ALERT: Because of the primaries, we WILL NOT be holding our September monthly meeting on Thursday the 13th. Everyone go out on primary day and Vote Climate!
READ MORERISE and march for Climate, Jobs and Justice on September 6th (in place of monthly meeting). Starting in Battery Park at 5:30pm, look for 350BK banners and flags and join us for this important march, part of a week of action related to the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco starting 9/8. Email if […]
READ MOREThursday August 9th, 7:30 pm Die StammKneipe, at 710 Fulton Street This August’s monthly meeting will be in a beer garden! Taking a break from our regular meeting style, let’s get together to hang out, lift a glass and have a bite at this great Ft. Greene indoor/outdoor beer garden. Die StammKneipe, at 710 Fulton Street, […]
READ MOREThursday June 14th, 7:30 pm Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue How does solar energy work and how can we expand it in our state? Do you know that you can “go solar” even as a renter? And what the heck is “net metering” anyway? Come learn about the state of solar in New York (with […]
READ MOREClimate Change: Whose Story? A Provocative Public Forum at BRIC ARTS THURSDAY MAY 17, 2018, 7:30 – 9:00 PM EDT BRIC, 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY Stories shape how we understand the world, our place in it, and our ability to change it. While it is broadly understood the crisis of climate change threatens human […]
READ MOREThursday April 12th, 7:30 pm Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue Climate Activist Training with 350Brooklyn 350 Brooklyn is committed to growing a grassroots movement that acts locally to stop climate change. Towards this goal, we’re devoting the next meeting to hands-on training (developed by 350.org) that will help us work together more powerfully as a group. […]
READ MOREMonday, March 26: Community Forum on the Williams Pipeline The Williams energy company of Oklahoma has proposed burying a 23-mile long fracked gas pipeline off our coast. Come to a Community Forum at 7 pm at the New York Aquarium, 602 Surf Avenue, Coney Island, to learn more about this proposal. If built, this pipeline […]
READ MOREThursday, March 8, 7:30 pm. Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue Our speaker this month will be from Align, a longstanding alliance of labor and community organizations united for a just and sustainable New York. ALIGN works at the intersection of economy, environment, and equity to make change and build movement. We will hear about one […]
READ MORE350 Brooklyn Monthly Meeting: February 8, 7:30 Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue – Map This month 350Brooklyn welcomes two experts in urban agriculture, Ray Figueroa and Ian Marvey. Agriculture has a critical role to play in calming the climate crisis but it’s not just rural farms that matter. Come hear what’s going right here in […]
READ MOREDid you know that in New York City buildings are responsible for 71% of the city’s carbon footprint? Ensuring that new construction is energy-efficient is fine, but most of the work to reduce building energy use will need to address existing buildings. The 2030 District project is an effort to accelerate progress towards sustainable cities […]
READ MOREIt’s Governor Cuomo’s birthday and he’s celebrating with a giant fund-raiser at Cipriani, 55 Wall Street. And 350Brooklyn and many of our climate allies will be out on the sidewalk to greet him! We’re coming with birthday wishes for the end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure in New York State and a just transition […]
READ MOREThursday, November 9, 7:30 Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue. It’s been one year since Donald Trump’s election. Amidst the bombast and the distractions, what difference has Trump’s election actually made to US progress on climate change? Come hear Michael Burger, Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University as he lays […]
READ MOREThursday, October 12, at 7:30. Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue. Local action is more important than ever. Our next general meeting will feature Kim Fraczek of Sane Energy, who will give a presentation on the buildup of fossil fuel infrastructure in New York and neighboring states. We’ll discuss the problems, solutions, the movement against this […]
READ MORETickets now available for 350 Brooklyn’s Climate Solutions Town Hall on October 24th at Brooklyn College! Tickets are *free* but advance registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-solutions-town-hall-the-path-forward-tickets-38049249329 Our panel includes representatives from New York Renews, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, Turn the Tide, and Sean Sweeney, Director of the CUNY International Program for Labor, Climate […]
READ MOREOn Wednesday, join 350Brooklyn and your fellow New Yorkers as we gather at the Exxon Building in Midtown Manhattan to mourn the lives, homes, and livelihoods lost to Hurricane Harvey. We will reckon with the reckless greed and corruption responsible for this crisis, and gather up donations and collective courage for the road ahead. Here […]
READ MOREThursday, September 14, at 7:30. Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue. This month’s our guest speaker will be Alphonso David, council to Governor Andrew Cuomo! Hear what he has to say about the Governor’s agenda and bring your questions.
READ MOREAug. 6: Resist the Williams Pipeline! 1:30 pm Coney Island Boardwalk at West 20th Street Come join our allies NYC Surfriders in handing out flyers and getting signatures on petitions in opposition to a planned Williams pipeline. This pipeline would stretch 23 miles across NY Bay, close to Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens. Williams will […]
READ MOREPlease join us at our AUGUST MONTHLY MEETING – PICNIC DINNER! Thursday, August 10th, 6:30pm Prospect Park, End of Long Meadow nearest Grand Army Plaza Our August general meeting will be held outdoors in Prospect Park at the end of Long Meadow nearest to Grand Army Plaza. Note the start time will be 6:30 rather […]
READ MOREPlease join us at our JULY MONTHLY MEETING! Thursday, July 13th, 7:30pm Commons Café, 388 Atlantic Ave ECONOMIST & POLICY ANALYST CHARLES KOMANOFF will speak about what carbon taxes are, how they work, the challenges of implementing them, and the critical role they play in arresting runaway climate change. We’ll also discuss how you can […]
READ MOREJoin us on June 29 to tell Senator Hamilton and the IDC that New York can’t wait for climate justice. While Donald Trump and his fossil fuel cronies have been dismantling the EPA and abandoning the Paris Climate agreement, our state legislature took no action on climate change. Despite devastating threats to our air, water, […]
READ MOREBREAKING: The New York State Assembly passed the Climate and Community Protection Act last night!!! Click here for a detailed article BUT this year’s legislative session ends tomorrow, and we need the SENATE to bring the bill to a vote! **PLEASE CALL SENATOR TONY AVELLA TODAY AT (518-455-2210)** and urge him to bring the bill […]
READ MORE350 Brooklyn supports Mayor de Blasio’s new executive order recommitting New York City to the Paris agreement. But it recognizes that the order is not enough to ensure a just and sustainable future for city residents. New York City already has a law on the books committing to 80% reductions in climate emissions by 2050, […]
READ MOREDear 350Brooklyn Members, Today President Trump is expected to announce that he intends to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accords. Should Trump take this action, of all the world’s nations only the US, Syria, and Nicaragua would stand outside this historic agreement on climate change. Tell Trump what a serious mistake […]
READ MORE350Brooklyn Next Meeting: Thursday June 8th 7:30 Join us at Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, for our June General Meeting. Always lively, informative, and geared towards taking action! At the next monthly meeting learn about some awesome Brooklyn organizations that work for Climate Justice. On June 8th we will focus on Intersectionality and the connections […]
READ MOREOn Saturday April 29th, members of 350Brooklyn joined over 300,000 citizens and activists in a demonstration of unity for jobs, justice, and climate action! It was a powerful and uplifting day, despite the 90-degree temperatures (no surprise there!). Here are some images from the day:
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