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?
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.
Do you have questions about birds? Perhaps you have questions about feeding birds, changes in bird populations that you’ve noticed, or need help identifying a bird. Our Community Naturalists have answers! Join us for Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A, to share the questions that have been chirping in the back of your mind and get answers from our bird experts.
Join Naturalist Dave Sutherland for a free trip through the Solar System. This December, a lucky lineup lets us view 7 of 8 planets in a single evening! Bring your holiday visitors along to dance with giant Jupiter’s moons, rejoice with Saturn’s rings, visit Venus (the Earth’s infernal twin) and marvel at the distant blue-green worlds of Uranus and Neptune. If you stay late, you can glimpse the polar ice caps on Mars. Note: we will not need telescopes to see the Earth. Jaw-dropping galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae added at no extra charge! It may be chilly, so definitely dress for the cold.
Join Matt Forister, professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, as he discusses working with North America's longest-running butterfly monitoring project across Northern California, and presents major findings with respect to the impacts of climate change and pesticides on butterfly populations.
Monitoring is essential to our understanding of insects in the modern era, the Anthropocene, and monitoring comes in many different forms and serves different purposes. Join Matt Forister, professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, as he discusses working with North America's longest-running butterfly monitoring project across Northern California, and presents major findings with respect to the impacts of climate change and pesticides on butterfly populations.
In this workshop we will make dioramas inspired by the teachings of insects of Colorado, and you will learn about their habitat and contributions to all life on earth. Let’s explore the interesting and enigmatic world of invertebrate insects through storytelling and by creating tiny dioramas to take with you. The program will be conducted in English and Spanish.
Embark on a thrilling journey with Friends Farm into the wonders of the plant kingdom and how we can live in harmony with our leafy friends!
What do Stephen Hornbeck of High Plains Environmental Center, Emily McCauley of Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Greenhouse, Eric Johnson of Widespread Malus and Benevolence Orchards, and Robert Greer of PPAN's Board of Directors all have in common? They each grow thousands of native plants from seed every year! How do they do it (and why)? Find out by signing up today!
Embark on a thrilling journey with Friends Farm to equip yourself with essential survival skills no matter where you roam!
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