Goals & Projects
NYCFC Promotes Awareness of:
- Preserving Drinking Water Quality
- Hydrofacking dangers
- Cleaning up nearby waters and surrounding shores
- Protecting our harbor from pollutants and sewage
- The hazard of having a nuclear power plant near NYC
- Dangers of new power plants planned on the Husdon
- Alternate energy sources ie. Solar & Wind power
- Making homes and businesses environmentally friendly
- The benefits of recycling and the processes used
- Preserving environmental regulations for Manhattans' Hudson River Park and other parks throughout the region
- Incineration vs. Recycling
- Love of the Hudson River - try human powered boating
- The beauty of sail power. Come on our annual members sail on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
- How YOU can help make our waters, shores, and drinking water cleaner and safer for the benefit of all the life on the planet.
Join Us For Our Monthly Meeting Today
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INVITE! NYCFC Monthly PotLuck /Live music SingAlong/ Teach In on Upcoming UN Rio + 20
Please join us at New York City Friends of Clearwater's monthly gathering May 18th 6:30pm- 9:30pm
Each month we cover topics of environmental interest. The gathering opens with song, the guest speakers and Q&A is next, then the rest of the evening we play music and sing! Joel Landy will be performing with IP and fracking spoofs that are as insiteful as they are funny and hopefully Peter Pasco will be back! We welcome you to bring your voices, musical instruments.
Tonight is a Teach In on Rio+20. If you have never heard of it or just wanted to understand it better come tonight.. There are many different perspectives on the Rio+20 Earth Summit based on the viewpoints and interests of the various participants, which range from governmental representatives to civil society organizations that do not have standing to participate in the official meetings. Here is the Web site for Global Transitions 2012, which is providing innovative ways to think about sustainability: globaltransition2012.org/about
-us Speakers: Prof Lisa DeCaprio of NYC Dept of Sustainability,
Ted Schulman of OWS Earth Summit Working Group, Catherine Skopic the UN task force on Rio+20
OccupyTheEarth.net helps understand Rio+20
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
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Reclaiming our Future:
1. Global participatory democracy - deeper public participation the UN and global governance.
2. Harmony with Nature - the People's Earth Summit
3. Introduction of new economic paradigms, eg, Sacred Economics, Resource Based Economy
4. Creation of more meaningful measurement to replace the GNP, example: the Happy Planet Index and the open data movement
5. New values, teach our children to think, example: TheHawnFoundation
At least three outcomes are expected from Rio+20"
1. The Rio Declaration
2. The Rio Recommendations
3. The Rio Actions Dialogue affects this - accepting input to June 6th
There is opportunity for impact. The more a specific topic shows up, the more weight it may have.
Please attend and bring your neighbor, friend, co-worker, family to enjoy an evening with like minded people, great food, great music, timely topics and lively discussions.
Location: DC 37, 140 Park Place/125 Barclay St. Rm9 Chambers St exit on the E train.(btwn Greenwich St.& WestSt.) *New Location!*
New York City Friends of Clearwater is an environmental education organization that believes in celebration through music and community. We are a chartered sloop club of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the organization founded by folk musician and activist Pete Seeger 40+ years ago to clean up the Hudson River.
We hope you come to eat, sing and learn with us on
Friday, 5/18.
June 8th will be a report back on the May 17th NRC hearing on relicensing of Indian Point
“It’s as clear as water; we need to change!”
ReNEW New York
Solar in the City Discussion Series on Renewable Energy
What is New York’s Solar Energy Potential?
January 19th 6:15–9:30pm
The Community Church of New York
40 East 35th Street (Park & Madison)
Suggested $5-10 donation
What are the best methods to make solar power a reality in New York? Among the suggested models are: Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs); Net Metering; Feed-in Tariffs; and Community Choice Aggregation. How is the average New Yorker to make sense of these options?
Panel Discussion with:
Alison Kling, NYC Solar Map
Anthony Pereira, altPOWER, Inc.
John Siciliani, JFS Renewables LLC
Megan Matson, Lean Energy, US
Moderator: Ran Kohn, Cleantech Corridor
Series Co-Sponsors: The Environmental Task Force of The Congregation of Saint Saviour; The Green Sanctuary Committee of the Community Church of New York, UU; NYC Friends of Clearwater; Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Gas Drilling Task Force; Tri-State Food Not Lawns/Neighborhood Energy Network; NY Climate Action Group; Sane Energy Project; United for Action; WBAI’s Eco-logic
Deadline for Comments to the DEC on SGEIS
Thanks to our friends at United for Action for compiling this information. http://unitedforaction.org/2011/10/13/dec-sgeis-comment-action-center/
Submit Comments to DEC on the SGEIS by 5:00 pm January 11, 2012! Postmarked by then or sent via DEC website.
We want the DEC to receive as many comments as possible on its Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement which paves the way for fracking in NY State. We’re hoping to drown DEC in comments. Please write comments using your own words. Form letters are less effective. Written comments will be accepted by DEC if received by DEC or postmarked by January 11, 2012 by two methods only. Written letter mailed to DEC or electronic submission using a web-based comment form available on DEC’s website http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html which we’ve been told is not that user friendly. Comments that are faxed, telephoned, or emailed to the DEC will not be accepted for the official record. We’re encouraging people to submit comments to DEC by regular mail because we’ve been told that letters are more effective.
Mail your comments to:
Attn: dSGEIS Comments
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
625 Broadway
Albany, NY 12233-6510
Mail a copy to the Governor, your State Senator, and your Assemblyperson to let them know how seriously voters are taking this and that we’re holding them accountable:
The Honorable Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
For more info: http://unitedforaction.org/2011/10/13/dec-sgeis-comment-action-center/
If you are submitting your comments to DEC electronically, please remember to print out a hard copy and send it to Cuomo, your State Senator and Assemblyperson.
Suggestions for Writing Comments
- Keep your comments focused. Give a paragraph or two to each concern rather than discussing all of your concerns in one long paragraph.
- If you can, make it clear what section and topic in the Draft you are referring to in your comments.
- Every comment matters, but comments with concrete suggestions and with references to articles and papers, are especially useful.
- For clarity, we encourage you to write separate comments on each topic. You may send in multiple letters to DEC covering different topics in each letter.
- Sign your letter individually with your address. If you include a group affiliation, they could be grouped together and counted as one single comment.




