[Climate Justice] Fwd: Midweek Update: Public Meeting Climate Action NOW! Sunday, April 13

Fri Apr 11 10:03:31 EDT 2014

Dear Climate Justice Leaguers,

You may have already received this invite from CAN, but I wanted to
personally invite you to our climate action meeting this

**Sunday, April 15 from 3-5p at the Hartsbrook School Great Room (just down
Bay Road)**

The goal is to have regular, working meetings, combining the ideas and
energy of interested folks across the Valley.  Let me know if you have any
questions.  Hope some Hampshire students can make it!

Yours,
Helen

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From: ClimateActionNowMa.Org <info at climateactionnowma.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:00 AM
Subject: Midweek Update: Public Meeting Climate Action NOW! Sunday, April 13
To: Helen Scharber <hsss at hampshire.edu>

    Climate Action Now - Western MassMidWeek Update
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*Join us for*

* Students & Goliath*
*How the Youth Took on the Fossil Fuel Industry*

[image: Click to Watch The Trailer] <http://youtu.be/teRe-owVFi8>

*Click Image To View Trailer*

Wednesday, April 9 at 6:30 pm

Seelye 106 Smith College

Discussion following by Smith College Green Team.

Free, open to the public, wheelchair accessible.

Part of

*Earth's Turn film series*

Brought to you by the *Climate Action NOW/350MA*; Smith College
Sustainability Reps, Green Team, Divest Smith College, SGA Sustainability
Committee, Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability
(CEEDS), Office of Environmental Sustatinability, Environmental Science and
Policy Program and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life with support
from the Smith College Student Government Association.
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[image: STOP The Pipeline Meeting]STOP THE Tennessee Gas Pipeline

The grassroots movement to stop the Tennessee Gas Pipeline through
Massachusetts is growing by leaps and bounds!  A complete agenda and
community agreement are close to being published.  To all those already
participating in our meetings and list serv, thanks for all your hard work
and patience.

Climate Action NOW/350MA Pioneer Valley is working with No Fracked Gas in
MA, Berkshire Environmental Action Team, Toxics Action Center, and other
community groups and individuals (including many people who will be
directly affected by the proposed fracked gas pipeline) to build a powerful
grassroots coalition to stop the pipeline!

Please sign up for our list serve
here<http://mail.climateactionnowma.org/mailman/listinfo/pipeline_climateactionnowma.org>
if
you would like to stay informed and lend a hand.  Please join us at our
next meeting on Thursday, April 17th at 6PM - 8PM, location Green Fields
Market, 144 Main St. Greenfield

The best resources for town by town info are still
www.nofrackedgasinmass.org with the *latest proposed maps
<http://www.nofrackedgasinmass.org/pipeline-maps/>!  And, another new
resource... Massachusetts PipeLine Awareness Network
<http://www.massplan.org/>*

Please contact Susan Theberge <susantheberge at comcast.net> if you have
questions or would like to get involved.
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Mothers Out Front, a climate initiative, has a new Amherst Community
Organizing Team and invites all mothers and caregivers to connect and take
climate action - details on our Pioneer Valley Facebook
group<https://www.facebook.com/groups/MothersOutFront.PV/>
.

Feel *inspired and empowered* by our Mothers' *Declaration
<http://www.mothersoutfront.org/sign_our_declaration> *on climate and by
the incredible collective action mothers are taking in Massachusetts!

We have two upcoming gatherings at Pioneer Valley Cohousing Sunday *May
4th *and *June 1st *from 12:45-3pm where you can participate in one of
three sessions on:

   1. *Switching* <http://info.massenergy.org/mothersoutfront> to clean
   energy - *our goal is 10,000 households*
    2. Specific tools for motivating others to action - NOW!
   3. Writing to our elected officials

That's all for now! Connect with the Pioneer Valley Mothers Out Front
through our facebook
group<https://www.facebook.com/groups/MothersOutFront.PV/> or
click HERE <https://nesfi.wufoo.com/forms/mothers-out-front-engagement/> to
get involved.
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[image: Go Solar Massachusetts!]*Go Solar Massachusetts!*

Massachusetts is rapidly approaching the solar installation goals that
Governor Patrick has set for 2017.

With his leadership, Massachusetts can confirm its place as a leader in
clean energy. Let's tell Governor Patrick to raise his goals and get solar
on 50,000 roofs by
2020<https://secure3.convio.net/engage/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=7146&__utma=1.728197937.1396834349.1396834349.1396834349.1&__utmb=1.16.10.1396834349&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1396834349.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)%7Cutmccn=(direct)%7Cutmcmd=(none)&__utmv=-&__utmk=122516107>
.
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*[image: the 6th extinction]The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History*

April 15, 2014

A lecture and book signing about her latest book of the same name with
Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer for The New Yorker, and award winning
author of "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate
Change". Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass
extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically
contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth
extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the
asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the
cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National
Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of
scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of
them into the field. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already
gone, others facing extinction, and through these stories, provides a
moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the
evolution of extinction as concept. The sixth extinction is likely to be
mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to
rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall ***Note new location***

7:00 pm
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*Massachusetts Action on Climate Change*

* A discussion of the Commonwealth's leadership in climate action and plans
for the future*

*Speaker: MA Senator Marc R. Pacheco* (D-Taunton)

*April 14th, 3:00 PM*

Room 203 Morrill Science Center (III), UMass Amherst  MA

*Senator Marc R. Pacheco* will be speaking at UMass on *April 14th*, hosted
by the Northeast Climate Science Center.  The Senator will focus on
Massachusetts' status as a leader on green policies and clean energy
practices, as well as plans for future climate legislation.

More Information<https://necsc.umass.edu/news/massachusetts-action-climate-change>

Event Poster<https://necsc.umass.edu/sites/default/files/PachecoPoster_Spring2014%208.5x11%20email.pdf>
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Science for the People: The 1970s and Today

April 11-13, 2014, . UMass Amherst. All events are free and open to the
public, so you can just show up. Check out the amazing program
<http://science-for-the-people.org/program> they've put together!
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