tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49532360194675929572024-03-06T15:01:38.423-05:00 Re-ENERGIZE Buffalo<b><big>All things GREEN: Energy, Environment, and Economy</big></b><br><i>*Grow Clean Energy *Cut Pollution *Protect Health *Create Jobs</i>David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.comBlogger944125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-52455665407784139492020-02-17T12:41:00.001-05:002020-03-09T15:56:44.660-04:00Faith-based Climate Forum: 2020 Vision - Climate Leap Forward
2020 VISION: CLIMATE LEAP FORWARD
A Forum to Meet the Climate Crisis
WHEN: Saturday, February 29, 9 AM - 3 PM
WHERE: Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo [Map]
COST: $10, Students $5; Lunch provided
REGISTER: Click here
NOTE: Register Before Wednesday, February 26 at 5:00 PM
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Keynote Speaker: Rev. Dr. Jim Antal
The Rev. Dr.David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-66254167956831972182020-01-26T07:00:00.000-05:002020-01-27T16:32:41.333-05:00An Electrifying Plan to Address the Global Climate CrisisStanford Researchers Have an Exciting Plan to Tackle The Climate Emergency Worldwide
TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS | 27 DEC 2019 | SCIENCE ALERT
Things are pretty dire right now. Giant swaths of my country are burning as I write this, at a scale unlike anything we've ever seen. Countless animals, including koalas, are perishing along with our life-supporting greenery. People are losingDavid Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-37694465058260420472020-01-26T06:20:00.000-05:002020-02-03T14:56:37.847-05:00Quick Reads on ENERGY and CLIMATEGoing 100% Green Will Pay For Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds
A Stanford University professor whose research helped underpin the U.S. Democrats’ Green New Deal says phasing out fossil fuels and running the entire world on clean energy would pay for itself in under seven years.
It would cost $73 trillion to revamp power grids, transportation, manufacturing and other systems to run on wind, David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-59626097353691056222020-01-26T06:00:00.000-05:002020-01-26T07:13:50.805-05:00Greta Thunberg tells World Leaders to End Investment in Fossil FuelsGreta Thunberg tells World Leaders to End Fossil Fuel ‘madness’
Failure to end investment ‘would be a betrayal against life itself’, say climate activists
Damian Carrington, Environment editor | Fri 10 Jan 2020 | The Guardian
Greta Thunberg and fellow youth climate campaigners are demanding that global leaders immediately end the “madness” of huge ongoing investments in fossil fuel David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-39574694034614582732020-01-26T05:45:00.000-05:002020-01-26T07:52:06.068-05:00New York Must Fund Climate Justice This Year -- Get on the Bus!As of January 1st, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is the law in New York. Together, we passed the nation's strongest climate law — but our work is only just starting.
We're demanding that the legislature and governor fund climate action in this year's budget.
On January 27, we'll be in the state capitol to rally, lobby, and flex our power to demand funding for climate David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-37312604597101881622020-01-26T05:00:00.000-05:002020-02-03T14:50:06.758-05:00Learn about Joining a NYS Solar Farm and Reducing your Electric Bill
Get more information at NiagaraSierra@gmail.com
David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-37305772421097431092019-12-14T10:46:00.000-05:002019-12-14T12:47:08.815-05:00Climate Activist Greta Thundberg: TIME Magazine's 'Person of the Year'TIME’s Editor-in-chief on why Greta Thunberg is the Person of the YearBY EDWARD FELSENTHALIt began with a story line familiar to every parent of every generation in every corner of the globe: an indignant teenager and a sudden burst of rebellion. It became one of the
most unlikely and surely one of the swiftest ascents to global
influence in history. Over the course of little more than a year, David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-18337240924388304762019-11-21T11:53:00.001-05:002019-11-21T12:06:43.925-05:00Wind Energy & Public Health Forum - Join Us Tonight!
Wind Energy & Public Health Forum
WHEN: Thursday, November 21, 2019, 6:00-8:00 PM
WHERE: Center for Tomorrow, North Campus, University at Buffalo (UB)
As wind energy development
accelerates in western New York, the Alliance for Clean Energy New York,
New Yorkers for Clean Power, the New York League of Conservation
Voters, and the Union of David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-44708225673918830952019-10-03T14:46:00.000-04:002019-10-03T14:49:03.447-04:00FORUM: NY State's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
This Forum is
a solutions focused discussion where the audience will hear from
policymakers,
businesses, social justice advocates, environmentalists, academics,
thought leaders and others as they take a deeper dive into the new
legislation and what it means to achieving climate neutrality.
The event is on October 17th from 6-7:30pm at the Jacobs School of Medicine David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-56534490349517474252019-09-15T13:29:00.001-04:002019-09-15T13:29:32.809-04:00Alaskans See Impacts of Climate Crisis as Arctic Warms Two Times Faster than the PlanetClimate Crisis plays out in Alaska.
Arctic warming twice as fast as rest of planet.
By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent | September 09, 2019
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) - Alaska's summer of fire and no ice is smashing records.
With the Arctic warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, America's "Last Frontier" feels like the first in line to see, smell and feel the David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-64475477657376681602019-09-15T11:14:00.000-04:002019-09-16T08:40:14.770-04:00Climate Change threatens Food and Water Supplies, while Farming and Land Practices fuel the change, says new U.N. ReportChanging climate imperils global food and water supplies, new U.N. study finds
Agriculture and other land use accounts for 23 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
by Brady Dennis | Aug 8 2019 | Washington Post
The world cannot avoid the worst impacts of climate change without making serious changes to the ways humans grow food, raise livestock and manage forests, according to a David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-40802705082759113152019-09-14T11:00:00.000-04:002019-09-18T07:25:51.798-04:00Give Wind Energy a Chance — Call your Erie County LegislatorThe Erie County Legislature is considering a resolution sponsored by Legislators Dixon and Mills and supported by Chris Collins to preemptively oppose wind development "along the shores of Lake Erie". The Sierra Club, PUSH Buffalo, the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, and the Building Trades Unions will be testifying against this resolution and in favor of investment in renewable David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-10033758822226357102019-08-31T13:30:00.000-04:002019-09-15T12:08:58.011-04:00Climate Crisis: Senator Sanders releases a Green New Deal plan along with ways to pay for itBernie Sanders unveils $16 Trillion Green New Deal To Combat Climate Crisis
The 2020 Democratic candidate’s climate plan offers a detailed vision that would expand public ownership of utilities and make electricity “virtually free” by 2035.
By Alexander C. Kaufman | Aug 22, 2019 | HUFFPOST
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders released a sweeping $16.3 trillion climate plan on David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-89766296396953509252019-08-30T10:45:00.000-04:002019-09-14T18:13:05.889-04:00Talk: Offshore Wind Works for Clean Energy and Green Jobs
We hope you can make it to the Thursday, 9/5/19 Sierra Club Writers Group to learn about a crisis situation where your help is needed.Thanks to the efforts of a grass roots coalition of clean energy, labor and social justice activists, New York's recently enacted Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act mandates 100% carbon free electricity generation by 2040. This puts us in David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-78096235472040674462019-07-28T17:42:00.000-04:002019-08-01T08:02:39.744-04:00New York mandates Bold Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions to address Climate Change
Transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy
will Cut Emissions and create New Jobs
By David Kowalski
On July 18, 2019, NY Gov. Cuomo signed into law the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). It is the most ambitious legal mandate in the nation for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The CLCPA mandates:
- by 2030, 70% of electricity will be David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-90919188697230731502019-07-28T14:30:00.000-04:002019-08-01T08:14:02.274-04:00NY Renews Coalition Comments on Governor Signing Ambitious Climate Bill into Law
NY Renews, a coalition of over 180 environmental, justice, faith, labor, and community groups released the following statement on the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act:
“Today, the Governor signed the nation’s most ambitious climate bill into law. This would not have been possible without years of work from community, environmental, labor, and justice organizations David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-31744855299101017842019-07-28T12:30:00.000-04:002019-08-01T07:38:27.657-04:00NY State Assembly Passes Climate Leadership And Community Protection ActLegislation sets the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 85 percent by 2050, and having net zero emissions in all sectors of the economy
Speaker Carl Heastie and Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Steve Englebright today announced Assembly passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that sets critical environmental standards, including David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-35637450206813848142019-07-28T11:35:00.000-04:002019-08-01T07:59:13.964-04:00NY State Senate Passes Historic Climate Leadership And Community Protection ActAlbany, NY -- The Senate today [5.19.2019] passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) to address and mitigate the effects of climate change by drastically cutting greenhouse gases, diverting the state’s energy reliance to renewable sources, and creating green jobs to promote environmental justice across New York State. This bill is the most comprehensive and aggressive David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-31345660641253461202019-06-28T14:58:00.000-04:002019-06-30T08:03:56.233-04:00Climate Crisis is Our Third World War -- Requires a Bold ResponseThe climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response
Joseph Stiglitz | June 4, 2019 | The Guardian
Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it.
But we can’t afford not to: our civilization is at stake.
Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with the climate crisis and highlight the scale and scope of what is required to combat it. David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-62037664555945398322019-06-27T11:38:00.000-04:002019-07-29T06:36:54.105-04:00U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending, says International Monetary Fund ReportStudy: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil fuels were paid, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund
By Tim Dickinson | May 8, 2019The United States has spent more subsidizing fossil fuels in recent years than it has on defense spending, according to a new report from the International David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-78651277437804606402019-06-26T12:48:00.000-04:002019-07-29T06:36:21.191-04:00ENERGY: Report finds strong bipartisan support for 100% clean, renewable energy -- Majority see economic benefitsYale Program on Climate Change Communication
REPORT: Energy in the American Mind -- December 2018
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Abel Gustafson, Parrish Bergquist, Matthew Ballew and Matthew Goldberg
Executive Summary
Drawing on a nationally representative survey (N =
1,114; including 966 registered voters), this report David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-51509345377817897552019-06-15T08:00:00.000-04:002019-07-31T18:23:36.371-04:00PUBLIC MEETING: Amherst Waterfront Revitalization Projects
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David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-65979959434491719212019-06-07T12:24:00.000-04:002019-06-08T08:21:20.046-04:00Help Pass Strong Climate Legislation in NYS Now -- Take Action!
We
are on the verge of passing the strongest climate legislation in the
country, right here in New York!
But Governor Cuomo, who says he
supports strong climate legislation, is not standing as the bold leader
he’d like us to believe he is and has called proposed legislation “a
political placebo.”
We need to tell him to get his priorities straight
and pass a strong Climate and David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-84077695346916567632019-06-05T18:25:00.001-04:002019-06-05T18:28:54.012-04:00TAKE ACTION: Demand a Vote on the NYS Climate and Community Protection ActTAKE ACTION:
Tell our State elected leaders: our Planet, our Health, and our Communities can't wait.
We need New York State to lead on Climate Justice and
pass the Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) this session.
We have a Majority of Sponsors in the Senate and the Assembly.
We demand a VOTE on the CCPA
NOW!
Click Here to Take Action
NY Renews is David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953236019467592957.post-44357386137120210112019-05-29T14:22:00.000-04:002019-05-29T16:45:38.178-04:00Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg - TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People
Greta Thunberg
By Emma González | TIME
The civil rights movement
leaders of the 1960s had no idea that school-shooting survivors from one
of the most southern points in the U.S. would lean on their teachings
to power a modern nonviolent movement to end gun violence. Students
around the world began standing up for their survival, leaning only on
the fire inside them to prevent the pain David Kowalskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13538421831651853794noreply@blogger.com0