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Saving the Appalachian Mountains

Event info: Sunday 4 October 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

If your house is on the electric grid, chances are at least some of your power comes from coal companies that use mountaintop removal in their mining practices. Mountaintop removal is destroying the landscape and threatening communities in Appalachia.
Activist and author Mike Roselle, co-founder of Earth First, Rainforest Action Network and Ruckus Society has spent [...]

Tagged as: climate, coal, direct action, environment, mountain top removal, peace, social movements

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Winterizing Workshop: Making a more efficient home

Event info: Friday 6 November 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With November fast approaching, homeowners and renters alike begin to anticipate the frozen pipes and leaky windows of winter, as well as the financial strain of keeping the winter’s cold at bay.
As part of our continuing Urban Sustainability Series, the JP Forum joins with the Massachusetts Municipal Association to present a 1-hour workshop on home [...]

Tagged as: climate, DIY, energy efficient, environment, greening, preparation

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“Sustainable City Living” Talk with Scott from the Rhizome Collective

Event info: Friday 3 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With a warming globe and diminishing oil, it is critical that we begin to live with a dramatically different way. Bike-power, rain water collection, permaculture and relocalization of our communites are just the beginning. We will discuss the creative methods that “urban environmental stewards” have been testing out to live within the earth’s limits and [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, DIY, environment, greening, preparation, social movements

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The Defining Moment for Climate Change with Bill McKibben

Event info: Sunday 8 June 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist
Sunday, June 8th, 7:00pm

Read Bill’s most recent article on Alternet.org

As a part of our continuing series on climate-change, join the Jamaica Plain Forum for a conversation with Step-It-Up! global warming activist, Bill McKibben after the Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon and 1st annual Green Roots Festival.
Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and writer [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, DIY, environment, greening, social movements, urban sustainability

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The Global Warming Cafe: Concrete Steps to Decreasing your Carbon Footprint

Event info: Saturday 29 March 2008 – 1:00pm to 5:00pm

 
Please note that the day and time of this event is different than other Jamaica Plain Forum Events
Saturday, March 29th from 1:00-5:00pm
If you were not able to RSVP for this event, please come!  We still have plenty of space for you!

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that human activity is dangerously warming the earth. Heat is being [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, economics, greening, local, politics, social movements, urban sustainability

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“Who Owns the Water? The Global Grassroots Fight to Take Back the Tap” with Maude Barlow, Canadian Anti-Corporate Water-Rights Activist

Event info: Sunday 2 March 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

“The global water crisis is one of the most serious issues of our time. Maude Barlow is an outstanding leader who has pioneered people’s and nature’s right to water for the last decade. Blue Covenant will inspire civil society movements around the world.” –Vandana Shiva, physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of Biopiracy and Stolen [...]

Tagged as: climate, commons, social movements, water

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“Everything’s Cool” Documentary and Discussion with Ross Gelbspan

Event info: Friday 25 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist
6 Eliot St. Jamaica Plain, MA
EVERYTHING’S COOL is a film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific [...]

Tagged as: climate, environment, preparation, urban sustainability

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“Turning the Climate Corner” with Ross Gelbspan

Event info: Friday 4 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, January 4th at 7:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist
6 Eloit St, Jamaica Plain, MA
The Global Warming debate has come into the national spotlight in recent years with many politicians and celebraties taking it on as their core issue. We constantly hear about new scientific evidence leading to the same conclusion about [...]

Tagged as: climate, environment, preparation, report-back

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