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