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Today we told LIPA- its time for renewables!

| March 21, 2016 | No comments

 

Today we rallied at the Long Island Power Authority Trustee meeting to tell them “Plug Me In To Off Shore Wind!”

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All Our Energy were part of over 100 activists and demonstrators at this week’s LIPA Board meeting.

LIPA Chairman Suozzi asked, and not a single person in the room was against developing off shore wind. I spoke in favor of moving forward with off shore wind right now for the power they need to generate for the South Fork of LI.  For the same price we can have clean energy with battery storage from an off shore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk, or build new fossil fuel power plants and gas pipelines to feed them across the island, including sensitive nature areas.  Why would we not move into the renewable energy future??

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read about it here:

Dozens protest to approve offshore LI wind turbines
VIDEO: Dozens rally for LIPA approval of offshore wind turbines


Plus about the Off Shore Wind Forum from last week in East Hampton
http://mobile.easthamptonstar.com/News/2016324/Swell-Support-Buoys-Wind-Project

 

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Our Letter Published in Newsday

| March 18, 2016 | No comments

Newsday published my (highly abbreviated) letter about Suffolk County’s single use plastic bag proposal this week.

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/letters/letter-newsday-uses-plastic-bags-too-1.11576235

newsdaybagsWe are pushing for similar action in Long Beach, to eliminate single use plastic bag pollution. Thank you for your support.

Can you display that support with one of our bumper stickers??  this show of support will help your neighbors and everyone become aware and transform Long Beach to a reusable bag culture, saving our waterways from tens of thousands of plastic bag assaults and helping keep our streets clean.

Please save the date for our next showing of Bag It at Bridgeworks on April 1!

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2 things you can do to help us stand up for renewables

| March 16, 2016 | No comments

Long Island is at a crossroads. We need more power to run our homes, especially on the South Fork.

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A developer is ready to supply this energy, from an off shore wind farm, promised at the same or lower cost than a new fossil fuel power plant, with battery storage to cover the estimated few dozen hours annually the wind isn’t blowing, and they take all the risk, supplying electricity at a fixed rate for a certain period of time.
In opposition to that, another developer wants to put one or two fossil fuel powered plants into the area. this will probably require new gas pipelines and other dangerous infrastructure through Long Island neighborhoods to feed it.

The choice couldn’t be clearer.  why would we go back to the past when we can move on to a clean energy future and start the renewable energy revolution right here on Long Island- a revolution that comes with up to 40,000 jobs?

Join our meeting tonight to educate and support YOU to speak at LIPA’s March 21 board meeting for off shore wind!  This will likely be the last chance before they announce their decision. Let’s be heard and help them make the right choice!

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“Bag It” was a Hit!

| March 10, 2016 | No comments

We had a fantastic time and an enlightening conversation followed on from our screening of “Bag It” last Friday.

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All Our Energy and the BYO Bag LB Campaign Thank The City Of Long Beach, Councilman Anthony Eramo, Ryan Mc Tiernan, The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, and Surfrider Foundation Central LI Chapter, and sponsors Cybernet (http://www.cybernetny.com/)and EmPower Solar (www.empower–solar.com/).

Did you get your BYO Bag LB Bumper sticker???  Put one up and help show your support for this campaign!

Now we need your help to expand and show the widespread public support (that’s YOU)  that there is for eliminating single use plastic bag pollution.  Let’s make this a dinner table topic and transition Long Beach to a reusable bag culture!

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“Bag It” with us TONIGHT 3/4/16

| March 4, 2016 | No comments

Tonight, Friday Night March 4, 2016 at 7pm, join All Our Energy, the BYO Bag LB Campaign along with the City Of Long Beach, The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, and Surfrider Foundation Central LI Chapter, with pizza and refreshments sponsored by Cybernet (http://www.cybernetny.com/) and EmPower Solar (www.empower–solar.com/) for family Friendly Friday night movie showing of “Bag It” at Long Beach City Hall.
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Please bring your friends, kids, everyone… and share with everyone you know. invite them right now at the event link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1741239379440120/
 
Many thanks to Councilman Anthony Eramo for his help to bring the campaign to the public through official city channels!
Now we need your help to expand and show the widespread public support (that’s YOU)  that there is for eliminating single use plastic bag pollution.  Let’s make this a dinner table topic and transition Long Beach to a reusable bag culture!
If you haven’t already, Please like and share the campaign’s Facebook page
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huge news in our plastic bag campaign!

| February 26, 2016 | No comments
As of this week…THE CITY OF LONG BEACH IS HELPING SUPPORT THIS CAMPAIGN!  

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Thanks to Councilman Anthony Eramo, who has stepped up to bring our campaign to the public through official city channels, this campaign has just catapulted ahead dramatically!
The City of Long Beach will host a family-friendly screening of “Bag It” on the big screen at Long Beach CITY HALL Friday, March 4 at 7pm.   The City will promote it through their extensive channels.
Additionally, we thank The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, who are also backing and promoting this event and lending their help. 
Here’s how YOU can help: Join us as we RAMP UP all our outreach and host multiple events to coincide with this development and use this momentum to push this issue through to success.  

We must expand and show the widespread public support (that’s YOU)  that there is for this, and make this a dinner table topic to transition Long Beach to a reusable bag culture!Can you show your support and to help advocate with us?

For this date and others upcoming, we will need volunteers, and happy moviegoers alike. Please bring your friends, kids, everyone and tell and share with everyone you know. invite them right now at the event link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1741239379440120/Please reply to this email if you would like to join the volunteer team.

We have bumper/window stickers on the way and we hope you will display them to help raise awareness of the issue and let everyone know that you support this movement!  Can you display one?  Come to one of our upcoming events and get one!!! 

If you haven’t already, Please like and share the campaign’s Facebook page

With your help, we will be unstoppable!!

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Help Tell LIPA and NY State: We want Renewables

| February 17, 2016 | No comments

Right now, millions in New York can not make their own clean energy because the sun doesn’t shine on their roof the right way, or maybe they don’t even have a roof!  Why should that be our limit?


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What if we found a way for them to still generate their own solar power that they could use anyway?

At our 2/17/16 meeting, we discussed these issues and what we can all do about it.

Two ways to do this are community owned solar projects and off site / virtual net metering.  Your clean energy is created somewhere besides your house or business, and you still get to use it.
These are new strategies that would help unleash a renewables revolution in New York.  We have the power right now,  in New York and especially on Long Island, to beneficially replace outdated fossil fuel infrastructure that has outlived its expected life span. It must be replaced soon.

With your help, we will make sure Long Island moves into renewable energy.

If we buy in to all new fossil fuels, we will have them for 30-50 years more without the opportunity to switch to large scale renewables, like off shore wind which are safer and cleaner than fossil fuels, and are ready to go today at the same price as new fossil fuel plants.
So why aren’t we changing?

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Inertia, powerful interests, utility profit models that increase based on burning more fuels instead of supplying energy, exclusion of others to supply energy even if safe, practical and economical (not a free market).  These modes are outdated and these entities need to move into the 21st century profit model that simultaneously cleans up most of their dirty emissions, or make way for those that will.

Join our meeting to discuss putting the “power” in your hands to tell officials and other decision-makers to do the right thing and adopt economical renewables on a grand scale in New York, make community-owned projects easier, and help open new paths for renewables to fill our electricity needs.

An exciting time and I’m glad you’re taking this journey with us!

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The Wind 100 June 14, 2014

| June 13, 2014 | No comments

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Join me, Sierra Club, over 20 supporting groups, a league of volunteers, and hundreds of supporters in Long Beach, NY Saturday June 14, 2014 for the Wind 100

Will you be there at this historic event to cheer Matthew Kearns on across the finish line of his 100 mile run from Montauk to Long Beach to bring attention to Long Islands need to get off dirty fossil fuels and switch to clean, efficient, environmentally friendly off shore wind power?

Already hundreds have signed up to come to the rally at the end of the run, which is going to feature bands like “J and the 9’s” and “NOHC” as well as speakers like Mary Anne Hitt, National Director of the Beyond Coal campaign and NY State Senator Dean Skelos.

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WHO: Wind Energy Supporters, bands including J and the 9’s and NOHC, National Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign Mary Anne Hitt, Roger Clayman from the AFL-CIO, Catherine Bowes from National Wildlife Federation, Senator Dean Skelos, and you!

WHAT: Wind 100 Rally for Wind Power
WHEN: Saturday, June 14, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Long Beach Boardwalk, 80 West Broadway, Long Beach, NY 11561 (map)

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RSVP here: http://action.sierraclub.org/Wind100

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Forward Long Island Off Shore Wind

| May 28, 2014 | No comments

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May 27, 2014. Today the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, as part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, announced it will move forward with a competitive bid process to lease the designated Wind Energy area off Nassau County’s South Shore.

The area, at its smallest point, starts 11 miles off Long Beach, NY. It widens and moves away from that spot, to approximately 19 miles away(see map). This area will be just barely visible from shore on clear days. The turbines should appear shorter and many times less wide than the majority of tanker and cargo ships that continuously sit off Long Beach on any given day.

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Due to multiple inquiries of interest to develop the wind farm, BOEM has opened up the area for competitive bidding and is seeking public input on two issues that may impact future wind development offshore New York:

1) a liquefied natural gas facility that has now been proposed to be located in this same area which had already been designated for wind power

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2) existing commercial and recreational fishing activity in and around the region.

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In editorial response to these issues, All Our Energy are already on record AGAINST the LNG port for a multitude of reasons. You can find that information here : Stop the LNG Port Off Our Shore from June 2013.

As far as affecting commercial and recreational fishing, check out New Jersey’s “Fisherman’s Energy“, a consortium of fishing interests trying to be the people to bring offshore wind to New Jersey (and may very well bid on this project ). They believe it is not only a “cash crop” for fisherman and right for the future of our energy generation, it would also help fishing as it creates an artificial reef that provides fish with habitat to foster greater abundance of fish. They say :”Fishermen’s Energy is a developer of offshore wind energy projects, founded by New Jersey commercial fishermen to respond to the public’s need to develop the ocean for renewable wind energy. Fishermen’s goal is to turn Atlantic coastal waters into an unmatched source of clean energy, while maintaining a vibrant commercial fishing industry.”

You can leave your comments for BOEM by clicking on this link

We believe properly sited, with environmental best practices used, through companies committed for the long term, with long term price assurances, this will be the best thing to happen to assure Long Island’s clean energy future.

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Wind 100 countdown begins!

| May 14, 2014 | No comments

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Save the date and time! One month from today!
Exact location in the Long Beach Area to be announced.

Our friend Matthew Kearns is running 100 + miles to bring attention to the growing need for and easy availability of Offshore Wind power here on Long Island.

You and I will be there to turn that attention to help Governor Cuomo understand we support moving to offshore wind NOW and help him act on offshore wind power.

Matt is running 100 miles. If you support renewable energy and offshore wind power for Long Island, the least you can do is put aside a couple hours to attend this event.

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Be a part of this historical moment and movement. Be there!

RSVP to Sierra Club here: yes I will be there to cheer Matt on and support renewable energy and offshore wind!

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