Climate Education Events

Saturday
February
11
10:00 AM
to
2:00 PM
Repair Cafe - Rhinebeck
Starr Library Community Room
68 W Market St
Rhinebeck, NY 
A Repair Cafe is a free community event. You bring your broken but beloved items and together with volunteer repair coaches. WE FIX THEM!

People bring all kinds of things to a repair cafe:
CLOCKS & OTHER MECHANICAL ITEMS
CHAIRS FRAMES & OTHER WOODEN ITEMS
ELECTRICAL ITEMS & SMALL APPLIANCES
DIGITAL DEVICES
CLOTHING & TEXTILES
DOLLS STUFFED ANIMALS & TOYS
TOOLS IN NEED OF SHARPENING
JEWELRY AND MORE!

MOST ITEMS GET FIXED – even when they don't – we have a good time trying!

Saturday
February
25
1:00 PM
to
2:00 PM
Spring Energy Cleaning
Roundout Municipal Center
1915 Lucas Avenue Ext
Cottekill, NY 
Learn how to reduce your energy use, save money, and use incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Thursday
March
16
5:00 PM
Monthly Saugerties Climate Smart Task Force Meeting
Our meetings are always open to the public. This meeting will be conducted via Zoom video conference. Please use the link below to join the meeting on your computer, tablet, or phone.

How to connect your audio, when joining via computer:
After you join the meeting zoom will ask you how you want to connect via audio.

If you join the meeting via the zoom app, then you will get prompted to use either “Computer audio” or “phone call”. If you can connect to the audio via your computer that is best. If you can’t use computer audio and opt for “phone call”, then zoom displays instructions on what number to call and displays your “participant ID”.

Here is a zoom tutorial on joining audio.

The link below will join you to the video meeting.
If you want to join via phone, then call: 1 646 558 8656 and join meeting ID: 842 5988 0029 Passcode045230

Sunday
April
16
2:00 PM
to
3:00 PM
EV Intro 2023
Mahopac Public Library
668 Route 6
Mahopac, NY 
You are probably interested in an electric car, but you also have questions. This presentation will give you an introduction to electric vehicles and how they work, and address (I hope) all the common concerns people have with buying an electric car. Updated for 2023 with the latest new EVs, tax credits, etc.

Steve Wehr is a retired IBM senior engineer and electric vehicle enthusiast. Since he bought his first EV in 2019, he has written several papers, given classes and presentations on EVs and charging, and been published by Sustainable Hudson Valley. Steve spends all day reading about electric vehicles, charging, renewable energy, and battery technology, so you don’t have to.

Saturday
April
22
10:30 AM
to
11:30 AM
EV Intro 2023
Clinton Community Library
1215 Centre Rd
Rhinebeck, NY 
You are probably interested in an electric car, but you also have questions. This presentation will give you an introduction to electric vehicles and how they work, and address (I hope) all the common concerns people have with buying an electric car. Updated for 2023 with the latest new EVs, tax credits, etc.

Steve Wehr is a retired IBM senior engineer and electric vehicle enthusiast. Since he bought his first EV in 2019, he has written several papers, given classes and presentations on EVs and charging, and been published by Sustainable Hudson Valley. Steve spends all day reading about electric vehicles, charging, renewable energy, and battery technology, so you don’t have to.