Past Events
Thursday, May 12, 2022 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Our regular CHAPTER Zoom meeting
Main Topic: Learning from City Climate Action Plans Across Minnesota
Featured Speaker: Kate Knuth, founder of Democracy and Climate LLC
The 100% Campaign has released a report reviewing city climate action plans in Minnesota. This report compares the planning work of 13 cities and one county that have created Climate Action Plans in Minnesota. In this presentation you will get an overview of city climate action plans in Minnesota, best practices for these plans, and ideas to support and push for local climate action leadership. The 100% Campaign is a coalition advocating for equitable climate action in Minnesota.
About the Speaker: Dr. Kate Knuth is the founder of Democracy and Climate LLC and has worked on research, policy, and solutions at the intersection of climate change and civic life. She served 6 years on the Minnesota House of Representatives, built leadership programming at the UMN Institute on the Environment, and was the first Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Minneapolis. She was a Minneapolis mayoral candidate in 2021. Dr. Knuth earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota studying how to drive the kinds of transformative change needed for a more just, sustainable future.
Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Our regular CHAPTER Zoom meeting
Short Talks Topic: Calculate Your True Home Heating Requirements
Speaker: Bill Middlecamp, CMC Presentation team member and trained Climate Reality leader
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Bill Middlecamp, a member of CMC’s leadership team, shared his method for calculating a home’s true heating needs.
Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Our regular CHAPTER Zoom meeting
Main Topic: Sustainability isn’t hard…it’s just not simple
Featured Speaker: Wendy Jedlička, CPP, ISSP-SA
Too often folks think if they're recycling, using LED bulbs, and eating organic, that's all they can do. These misconceptions applied to personal choices get carried into professional practice. There is much more to sustainability than that. While applied sustainability isn’t hard to do, it’s just not simple. How do sustainability practitioners take things to the next level and position us to not just do less bad, but create more good?
About the Speaker: With a strong background in design, manufacturing, and business, Wendy Jedlička, CPP, ISSP-SA is an IoPP Lifetime Certified Packaging Professional, a certified ISSP Sustainability Associate, and president of Jedlička Design — a packaging design firm specializing in sustainable design and business strategies. Additionally, she is co-coordinator for the o2 International Network for Sustainable Design in the US, and develops curriculum as well as teaches courses focusing on sustainable design, marketing, and business. An internationally recognized speaker, Jedlička writes feature articles on applied sustainability for design and business publications around the world, and is the contributing editor of two books: "Packaging Sustainability” and "Sustainable Graphic Design.” And Applied Sustainability chapter author for “Handbook of Sustainable Design.”
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Short Talks Topic: Home Carbon Footprint Reduction
Speaker: Mary Britton, Chapter Member and Trained Climate Reality Leader
Following Wendy Jedlička's presentation, chapter member Mary Britton discussed how she was able to reduce natural gas use in her home, shrinking its total carbon footprint by 38%.
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Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Our regular CHAPTER Zoom meeting
Main Topic: Hiding in Plain Sight - Rail as a Solution for Climate, Localization & Resilience
Featured Speaker: Bill Moyer, co-author of Solutionary Rail
A scrappy grassroots campaign emerged from fights against fossil fuel transport in the Pacific Northwest. Published in 2016, Solutionary Rail proposes a higher purpose for our nation’s railroad infrastructure, transforming the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Bill Moyer is the co-founder and executive director of the Backbone Campaign. Bill and his colleagues have designed and produced hundreds of creative protests and trained thousands of change agents. He is a lifelong activist and musician. His creative approach to activism has included kayaks, spotlights, giant banners, props and puppets.
Solutionary Rail is a grand strategic project that leads with a positive vision for the future. Bill lives with his wife and dog in the woods of Vashon Island, the ancestral land of the Puyallup people, near Seattle.
Per Bill McKibben: "Rail electrification, as proposed in this remarkable book, is that rarest of things: a genuinely new idea, and one that makes immediate gut sense."
https://www.solutionaryrail.org
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Short Talks Topic: Sustainable Fashion
Speaker: Wendi Russo, Chapter Member and Trained Climate Reality Leader
Following Bill Moyer's presentation, chapter member Wendi Russo covered sustainability efforts in the world of fashion.
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Thursday, January 13, 2022 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Our regular CHAPTER Zoom meeting
Topic 1: Community Solar
Featured Speaker: Timothy DenHerder-Thomas
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Topic 2: Chapter Elections
The 2022 candidates each introduced themselves and gave an introductory presentation on their background and motivation for joining the leadership team.
Voting was done online, using OpaVote.
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Our regular CHAPTER Zoom meeting
Topic: What happened at COP26?!
Featured Speakers: CMC Members Eric Meyer (Generation Atomic) and J. Drake Hamilton (Fresh Energy) shared their insights about achievements and opportunities during the COP 26 event.
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Monday, November 8, 2021 7pm - 8:30pm CST
Special Meeting: In lieu of a November chapter meeting, we co-hosted a special event focused on Climate Solutions.
Topic: Achieving Drawdown – A Hopeful, Science-Based Approach to "Stop" Climate Change.
Featured speaker: Dr. Jonathan Foley, executive director of Project Drawdown
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Event Archives
2020-2021 CMC Events