Bard College Grant for Replicable Appliance Collection Drives Bard College received a grant from Second Nature’s Climate Solutions Acceleration Fund to support a project of Bard’s Office of Sustainability to create collection drives for items that contain refrigerants, while aiming to map the ecosystem of refrigerants management in both Ulster and Dutchess counties. The goal is to establish a process that can then be replicated.

Philipstown’s Refrigerant Management Program With funds raised through Philipstown’s participation in Hudson Valley Community Power’s “Community Solar” Sustainability Fund, the program covers recovery of refrigerants from window a/cs, refrigerators, freezers and dehumidifiers. See the mailer here.

Warwick’s Coolest Recycling Drive Sustainable Warwick planned the Coolest Recycling Drive of 2020, which is on hold due to the pandemic. The drive will cover the recycling fee for all participants and hold several local drop-off events in Warwick. A pickup truck brigade  will go to homes of people who are unable to schlep their appliances to a drop-off site.

Podcast: Cold Hard Cash for Your Greenhouse Gas Collaboration between Spotify’s How to Save a Planet and with NPR’s Planet Money. “,We take a ride with a couple of guys who tackle these climate threats with a pair of extremely high-tech tools: a van, and some cold hard cash. Then, we talk about the climate solution you could be interacting with every time you buy ice cream.”

Refrigerants 101: Webinar Learn the facts about refrigerants, how to safely manage, and the role they play in electrifying our buildings via heat pumps to get off fossil fuels.