Category Archives: Events

Green Drinks Nov. 5

Events,

The November Green Drinks date is changing to Wednesday, November 5, in collaboration with the Green Omaha Coalition and The Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities to view the film Nebraska Nexus: Resources, Conservation, Development, and Change.

The event will be held at Aksarben Cinema from 5:30 to 9 p.m.:

  • Registration opens at 5 p.m.
  • Catered social hour is 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
  • Featured film begins at 6:30 p.m.
  • Panel discussion to follow at 7:45 p.m.

Cost is $12. Get more details or purchase tickets.

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Nebraska Wind and Solar Conference Oct. 29-30

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From the Nebraska Farmers Union:

The 2014 Nebraska Wind and Solar Conference, “Turning Challenges into Nebraska Opportunities,” will be October 29 and 30 at the La Vista Conference Center. A Solar Tour of OPPD, Creighton University, and Metropolitan Community College Solar Facilities ahead of the Conference will be October 28. Sign up for the tour.

Registration for the conference is $125 until October 28 and $150 for walk-in registrations the day of the conference. For conference and tour registrations and to view the program, check out www.NebraskaWindandSolarConference.com.

For hotel reservations, contact the Embassy Suites Omaha-La Vista/Hotel & Conference Center, 12520 Westport Pkwy, La Vista, NE 68128, 402-331-7400.

View last year’s presentations.

Help end the death penalty in Nebraska: Sept. 30

Events,

 From Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty:

NADP is excited to partner with local favorite Zipline Brewery for an evening with NADP! This is a chance to learn more about our work, help us raise funds to end the death penalty in Nebraska, and spend time with other wonderful NADP supporters. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 30, from 7 to 9 pm in Lincoln. Purchase tickets here or RSVP via Facebook.

Also, plans are well underway for our Annual Reception and Silent Auction. This year’s event will take place Monday, November 10, in the Harper Center at Creighton University from 7 to 8:30 pm and will feature keynote speaker Frank Thompson, former superintendent of Oregon’s death row, who oversaw two executions during his tenure. Register online here.

Finally, don’t forget to put March 4, 2015, on your calendar for the first-ever NADP Lobby Day. On that day, you’ll have the opportunity to come together with other abolition supporters from all over the state and tell your state senators that you want them to repeal the death penalty in 2015.

The Climate March in Omaha: Sept. 21

Events,

Join fellow Greens and other concerned citizens for the Climate March in Omaha:

  • WHAT: The Big “O” Climate March
  • WHEN: Sunday, September 21, 2014 – 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
  • WHERE: Memorial Park, near the ball diamond on Underwood Ave.
  • WHO: Sponsored by the Sierra Club, Transition Omaha, Nebraskans for
    Peace, Bold Nebraska, Citizens Climate Lobby

In Solidarity with the People’s Climate March in NYC because we
care about what’s happening to the planet due to climate disruption and
we want our leaders to address the problem NOW.

In conjunction with the People’s Climate March taking place in New York
City on the same day, local groups and individuals will join together in
a solidarity action to highlight the reality of climate change and the
urgent necessity to do something about it.

All are invited to meet at Memorial Park near the ball diamond promptly
at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21st. We’ll listen to speakers, rally a
bit, and then (for those who want to) march, bike or drive to the Dundee
Community Garden to join Transition Omaha for a solar tour, which
includes the new off-grid panels at the garden and the new on-grid
panels at a residence three blocks away from the garden. Tours will run
every 15 minutes or so starting around 2 p.m.; marchers can rotate
between the tour locations.

There will be refreshments at the Garden, and everyone who would like to
partake is encouraged to bring their own water bottles, plates,
silverware and napkins as we try to keep waste to a minimum.

There will be some signs available to rally and march with, but feel
free to make your own. And it would be great to have some music, too,
while we’re rallying and walking, so you musicians out there, please
bring your instruments!

Heuermann Lecture Sept. 25: Climate Change in Nebraska

Events,

From Nebraskans For Peace:

Please help us spread the word about an important event that will take place on Thursday, September 25th, 3 to 5 p.m. at UNL’s new Innovation Campus Conference Center.

Understanding and Assessing Climate Change: Implications for Nebraska is a Heuermann Lecture Series presentation. It includes a reception, presentation of recent study findings compiled by UNL experts on the impact of climate change on Nebraska, and a panel discussion. The event is sponsored by the Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) and will be led by Donald Wilhite, Emeritus Director and Professor of the National Drought Mitigation Center. It is free and open to the public. Please consider attending.

Or get together with some friends and have a watch party. If you can’t make it to the Innovation Center you can still tune in via Live Online Streaming.

Check out the full lecture series schedule.

In Neligh Sept. 27: Neil Young and Willie Nelson

Events,

From BOLD Nebraska:

Two music legends — Neil Young and Willie Nelson — will perform a benefit concert on Sept. 27 on a farm near Neligh, Nebraska, that is on the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and also crosses the historic Ponca Tribe “Trail of Tears.”

Proceeds from the “Harvest the Hope” concert will go to Bold Nebraska, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Cowboy & Indian Alliance, to fund the ongoing fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as a number of small, community-based clean energy projects on farms and tribal land. The afternoon concert will take place in a field on a farm owned by a family who are part of a strong collective of Nebraska landowners refusing to sell their land to TransCanada for the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline, and a sacred tribal ceremony will be included in the day’s events.

Also performing will be Native American hip-hop artist Frank Waln, Lukas Nelson (son of Willie!) and the “Stopping the Pipeline Rocks All-Stars,” some of the local Nebraska artists who recorded a benefit album in the solar-powered barn built inside the path of the Keystone XL pipeline last summer.

Read more and purchase tickets.

Great Climate March in Omaha this week

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The Great Climate March is coming to Omaha this week. The marchers are demonstrating great dedication, courage and determination by walking across the entire United States to help make people aware of climate change. They have been marching across the state of Nebraska during the month of July. The marchers have participated in several events to increase awareness of climate change and issues with fossil fuels, including events at the Build Our Energy barn on July 19, delivering a petition to the Governor asking for public disclosure of the contents of oil pipelines and oil trains on July 24, and a celebration at the Zoo Bar in Lincoln on July 25.

Come join the marchers and local supporters at events at McFoster’s, 38th and Farnam in Omaha, on Tuesday evening from 7 to 10 pm, and at the Bob Kerrey bridge on Wednesday at 5 pm Tuesday’s celebration includes Cajun tunes from the Prairie Gators and reggae from Cool Roots, featuring Jumpin Kate Logan, as well as messages from marchers and local leaders. David Corbin and Matt Cronin will also perform.

Tuesday’s event is also a celebration of OPPD’s recently announced clean energy plan, which will enable them to obtain one-third of their energy from renewable sources, and reduce their demand by 300 megawatts in the next nine years.

Wednesday’s event will include short speeches and then a march across the bridge into Iowa.

Come join the fun. You are also likely to be inspired.

–Ken Winston, Nebraska Sierra Club