Climate Issues by topic

Groups
 

• CFG Sustainable Schools Committee
   

Resources
 

• Webinar: Moving to Electric School Buses in Your District
   

• Color Your School Green initiative

Groups
 

• CFG Healthy Yards Committee
   

• Healthy Yards Monroe County
   

• Rochester Beekeepers
   

Resources
 

• NY Bee Wellness
   

• Homegrown National Park
   

• Books by Doug Tallamy
  
   

Groups

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• CFG Food Waste Diversion & Composting Committee
   

• Lowering Emissions Through Thoughtful Unified Community Engagement (LETTUCE)

 

Resources
 

• Kiss the Ground (soil health information & movement)
   

• Color Penfield Green's food waste & composting information
  
   

Groups

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• Stop the Canal Clear Cut
   

• Fresh Air for the Eastside (FAFE) - landfill odor control
   

• CFG/CPG Walkability & Access project

 

Resources​
 

• Heat Smart Monroe-FLX
   

• Reconnect Rochester
  
   

Groups
 

• Rochester-area group focused on this issue (contact us to be added)
   

• Seneca Lake Guardian: Greenidge Bitcoin Mining issue
   

Resources

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• This power plant stopped burning fossil fuels. Then Bitcoin came along (Grist)
   

• Support for Finger Lakes Bitcoin mining facility tempered by environmental claims (Spectrum News)
   

• Bitcoin uses more electricity than many countries. How is that possible? (NYT)
  
   

Local Groups

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• Rochester Youth Climate Leaders (RYCL)
   

• New York Youth Climate Leaders (NY2CL)
   

• Citizens' Climate Lobby of Rochester (CCL ROC)
   

• Mothers Out Front - Rochester/Monroe County NY
   

• Showing Up for Racial Justice - Rochester (SURJ ROC) 
   

• Environmental Justice initiative via Pachamama Alliance of the Rochester Area (PARA)
   

• Metro Justice

National Groups

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• Union of Concerned Scientists
   

• Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon
   

• World War Zero
   

• 350.org
   

• Climate Reality Project
  
   

Groups

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• Drive Electric Week - Rochester (Sept 25th 2021)
   

• Electric Auto Association
   

Resources

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• EVolve NY
   

• Plug In America - Take Action!
   

• Electrek - Climate Crisis Weekly
   

• Charging your EV in Fairport
   

• Color Penfield Green EV page
   

• EV charging in the City of Rochester
   

• A Better Routeplanner
   

• Plugshare
  
   

Groups

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• Rochester Youth Climate Leaders (RYCL)
   

• RAICA Youth
   

• New York Youth Climate Leaders (NY2CL)
   

• Fridays For Future (Greta Thunberg)
   

• Earth Guardians
   

Resources
 

• Roots & Shoots, Jane Goodall Institute
   

• Article: Tackling 'Eco-Anxiety' by Group Action (USN)
   
   

Groups

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• Healthy Yards Monroe County
   

• Noah's Recycling
   

• Buy Nothing Fairport/Perinton NY
   

• Climate action in faith communities - Rochester Area Interfaith Climate Action (RAICA)

 

Resources

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• Blue Jeans Go Green™ denim recycling program
   

• Impact Earth food waste hauling & compost

 

• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County
  
   

Groups

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• Seeds of Hope (Pachamama Alliance of the Rochester Area)

 

Resources

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• Resources to Cope with Climate Anxiety and Grief (The Commons Social Grief Network)
   

• Mental health resources from the All We Can Save Project
   

• Article: Hope is a Right We Must Protect (YES! Magazine)
   

• Article: How to Fight Climate Despair (Vox)