lands and improve their management? 
Just as carbon pollution pricing can serve as a market signal for businesses and individuals to choose cleaner energy, agricultural incentives can promote regenerative agriculture and carbon sequestration through land and crop management. Join us for our May Deep Dive webinar, where we will explore how agriculture can be a key part of climate change mitigation, and how we can harness the power of nature to achieve critical climate goals.  
We’ll sit down with three experts in the field — Jessie Martin, the Executive Director of Carbon Washington, Max Ne 
(View Full Event Description Here: https://climate-xchange.org/event/natural-climate-solutions-the-role-of-agriculture-and-carbon-capture-in-the-transition/)

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Description: U.S. forests store the equivalent of 52 years’ worth of the country’s carbon emissions, and even in today’s highly partisan political climate, conserving our forests, planting more trees, and improving agricultural practices are initiatives with bipartisan support. But how exactly can policy effectively incentivize farmers and landowners to reforest their lands and improve their management?

Just as carbon pollution pricing can serve as a market signal for businesses and individuals to choose cleaner energy, agricultural incentives can promote regenerative agriculture and carbon sequestration through land and crop management. Join us for our May Deep Dive webinar, where we will explore how agriculture can be a key part of climate change mitigation, and how we can harness the power of nature to achieve critical climate goals.

We’ll sit down with three experts in the field — Jessie Martin, the Executive Director of Carbon Washington, Max Neuemayer, the Policy Director of Mad Agriculture, and Matthew Sheffer, the Managing Director of Hudson Carbon — to discuss the potential of natural lands to play a role in combating climate change, and how we can incentivize best practices.

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First Webinar in a New ASU Series: How "Smart" Systems Can Power Our Decarbonized Future -- Thursday June 4th, 2020

Webinar 1: Using Design Thinking to Employ Smart Systems to Decarbonize Our Future

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Register if you can't make it and get the recording link shortly after the session ends.

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2467023023932764939

Extreme heat is a hazard to human health and well-being, causing more deaths annually than any other weather-related hazard. Climate change is anticipated to worsen exposures to extreme heat in most parts of the world.

The health impacts of extreme heat disproportionately impact communities that are already facing social and health inequities. Heat’s impacts on health extend beyond just heat waves, meaning that public health professionals and local governments need to consider protective measures both in the setting of extreme heat advisories as well as during hot seasons more generally. As communities everywhere struggle to manage the current COVID-19 pandemic, the need to be prepared for multiple simultaneous emergencies is starkly evident. While the threats of climate change and pandemics are global in nature, the scale of needed information and the development of public health interventions are highly local.

This webinar will provide practical information on how to protect people from extreme heat, especially those at highest risk, over the coming months. Panelists will discuss federal research and resources and draw on case studies from Phoenix Arizona to inform a discussion of solutions at all scales.

Join the Security and Sustainability Forum, Arizona State University's School of Sustainability, and panelists for a discussion based on the latest research. Please forward this email to colleagues.

During our May Climate Conversations meeting over Zoom, we will discuss Municipal Aggregation, the bulk purchase of electricity by municipalities, like Chelmsford. This will include a history of the two aggregation programs Chelmsford has provided, called Chelmsford Choice, and the new upcoming program starting in November. Beyond cost savings aggregation programs can drive demand for more renewable energy. Hear about how our neighbors, Lowell and Westford have adopted Green Municipal Aggregation programs. Be prepared to learn about RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standard) and Class I RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates). Also, you might want to review your electric bills beforehand.

Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link up to 2PM on May 14, 2020 and receive the invitation later: 

http://chelmsfordlibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=19758&et=103&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/05/01

"Climate Conversations" is an informal group sponsored by Elders Climate Action (ECA) and the Chelmsford Public Library. We meet on the second Thursday of each month in the McCarthy Meeting Room to share our concerns about Climate Change. Public invited. Meetings may include guest speakers, film screenings or book discussions to provide information and stimulate conversations on what we can do as individuals and as a community to reduce climate change and promote climate change legislation.

We have under two weeks until the JPMorgan Chase shareholder meeting when Lee Raymond faces a vote on his renomination to the board.
He’ll be demoted from Lead Independent Director soon, but will still be on the board.

BlackRock—the world’s biggest investor in climate crisis—
has the power to vote Lee Raymond off the board for good.
LET’S PUSH BLACKROCK TO DUMP LEE RAYMOND.

REGISTER NOW FOR THURS, MAY 14 AT 4PM ET TO TAKE ACTION WITH US!
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Big News! Lee Raymond, the historic climate denier, will be demoted from his position as Lead Independent Director at JPMorgan Chase at the end of this summer.
Read more about it from BlackRock’s Big Problem.
Just a month ago, Chase issued their proxy statement praising Lee Raymond and enthusiastically renominating him for his position of Lead Independent Director.
In the past few weeks, A LOT HAS HAPPENED.
● Hundreds of phone calls to BlackRock, Vanguard & State Street
● Big asset owners publicly saying they won't vote for Lee Raymond
● Behind the scenes engagement with asset owners and state treasurers
● Media stories & lots of hours on the phone with journalists
● Earth Day Stop the Money Pipeline livestream with more than a million people tuning in
Lee Raymond's name has been popping up everywhere.
This latest demotion is no coincidence. This is the result of incredible work by each and every one of you.
But we aren't done... As Bon Jovi might say, WE'RE HALFWAY THERE.

We have just under two weeks until the JPMorgan Chase shareholder meeting when Lee Raymond faces a vote on his renomination to the board. Even though he’ll be demoted from
Lead Independent Director by the end of summer, he will still be on the board. Unacceptable!

Let’s keep driving pressure on the big three asset managers to vote Lee Raymond off the board for good.

REGISTER NOW
FOR THURS, MAY 14 AT 4PM ET TO TAKE ACTION WITH US!

Offered by BlackRock’s Big Problem
Research by Sunrise Project, Rainforest Action Network & Majority Action

Designed & led by Climate Finance Action  

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Our next Deep Dialogue discussion will be held by Zoom on Monday, May 18, from 4:00 to 5:30 PM.

The Zoom link for Monday's Deep Dialogue is:

https://zoom.us/j/826836378

Meeting ID: 826 836 378

For this Deep Dialogue you might want to read Christiana Figueres' short new book: The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis. She was one of the lead negotiators of the Paris Climate agreement.

You can see an interview with her here.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/what-will-earth-look-like-in-2050-without-climate-action/

The interview is particularly good from about 10 minutes in...and the last minute is particularly impactful.

And if you can't get or don't read the book, try these articles:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/15/christiana-figueres-climate-emergency-this-is-the-decade-the-future-we-choose

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-christiana-figueres-paris-agreement_n_5e4e6e10c5b6a7bfb4c1827c

https://time.com/5808809/coronavirus-climate-action/

Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognized leader on global climate change. She was executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2010-2016. Assuming responsibility for the international climate change negotiations after the failed Copenhagen conference of 2009, she led the process to a universally agreed regulatory framework. Building toward that goal, she directed the successful Conferences of the Parties in Cancun 2010, Durban 2011, Doha 2012, Warsaw 2013, and Lima 2014, and culminating her efforts in the historical Paris Agreement of 2015. Throughout her tenure Figueres brought together national and sub national governments, corporations and activists, financial institutions and communities of faith, think tanks and technology providers, NGOs and parliamentarians, to jointly deliver the unprecedented climate change agreement. For this achievement Figueres has been credited with forging a new brand of collaborative diplomacy. Since then Figueres has continued to accelerate the global response to climate change. Together with Tom Carnac she founded Global Optimism Ltd., a purpose driven enterprise focused on social and environmental change, under which run various initiatives including the podcast Outrage and Optimism. A native of Costa Rica, she has been the recipient of many awards and honors.

Most people simply click the link above to join on their computer, tablet or cell phone, where the built-in video camera allows us to see each other while we talk. You will see the choice, though, of selecting "join without video." To join by phone, dial 646-876-9923 and enter the Meeting ID number above.

If you haven't used Zoom before and want to test it out, you can go at any time to zoom.us/test. And you can connect to our Zoom call a few minutes before the start of the meeting to be sure all is working well for you.

We are sending this Deep Dialogue notices and reminders only to those on the "Activist" list. If you have been getting our weekly "Action Alerts" and other announcements from eca-mass@googlegroups.com, you are an "Activist." If you are not yet on our "Activist" list and would like to be, please email our membership database coordinator, Dawn Edell, dawnedell1017@gmail.com

We Invite You To JOIN THE DIALOGUE!

Climate Action Now is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
 Tuesday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m. EST

PROTECTING FORESTS #2:
A SERIES OF TALKS ABOUT THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF FORESTS IN THE TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Our Massachusetts Forests: To Cut, or Not to Cut?

Michael Kellett, Executive Director and co-founder of RESTORE: The North Woods and Dr. Bill Stubblefield, biologist and expert on the role forests can play in mitigating climate change and biodiversity collapse.

REGISTER at the following link with zoom for the talk
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lduuprjgiGNwGflLG5qglb3qqdE_5cIga

The talks are free, but registration is required.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation with a link to join the meeting. Please register if you can’t attend and want a link to the recorded talk. Do not share the link because it will only work for you.

http://climateactionnowma.org/farms-forests-food/
https://www.savemassforests.com/

More talks coming in June...stay tuned!

Our co-sponsors
Arise for Social Justice; Concerned Citizens of Franklin County; Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution, Climate Change Committee; The Enviro Show; Extinction Rebellion Western MA; Green Berkshires; The Hitchcock Center for the Environment; Keep the Woods; MA 350-Berkshire Node; Mothers Out Front Pioneer Valley; Partnership for Policy Integrity; Restore: The North Woods; Representative Lindsay Sabadosa, 1st Hampshire District; Springfield Climate Justice Coalition; Traprock Center for Peace & Justice; Wendell State Forest Alliance

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Please join Climate Action Now and Save Massachusetts Forests on May 12th & 19th for the first two talks in our series. Forests are vital in mitigating climate change, and restoring and sustaining healthy ecosystems to protect biodiversity, provide clean air and water, and enhance human health.

We’re excited to present the latest forest science and policy from these experts!
There will be time for Q & A following each talk.  

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Markets, Finance, Technologies for Global Sustainability with Hazel Henderson and Chris Skroupa
Thu, May 21, 2020 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM EDT
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Register here:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7062609993207247118

This webinar is part of the Security and Sustainability Forum's "Tracking and Steering the Global Green Transition" Series with futurist, Hazel Henderson". In this session, Hazel and Chris Skroupa will discuss how many firms are operationalizing ESG and sustainability in the transition to a sustainable society and economy, and how we will produce and distribute goods and services that promote corporate resilience through systems thinking.
Christopher P. Skroupa is the Founder and CEO of Skytop Strategies, a global media firm. He facilitates discussions among executive-level corporate leaders, institutional investors, stakeholders, reputable industry experts, and authoritative NGO/government agencies around corporate resilience strategy.

Chris was the Director of Marketing for Kaplan Fox LLP. Prior to that he was responsible for Information Management Network (IMN)'s portfolio of 50 conferences covering corporate governance, risk management, socially responsible investing and sustainability - in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Join futurist, Hazel Henderson, and Chris Skroupa in a sixty minute discussion about transitions to a sustainable society and economy, and how we will produce and distribute goods and services.  

For details, and to register go here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-community-screening-the-story-of-plastic-tickets-104523976026

THE STORY OF PLASTIC​ takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. Spanning three continents, the film illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash, rivers and seas clogged with waste, and skies choked with the poisonous emissions from plastic production and processing. With engaging original animation, archival industry footage beginning in the 1930s, and first-person accounts of the unfolding emergency, the film distills a complex problem that is increasingly affecting the planet’s and its residents’ well-being.

You are invited to attend a viewing and conversation:

What: The Story of Plastic ​[95 minutes]

Who: YOU! Make sure to join the live chat.

When: ​Thursday, May 21, 2020

Film Screening: Available between May 18 and May 21

Post-Screening Conversation: May 21, 3:30 PM

Attendees will receive a link to stream the film from Clean Water Action 48-72 hours before the event start time. The link will be delivered to you at the email address you use to RSVP here. We will reconvene at 3:30pm on May 21 on Zoom for a Q&A and community discussion; you will receive a separate link for that event alongside the streaming link.

Learn more at storyofplastic.org