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Repair Cafés:Fixing Stuff and Creating Community

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Office of Climate ChangeNYS Department of Environmental ConservationMarch 9, 2017

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Welcome!Today’s webinar: Repair Cafés

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Today’s webinar topic:

Repair Cafés

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Agenda• Announcements – Dazzle Ekblad, DEC

• Repair Cafés – John Wackman, Repair Café Hudson Valley Dmitri Galitzine, Kingston Repair Café organizer & repair coach

Elizabeth Knight, Warwick Repair Café organizer

Laura Petit, Recycling Coordinator for the Town of New Paltz

Ken Boscher, volunteer repair coach for several Hudson Valley Repair Cafés

• Q & A – All speakers

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• Mar. 16, Climate Summit, Seneca Falls

• Mar. 26-28, NY Planning Federation Conf., Saratoga Springs

• Mar. 28-29, Organics Mgmt. Summit, Troy

• Apr. 13, CSC Webinar: Residential Energy Score Project

• Apr. 14, Deadline to apply for DEC Environmental Excellence Awards

• Apr. 27, Hudson River on the Rise, Resiliency Planning, Hyde Park

• May 3, 2017 Hudson River Symposium: Changing Energy Landscapes …

Event Announcements

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DOS Countywide Resiliency Planning Grants – due Apr. 12th (NEW!)

Eligible entities: upstate counties and/or not-for-profits (on behalf of an eligible county); No match required; Max. of $250k awards to prepare a resiliency plan

USDA Rural Energy for America Program - applications for energy efficiency & renewable energy program due: Mar. 31st

USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program - due Apr. 21st

FWS Coastal Program – applications due Sept. 30st

Funding Opportunities

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DEC Municipal ZEV RebatesRebates are available to municipalities for:• Purchase/lease of eligible clean vehicles

Up to $5,000 per vehicle, based on electric range No match required

• Eligible infrastructure projects for charging/fueling eligible clean vehicles Up to $250,000 per facility Networked electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) or hydrogen fuel cell 20% match requirement

• Offered on the NYS Grants Gateway (https://grantsgateway.ny.gov)• Deadline March 31, 2017 or until funds are exhausted• Questions? ZEVrebate@dec.ny.gov

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Save on EVs! - Join the 3rd Aggregate Purchase• NYS initiative organized by DEC and OGS

• Open to any authorized user of state contracts

• Savings of ~11% via 1st aggregate purchase

• 2nd purchase underway

• 3rd purchase tentatively schedule for June/July

• For questions, contact Pamela Hadad-Hurst at pamela.hadadhurst@dec.ny.gov

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• Clean Energy Community Coordinators provide free consulting services to local governments participating in NYSERDA’s Clean Energy Communities program.

• Approximately 50 hrs of free, on-demand technical assistance per municipality

• Includes support for becoming a Certified Climate Smart Community

• Contact the coordinator in your region to get started: https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Contractors/Find-a-Contractor/Clean-Energy-Community-Coordinators

Get Help from Regional Coordinators

From left, CEC Coordinators for Mohawk Valley (Dan Sullivan), North

Country (Jamie Rogers), Capital Region (Robyn Reynolds), and Mid-Hudson

(Carla Castillo).

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How are the two programs related?Climate Smart Communities Certification• Comprehensive climate program• 138 unique actions• Accumulate points toward certification and

improve score on CSC grant applications

Clean Energy Communities• Focused on clean energy• 10 high-impact actions

• 1 of the 10 is CSC Certification• Complete 4 Actions to be designated and

access grant funding

CSC Certification

Advanced Climate Actions

CEC Designation

High-impact Energy Actions

Earn points toward CSC Certification by doing CEC actionsDo both!

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NY’s Newest Certified CSC

Madison County New York’s 10th Certified Climate Smart Community

From left: Ken Lynch (DEC Executive Deputy Commissioner), John Becker (Chairman, Madison County Board of Supervisors) and Scott Ingmire (Director, Madison County Planning Dept.)

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• Ulster County (bronze)

• Village of Dobbs Ferry (bronze)

• City of Kingston (bronze)

• Town of Mamaroneck

• Town of East Hampton

• City of Albany

• City of Watervliet

• Town of Cortlandt

• Orange County

NY’s Other Certified CSCs

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• CSC Certification Workbook: Excel tool for estimating points for past actions, tracking progress & submitting documentation

• Email climatechange@dec.ny.gov for a copy of the CSCC Workbook

• Actions from the CSC Certification program potentially related to today’s webinar:

• 5.6 – Set up and manage a resource recovery center to encourage reuse of gently used or new materials that have been discarded (3 pts.)

• 10.3 – Cooperate with neighboring communities & partner agencies (3 pts.)

• 11.2 – Implement an action using an innovative approach (5 pts.)

Under development: a new CSCC action specifically for repair cafes

CSC Certification

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Repair Cafés:Fixing Stuff & Creating Community

John Wackman, Repair Café Hudson Valley

REPAIR CAFÉ: WHAT IT IS

Repair Café is a free

community meeting place to bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired…for free!

WHY WE DO IT●To transform our throw-away economy, one

beloved item at a time.

● To help us see our “stuff” in a different way.

●To honor people with repair know-how. Provide a place to show & tell & teach.

●To feed our curiosity about "the way things work", be creative & have fun!

●And along the way….build community and sustainability.

WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

Martine Postma, a journalist, started the first Repair Café in Amsterdam Holland in 2009.

There are now more than 1,200 local Repair Café groups in 30 countries.

•New Paltz

•Kingston

•Rosendale

•Gardiner

•Rhinebeck

•Poughkeepsie

•Beacon

•Warwick

MORE ARE IN THE PLANNING!

• Phoenicia

• Woodstock Transition

• Ellenville Library

• Cornwall Library

• Garrison Library & Boscobel House

• Trumbull CT Nature & Arts Center

• Tivoli Library

• Sustainable Princeton

• Greenburgh

• Scarsdale

• Wurtsboro-MamakatingLibrary

WHO ORGANIZES A REPAIR CAFE?Dmitri Galitzine……&……Elizabeth Knight

REPAIR CAFÉ – KINGSTONA project of Kingston Transition

REPAIR CAFÉ – WARWICKA project of Sustainable Warwick

WHO HOSTS REPAIR CAFES?

• New Paltz United Methodist Church

• First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie

• Clinton Avenue United Methodist Church, Kingston

• St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Rosendale

• Gardiner Library

• Rhinebeck Town Hall

• The Senior Center at Warwick Town Hall

How Do Your Find Your Repair Coaches?

1. People who do repairs professionally

2. People who are retired

3. Hobbyists/Specialists

HOUSE RULESWELCOME! & A REMINDER:

►If you offer items for repair, you do so at your own risk.

►The organizers of Repair Café, New Paltz United Methodist Church, and the repair coaches are not liable for any damage or loss resulting from work performed at the Repair Café.

►The persons making repairs offer no guarantee.This is an all-volunteer community service project

THANK YOU!

WHAT HAPPENS AT A REPAIR CAFÉ?Laura Petit….……Ken Boscher aka KenFixIt

WHAT HAPPENS AT A REPAIR CAFÉ?•A lot of stuff gets fixed. People leave very happy.

•The guys and gals who do the repairs have significant skills. This is an impressive level of repair.

•We cannot guarantee that the item you bring will get fixed. All we can guarantee is that you’ll have an interesting time.