Here is a brief look at Climate Action’s workshop for this year’s peace fair.

Another World Is Possible: Beyond Dirty Energy
Climate Action, a working group of Brooklyn For Peace
State, 5th Floor
Join us for a workshop/discussion on renewable energy and a sustainable economy. Can New York City become a major generator of renewable energy? What are the obstacles to creating a sustainable economy? What role can labor play as we confront climate change?

Speakers: Lisa DiCaprio, professor of social sciences at New York University, member of the NYU Sustainability Task Force, and founding member of Renew New York; and Sean Sweeney, director and founder of the Global Labor Institute, a program of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

A Q&A will follow the presentations. For more info on Climate Action’s activities-fighting dirty fuels, promoting renewable energy, and changing the climate around climate change-contact us at climateaction@brooklynpeace.org.

Found out more information about BFP’s 8th Annual 2012 Peace Fair

The Fight to Stop Extreme Fuels:
The Keystone XL Oil Pipeline and Beyond

Notes from a presentation at Park Slope United Methodist Church, Brooklyn, New York, December 9, 2011
Four sections:

1. The Era of Extreme Fuels
2. The Geopolitics of Oil
3. Jobs and the Environment
4. Where Does the Environmental Movement Go from Here?
   Access this document Fight to Stop Extreme Fuels 2011-12-09 Notes

The most recent permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline was denied this week by the Obama administration. The decision was due to a push for rushing the permit before complete environmental assessments could be complete.

The press release stated: “This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people.” Read the rest of this entry »

This task force will focus on strengthening the nexus between war and the environment.

As climate change accelerates and increasingly diminishing supplies of fresh water and arable land, resource wars for oil and gas are becoming more frequent and more global in nature. The anti-war movement and the environmental movement have common ground in seeking to change U.S. policy: to conserve precious resources and promote more effective, less destructive, and more peaceful solutions to the effects of climate change. Read the rest of this entry »