<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Climate Justice Leaguers,<br><br></div><div>You may have already received this invite from CAN, but I wanted to personally invite you to our climate action meeting this<br><br>**Sunday, April 15 from 3-5p at the Hartsbrook School Great Room (just down Bay Road)**<br>
<br></div><div>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!<br><br>
Yours,<br>Helen<br></div><div><br><br></div><div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">ClimateActionNowMa.Org</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@climateactionnowma.org">info@climateactionnowma.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:00 AM<br>Subject: Midweek Update: Public Meeting Climate Action NOW! Sunday, April 13<br>To: Helen Scharber <<a href="mailto:hsss@hampshire.edu">hsss@hampshire.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<h1><span style="font-size:large"><span><img style="margin:10px auto;vertical-align:middle;display:block" src="http://climateactionnowma.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/can-general-meeting-flyer-v41.jpg" alt="" height="776" width="600"></span></span></h1>
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<p style="text-align:center" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#3366ff"><b><span style="font-family:'arial black','avant garde';font-size:large">Join us for</span></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#3366ff"><b><span style="font-family:'arial black','avant garde';font-size:large"> Students & Goliath<span style="font-size:x-large"><br></span></span></b></span></p>
<h1 style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#3366ff"><b><span style="font-family:'arial black','avant garde';font-size:large">How the Youth Took on the Fossil Fuel Industry</span></b></span></h1>
<p><a title="Click To See The Trailer" href="http://youtu.be/teRe-owVFi8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:medium"><img style="margin:10px auto;border:2px solid black;display:block" title="Click to Watch The Trailer" src="http://climateactionnowma.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/students-vs-goliath.jpg" alt="Click to Watch The Trailer" height="333" width="681"></span></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:x-small">Click Image To View Trailer</span></i> </p>
<p style="text-align:center" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium;color:#3366ff">Wednesday, April 9 at 6:30 pm</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#3366ff;font-size:medium">Seelye 106 Smith College</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#3366ff;font-size:medium">Discussion following by Smith College Green Team.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium;color:#3366ff">Free, open to the public, wheelchair accessible.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#3366ff;font-size:medium">Part of</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b style="color:#3366ff"><span style="font-size:medium">Earth's Turn film series</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#3366ff">Brought to you by the <b>Climate Action NOW/350MA</b>; 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.</span> </span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium"><img style="float:right;margin:10px;border:2px solid black" title="STOP The Pipeline Meeting" src="http://climateactionnowma.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/3050347.jpeg" alt="STOP The Pipeline Meeting" height="192" width="256">STOP THE Tennessee Gas Pipeline</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ff0000">The grassroots movement to stop</span> the Tennessee Gas Pipeline through Massachusetts <span style="color:#ff0000">is growing by leaps and bounds</span>! 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please sign up for our <a href="http://mail.climateactionnowma.org/mailman/listinfo/pipeline_climateactionnowma.org" target="_blank">list serve here</a> 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</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The best resources for town by town info are still <a href="http://www.nofrackedgasinmass.org/" target="_blank">www.nofrackedgasinmass.org</a> with the <i><b><span style="color:#ff0000"><a href="http://www.nofrackedgasinmass.org/pipeline-maps/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000">latest proposed maps</span></a>! <span style="color:#000000">And, another new resource... <span style="color:#0000ff"><a href="http://www.massplan.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff">Massachusetts PipeLine Awareness Network</span></a></span></span></span></b></i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please contact <a title="email Susan" href="mailto:susantheberge@comcast.net" target="_blank">Susan Theberge</a> if you have questions or would like to get involved.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center"><img style="vertical-align:middle;margin:5px" src="http://climateactionnowma.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mof_logo.png" alt="" height="119" width="395"></p>
<div><span style="font-size:medium">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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/MothersOutFront.PV/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium">Feel </span><b style="font-size:medium">inspired and empowered</b><span style="font-size:medium"> by our Mothers’ </span><b style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://www.mothersoutfront.org/sign_our_declaration" target="_blank">Declaration</a> </b><span style="font-size:medium">on climate and</span><b style="font-size:medium"> </b><span style="font-size:medium">by the incredible collective action mothers are taking in Massachusetts!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium">We have two upcoming gatherings at </span><span style="font-size:medium">Pioneer Valley Cohousing </span><span style="font-size:medium">Sunday </span><b style="font-size:medium">May 4th </b><span style="font-size:medium">and </span><b style="font-size:medium">June 1st </b><span style="font-size:medium">from 12:45-3pm where you can participate in one of three sessions on:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://info.massenergy.org/mothersoutfront" target="_blank"><b>Switching</b></a><span style="font-family:Verdana"> to clean energy - <i>our goal is 10,000 households</i></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size:medium">Specific tools for motivating others to action - NOW!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:medium">Writing to our elected officials </span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium">That's all for now! Connect with the Pioneer Valley Mothers Out Front through our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/MothersOutFront.PV/" target="_blank">facebook group</a><span style="font-family:verdana"> or click </span><a title="HERE" href="https://nesfi.wufoo.com/forms/mothers-out-front-engagement/" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="font-family:verdana"> to get involved.</span></span></div>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium"><img style="float:right;margin:5px;border:1px solid black" title="Go Solar Massachusetts!" src="http://climateactionnowma.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MAE_Solar_Landing-Image-v1.jpg" alt="Go Solar Massachusetts!" height="187" width="280"><b><span style="font-size:large">Go Solar Massachusetts!</span></b></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium">Massachusetts is rapidly approaching the solar installation goals that Governor Patrick has set for 2017.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium">With his leadership, Massachusetts can confirm its place as a leader in clean energy. Let’s<a href="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" target="_blank"> tell Governor Patrick to raise his goals and get solar on 50,000 roofs by 2020</a>.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><b><img style="float:left;margin:5px;border:1px solid black" title="the 6th extinction" src="http://climateactionnowma.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-6th-extinction.jpg" alt="the 6th extinction" height="277" width="182">The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History</b></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium">April 15, 2014</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium">Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall <b>**Note new location**</b></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:medium">7:00 pm</span> </p>
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<p style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Massachusetts Action on Climate Change</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><i><b><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> A discussion of the Commonwealth’s leadership in climate action and plans for the future</span></b></i></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Speaker: MA Senator Marc R. Pacheco</b> (D-Taunton)</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">April 14th, 3:00 PM</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Room 203 Morrill Science Center (III), UMass Amherst</span> <span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">MA </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Senator Marc R. Pacheco</b> will be speaking at UMass on <b>April 14th</b>, 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.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://necsc.umass.edu/news/massachusetts-action-climate-change" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">More Information</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://necsc.umass.edu/sites/default/files/PachecoPoster_Spring2014%208.5x11%20email.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Event Poster</span></a></p>
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<h1>Science for the People: The 1970s and Today</h1>
<p><span style="font-size:medium">April 11-13, 2014, . UMass Amherst. All events are free and open to the public, so you can just show up. Check out the <a href="http://science-for-the-people.org/program" target="_blank">amazing program </a> they've put together!</span></p>
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