Location: Hartford, CT
Closing Date: Open until filled.

Clean Water Fund's Hartford, Connecticut office is hiring a full-time community clean energy lead organizer to help lead a team of organizers and volunteers seeking to create fundamental change in how we use energy starting at the grassroots level.

Clean Water Fund is a national non-profit research and education organization that promotes the public interest on issues relating to energy, water, waste, toxics and natural resources. CWF's top goals include building support for environmental health issues, and empowering citizens to create grassroots power and make democracy work.

Each year, 120 or more supporters, friends and leaders in the work of the Clean Water Fund in Southeast Pennsylvania gather along Philadelphia's historic boathouse row, in a beautiful setting that overlooks the Schuylkill River.

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Clean Water Action is pleased to serve as a sponsor for the 12th Annual Citizens in Action Workshop. We hope that you will attend and take advantage of this opportunity to learn from a variety of experts and visit with elected leaders including Representative Frank Hornstein.

Learn about:

• How you can get involved in the political process.
• Becoming a community activist.
• How to use the new tools available for communication.

Take part in roundtable discussions about issues that matter to you. Hear and speak with local and state elected officials, including Representative Frank Hornstein.

The workshop is free and open to the public.

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Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Place: Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton Center, MA

Patrick Lucey, an aquatic biologist from British Columbia, has been an international leader in advancing new approaches to integrated water and energy management. Join us for an inspiring presentation on his work to transform barren, non-functioning landscapes into lush, lucrative enterprises. The evening will include dessert, a celebration of victories, and a forecast of what is ahead.

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Date: Wednesday Feb. 4, 2009 at UWS-Superior Wisconsin
Time: 9:00 AM< to 3:00 AM
Description: Info booths, workshops, speakers
For more info: Rosie Loeffler-Kemp, CWA NE MN Coordinator at 218. 722.8557 or rkemp@cleanwater.org or go to http://www.uwsuper.edu/wb/oma/

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Saturday, April 4, 2009 (8 am - 5 pm with reception to follow)
Rutgers University School of Law, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ

Attend the New Jersey Environmental Federation's 23rd anniversary conference!

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Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Saint Cloud Civic Center
Description: Learn about actions that local government can take now to reduce energy costs through case studies of communities that have successfully reduced their energy bills, access to energy assistance providers, information sharing and discussion with other communities that are taking successful steps and realizing the benefits. Sponsored by Association of MN Counties, League of MN Cities, MN Association of Townships, MN Dept. of Commerce, Office of Energy Security, MPCA, & MN School Boards Association
For more info: Contact Paul Moss paul.moss@state.mn.us or 651.296.6300

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• What: See and hear about the techniques for home energy conservation, what you can easily do in your own home to save energy and cut costs and information on state programs available to help you pay for it! Sponsored by West Hartford Clean Energy Task Force, WH Senior Center, Sustainable West Hartford & Clean Water Action
• Who: Paul Popinchalk, Energy Engineer & Roger Smith, Coordinator Connecticut Climate Coalition
• When: Monday, November 10, 7:00pm
• Where: West Hartford Senior Center, 15 Starkel Road, West Hartford Connecticut

Evidence from decades of scientific scrutiny has overcome skepticism that mankind can alter the climate of the Earth. In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) issued a scientifica assessment, concluding, "There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last fifty years is attributable to human activities."

There are critical points of overlap and synergy between global warming problems, energy “solutions” and clean, safe water issues.  Mounting public concern and urgency among policy makers about global warming do not guarantee policy outcomes that match the steps consensus science tells us are necessary to avert the worst impacts of global warming. For one thing, global warming’s impacts on water quality and quantity are not being fully considered in the current policy debate.