Energy/Global Warming Committee

     Global Warming & Energy Committee Reorganized

What You Can Do About Global Warming. Also, an excellent small brochure that will help you do many things specifically to mitigate the effects of Global Warming in our area. Check out this brochure. (It’s a PDF file and you’ll need Adobe® Reader®. ) to open and print it.  The brochure: What you Can Do About Global Global Warming.   --Please download and distribute this brochure widely.

Global Warming & Energy Committee: If you’ve been following our Sierra Club group’s news over the past year, then you know that Cool Rochester is an outgrowth of our Low Carbon Diet Challenge of 2008. Cool Rochester www.coolrochester.org seeks to reduce our area’s carbon emissions by a billion pounds by 2012. This is significant-- about 10% of household emissions in our area!

Addressing climate change is Sierra Club’s number one priority. If you are waiting for just the right opportunity, just the right nudge, to take personal action and make a difference, then join us in early 2010 for a Climate Change Café.

We’ll use Cool Rochester’s online tools to “keep score” for our group’s collective efforts, and we’ll have fun with some friendly competition with other local teams. There will be a special tele-training session (online, stay at home!) for Cool Rochester participants and all interested parties on Nov. 17, 7-9 PM. For more info or to register for the tele-training, contact alison.davidson@CoolRochester.org .

Energy Resources:

• For the National Sierra Club's Energy Page go here: Energy Main - Sierra Club
• For Atlantic Chapter's Energy Committee
• New York Energy Smart The New York Energy $martSM program is designed to continue energy efficiency, low-income services, research and development, and environmental protection programs during the State's transition to electric retail competition, and is a key element in the restructuring of New York's electric utility industry. In 1998, to ensure that these kinds of programs continue to benefit New Yorkers, the State's Public Service Commission (PSC) named the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) administrator of these programs, which are paid for by a System Benefits Charge (SBC) on the electricity transmitted and distributed by the State's investor-owned utilities. The New York Energy $martSM program is being implemented in those utility territories. Some 2,700 projects in more than 30 programs are funded under New York Energy $martSM.
• For Rochester-area news on energy and energy resources go to RochesterEnvironment.com's Energy page. 
• To find a solar energy dealer near you, see NYSERDA - Eligible PV Installers under PON 716

What we're up to:

We’ll schedule the Climate Change Café in late March/early April 2010, so as to accommodate as many interested folks as possible.

Please also join us at our Global Warming & Energy Committee meetings to help contribute to other efforts.

For information or to register for the Climate Change Café, or for information on dates/locations of the Global Warming & Energy Committee meetings, leave a message on our voicemail 585-234-1056 or contact lci_msw@hotmail.com