Recycling topic of next Climate Cafe - Community Advocate
Recycling topic of next Climate Cafe - Community Advocate
HUDSON – The next Climate Café will be held on Feb. 27.
The topic will be “Are your recycling efforts going to waste?”
Green Hudson’s Jackie Gillis will share her firsthand knowledge and guidance. As part of her presentation, Gillis will discuss the dos and don’ts of recycling and what to do with hard-to-recycle items. If time allows, there will be a discussion about reuse options as well as reducing plastic purchasing.
The café will take place at 7 p.m. in Avidia Financial Center’s community room at 17 Pope St.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate economics
Climate change is now a driver of the world’s economy. The impact is profound:
- Catastrophic weather events — hurricanes, floods, droughts, high temperatures — are more frequent and more extreme. The cost can be measured in both the initial damage caused and the longer-term impact on the economy.
- Vulnerable communities are increasing climate-related investments, hardening infrastructure and taking other protective measures.
- Investment in carbon capture and storage technologies is increasingly rapidly.
- Governments are making investments and crafting regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
On top of all of this is the cost of uncertainty. As the Fourth National Climate Assessment, released in 2018 by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, says, “The assumption that current and future climate conditions will resemble the recent past is no longer valid.”