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2026 Climate Science Update: January 21st at 5:00 PM with Dr. Mary Stampone, NH State Climatologist, and Dr. Stephen Young, Salem State University
✔ Past Events and Recordings
✔ Past Events and Recordings
✔ Climate Security as a Human Right
Compelling our governments to hold fossil fuel producers accountable
✔ Climate Security as a Human Right
Compelling our governments to hold fossil fuel producers accountable
Monday, November 18
Monday, November 18
Guest speakers
Guest speakers
Carly Phillips (Research Scientist for Climate Litigation, Union of Concerned Scientists)
NH Representative Tony Caplan (Henniker)
Mike Meno (Center for Climate Integrity)
Slides
Legislation and policy innovations are notoriously slow-paced, while climate changes are accelerating rapidly. Over the last few years – in some places – progress has been made on another front: Litigation in the courts. Courts have held that governments have an obligation to protect their citizens from climate disasters and environmental degradation. Costs may be significant.
Fossil fuel producers and traders – who’ve known for decades that negative impacts from their products were likely – can be held accountable. Fiscal prudence dictates that we be clear-eyed about the future.
Can we get bipartisan support for such a process in our state? We invite specialists to catch us up on preparatory steps being taken in NH and elsewhere.
✔ Campaigning for the Climate
✔ Campaigning for the Climate
How to raise the issue of climate change in the upcoming elections - both local and national - with candidates from any party.
How to raise the issue of climate change in the upcoming elections - both local and national - with candidates from any party.
October 7, 2024
Election day is November 5, so now is a great time to talk about environmental issues in your community.
Our panelists share strategies and tips on how to have productive climate discussions with candidates and voters, followed by a group discussion:
Representative Rebecca McWilliams - member of the NH House Science, Technology, and Energy Committee
Representative Nicholas Germana - member of the NH House Environment and Agriculture Committee
John Gage - NH state coordinator for Citizens' Climate Lobby
This event is a follow-up to our "Climate Voters Unite" and "Keep NH Green Environmental Summit" events.
See also: Slides, Chat, & Transcript.
For a primer, see the article published in the Concord Monitor and the October-November issue of Green Energy Times: Talk Climate With Candidates.
Additional resources from recent NH Network Campaign Events and beyond:
Additional resources from recent NH Network Campaign Events and beyond:
Questions to ask candidates (bird-dogging, candidates' forum, face-to-fact opportunity)
CCL training: Strategies for attending Candidate Events
Set up a "Climate Voter Information" table on election day
Climate Collaborative's "Get Out the Vote" Campaign
The League of Women Voters of NH: Guide to Organizing and Moderating Candidate Forums
✔ Water Woes in New Hampshire
✔ Water Woes in New Hampshire
PFAS, cyanobacteria, landfill runoff, E. coli, lead, arsenic – what’s going on and what can we do about it?
September 23, 2024
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Adam Finkel, PhD, public health expert, University of Michigan, resident of Dalton, NH
Rep. Wendy Thomas, NH Legislator, Hillsborough County, resident of Merrimack
Tom Irwin, VP & Director, CLF NH
MODERATORS:
Dr. Reinmar Seidler
Dr. Cynthia Walter
New Hampshire is blessed with an exceptionally rich network of rivers, streams, and wetlands, along with nearly 1000 public lakes and ponds. Yet, we may not be managing this precious resource optimally. Do we have the institutional frameworks required to diagnose, monitor, and solve systemic problems before they become chronic? How does NH’s record compare with our peers in New England? How can we improve the situation? These are the questions our guests will address in this interactive session.
✔ Keep NH Green
✔ Keep NH Green
3rd Annual Environmental Summit
3rd Annual Environmental Summit
Help us amplify the voices of our state's environmentally concerned majority!
Help us amplify the voices of our state's environmentally concerned majority!
DATE: Saturday, August 24
DATE: Saturday, August 24
CHECK-IN, COFFEE, TEA: 9:00 AM
PROGRAM: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
PROGRAM: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
BYO LUNCH: 12:30 PM
LOCATION: Starr King in Plymouth, NH
LOCATION: Starr King in Plymouth, NH
KeepNHGreen_NH Network_Introduction_Skoglund.240824.pptx✔ Run a local Climate Cafe
✔ Run a local Climate Cafe
June 19, 2024
NH Network Climate Working Group Event
Moderator: John Gage, state coordinator of NH for Citizens' Climate Lobby
Presenter: Maria Finnegan; NH Healthy Climate (formerly NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action)
✔ Climate Voters Unite!
✔ Climate Voters Unite!
Thursday, June 13
Thursday, June 13
Learn how you can be involved with NH Network member environmental groups to make the environment and climate a top-level issue in the upcoming elections.
✔ Climate Solutions Update 2024
✔ Climate Solutions Update 2024
Peek Under the Hood of the New En-ROADS!
Peek Under the Hood of the New En-ROADS!
May 20, 2024
MIT Sloan and Climate Interactive's En-ROADS climate policy simulator is a powerful way to gain insight into what we need to do to achieve our important climate goals. Join us to learn about the latest update and how to put En-ROADS to work!
The 2024 En-ROADS updates include:
Assessing the impact of “Agricultural Emissions” and “Waste and Leakage”
Analyzing methane emissions and methane intensity from energy, agricultural production, and waste management
Evaluating nature-based solutions for carbon dioxide removal.
Presenter: Josh Loughman - Director of Modeling and Technology at Climate Interactive
Moderator: Reinmar Seidler - Research Assistant Professor of Sustainability & Climate, UMass Boston
Get your climate solution questions answered
Learn from the experts how En-ROADS works
See why En-ROADS is an invaluable tool for everyone from students, to climate advocates, to policymakers.
Climate action: John Gage - Citizens' Climate Lobby
Starts at 1:13:30: En-ROADS demonstrates that the steadily rising carbon price of Carbon Fee and Dividend, extended through 2100 and pushed worldwide through a CBAM, gets us halfway to our global 1.5˚C target. That price on pollution also makes nearly all the other policies required for 1.5˚C easier to do. Help create the political will needed for Congress to do it by sending them an email using the quick and easy tool at cclusa.org/price-carbon.
The presentation notes include links to videos and supporting resources: Political will for Carbon Fee and Dividend Slides.
✔ Community Choice Aggregation and Energy Justice - May 8, 2024
✔ Community Choice Aggregation and Energy Justice - May 8, 2024
Sarah Kelly is a geographer with fifteen years of experience in community-based research on water and energy equity. As an applied researcher, she was trained in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Sarah holds long-term research relationships with Mapuche-Williche communities in Chile, where she has investigated hydropower, cultural cartography, and Indigenous rights. In 2021, she co-founded the Energy Justice Clinic at Dartmouth College. Originally from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sarah is excited to expand upon local collaborations in New Hampshire and Vermont to support making the energy transition more just and accessible for all. Sarah's research is published in Energy Policy, Energy Research and Social Science, and Geoforum, among other journals.
Dr. Reinmar Seidler will be introducing the speaker and moderating the Q&A session. He teaches conservation biology, sustainability science and climate change at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and serves as a member of the Steering Committee for the New Hampshire Network for Environment, Energy & Climate. His research focuses on impacts of climate change and other global change on biodiversity and people's livelihoods in the Eastern Himalaya.
This webinar was co-sponsored by the NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action.
✔The Beauties & the Beasts
✔The Beauties & the Beasts
of NH's environment, energy and climate bills
of NH's environment, energy and climate bills
✔ The True Cost of Food
✔ The True Cost of Food
Why does local food cost more than what we buy from the grocery store?
Why does local food cost more than what we buy from the grocery store?
In this workshop, Hungry Bear Farm owner and operator Gene Jonas will share a holistic analysis of the costs of the industrialized food production systems that dominate the landscape today and why buying local is actually better for you and your wallet.
March 20th from 5 to 6 PM on Zoom
✔ Building Codes: Your health, your wallet, and energy efficiency
✔ Building Codes: Your health, your wallet, and energy efficiency
March 7th from 4-5 PM
March 7th from 4-5 PM
~ Moderator: Paul Friedrichs, MD, Family Medicine physician; Board Chair, NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action
~ Moderator: Paul Friedrichs, MD, Family Medicine physician; Board Chair, NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, there has been a mass migration of humans from fresh outdoor air to inside buildings. Most of us spend more than 90% of our time indoors, and indoor air quality is directly linked to our health.
Three building code bills before the State House this year will reduce the energy efficiency of newly built homes, and negatively affect indoor air quality and our health.
Learn about the importance of healthy energy codes. (See recording.)
✔ Unwrap the Future II: Global and Local Solutions to Plastic Pollution
✔ Unwrap the Future II: Global and Local Solutions to Plastic Pollution
Monday — February 12, 2024
Monday — February 12, 2024
Globally, each year more than 380 million tons of plastic waste harm our health, pollute our environment, and hurt our economy. This program will highlight practical solutions for reducing plastic waste in the business and restaurant sectors, current research on plastic pollution policy, and legislation being considered in New Hampshire to address single-use plastics, extended producer responsibility, container deposit programs, and PFAS regulations.
MODERATOR:
Christina Dubin, Senior Organizer, Beyond Plastics; Campaigns Coordinator, Surfrider NH; Co-Founder, NH Network Plastics WG
PRESENTERS:
Patsy Beffa-Negrini, PhD, RDN, Founding Member, Plastics WG
“By the Numbers, Ten Towns * Ten Actions Toolkit Two Year Impact”
Overview of the success of the Ten Towns Ten • Actions Toolkit Campaign at work in 47 towns across all regions of New Hampshire.
Yayoi Koizumi, Founder, Zero Waste Ithaca
“BYO (Bring Your Own): Community Level Strategies for Zero Waste”
Hear about “Ithaca Reduces | BYO,” which has over 100 businesses that welcome customers to Bring Your Own containers, bottles, utensils, bags, and K-12 school reusables.
Dr. Zoie Diana, Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
“Research & Policy on Plastic Pollution Solutions”
Discussion of the Plastics Policy Inventory, a global body of government responses to plastic pollution, and the Policy Effectiveness Library, research on the effectiveness of the policies.
Christina Dubin, Board Chair, Seacoast CAN, Campaigns Coordinator, Surfrider NH
Learn about the Seacoast area restaurants reusables pilot, Reusable Seacoast, and Surfrider Foundation NH Chapter’s Skip the Stuff Campaign.
Cindy Heath, Founding Member and Convener, NH Network Plastics Work
Update on Container Deposit, Skip the Stuff, PFAS & EPR Legislation in NH
Please note that the video above starts at about 8 minutes into the meeting, so the video lacks the first few slides of Patsy's presentation.
SLIDES
Patsy Beffa-Negrini:
Unwrap the Future II - By the Numbers
Yayoi Koizumi
BYO (Bring Your Own): Community Level Strategies for Zero Waste
Dr. Zoie Diana
Research & Policy on Plastic Pollution Solutions
Christina Dubin
Seacoast area restaurants reusables pilot, etc.
Cindy Heath
Update on Container Deposit, Skip the Stuff, PFAS & EPR Legislation
See also the meeting chat.
✔ Funding Sources for municipalities, businesses, nonprofits & individuals:
✔ Funding Sources for municipalities, businesses, nonprofits & individuals:
What is out there and how can we access it?
What is out there and how can we access it?
About the panelists:
Melissa Elander works on clean energy projects with towns, schools, and nonprofits in Coös County and northern Grafton County. Melissa worked as an Energy Auditor and Weatherization Project Manager in the North Country of New Hampshire before joining Clean Energy NH. She has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Plymouth State University and a Master of Arts in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from American University.
Nora E Hanke is the Program Manager at Monadnock Sustainability Hub, a nonprofit serving the 34 towns of SW NH (all of Cheshire, a little of Hillsborough and Sullivan Counties), whose mission is to cut carbon emissions from every sector of the economy. Nora has an MS in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England, and drives a Chevy Bolt. She had building envelope improvements performed on her (previous) home, and then had solar arrays installed for electricity and hot water.
Elizabeth McKenna serves as a Special Assistant for Policy and Projects for U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. She is a liaison between community members and legislative staff to help advance Senator Shaheen’s legislative and appropriations priorities. She covers several policy areas including environment, energy, agriculture and health. Over the past four years, Elizabeth has served in Senator Shaheen’s office in multiple roles and previously worked for a higher education nonprofit. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Catholic University.
✔ A day in the life of a NH lobbyist
✔ A day in the life of a NH lobbyist
A view into the workings of the NH legislature
A view into the workings of the NH legislature
Monday, January 22, 2024
Monday, January 22, 2024
7:00 PM on Zoom
7:00 PM on Zoom
Featuring Jim O'Brien
Featuring Jim O'Brien
NH Deputy State Director,
NH Deputy State Director,
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy
How often to legislators seek out lobbyists for advice?
Have you suggested legislation?
How much influence do lobbyists have vs. public input vs party affiliation?
How do you measure your success?
What goes on "behind the curtain" that is important for the public to know?
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