Matt Smith, New Jersey director of Food and Water Watch, discusses Community Choice Aggregation and how to bring this initiative to your community.Read More
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‘How Race Impacts Conservation’
In this June 2021 platform address, Interim Leader Curt Collier discusses how matters of race overtly, covertly, and consequently impact the conservation movement in America.
Platform: How Race Impacts Conservation
There have been many discussions of late as to whether the US is a racist nation. Conservative backlash against educational programs such as the NY Times “1619 Project,’’ calls for punishing schools […]
A Visit in Sand County
A visit to a naturalist author’s former cabin is the backdrop for Leader Curt Collier’s discussion of the power of relationships to transform lives and to build connections with one another and with nature.Read More
Member-Activists Relieved and Proud as NJ Governor Opposes Power Plant
Persistence has paid off for members of our Society, led by Janet Glass and our Social Action Committee, who protested plans for a power plant in the Meadowlands, as Gov. Phil Murphy announced this week that he is “unequivocally opposed” to the project and “increasing emissions.”
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Members Show Up and Speak Up to Defend the Environment
Society members participated in the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20 in both Teaneck and New York City and attended NJ Gov. Phil Murphy’s Town Hall in Teaneck on Sept. 25. Janet Glass asked the governor how allowing fracking to produce natural gas was compatible with climate science.
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