January 28, 2025, 7:00 pm
ONLINE
Methane Pipelines, Climate Change & What Comes Next
Join the Stop Project Maple Coalition for a special webinar with Bill McKibben, titled Methane Pipelines, Climate Change, & What Comes Next.
Across New England and the United States, the extraction, transportation, and burning of fossil fuels continues to increase even as it destroys our climate.
Project Maple is the proposed expansion of a methane pipeline in NY, CT, RI, and MA. If allowed to move forward, it would continue to tie our region to dirty fossil fuels, raise energy ratepayer rates, pollute the air of our communities, and prevent our states from meeting their climate goals. We will not let this project move forward. Instead, we call on the leadership of our states to stop approving the enlargement of methane infrastructure, end methane subsidies, and support clean energy technologies.
Join our webinar on January 28th at 7pm to hear from Bill McKibben, who is a renowned author and the founder of Third Act, an organization focused on organizing people over the age of 60 for climate action. In addition, learn more about Project Maple and hear from Dr. Sandra Steingraber, New York biologist and author, and local organizers.
January 31, 2025, 10:00 am
ONLINE
MA Legislative Dysfunction: How It Affects Us All
Why is MA so poorly served by its legislature? Our Commonwealth has a strong tradition of qualified leaders; a reputation for good local governance; well-educated and committed citizens; and a relatively progressive electorate. Why then are our full-time legislators unable to pass a budget on time, less productive than almost every other state, dead last in transparency and accountability to the voters? Our expert panelists will address how the MA law-making process fails to work, what other states do and expect from their lawmakers, how visibility and democracy have decreased over time, how this affects policy-making and issues we care about, and why vitally important legislation gets no airing or is sent to study to make it disappear. We will also discuss two proposed changes that may make a decisive difference if passed.
Our panelists will be
Scotia Hille, Executive Director, Act On Mass (moderator);
Alan Palm, Executive Director, Better Future Project; and
Mark Martinez, Staff Attorney, MA Law Reform Institute.
February 4-5, 2025, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
100 Academy Way
Irvine CA 92617 and ONLINE
National Practice Forum on Nature-Based Solutions
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), the Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN), and the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Center for Coastal Climate Resilience is convening a national forum focused on the practice of nature-based solutions. The two-day event will be held February 4-5, 2025, at the National Academies’ Beckman Center in Irvine, California.
The forum will bring together national leaders and practitioners to discuss innovations in the application of nature-based solutions (NBS) for hazard mitigation and climate adaptation. Discussions will focus on overcoming challenges in scaling NBS and finding collaborative, equitable solutions. The forum follows the 2024 N-EWN National Policy Forum at NAS in DC.
Forum objectives include:
- Strengthen partnerships to accelerate the pace of NBS implementation
- Showcase full-scale implementation of nature-based solutions and lessons learned
- Promote equity and justice in hazard mitigation and adaptation projects
- Identify challenges and opportunities to meet objectives for risk reduction and conservation
February 45, 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
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State of the U.S. Energy Storage Industry: 2024 in Review and a Look Ahead to 2025
| Our annual lookback at the past year in energy storage covers advances in the U.S. market including policy and regulatory updates, market rules and FERC compliance, and developments in technology and markets. This year, we’re also looking ahead to 2025, as presenters share their thoughts on what the changing landscape might bring. This webinar features presentations by Will McNamara, Grid Energy Storage Policy Analyst for Sandia National Laboratories, Joan White, Director of Storage and Interconnection Policy at the Solar Energy Industries Association, Jim Greenberger, Executive Director of NAATBatt International, and Darleen DeRosa, Senior Vice President of Policy & Regulatory Affairs at Stem, Inc. Dr. Imre Gyuk, Director of Energy Storage Research at U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, will provide an introduction to the topic. Clean Energy States Alliance Senior Project Director Todd Olinsky-Paul will host and moderate the discussion. |