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Exploring the Green New Deal: A Brattleboro Town Hall Meeting

May
07
Exploring the Green New Deal: A Brattleboro Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, May 7, 6:00PM at 118 Elliot 118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 As part of the Sunrise Movement’s Road to the Green New Deal, 118 Elliot is hosting a town hall event on Tuesday, May 7 at 6PM to discuss climate policy and the Green New Deal. Join us for a conversation at the crossroads of economy, society, and environment with ecological economist and UVM professor Jon Erickson. We invite local organizations and residents to bring their perspectives to the table as we explore what a Green New Deal could look like in Vermont and beyond—and how to get there. How do we break our dependence on fossil fuels while safeguarding our economy? What is driving unprecedented wealth and income inequality? Can we turn the tide on climate change? These questions are related, urgent, and framing a national conversation under the rubric of ‘Green New Deal’ legislation introduced this year in Congress. The answers will define the viability of our economy, character of our democracy, and obligations to our children. Jon Erickson is the David Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. He has published widely on energy & climate change policy, land conservation, watershed planning, environmental public health, and the theory and practice of ecological economics, and he is also an Emmy award-winning producer of films such as the four-part PBS series Bloom on sources and solutions to nutrient pollution in Lake Champlain. Sunrise Movement is a youth-led movement working to prioritize combating climate change across America. In 2018 Sunrise leaders pushed the promise of a Green New Deal into the mainstream, and now they are launching the Road to the Green New Deal: 8 tour stops and over 100 town halls across the US to bring Americans together around the future of our communities and our planet.
Date and Time
May 7, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Location
118 Elliot
118 Elliot Street
Brattleboro
VT 05301
Contact
118 Elliot
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Tuesday, May 7, 6:00PM at 118 Elliot
118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301

As part of the Sunrise Movement’s Road to the Green New Deal, 118 Elliot is hosting a town hall event on Tuesday, May 7 at 6PM to discuss climate policy and the Green New Deal. Join us for a conversation at the crossroads of economy, society, and environment with ecological economist and UVM professor Jon Erickson. We invite local organizations and residents to bring their perspectives to the table as we explore what a Green New Deal could look like in Vermont and beyond—and how to get there.

How do we break our dependence on fossil fuels while safeguarding our economy? What is driving unprecedented wealth and income inequality? Can we turn the tide on climate change? These questions are related, urgent, and framing a national conversation under the rubric of ‘Green New Deal’ legislation introduced this year in Congress. The answers will define the viability of our economy, character of our democracy, and obligations to our children.

Jon Erickson is the David Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. He has published widely on energy & climate change policy, land conservation, watershed planning, environmental public health, and the theory and practice of ecological economics, and he is also an Emmy award-winning producer of films such as the four-part PBS series Bloom on sources and solutions to nutrient pollution in Lake Champlain.

Sunrise Movement is a youth-led movement working to prioritize combating climate change across America. In 2018 Sunrise leaders pushed the promise of a Green New Deal into the mainstream, and now they are launching the Road to the Green New Deal: 8 tour stops and over 100 town halls across the US to bring Americans together around the future of our communities and our planet.

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