Does the Hudson River Have a Future
★ Wednesday May 20, 5:30-7pm: Does the Hudson River have a future? What is it? If anyone knows, these three do: Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper, Clearwater. Register for their webinar here
April 2022 Climate Smart Task Force Meeting
★ April 21, 5:30PM. Climate Smart Community Task Force Monthly Meeting. Email climatesmartmillerton@gmail.com for more info.
Nonstop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days – Margaret Roach Zoom
★ April 6, 6 PM. Nonstop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days. Margaret Roach has worked for 30+ years to make her garden in the Hudson Valley-Berkshires area a visual treat every day of the year. Meet the plants and the philosophy that make it happen, delivered with a dose of “horticultural how-to and woo-woo.” Register here. This is a Dutchess Land Conservancy webinar.
The Perils of Plastics
★ April 13, 2022—12 to 1:00 p.m. Join a webinar to learn why nobody does the right thing with plastic, and what we may be able to do about it after all, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Westchester County. Scenic Hudson has a hand in too. Click here to register.
Feb 2022 – Vatican’s climate action platform
★ While Climate Smart is nondenominational, it is noteworthy that the Vatican has launched a climate action platform under Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ to help Catholics fight climate change. For the full encyclical, click here.
January 2022 Climate Smart Task Force Meeting
★ January 20, 5:30PM. Climate Smart Community Task Force Monthly Meeting. Email climatesmartmillerton@gmail.com for more info.
Jan 1 2022 NYS foam container ban starts
★ Starting January 1, 2022: No more peanuts, clamshells, foam cups or any of those myriad expanded polystyrene products in New York State. Terrible stuff, it doesn’t degrade and becomes ingestible microplastics. This is now the toughest ban in the nation. For exceptions and more, click here.
2022 NYS DEC Tree & Shrub Sale
★ Order your New York State-grown native tree and shrub seedlings now, starting January 3, 2022. Ready for pickup or delivery in May or June. Cheap. Click here for info.
Jan 25 2022 Governing Green
★ Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM—The ultimate how-to for aspiring green leaders. This workshop shows how best to manage an green infrastructure project. Good for anyone involved in environmental project development. It’s called Governing Green: A Toolkit for Equitable Green Infrastructure, led by Amanda Phillips de Lucas.
NYS Climate Action Plan
★ The spear point of the New York State’s Climate Action Plan—what will get us to net-zero emissions by 2050—is its new scoping plan. The draft is now ready for public reaction. Comments will be welcome for 120 days from January 1, 2022.