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Pittsfield Green Drinks – Wandering and Wondering in the Winter Woods: Wildlife Tracking with Richard Greene
Online/ZoomTuesday, January 18th @ 6-7PM Richard Greene will speak at the Pittsfield Green Drinks January meeting on Tuesday, January 18th at 6 p.m. via Zoom. Richard will talk about his experience with wildlife tracking and the many places this…
Soul Fire Farm Keynote with Leah Penniman
Online/ZoomTuesday, January 18th @ 7 p.m. via Zoom Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. In this inspiring video, Leah Penniman lays out the history of our racist…
Termination: The Attempt to Destroy and the Rebuilding of the Siletz Tribes — Webinar
Online/ZoomWednesday, January 19th @ 11 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. Join Ecotrust for a discussion about one of the most destructive policies ever initiated by the United States Congress: Termination. Passed in 1953 and signed by President Harry Truman, Termination was…
Mapping and Monitoring Forest Biomass and Carbon Benefits
Online/ZoomWednesday, January 19th @ 12:00 — 1:00 p.m. & again @ 7:00 — 8:00 p.m. Dr. Colin Beier of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry will be presenting on the mapping and monitoring of biomass and carbon benefits. Among…
Sharks of New England
Online/ZoomWednesday,January 19th @ 5:30 —6:30 p.m. via Zoom Closed captioning will be available. Join shark and ray researcher Julia Saltzman to learn about the wild sharks that grace the New England coastline! Currently working on her PhD at UNH, Julia…
Mapping and Monitoring Forest Biomass and Carbon Benefits
Online/ZoomWednesday, January 19th @ 12:00 — 1:00 p.m. & again @ 7:00 — 8:00 p.m. Dr. Colin Beier of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry will be presenting on the mapping and monitoring of biomass and carbon benefits. Among…
Heat Pumps 101
Online/ZoomWednesday. January 19th @ 7:00 — 8:30 p.m. Heat pumps can heat or cool a home by transferring heat from outside to the living space or vice versa. Green Energy Consumers Alliance is partnering with Quincy Climate Action Network, ICF,…
Webinar Series: Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund & Highlands Grant Programs
Online/ZoomThursday, January 20th @ 12:00 p.m. Join Land Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) experts from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and partner organizations to learn key ins and outs from projects to programs. On the heels of the one year…
Vernal Pools
Online/ZoomTuesday, January 25, 5:00-6:30pm This webinar will provide an in-depth look at vernal pools and their importance for a special group of amphibians that live in the forest. How do these small, seemingly insignificant wetlands play such an important role…
Amphibian Migrations – Case Studies in Reducing Mortality at Road Crossings
OnlineTuesday, February 1st @ 5:00 — 6:30 p.m. This webinar will feature two stories of communities taking action to reduce mortality of amphibians on roads where there is high migration crossing activity each Spring. We’ll learn from Brett Amy Thelen…
Wildlife Track & Sign I.D.
Online/ZoomWednesday, February 9th @ 6:00 — 7:00 p.m. Have you been out on a walk, snowshoe, or ski and come across tracks or animal sign and wondered what animal(s) could have been responsible? Well, help may be on the way!…
Vernal Pool Habitat Conservation
Online/ZoomTuesday, February 15th @ 5:00-6:30 p.m. Our final webinar in the AM&RC series will consider conservation approaches needed to protect the critical habitat needed by pool-breeding amphibians. First, we’ll learn about a recent study that investigated vernal pools across New…
Pittsfield Green Drinks — The Pathway to Zero Waste: How Massachusetts Can Kick Its Dirty Incinerator Habit
Online/ZoomTuesday, February 15th at 6 p.m. via Zoom Join us for our February Pittsfield Green Drinks event where Elizabeth Saunders, the Massachusetts director of Clean Water Action, will speak about how our two ways of disposing of trash, incinerators (“Community…
Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty
Online/ZoomTuesday, February 15 @ 7:00 — 8:45 p.m. via Zoom The Soul Fire Farm Keynote address with Leah Penniman Join HERE Directly Climate Action Now presents: Food Sovereignty Speakers Series Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed…
Book Launch: Our Warming Planet (vol 2): Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Online/ZoomWednesday, February 16th @ 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Published by World Scientific, this is a unique set of authoritative lectures on climate change impacts and adaptation by world-recognized leading scientists. There is nothing like it available elsewhere. Speakers at the launch include…
Reanimating Post-Industrial Rivers: The Ethics of Dam Removal
Online/ZoomThursday, February 17th @ 4:15 — 5:30 p.m. This will be a hybrid event. The campus community is welcome to attend in person (Bronfman Auditorium in the Wachenheim Science Center) or remotely. Open to the public remotely. Please CLICK HERE…
Webinar: Black Leadership in Conservation
Online/ZoomWednesday, February 23rd @ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. During Black History Month, join Audubon Society for a conversation with Njambi Good, Audubon's Vice President of Pacific and Central Flyways, and Marshall Johnson, Audubon's new Chief Conservation Officer, as they share…
SPEAKER SERIES: Ecological Solutions to Climate Change with Author & Entomologist Dr. Doug Tallamy
Online/ZoomThursday, February 24 @ 6:30 — 8:00 p.m. Global declines in the population of insects and birds in North America suggest that traditional landscape designs don't do a good job sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. In the…
Building Community Through Conservation Burial
Online/ZoomSunday, February 27th @ 4:30 — 5:30 p.m. Green Burial Massachusetts is hosting a 30 minute video produced by The Conservation Burial Alliancecalled Deeply Rooted. This moving and visually beautiful virtual field trip takes us to notable conservation burial grounds…
Unprecedented Funding for Unprecedented Times: Demystifying Federal Funds for Climate Resilience
Online/ZoomFriday, March 4th @ 10:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. via Zoom The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the American Rescue Plan Act are bringing unparalleled amounts of funding to state and local governments to address climate change and its…