Join Transition Town Port Washington and Landmark on Main Street for an evening of cocktails, community, and conversation about the truth behind the myths being circulated by the gas industry. Our panel of experts will clear up the misinformation, explain the environmental and health impacts of continuing to burn gas, and offer practical alternatives to using gas in your home.

Amanda Perez Leder will moderate a panel discussion with four distinguished guests:

Anshul Gupta will cover the misinformation that the fossil fuel industry uses to lock in their consumer base to remain relevant in a changing world.

Billii Roberti will share ways to clean and green your home to make it safer and more climate-friendly, and cost-efficient.

Dr. Hildur Palsdottir will educate on the plastic waste crisis and emergent public health risks.

Chef Mathieu Lanfant of the Cooking Lab will share the benefits of induction stovetops, rapidly becoming commonplace in kitchens world-wide.

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Anshul Gupta is a research scientist and climate advocate, who has volunteered in multiple roles with the NY State Chapters Coalition of the Climate Reality Project. With the help of his collaborators, he has tracked and written extensively about the major players and their practices involved in efforts to derail the implementation of New York's Climate Act. He got involved in this campaign after converting his own home to all-electric operations and disconnecting his gas service.

Billii Roberti is a LI homeowner with first-hand experience of tightening building envelopes, solar PV, and heat pumps. Her company, Green Choices Consulting, advises and navigates businesses and homeowners through renewable energy options. Billii has been on the Town of Huntington Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency, Renewables & Sustainability since 2011 and is a founding member of the New York Geothermal Energy Organization (NY-GEO). She is also the coordinator of the Mothers Out Front Long Island Team working with the Renewable Heat Now campaign, which promotes an equitable shift off burning fuels and the transition to all-electric buildings. She also volunteers with the Reimagine LIPA campaign, which supports the transition of the Long Island Power Authority to a locally operated and controlled public utility.

Dr. Hildur Palsdottir is a nature-based educator, climate activist, community organizer and co-founder of ReWild Long Island. She is a founding steering committee member of Transition Town Port Washington and President of the Board of Trustees at The Science Museum of Long Island, where she participates in stewarding the 34 acre Leeds Pond Preserve. She’s motivated to inspire future scientists to care for our natural world. Hildur contributes to an environmental column Earth Matters in the Island Now newspaper. Hildur completed her PhD in cellular bioenergetics at the Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany in 2004. After post-doctoral research in the Life Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory she worked as a research scientist at the New York University Medical School. In 2017 she founded Sol Center, a nature-based healing arts center in Port Washington. In her free time she enjoys outdoor activities with her family and friends. She especially enjoys bird watching, wildlife tracking and gardening.

Mathieu Lanfantt is a classically trained French chef from the Ecole Supérieure de Cuisine Française in Paris. Born and raised in Paris, Mat’s 15 years of experience in the culinary and hospitality industries took him from Europe to Argentina and then to New York. Mat took a hiatus from restaurant life to run his family’s business and raise his three children, but his passion for cooking brings him back to his roots to teach at The Cooking Lab.

Join the Port Washington Public Library and Transition Town Port Washington for a special presentation on the stewardship and restoration efforts of the 36 acre Leeds Pond Preserve at the Science Museum of Long Island (SMLI). The grounds of the Science Museum include beautiful habitats, with mid-to-late successional forest of oaks, maples, beech and tulip trees and is currently at risk of compromise because of the beech leaf disease and other invasive pests. This presentation will be given by Frank Piccininni, who is founder of Spadefoot Design and Construction and co-founder of SMPIL Consulting Ltd., both of which specialize in habitat restoration. With a focus on adaptive management Mr. Piccinini will explore initiatives aimed at restoring the ecological health of the grounds, supporting wildlife habitats and wetland ecosystem function. He will highlight techniques for invasive species management and introduce strategies for reducing the prevalence of harmful, non-native and invasive species. These restoration efforts aim to regenerate disturbed woodlands and turn them into thriving ecosystems, which will offer a nature sanctuary for future generations to enjoy.

To register for this hybrid event: https://portwashington.librarycalendar.com/event/ecosystem-restoration-science-museum-long-island

Este importante programa provee información actualizada con los pasos que toda persona debe saber para estar preparada para un próximo desastre natural.

This important program will provide the most up to date information about what specific steps everyone should take to be prepared for the next natural disaster.

Climate change impacts more than sea-level rise and coastal flooding in low-lying areas worldwide. Increased rain events and excessive heat waves are increasingly frequent and cause environmental and social risks. Two important ways the Port Peninsula can both lower carbon emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change is through green transportation and land use.

This Climate Action Series finale features Joerg Theimann-Linden, a Sustainable Urban Mobility Advisor specialized in creating large-scale cycling & walking plans for Germany, and Tricia Martin, a Landscape architect who led the green infrastructure and resiliency guidelines for the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and The Lower East Side Community Garden Resiliency Feasibility study for Rising Green. Both guests shall elaborate on how green transportation and infrastructure can mitigate the effects of climate change within our coastal communities.

“Green Infrastructure and Climate Change” is co-presented by Landmark on Main Street and Transition Town Port Washington. Register Here to join the zoom presentation with q & a. Click on the Image for more information about the Presenters.

Compost More, Throw out Less, Reduce Garbage in Landfills and Incinerators. If everyone composted their food scraps instead of throwing them in the garbage, up to 20% of our waste would go toward regenerating the earth and improving the quality of life for our neighbors on Long Island.

Home and Community Composting, Municipal Food Scrap Recycling - it’s all doable, right now!

Join the Conversation! Learn from Ron Schulhof and Michelle Sterling about the successful food scrap recycling program in Scarsdale, NY, community composting happening here in Port Washington with Claire Brezel, and efforts to close the Brookhaven Landfill with climate justice advocate Monique Fitzgerald who lives in the fence line community of Bellport.

“Food Scraps are the Soil-ution” is co-presented by Landmark on Main Street and Transition Town Port Washington. Register Here to join the zoom presentation with q & a. Click on the Image for more information about the panelists.

“Neonics” are all around us

Join Landmark on Main Street and Transition Town Port Washington for a special presentation followed by audience Q&A with keynote speaker Dan Raichel from Natural Resources Defense Council. Dan will explain the science behind the harm posed by neonicotinoid pesticides ("neonics") to biodiversity as well as their surprising prevalence in our everyday environment. The popular pesticides contaminate soil, water, plant life, and people on a nearly unprecedented scale, raising alarm bells not just for the birds and bees, but also a whole host of wildlife, ecosystem functioning, clean water, soil health and even our own health.

This event is co-presented by Landmark on Main Street and Transition Town Port Washington and will be live streamed on Zoom. No in-person attendance will be available. Register by clicking Here. Click on the image for more information about the Presenter.

Panelists Shane Weeks (Shinnecock), Co-CEO of Niamuck Land Trust (NLT), Tecumseh Ceasar (Matinecock) NLT Program Assistant, and Danielle Hopson Begun (Shinnecock), a Shinnecock Kelp Farmer, will share history of the Shinnecock people's relationship to the lands and waters of Long Island as traditional stewards and information about how their work provides solutions to the climate crisis. This event is co-presented by Landmark on Main Street and Transition Town Port Washington and will be live streamed on Zoom. No in-person attendance will be available. Register by clicking Here. Click on the image for more information.

Ever wondered what the Great Pacific Garbage Patch really looks like? Come to this Zoom presentation TONIGHT to find out!

Long Island native and photo journalist, Erica Cirino has researched and exposed Plastic Consumption and Pollution in our oceans and lays it all on the line in her new book: Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis.

She will share her life’s work in a presentation and interactive Q & A. This is an event for the whole family. Please join US!

Pre-registration is required. Click Here

Produced by Transition Town Port Washington and the Science Museum of LI

Microplastic Madness is an award-winning documentary film about 56 5th grade students from P.S. 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn who deep dive into the root causes of plastic pollution. Taking on the roles of citizen scientists and community advocates, they collect and use their own local data to inform policy by testifying and rallying at City Hall. Then they turned their focus back to school, taking action in their cafeteria to eliminate all single-use plastic!

This is the year We Break Free from Plastics! What can you do to reduce plastic usage and waste in your home, school and community?

The Film starts at 6:30. Gates open at 5:30 with a Beyond Plastics science fair. Q & A with Film’s education director. Admission: $10 per adult, 18 & Under and PWSD Teachers and Personnel come FREE. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, snacks and beverages (no single use plastics please!).

Click here to register for Microplastic Madness

Click on the Graphic for more information and trailer link

Join Transition Town Port Washington and RewildLI for a conversation about the benefits of a strong canopy and key policy elements required to stop loss and start regeneration of healthy trees. We will focus specifically on the need to strengthen the proposed amended TONH tree laws (next TofNH hearing to be held 11/18/21) to ensure adequate tree biodiversity, equity, and protections as we prepare for our changing world. There will be a Q & A and suggested actions. Let’s update the TofNH Tree Law to make our town more resilient and also, SAVE our TREES and PLANT more!

WHAT: CONVERSATION ON TONH TREE LAW

WHEN: Tuesday, September 28th at 7 PM

SPEAKERS: Hildur Palsdottir, Alicia Ragusa, moderated by Raju Rajan with Participant Q&A

LOCATION: Online over Zoom. Please click here for link to join

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS    

Alicia Ragusa, Esq. is an attorney and conservationist with a twenty-five-year history of environmental advocacy, and the founder of TreeLove, a new project aimed at cultivating appreciation for trees.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New York State Urban Forestry Council.

Dr. Hildur Palsdottir is a climate activist, community organizer, public speaker, and founder of ReWild Long Island. She is a founding steering committee member of Transition Town Port Washington and President of the Board of Trustees at The Science Museum of Long Island.

Raju Rajan is a technologist with a strong communitarian ethic. He is a founder and President of ReWild Long Island. He will be moderating the forum.

FREE ON ZOOM - What’s your Carbon Footprint? Your friends and neighbors at Transition Town Port Washington are committed to reaching the Net Zero carbon emissions goal by 2040. We all need to be part of this journey, but where should we start? Communities United to Reduce Emissions 100% (CURE100) has developed a tool called the Carbon Tracker App. It measures households’ carbon footprint and identifies the most effective ways for individuals to quantitatively understand and reduce their emissions.

Join this webinar and Q&A to hear CURE100’s own Chandu Visweswariah explain the motivation behind the creation of the carbon tracker app and talk us through the process step-by-step. This program is co-sponsored by Transition Town Port Washington, CURE100's newest chapter and hosted by the Port Washington Public Library.

Please CLICK HERE to join the Zoom meeting, July 21 @ 7:00 pm.

Meeting ID: 812 4958 3345

Passcode: 612384

Dial in:    +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)

Join Landmark and Transition Town Port Washington for a conversation with Midge Iorio, executive director of Bedford 2030, who has helped lead the way in cutting carbon emissions in her town, and Walter Meyer, a leader in sustainable and resilient design. The speakers will discuss how communities can successfully move toward achieving net zero Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 2040. Achieving this goal is paramount in preventing catastrophic overshoot beyond 1.5 degrees C of global warming.

Part 5 of the TTPW 5-event Climate Action Series hosted by Landmark on Main Street.

To Register for this free zoom event on the Landmark Calendar: Click Here.

Join Landmark and Transition Town Port Washington for a conversation with Geovaira Hernandez and Ryan Madden, Coalition Organizers for NY Renews, and moderator Melanie D'Arrigo, community activist and former congressional candidate. The speakers will discuss state and national legislative proposals that are designed to address the scale of the climate problem. These include the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), passed into law last year in New York State, and the national Thrive Agenda, supported by the Green New Deal Network, that is currently being proposed in congress.

Part 4 of the TTPW 5-event Climate Action Series hosted by Landmark on Main Street.

To Register for this free zoom event on the Landmark Calendar. Click Here.

Presenter Alexis Goldsmith, Beyond Plastics National Organizer and moderator Hildur Palsdottir, Transition Town member will discuss ways to tackle our plastic pollution crisis and advance regenerative, inclusive solutions that are good for our environment, our health, and our economy. This free event is streaming on Zoom.

Part 3 of the TTPW 5-event Climate Action Series hosted by Landmark on Main Street.

Watch the documentary film: The Story of Plastic before the event and join the Conversation. Click Here for the Link. Password: SOP_April_519785507272

Register for this free zoom event on the Landmark Calendar: Click Here.

It’s Spring and we are finally getting our hands back in the dirt at the Science Museum of Long Island (SMLI)! We’ll be establishing a mother orchard of American Chestnut trees on the museum grounds and planting Willow saplings by Leeds Pond. The Willows, when grown, are intended to shade out invasive plants which are detrimental to the water ecosystem.

Join Landmark and TTPW for a conversation about how regenerative farming and composting can trap carbon emissions and restore the soul and the soil. Hear from Marisa DeDominicis of Earth Matter, a closed-loop Compost Facility on Governors Island that converts food scraps from farmers markets and returns compost to city parks. Two other panelists will share the hour: Daniel Firth Griffith is an emergent conservationist and regenerative farmer at Timshel Wildland, a process-led landscape and farm in Central Virginia. As Catskills Mountainkeeper’s co-founder and associate director, Wes Gillingham is a farmer dedicated to pushing New York into a Just Transition away from fossil fuels. He has personally lived off the electric grid for over 30 years and serves on the advisory board of the Center for Earth Ethics.

This free event is streaming on Zoom.

Part 2 of the TTPW 5-event Climate Action Series hosted by Landmark on Main Street.

Join Landmark and Transition Town Port Washington for a presentation by Karenna Gore, founder and director of The Center for Earth Ethics. Then join the conversation, in an audience Q&A moderated by Hildur Palsdottir. This free event is streaming on Zoom.

Part 1 of the TTPW 5-event Climate Action Series hosted by Landmark on Main Street.

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