HERE for Climate Webinar Series on Energy, Equity, Health, and Solutions in Relation to Climate Change
In early 2021, the American Humanist Association’s Humanist Environmental Response Effort (HERE) for Climate initiative is offering a four-part online series to continue the conversation started in the May 2019 open lecture series Climate Justice: A Better Future for Us All. The new series will highlight the challenges climate change brings to communities in relation to energy, food, and health and how we create equitable and effective solutions moving forward. Join us in learning through these engaging presentations and conversations.
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Where Do We Go from Here? Solutions for the Environment
February 4, 2021 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST.
Each session will be held on Zoom Webinar and recorded — learn more about Zoom and sign up for free here.
Watch this talk on Zoom here: https://zoom.us/j/91843782348
Speaker
Keith Kinch serves as co-founder and General Manager at BlocPower. Keith received his undergraduate degree at John Jay College and his graduate degree at American International University. He spent eight years as a community organizer, and two years as Deputy Field Director in New York State for the Democratic National Committee under President Obama’s grassroots arm Organizing for America. In the summer of 2016 Keith led the Solarize Brownsville campaign, one of the largest solar projects in New York State history, where more than 200 homes were outfitted with solar panels. In 2017 Keith led the partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and Department of Housing Preservation and Development on Community Retrofit NYC program to produce over 500 retrofits for 5-50 unit multi-family buildings in Con Edison’s Brooklyn Queens Demand Management zone. The project has won a national award, and was completed one year ahead of schedule.
Joelle Novey directs Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA), through which congregations of many traditions across the region — including humanist communities — are coming together to respond to the climate crisis as a moral issue. She speaks widely across the region on the role of religious communities in the climate movement. She is grateful to participate in several independent Jewish communities, and lives with her family at Eastern Village Cohousing in South Silver Spring.