CURE100 Monthly Chapter Meeting
When: Saturday, July 17, 2021, 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Eastern
Details: All are welcome, please join us. Yorktown100 will be the featured chapter for the "skull session."
Where: Virtual meeting.
Conference Call Details:
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Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/9748701484
Or iPhone one-tap: +1(773)2319226,,9748701484#
Or Telephone: +1 (773) 231 9226, meeting ID: 974 870 1484
International numbers available: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/teleconference
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"NO STRAW WITH THAT PLEASE"
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Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution, so we can have cleaner streets, oceans and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? You can learn more here. The image on the right shows a handful of microplastic pollution easily gathered at Senasqua Park, right here on the banks of the Hudson. Take a few moments to raise your consciousness by looking for plastics on a waterway near you.
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Join Yorktown100 for an EV Show at the Jack DeVito Veterans' Memorial Field and Track, 1974 Commerce Street, Yorktown Heights, NY on Sunday, July 18 from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Meet local owners of various models of electric vehicles, compare notes, and learn from their experiences. Yorktown100 volunteers will be available before the concert sponsored by the Lions Club, during the intermission, and after. Details here. (Also, Yorktown100's June 14 community meeting "The Charge of the EVs" can be watched on the Facebook page here.)
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PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY OFFERING CARBON TRACKER OFFICE HOURS
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Join this webinar to hear CURE100’s own Chandu Visweswariah explain the motivation behind the creation of the carbon tracker app and talk us through how to use the app to measure household carbon footprint.
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This virtual program is co-sponsored by Transition Town Port Washington (a chapter of CURE100), the Port Washington Public Library and CURE100. CLICK HERE to join the Zoom meeting. The Public library will run office hours for two weeks after the webinar to assist anyone who wants to use the Carbon Tracker on the library's computers.
Title: Our Path to Net Zero Starts with You. What’s Your Carbon Footprint?
Time: Jul 21, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 812 4958 3345
Passcode: 612384
Dial by your location: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
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NEW VERSION OF BEST TOOL RELEASED
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Even as the Croton Harmon and Bethlehem School Districts are planning to acquire 8 electric school buses, the Bus Electrification for School Transportation (BEST) tool for modeling cost savings from
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going electric was presented and unveiled by Patty Buchanan in a webinar hosted by the New York League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club. Recently, a new version of the tool was released that takes into account inflation in the cost calculations, a suggestion made by one of the webinar attendees. For more details, see the Resources tab of CURE100 and click on "Electric school bus resources." Also, see this letter to the editor of the Croton Gazette by Tom Theis sharing excellent advice on charging infrastructure for school buses.
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