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SUMMARY:"The Problem with Plastic" Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Please join Beyond Plastics president\, Judith Enck in conversation with award-winning investigative journalist and author\, Andrea Bernstein about “The Problem with Plastic” at powerHouse Books at Industry City\, Brooklyn. \nDATE: Friday\, January 23\, 2026 at 7:00 PM ET \nLOCATION: powerHouse Books at Industry City\, 220 36th St\, Building 2\, 11232 (map)\nThis location is just two blocks from the 36th Street Station (D\, N\, W\, R lines) \nCOST: General admission is $5\, purchase tickets here now. \nPlease join us to learn how you can help protect yourself and the planet from plastic pollution. \nBring your copy of the book for Judith to sign or buy one when you get your ticket!
URL:https://gogreenbk.org/event/plastic-book-talk-1-23-2026/
LOCATION:Industry City\, 220 36th St. Building 2\, 220 36th Street\, Building 2\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11232
CATEGORIES:Education and Activism,Free,Outdoor,Volunteer Opportunities
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SUMMARY:Microplastics Madness!  Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Plastic waste is on track to triple by 2050 but we can stop that! Join us for a free screening of the inspiring award-winning film\, Microplastic Madness at Park Slope United Methodist Church\, 410 6th Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11215 sponsored by Beyond Plastics Brooklyn on Thursday\, March 27 at 6PM.
URL:https://gogreenbk.org/event/microplastics-madness-film-screening/
CATEGORIES:Education and Activism,Free
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SUMMARY:Endocrine Disruptors in Plastics: State Policy Options
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, October 3\, 2023 at 7pm ET on Zoom for a conversation about endocrine disruptors with New York State Senator Pete Harckham\, Chair of the New York Senate Environmental Conservation Committee\, John Peterson ‘Pete’ Myers\, Ph.D.\, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences\, and Megan Wolff\, Ph.D.\, MPH\, Policy Director at Beyond Plastics. \nIn 1991\, Dr. Pete Myers coined the term “endocrine disrupting chemicals” (EDCs) to describe chemicals capable of hacking the human body’s hormonal systems. Even at the time\, it was clear that these chemicals could cause harm at extraordinarily low doses and that they were common additives in plastics. More than thirty years later\, plastic pollution has become so widespread that microscopic flecks of plastic can be found in snow\, soil\, drinking water\, and even human blood – and what Myers and others have learned about EDCs has grown grimmer. Endocrine disruptors in plastic are associated with a 50% decline in adult male sperm counts over the past five decades and are implicated in the enormous leap in rates of autism and ADHD among children. Moreover\, it is clear that a great quantity of the plastic in our lives was never necessary in the first place. Approximately 42% of plastic currently under production is used for packaging\, much of which is discarded as soon as it is used. It is critical that plastic reduction and safer\, healthier alternatives become law. \nMany of our elected representatives are coming to recognize this reality. This past spring\, New York State Senator Pete Harckham\, Chair of Committee on Environmental Conservation (D\, WF) introduced bold new legislation capable of reducing plastic packaging\, strengthening recycling infrastructure\, and banning several toxic plastic additives. The bill\, The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (S.4246-a/A.5322-a) will be considered by the NY State Legislature when they reconvene in January\, and is one of several promising state policy options to reduce the negative impacts of EDCs on human health. \nOn Tuesday\, October 3\, 2023\, please join the League of Women Voters and Bedford 2030 for a webinar discussion between Dr. Pete Myers and Senator Pete Harckham. What do we know about EDCs in plastic? What are they doing to our health and what are the most effective\, politically feasible ways to reduce these toxins (and plastic pollution) from our lives? \nRegister now for this free webinar on Tuesday\, October 3\, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET. \nThanks to our co-sponsors for this webinar: Bedford 2030\, Climate Reality Project/Westchester\, Environment Advocates NY\, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County\, Grassroots Environmental Education\, Mothers Out Front NY\, NY Society for Ethical Culture\, NYPIRG\, Physicians for Social Responsibility NY\, Physicians for Social Responsibility PA\, Plastic Pollution Coalition\, Sustainable Westchester\, RAC-NY (Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism)\, Riverkeeper\, and Teatown Reservation. \nSenator Pete Harckham was elected to the New York State Senate in November 2018\, and re-elected in 2020 and 2022—the culmination so far of a distinguished career in public service. Currently\, he is chair of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee.Through his two full terms in office\, Harckham has become one of the most productive members of the New York State Senate. He worked to make the 2% Property Tax Cap permanent; delivered record aid to education; and addressed the opioid crisis by doubling minimum treatment times and reducing barriers to life saving treatment.Well-regarded as a champion of the environment\, Harckham helped pass the toughest climate protection legislation in the nation\, and also introduced legislation\, later enacted\, requiring all new passenger car and truck sales to be zero emission by 2035 and allowing municipalities to build solar canopies and jumpstart community renewable energy projects. Earlier this year\, Governor Kathy Hochul placed Harckham’s landmark wetlands legislation protecting Class C streams statewide\, which will safeguard fragile drinking water resources\, into her proposed 2023 State Budget. \nJohn Peterson ‘Pete’ Myers\, Ph.D. is founder\, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences\, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding of advances in scientific research on links between the environment and human health. Dr. Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the University of California\, Berkeley and a BA from Reed College. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski\, Myers wrote “Our Stolen Future\,” a book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. Dr. Myers is now actively involved in primary research on the impacts of endocrine disruption on human health. He has also served as Board President of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity\, an association of more than forty foundations supporting work on biodiversity\, climate\, energy and environmental health and board chair of the H. John Heinz Center for Science\, Economics and the Environment. In 2016 he received a Laureate Award for Outstanding Public Service from The Endocrine Society\, the world’s largest association of medical and research professionals specializing in endocrinology. In November 2016 he received along with 11 others\, the first “Champion of Environmental Health Research” award from the National Institutes of Health. \nMegan J. Wolff\, Ph.D.\, MPH is a public health historian with an eye to using history to inform policy. After receiving her masters and doctorate in public health from Columbia University\, she spent over a decade at Weill Cornell Medical College\, where she developed a mental health policy initiative within the Department of Psychiatry. She believes that climate change is the greatest threat to health and well-being in contemporary life\, and that overproduction of plastics touches on every phase of the climate fight. She lives with her family in New Paltz\, New York. \nElisabeth (Beth) Radow is the managing attorney of Radow Law PLLC. Beth’s law practice and pro bono work focuses on real estate\, real estate finance\, the environment and sustainability.  Beth has chaired the Committee on Energy\, Agriculture and the Environment for the League of Women Voters of New York State since 2010.
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SUMMARY:Plastics and The Future Of Our Planet: A Conversation With Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert
DESCRIPTION:*Please note this event was rescheduled from April 13\, 2023* \nJoin us on July 12\, 2023 on Zoom for a conversation about plastics and the future of our planet with environmental leader and author\, Bill McKibben\, and Pullitzer prize-winning journalist\, Elizabeth Kolbert\, moderated by Beyond Plastics president and former U.S. EPA regional administrator\, Judith Enck. \nRegister now for this free webinar on Wednesday\, July 12\, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT US. \nBill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker\, and a founder of Third Act\, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign\, 350.org\, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel\,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award\, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written over a dozen books about the environment\, including his first\, The End of Nature\, published in 1989\, and his latest book is The Flag\, the Cross\, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened. \nElizabeth Kolbert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man\, Nature\, and Climate Change and Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future\, and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. Previously\, she worked at the Times\, where she wrote the Metro Matters column and served as the paper’s Albany bureau chief. Her three-part series on global warming\, “The Climate of Man\,” won the 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. In 2010\, she received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. She is the editor of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009” and the author of “The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit\,” “Field Notes from a Catastrophe\,” and “The Sixth Extinction\,” for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She received the Blake-Dodd Prize\, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, in 2017. \nRegister now for this free webinar on Wednesday\, July 12\, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT US. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource: https://bennington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcuupqT4rEteDTEKCW4A-GQVSrCl2tfbh\n\nPosted In: Events\nTagged: events\, climate change\, plastic pollution
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