The BYOB Bag LB team bring the Plastic Free July challenge to Long Beach, NY.
We’ve organized many events this July to raise awareness of the dangers and damage plastic pollution causes, and issue the Plastic Free July challenge to you!
Take the challenge:
Attempt to refuse single-use plastic for a day, week, or whole month of July. “Single-use” includes plastic shopping bags, plastic cups, straws, plastic packaging… anything that’s intended only to be used once and then discarded. click here to take the challenge and share your experience
Join our BYO Bag LB Plastic Free July Events and volunteer team:
July 19 (tentative) City Hall Show Of Support To Stop Plastic Pollution.
(Event link coming soon)
July 25 Our Undersea World: An Unnatural Danger.
Pollution hurts marine animals. Presentation and discussion With Riverhead Foundation For Marine Research And Preservation https://www.facebook.com/events/531800263689429/
Please share all the events, info and the challenge. Come out and join us for the events, and volunteer to get involved and have some fun while protecting our environment.
Together we will raise awareness and stop single use plastic pollution!
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold public meetings in June to provide an overview of the Environmental Assessment findings and offer additional opportunities for public comments.
The process to start Off Shore Wind for Long Island moves forward. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the proposed lease sale for 81,130 acres offshore New York for commercial wind energy leasing. The area is approximately 11 miles south of Long Beach, an area that can support a large-scale commercial wind project.
We will advocate for it to be
the most environmentally friendly
most responsible and responsive
most local jobs
most committed to soonest operation and long term viability
Get involved in the upcoming BOEM Meeting on June 21, 2016!
Join our Wind 4 LI advocacy meeting at Long Beach Public Library
Thursday 6/16 at 7PM
111 West Park Ave Long Beach
https://www.facebook.com/events/1641758179481868/
Leading to next Week’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) public meetings, especially our local one at Hofstra University, we will discuss what this means, what is at stake, and help YOU become involved in the process and attend BOEM’s Meeting at Hofstra University.
From BOEM:
On June 6, 2016, BOEM published an Environmental Assessment (EA) in the Federal Register for a 30-day public comment period. The EA considers potential impacts associated with issuing a lease, associated surveys, and approving the installation of resource assessment facilities (i.e., meteorological tower and/or buoys) in the New York Wind Energy Area.
BOEM will hold public meetings in June to provide an overview of the EA findings and offer additional opportunities for public comments. BOEM’s public meetings will be held at the following locations:
Monday June 20, 2016
Long Branch Middle School (Auditorium)
404 Indiana Avenue, Long Branch, New Jersey 07740
6:00- 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday June 21, 2016
Hofstra University (MPR Room)
900 Fulton Avenue, Hempstead, New York 11549
6:00- 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (Note: New location)
Westhampton Beach Elementary School
379 Mill Road, Westhampton Beach, New York 11978
6:00- 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Coastal Institute Building (Hazard Rooms A & B)
215 S Ferry Road, Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882
6:00- 8:00 p.m.
Monday, June 27, 2016
Waypoint Event Center at Fairfield Inn & Suites
Sea Loft Room
185 MacArthur Drive, New Bedford, MA 02740
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
In addition to the EA meetings, BOEM will host an auction seminar in New York City to describe the auction format, explain the auction rules and demonstrate the auction process through meaningful examples. It will be followed by a public meeting on BOEM’s planning and leasing efforts regarding New York offshore wind energy activities. The public seminar and public meeting will be held at the following location:
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
TKP New York Conference Center, Empire A Room
109 W 39th St., New York, NY 10018
Auction Seminar: 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Public Meeting: 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. (with an overview presentation at 5:30 p.m.)
Bag bill passed in NYC! Now…
Here comes the plastic bag industry with their friends in NY State government to overthrow democracy…
You read that right. On the heels of the successful NYC plastic bag fee law, legislation has been introduced in both the NY Senate and Assembly to thwart attempts to stop plastic bag pollution.
Now, State Senator Simcha Felder’s bill “establishes a prohibition on the imposition of any tax, fee or local charge on carry out merchandise bags.” If only they were prohibiting the tax on society and the environment that plastic bags cost, or the fees to deal with them that are placed on everyone, including future generations, after people discard them. They’re not against everyone paying thosetaxes and fees.
This attempt to overthrow the right to local control is outrageous, even for New York State politics.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t see anything in any federal or state constitution that people are entitled to a free bag, nor the consequences of such a thing. Lets help remind those that do not yet understand that it’s not ok to destroy the environment, even for 12 whole minutes convenience. We need your help to stop this terrible legislation!
First, we need your help to raise awareness with your neighbors, friends, and everyone here, NOW, for the need for plastic bag laws. Get Involved-volunteer your time – join our volunteer team at this week’s team meeting at 6:30 pm on April 19 at Gentle Brew!
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/237236193312543/
We need your help to speak to merchants, staff events, engage the public, get signatures on our petition, help people display their support with window clings and stickers, and bring everyone together to make this a success for everyone involved to push this campaign over the finish line.
Please donate to the cause here. We would love to have a reusable bag giveaway or fundraiser campaign to help get bags into the hands of all. If even a small portion of our petition signers chipped in even 5, 10, 20 dollars it would go far towards removing the barriers to legislation, number one of which is making sure no one is left out who cannot afford reusable bags.
Contact your Representative
Tell your Assembly and Senate members that stopping plastic bag ordinances is not supported. If one of your representatives is on this list, we need you especially to call and write the Senators and Assembly Members who are signed on to this legislation.
Senators in favor so far:
Sponsor-Simcha Felder (D) 17th Senate District
Andrew J Lanza (R) 24th Senate District
Martin J. Golden (R, C, IP) 22nd Senate District
Tony Avella (D, IP) 11th Senate District
Roxanne J. Persaud (D) 19th Senate District
Diane J. Savino (D, IP, WF) 23rd Senate District
James L. Seward (R, C, IP) 51st Senate District
Assembly members in favor so far
Sponsor- Michael Cusick(staten island)
Mark Gjonaj
David Weprin
Steven Cymbrowitz
Michael G. Miller
Ron Castorina
Michael Simanowitz
Victor M. Pichardo
Peter Abbate
Dov Hikind
Michael DenDekker
Nicole Malliotakis
Phillip Goldfeder
Walter T. Mosley
Erik Dilan
Andrew Hevesi
Inez Barron
Matthew Titone
Marcos Crespo
William Colton
Michael J. Fitzpatrick
Here are the links to S7336 and A9904, the companion bill in the State Assembly:
Please circulate information about this latest attempt by the plastic bag industry to prevent limits on the use of plastic bags and ask your representatives in the State Senate and State Assembly to oppose S7336/A9904.
We have a new screening date with The City of Long Beach to show Bag It, next Friday, 4/29/16 at Martin Luther King Center in Long Beach
Date Friday 4/29/16
Time: 7pm
Where: Martin Luther King Center
AD: 615 Riverside Blvd, Long Beach, New York 11561
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1399973290309394/
Join the Movement! Come see the award winning movie “Bag It” and learn about plastic pollution and your part in stopping it.
Are you seeing the bumper stickers and window clings around town? Tell us where!
have you displayed your support, too?
you are following the campaign facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/byobaglbny/ Stay tuned- more dates and events will be coming.
Right now, our off shore wind public unity and education campaign is about to launch our second phase.
We will be sponsoring events and actions across Long Island, empowering people to become advocates for environmentally and fiscally responsible development of this incredible and readily available resource. We need your help and involvement to get the word out, to push our officials and our utility to adopt this, Let’s educate our friends, neighbors, children, parents and especially decision-makers, so we can move away from the dirty fossil fuels we use now, and into a comparatively impact-free way we can generate our electricity: from off shore wind.
Join our volunteer team kickoff meeting. We want your energy, ideas, and action to make this a success for all involved.
Thanks to all for such a fun night and an incredible discussion that followed at our screening of “Bag It” at on 4/1/16 at Bridgeworks!
Our Thanks especially to Councilman Eramo and Councilwoman Goggin who spoke about taking action on this issue! Thanks also to the City of Long Beach for their support, Long Beach International Film Festival, Long Beach Chamber, Jack Johnson(for the autographed swag), and our event hosts Bridgeworks, and our event sponsors: Cybernet, East End Chiropractic, Lift, and Sunpower by Empower Solar.
don’t forget- Bridgeworks have a great offer for you all- sign up for a monthly coworking package at Bridgeworks and receive a month free. For members interested in offices, security will be lessened to 1 month to reserve the office (rather than 2), Any members interested can book a tour from this link:
Why is our movement growing and only getting stronger?
YOU!!
We need your power now to continue building momentum, raising awareness and most of all, helping everyone transition to a reusable bag culture that eliminates single-use plastic bag pollution.
We are really loving seeing the bumper stickers and window clings going up all over, and hope you will display your support, too.
Stay tuned- more dates and events will be coming.
Door prizes include signed Jack Johnson items(thank you Jack!), A Free Family Beach Pass from the City of Long Beach(Thank You City of Long Beach!), and more.
Bridgeworks have a great offer for you all- sign up for a monthly coworking package at Bridgeworks and receive a month free. For members interested in offices, security will be lessened to 1 month to reserve the office (rather than 2), Any members interested can book a tour from this link:
Want to see what it might look like from the beach? Click here All Our Energy will be advocating 100% FOR IT and advocating it be done to the highest environmental, wildlife, and shared-use standards possible for best outcomes. As residents of a 100 mile long island that is very vulnerable to climate impacts, we cannot afford to stay on the fossil fuels driving that climate change. The impacts of off shore wind would be minute, compared to more or continued dirty energy use.
If you have any questions about it, please contact us and we will address your concerns or find out the answers you seek.
We’ve organized many events this July to raise awareness of the dangers and damage plastic pollution causes, and issue the Plastic Free July challenge to you!
BYO Bag LB campaign in the news
Our BYO Bag LB campaign to end plastic pollution was featured in this week’s Long Beach Herald
Find (and share) it online here:
http://www.liherald.com/
Are you seeing the bumper stickers and window clings around town? Tell us where!
have you displayed your support, too?
you are following the campaign facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/
Stay tuned- more dates and events will be coming.
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