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Boston
Area Solar Energy Association
Forum:
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
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Oh! October is here
already and our BASEA.org Forum is this
Thursday, October 8th. Please plan to attend and
invite a friend, as this will be a special
'movie night', with refreshments and
conversation as always.
You know the maxim: Think Globally,
Act Locally
There's been a lot of action locally, as
the many who attended the Sep. 29th State House
hearing can attest to - a packed room with a
heavy presence of renewable energy advocates and
our Mass Power Forward
coalition partners. And today, the Boston Globe
editors gave our movement a strong, supportive
push, and a pushback against the narrow-minded
approach floated by Governor Baker, who
seems to blindly ingest the empty calories of
the utilities' current advertising
campaign, which blows smoke to suggest that
solar is a burden.
But we know that
big-picture thinking reveals solar energy to be
a feast of benefits - and the Globe's
editorial piece - "Save the Solar
Incentives" - resoundingly calls this
to the attention of its
readership!
Friends,
the iron is hot. Let's keep hammering* away with
local action to forge a future of clean energy
for Massachusetts citizens, towns and
businesses.
And
yes, 'Think Globally', like 350.org and our
movie feature " Off + On: The Climate Movement and
the Road Through Paris". Hard to believe, but
November 2015 is almost here. The COP21, 2015
United Nations Climate Change
Conference, will be held
in Paris, from
November 30 to December 11. It's been a long
road: from Rio through Kyoto, Bali, Copenhagen
and Cancun, Durban and Doha, Warsaw and Lima.
Will Paris be the destination we seek - a
triumphant homecoming and a point of departure
toward a new direction for our global
society?
The
pope's encyclical, Laudato Si' - On
Care For Our Common Home, released in June,
clearly anticipates the Paris conference:
"We know that technology based on
the use of highly polluting fossil fuels -
especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser
degree, gas - needs to be progressively replaced
without delay." The U.S.-China Joint
Announcement on Climate Change declares that
Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping
"are committed to reaching an ambitious
2015 agreement", specifically referring to the
Paris convocation.
350.org has a plan
to bring all of us - civil society worldwide -
together in a movement to deliver this message
to Paris: "Keep fossil fuels in the ground
- really, just stop digging and drilling - and
start building renewable energy everywhere we
can. Turn off the old kind of energy that's
killing us, and turn on a renewable
future. Do it now."
Come, watch, listen and discuss at
the October 8th Forum of the Boston Area
Solar Energy
Association.
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* Yes, you have a hammer - we all
have hammers. Here, you will find the
nails:
Go
ahead and hit
them!
Concentrate
on your Representative, as the Senate's already
passed a bill to lift net metering
caps!
You can
ask your Rep. to urge Speaker DeLeo and Energy
Chairman Golden to raise the net metering caps
immediately. Finally,
if you would, please report back to Sean at Vote
Solar, who is graciously tracking our progress -
email:
se...@votesolar.org
Thank
you!
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Location:
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian
Universalist; 3 Church
Street, Harvard Square
Time: Doors
open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30
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Emily
Kirkland will provide a brief introduction to
the film and the local work of 350
Massachusetts, a statewide volunteer-led climate
action network that is fighting to stop new
fossil fuel projects, promote clean energy, put
a price on carbon, and divest our state pension
fund from fossil
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