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SUMMARY:Plastic-Free Resolutions: Protecting Your Health in 2024
DESCRIPTION:With a new year comes new resolutions for protecting and improving the health of our bodies\, families\, communities\, and the planet that we all call home. One healthy resolution to consider is to reduce or eliminate plastic from your life. But with plastic used for everything from making clothing to carrying food and drinks\, this can seem like a daunting task. \nJoin Plastic Pollution Coalition on January 18 for their first webinar of the new year: Plastic-Free Resolutions: Protecting Your Health in 2024. During this event\, they will offer tangible\, common sense ways to reduce the amount of plastic you use in your daily life. They’ll discuss why it’s important to avoid plastics\, provide you with DIY and low- and no-cost solutions\, and highlight helpful products you may turn to when you need an extra hand. \nPanelists for this inspiring conversation include Queer Brown Vegan Isaias Hernandez; Zero Waste Farmer Manju Kumar; and Co-Owner & Co-Founder of Life Without Plastic Jay Sinha. The conversation will be moderated by MADE SAFE Founder Amy Ziff.
URL:https://envirocenter.org/event/plastic-free-resolutions-protecting-your-health-in-2024/
CATEGORIES:Climate,Online event,Rethink Waste
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SUMMARY:Dive into the Hive: Explore the World of High Desert Bees
DESCRIPTION:January 23\, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.\, Online\, Free\nDiscover Oregon’s high desert bees in a captivating online presentation by Lincoln Best where he’ll explore their diversity\, habitats and crucial ecological roles. Register here.\n—\nWe are pleased to announce Oregon Natural Desert Association’s 2024 High Desert Speaker Series! The Speaker Series fosters a deeper understanding of ecology\, encourages well-informed exploration of the high desert and promotes collaborative cross-cultural practices that conserve southeastern Oregon. These events will take you into the world of high desert bees\, on a journey through the Owyhee Canyonlands\, deeper into ecocultural indigenous restoration efforts and toward discovering the geologic treasures of Oregon’s desert.\n\nJoin us at these engaging events online\, in Bend and in Portland and dive into the wonders of the high desert. Registration is open for all events\, so mark your calendar\, tell a friend and view the full lineup.
URL:https://envirocenter.org/event/dive-into-the-hive-explore-the-world-of-high-desert-bees/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Climate,Online event,Public Lands,Science
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Appliance Standards Update - Impacts on Gas Prices and Electrification
DESCRIPTION:Appliance efficiency standards aren’t something most of us think about very often\, but they have helped to reduce our energy consumption and our energy bills enormously since standards first took effect in the 1970’s. Heat pumps have made significant energy saving improvements in that time\, but energy efficiency standards for gas furnaces and water heaters have hardly changed in over 30 years. The Department of Energy is poised to update standards on these two home appliances and the new efficiency requirements could dramatically accelerate the use of heat pumps nationally. \nNew water heater standards could make heat pump water heaters the dominant water heating technology by the end of the decade (up from 2% today). The proposed new gas furnace standards would mean that replacing an old low efficiency furnace with a new high efficiency gas furnace would typically require costly venting upgrades. Switching to a heat pump would avoid those added costs and therefore make heat pumps an even more attractive option for millions of homes with aging gas furnaces. \nThese increased efficiency standards combined with the continuing phase out of fossil gas combustion through city and state electrification mandates and air quality regulations\, are expected to increase fossil gas prices over the coming years. As more homes are electrified and leave the gas system\, a new study from ACEEE that we will discuss in this webinar finds that average gas utility costs per customer can increase between 21% and 129%. \nJoin Electrify Now and the Advanced Water Heating Initiative as we explore these two important and interrelated topics of federal appliance standards and gas price increases. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://envirocenter.org/event/webinar-appliance-standards-update-impacts-on-gas-prices-and-electrification/
LOCATION:Zoom
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