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IF YOU ARE A MIDDLETOWN, NJ RESIDENT: Join Facebook Group "Middletown for Clean Energy" "Middletown for Clean Energy" is a nonpartisan group of Middletown, NJ residents who support a Middletown transition to 100% Clean Energy.

EVENTS:

• Aug 23 Clean Energy tour of AT&T Labs (a private activity for members of "Middletown for Clean Energy")
• Sept 8 Monmouth County For Clean Energy, People's Climate March, "Rise for Climate, Jobs, Justice" (10AM, Sat, Sept 8, Riverside Gardens Park, Red Bank; then march to rally at Marine Park, Red Bank; conclude at noon)
• Sept 22 Middletown Day, 11AM to 5PM, Croydon Hall
• Dec 3 Watch Party for "24 Hours of Climate Reality"

RF100 MEETINGS

• June 7, 2018 Monmouth County Training
• July 2, 2018 Agenda and Minutes Middletown for Clean Energy Team Meeting
• Aug 7, 2018 Agenda and Minutes Middletown for Clean Energy Team Meeting; 7:30PM (1st Tues of each month)
  (email for info: stevemiller@comcast.net)

"READY FOR 100" DOCUMENTS:

• SustainableJersey.com supports all NJ "Green Teams"
• "Path to Clean Energy" talk and script (all slides+script; ready to customize for your own town; contact author for the 2 video slides)
• Climate Reality "Truth In 10" slides ; video (begin the 10 minute talk at ~2 min into this video clip)
• All Cities/Mayors/Green Team contacts in Monmouth County (sources: SustainableJersey.com; Wikipedia.com; Municipal websites)
• NJ Cities which pledged 100% Clean Energy (51 mayors; 58 cities as of 8/2/2018), signed clean energy pledges.
• Sierra Club “Ready for 100” campaign “Ready for 100 Organizing Toolkit”; Mayor Pledge ; possible city Resolution for Clean Energy
• March 10 kickoff core team meeting agenda
• June 7, 2018 RF100 training for all Monmouth County volunteers

SITES:

• "Climate" (this site)
• "Electric" (electric index pdf file) - background, and instructions to switch electrical supplier to 100% renewable
• "WhatYouCanDo"; templates to write letters to publications; elected officials and your local mayor and green team leader

CLIMATE RESOURCES:

NJ CITIES MOVING TO CLEAN ENERGY:

• NJ Cities which pledged 100% Clean Energy (50 mayors; 57 cities, including pledge by Council president, as of 2/3/2019), signed clean energy pledges;
  • 8/2017 archive
• Pledges/Declarations: Food & Water ; Climate Mayors ; Sierra-Club ; WeAreStillIn ; US Conference of Mayors (all energy resolutions; clean energy resolution); Sustainable Jersey ;
• Historical: Sierra Club "Cool Cities" (~2006-2009) ; NJ Towns which signed climate agreement in 2008-2009;
• 43 Climate Actions that will help a city reduce emissions to "net zero"

EXCELLENT NYTIMES OpEd, 10/23/2017 "How to Keep the Lights On After a Hurricane

• Electric utilities need to configure residential solar systems to allow solar to be used in the event the grid goes down
• This is the principle behind "microgrids"

PAPERS/PUBLICATIONS:

• "What if a 500 Year Flood Happens in NJ?" - published LTE, Asbury Park Press
• "Switch to Renewable Wind & Solar Electricity" - submitted LTE to Asbury Park Press
• Switch electric to renewables, SAVE Money and ELIMINATE Pollution
• "Climate Change - Our Current Understanding"
• Review of "Drawdown -the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming", edited by Paul Hawken
• Jersey Sierran article "Decade of Clean Energy Campaigns" published Oct,2017 issue
• Jersey Sierran article ("Decade of Cool Cities & Green Teams" submitted 8/11/2017 -not yet published)
• Jersey Sierran Article "NJ Cities Increasingly Honor the Paris Climate Agreement" -published Apr-June, 2018 issue
• Contact Monmouth County Mayors and Green Teams ; use these points (& language); Sierra100% endorsement

SOME PRESENTATIONS ( many other talks - but similar themes)

• 2/26/2018 Pat & Steve presentation (synopsis) at "Science Monday" - joint Sierra Club/Brookdale CC monthly program
• 11/16/2017 Pat & Steve featured speakers at AAUW (American Assoc of University Women), Freehold
• 10/24/2017 Pat & Steve featured speakers at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Red Bank, NJ
• 10/23/l2017 Set up table at Sierra Science Mon; gave background and instructiono to write to oppose the EPA elimination of the Clean Power Plan
• 10/19/2017 Pat & Steve featured speakers at Brookdale Biology Seminar
• 10/9/l2017 Persuaded Holmdel Community Church to signup for 100% Clean electricity
• Download Al Gore Truth in 10 (50+ slides; 10 minutes; 200MB zipped file); directions
• 2017-Aug 14 Holmdel Green Team: slides ; 50 action table ver3.3 ; verv3.4 ;
• 2017-Aug 17 MCCC: "Truth in 10" (above) ; (Steve slides) ; Pat/Steve What You Can Do
• Call to Action; 48 Steps to Living Sustainably
• The reasons for urgency (reduce emissions quickly, in order to lower the world's risk, in case pessimists are correct)
• Common audience questions during Climate Reality talks
• Meetings with Middletown elected officials
  • May 20, 2017: agenda; all letters, plus analysis (13 letters had been presented to mayor at May 2 meeting of Oak Hill Community Assoc)
  • July 1 meeting with Middletown Mayor Scharfenberger; agenda ; new letters (4) ; observations
  • Oct 10, 2017 meeting with Middletown Mayor, Deputy Mayor, & Administrator to request, and receive Green team go-ahead on "Direct Install" program
  • Feb 5, and Feb 16 2018 meetings with Middletown Mayor Murray and/or Committeeman Tony Perry
  • March 26, meeting with Middletown Deputy Mayor Settembrino (later appointed Mayor Settembrino)

GREEN TEAM INITIATIVES

• 1/23/2018 Steve discussed energy Actions with Marlboro Green Team
• Proposed Sustainable Jersey Energy Plan (8/2017 proposed revision of the Sustainable Jersey "Climate Action Plan")
• Middletown Green Team energy actions ; Amy Sarrinikolaou 10/2/17 proposal to Middletown Committee (leveraged from Elihu Dietz summer, 2017)
  "Direct Install" was approved 10/10/2017 during S.Miller's discussion with Mayor Scharfenberger, Dep Mayor Stephanie Murray, and Administrator Tony Mercantante
• Presentation to Holmdel Green Team (aug 14, 2017)
• Presentation to Marlboro Green Team (Jan 23, 2018)

CLIMATE REALITY 100% CAMPAIGN "Tool Kit"

STATUS OF MONMOUTH COUNTY TOWNS

• Middletown 2018-4-9 ;