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Earth Day Live: How We Can Solve the Plastic Crisis through Cleanups

Please join us for an Earth Day Live event this Wednesday, August 16 at 12 pm EST entitled How We Can Solve the Plastic Crisis through Cleanups. This digital event will focus on getting involved for World Cleanup day and further the discussions on how to end plastic pollution. The Great Global Cleanup is EARTHDAY‍.ORG's flagship volunteer program, spearheading cleanups around the world. With W...
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Plastics’ Impact on Human Health: A Free Beyond Plastics Webinar

Plastics' Impact on Human Health: A Free Beyond Plastics Webinar Thursday, January 12, 2023 • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Plastic is a paradox. It is at once the signature material of our age and also one of the greatest environmental and health threats we now face. Its production drives climate change, releasing massive quantities of greenhouse gasses, and during its use and degradatio...
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SAPPlings Webinar: Artificial Turf Trouble at Our Schools & Playgrounds

SPEAKER: Kathleen Michels has a Ph.D. in neurobiology and more than 30 years of experience in biomedical research related to global public health. She and her Safe Healthy Playing Fields (www.safehealthyplayingfields.org) and Sierra Club Maryland Chapter colleagues have addressed plastic pollution in general and plastic synthetic turf field and waste tire playground carpeting in particular ...
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Youth Leadership on the Plastics Crisis

Youth Leadership on the Plastics Crisis October 24, 2022, 9:00 am (EDT) / 10 am (Rio de Janeiro) / 1600 (Moscow) A Pathways through the Plastics Crisis webinar Hosted by Don't Waste Our Earth (WOE), in partnership with Integrative Strategies Forum, Eco-Accord, European ECO Forum, and One Montgomery Green The very concept of "sustainability" focuses on the needs of futu...
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Invest in Our Planet: Community and Youth Activism Webinar

Great Global Cleanup, Youth Leadership, and Creating Change in Your Own Community Thursday, March 31 • 12 Noon - 1 pm Please join us as we discuss the next generation of environmental actors at an Earth Day Live event on Thursday, March 31 at 12 pm EDT entitled The Next Generation: The Great Global Cleanup, Youth Leadership, and Creating Change in Your Own Community. This digital event will ...
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Global Co Lab Network 7th Annual Celebration of Teen Changemakers

7th Annual Celebration of Teen Changemakers virtually SUNDAY OCTOBER 10TH • 3:30-5:00 PM EST Attend to watch winning videos and hear from our global teen winners on what they have done with their $500 grants to move their dreams forward. Hear from teen-led Hub participants addressing climate change, mental health, plastic pollution, gender equality, hunger, quality education, racial jus...
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Sierra Club MD Webinar on the “Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act”

Webinar on the "Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act" Tuesday September 29th • 6 pm Join Sen Tom Udall (D-CA), Jonathan Black (senior policy advisor to Sen. Udall), and Shane Trimmer (Rep. Lowenthal's senior legislative assistant), for an informative and interactive webinar on the Act (SB 3263/ HR 5845), moderated by Judith Enck, President of Beyond Plastics. RSVP for Break Fr...
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Beyond Plastics: Break Free from Plastic Pollution Educational Webinar

Beyond Plastics: Break Free from Plastic Pollution Educational Webinar Friday, June 19 • 1 pm Join us at 1 PM ET for the free webinar on the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act with Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) and the other Congressional experts who helped to draft the bill. Topic: Break Free from Plastic Pollution Educational Webinar Time: Jun 19, 2020 01:00 PM Eastern Time...
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The Story of Plastic Community Film Screening and Conversation

The Story of Plastic Community Film Screening and Conversation Date: Tuesday, June 16 Time: Film screening: 6:30 p.m. ET Post-film discussion: 8:15 p.m. ET Where: On your computer through Zoom. Link to join provided upon RSVP. What: Join Food & Water Action for a community screening of The Story of Plastic and a post-film discussion with policy experts an...
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Leaders in Energy screening of “The Story of Plastic”

Leaders in Energy Circular Economy Working Group Virtual Screening of "The Story of Plastic" Wednesday, May 20th • Time: 6:30 - 8:30PM The LE Circular Economy Working Group is hosting a virtual screening of "The Story of Plastic," a new documentary film by Deia Schlosberg exposes the local and global environmental, climate, justice, and health impacts of the plastic industry. RSVP: Go...
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