THE GREEN BRIEF

by Green Summit NJ

October 2017

EVENTS COMING UP

Wednesday, October 11 @ 7:30pm - Carbon Footprints @ Marigold's Summit

Learn what a carbon footprint is, why it matters, and what you can do to reduce yours. Bring your utility bills to get a jump start on calculating your household footprint! 

Sunday, October 15 @ 8:00am-1:00pm - Green Summit @ Summit Farmers Market

Bring your reusable bag and be entered to win a basket of sustainable goodies! Participating vendors will give a ticket to customers who don't take a plastic bag. Drop your ticket off at the Green Summit table! Winner will be picked at 1:00pm.

Sunday, October 15 @ 12:00pm - Green Faith Circle Event @ Beth Hatikvah 

Summit and Chatham residents are invited to join this walk of the Passaic River followed by pot luck lunch and talk by Rutgers University Assoc. Professor for Water, Society & the Environment.

 

Below graphic from UC Berkeley Cool Climates map Annual Household Average Carbon Footprint by zip code. Available at: coolclimate.berkeley.edu/maps 

GETTING GREEN

Run your own carbon footprint analysis with the Nature Conservancy's Carbon Footprint Calculator. Even better, this tool will let you see how much you can reduce your footprint if you take certain actions. Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at Marigold's for a live demonstration!

IN THE NEWS

SUMMIT AREA & NEW JERSEY

New Jersey has been good about making polluters pay for fixing polluted areas, typically by bringing lawsuits and having the proceeds pay for projects like clean-ups of land and water contamination and rebuilding wet-lands. More recently, funds from these environmental suits have been diverted into the general state budget rather than being used to remediate the problems they have caused. On your ballot next month, Ballot Question #2 asks voters to decide whether money from these lawsuits should be dedicated "to repair, restore, replace, or preserve the State’s natural resources" or be used "for any State purpose". Voting YES dedicates the funds, voting NO means they can be used for any State purpose.

 

Mark your calendars for the New Jersey elections Tuesday, Nov. 7!

NATIONAL

There are many articles about how the President is rolling back EPA regulations and funding, but what regulations are specifically affected? The New York Times is keeping an updated status list of what's been overturned, what's in progress and what's unknown.

GLOBAL

In Russia, climate denial has taken a different spin. Rather saying that climate change isn't real, many Russians are excited at the prospect that their cold country may get warmer. It opens up agriculture in many new areas, and shipping becomes a year-round possibility in the thawing Arctic. On the other hand, it ignores more frequent and spreading wildfires and flooding. 

GREEN READS

 

Geoffrey Heal, "Endangered economies: How the Neglect of Nature threatens our prosperity" (2016). 

 

More about Green Summit

 

Green Summit has been gearing up for a number of events in the coming months - about carbon footprints, vegan cooking and much more. Have a particular topic of interest to you?

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