Climate Change
Dalton Climate Solutions Fair
The Stationery Factory 63 Flansburg Avenue, Dalton, MAhttps://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CLIMATE-E-POSTCARD-FINAL-LINKS.pdf Join industry and subject experts to learn more about: • Dalton’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) with an Introduction to our CAP Community Survey by Blue Strike Environmental • State and Federal Incentives to Increase Your Home’s Energy Efficiency –…
MassDEP Public Meeting re: Conservation Law Foundation Petition
OnlineMassDEP will hold a public meeting in response to a petition filed by the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) for Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to initiate one or more rulemaking proceedings to promulgate new and amended regulations to Implement the…
Climate Stories Music Program
Great Falls Discovery Center 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MAhttps://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GFDC_Program-Flyer_ClimateStoriesMusic_Nov-14-2024.pdf Find inspiration to address the climate crisis through the power of creativity and storytelling. Musician and director of Climate Stories Project, Jason Davis, discusses his work with climate narrative music, featuring recorded voices of people around the world speaking…
Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis
OnlineDeep Dialogue with Elders Climate Action Massachusetts Chapter: Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis Increasingly, politicians, activists, media figures, and the public at large agree that climate change is an urgent problem. Yet that sense…
Berkshire Green Drinks: “Pittsfield Power Possibilities: A look at alternatives to fossil fuel power in the Berkshires” with Rosemary Wessel
OnlineJoin BEAT online for the November 2024 Berkshire Green Drinks event with Rosemary Wessel, the program director of No Fracked Gas in Mass. We’ll be taking a close look at Berkshire County’s last peaking power plant, Pittsfield Generating, and how…
Climate Stories of Hope
The Hitchcock Center 845 West St., Amherst, MAJoin Hitchcock Center for the Environment to watch some of Project Drawdown’s inspiring short film stories. These mini documentaries are a journey to “pass the mic” to climate heroes whose stories often go unheard, and inspire climate action in the…
Loving Our Earth: Climate Crisis Support Group
Onlinehttps://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Wos-Climate-crisis-support-group-3-1.pdf Loving our Earth: Climate Crisis Support Group This free five-session online (zoom) group is sponsored by Women of Spirit in the Berkshires. The group is intended as a safe place to talk about the difficult feelings that arise when…
En-Roads Climate Solutions Simulator Workshop
Lee Library 100 Main St, Lee, MA, United Stateshttps://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/En-Roads-Climate-Simulator-Learning-Event-Lee-Library-February-2025.pdf Which actions actually work best to address climate change? Which solutions can significantly limit global warming? Join Lee Greener Gateway Committee for a learning event at the Lee public library where Bob Voss, a member of the Berkshires Chapter…
Understanding Forest Carbon and Climate Adaptation with Dr. Alexandra Kosiba
OnlineForest ecologist, tree physiologist, and assistant professor of forestry at University of Vermont Extension Dr. Alexandra (Ali) Kosiba will present on the forest carbon cycle, northeastern forests’ role in mitigating the impacts of climate change, and how decision makers can…
Climate Change, Tree Migration, and the Future of Northeastern Forests
OnlineJoin Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies for a special lecture by Dr. Angelica Patterson, a plant ecophysiologist and science communicator from Mount Holyoke College. She will explore how climate-induced shifts in the tree species that make up northeastern forests may…