Why Can’t We Tap the Potential of Microgrids?

Virtual

Microgrids offer the promise of resilience, load flexibility, increased renewable energy production and financial benefits. Why do franchise rules tend to prevent microgrids? Can legislation be crafted to allow for resource sharing, reducing the barriers to microgrid adoption? Where are there models that we could look to for inspiration? 

What we’re facing– and how we fight back: building resistance under a MAGA administration

Virtual

Join SURJ and our partners who have been leading social change work on the frontlines for years: Rukia Lumumba from the Movement for Black Lives, Marcela Hernandez from Detention Watch Network, and Tica Moreno from World March of Women Brazil. First, we’ll hear their analysis on the conditions we’ll be facing in the years ahead. Then, we’ll hear lessons from movements of regular people who have carried on sustained resistance under repressive conditions in the US and across the globe.

Remembrances and Recommendations in Working with Our Indigenous Unhoused Relatives

Virtual

This webinar uplifts the work of diverse Tribal communities who have been working tirelessly to respond and address safety and housing for all our relatives. Panelists will share what they are doing, including lessons learned, cultural considerations, and best practices. They will deliver critical recommendations for funders, policymakers, housing programs, and domestic violence programs and shelters.

A Clergy Call to Courage: Faiths for Climate Justice

Virtual

GreenFaith is inviting faith leaders from all traditions – clergy and lay – to join us to plan and take action together. Right away, we are launching a Multi-Faith Public Call to Courage Pledge that shows that people of faith are calling for climate justice, not "drill, baby, drill."  

BeeChicas Present – Common Ground

Boulder Public Library 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO, United States

By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those in the front lines of the sustainable food movement, "Common Ground" unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. As the highly anticipated sequel to "Kiss the Ground", the film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late.