NJ Student Sustainability Coalition Career Panel
2021-02-20 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Join the NJ Student Sustainability Coalition for a Career Panel for High School and College students interested in learning more about the environmental field and the folks doing the work! GAFTG Founder, Maya van Rossum will be a featured panelist.
This event will include introductions by all the panelists and breakout sessions for Q&A.
More details to come.
Saturday, February 20th
2:00pm ET on Zoom

Hawaii Committee Hearing on Green Amendment Proposal
2021-02-23 15:30 - 17:00
The Hawaii Green Amendment proposal is up for committee hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Ways and Means committee. The hearing is 10:30am HST which is 3:30pm EST. Testimony must be submitted 24 hours in advance. Follow the bill here!

Learn more about the Hawaii proposal and see our comments at www.HIGreenAmendment.org.

Delaware YES! Youth Environmental Summit 2021
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:00
Join the Delaware Youth Environmental Summit for a film screening and Q&A with Green Amendments For The Generations.
Here’s The Story: The Green Amendment (Part 1) will be featured to dive into the birth of the Green Amendment Movement and it’s power to transform our legal system for protecting the environment and environmental justice.
Then stay tuned for a Q&A with a member from the Green Amendment Team!
Register here!
Thursday, February 25th at 5:00pm ET.

Maine Hearing: Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
2021-03-08 10:00 - 12:00
The Maine Green Amendment or Pine Tree Amendment (LD 489) was referred to the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, set to hear the bill on Monday March 8th, at 10:00am EST.

Watch the hearing here!

Green Drinks Delaware
2021-03-08 18:30 - 20:00
Join Green Drinks Delaware in a special BYO virtual cocktail hour with Maya van Rossum to learn more about a new path for securing our environmental rights.

Monday, March 8, 2021 at 6:30 PM EST – 8 PM EST

Register for the event here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrdO6orDkrEtA4GEvepHvz52M44bHVa2EY

Hawaii Senate votes on Green Amendment
2021-03-09 14:30 - 16:30
At 9:30 Hawaii time, 2:30 EST the Hawaii Senate will vote on the proposed Hawaii Green Amendment. Watch the meeting and vote!

Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community
2021-03-11 20:00 - 21:00
The Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) welcomes Maya van Rossum and the Green Amendment movement for a discussion on how an environmental rights amendment can help guarantee protections of our air, water, natural resources for generations to come.
Thursday, March 11, 2021 8:00pm
Please email uujec@uujec.org for passcode to join the zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84546691860?pwd=[REDACTED]

Hawaii Hearing: House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection
2021-03-16 15:00 - 16:00
SB502 has been passed by the Senate and will be heard by the House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection on Tuesday, March 16 at 9:00AM Hawaii time, which is 3:00pm EDT. View the hearing via livestream here.

Maine Pine Tree Amendment - Work Session
2021-03-17 11:00 - 13:00
Maine’s Green Amendment, the Pine Tree Amendment (LD 489) was heard at the Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Monday, March 8 – recording available here. The amendment now be considered at the Committee’s work session on Wednesday, March 17 at 11:00am ET.
You can view the proceedings live here, but the public is unable to comment at this work session.

NJ Webinar: WOMEN and POLITICS
2021-03-24 15:00 - 16:30
Attention NJ Green Amendment supporters! Please join the 6th Annual Senator Ronald L. Rice Lecture Series, “WOMEN and Politics” on March 24 at 3:00pm EDT to hear guest lecturer NJ State Senator Maria Teresa Ruiz.
Register here
Senator Ruiz is not a sponsor of the NJ Green Amendment.

Morristown Unitarian Fellowship
2021-03-25 19:00 - 20:30
Our current laws are designed to accommodate pollution, rather than prevent it. But NJ is leading the path to become one of the first states with a modern day Green Amendment. Join Maya van Rossum as she lays out a new agenda for environmental advocacy that can empower every American state to mobilize for constitutional change.
Thursday, March 25, 2021, 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
Join on Zoom:
Meeting ID: 985 5973 7654
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Unitarian Church of Somerville, NJ
2021-03-30 19:15 - 20:30
New Jersey legislators have proposed a constitutional Green Amendment that will recognize and protect the rights of all the people of the state, including future generations, to pure water, clean air, a stable climate and healthy environments.
For decades, communities have relied on Federal and State laws to ensure protection of a clean environment. And for decades, while achieving some important successes in environmental protection, overall, the health of our environment for present and future generations has continued to degrade. Currently, our laws are designed to accommodate pollution rather than to prevent it. But there is a solution for achieving better, and much needed, protection of our environment, and that is to turn to the ultimate authority—our state and federal constitutions.
We all have the right to pure water, clean air, and a healthy environment. It’s time to focus on how to truly secure that right for our own sake and that of future generations. What would a Green Amendment mean for the state of New Jersey? What is its impact to stewardship and environmental justice? What can you do to help?
Come to a presentation by Maya K. van Rossum on 3/30/21 at 7:15 pm. Maya K. van Rossum an award-winning Founder of Green Amendments For the Generations, a grassroots non-profit organization inspiring a nationwide movement to secure constitutional recognition and protection of environmental rights in every state and ultimately at the federal level.
Zoom details to come.

NJFDW Women in Blue at the NJ State House
2021-04-06 09:00 - 16:30
Join New Jersey Federation of Democratic Women for a day with our state representatives: Tuesday, April 6. Representatives will be speaking in 15-minute intervals throughout the day on Zoom with special regard to issues affecting NJ women.⁠
Register for Zoom link HERE
Here’s the Day’s Time Table:
Here’s the Day’s
TIME TABLE
9:00am – Assembly Representative Joe Danielsen (LD17)
9:20am – Assembly Representative William Spearman (LD5)
9:40am – Assembly Representative Pam Lampitt (LD6)
10:00am – Assembly Representative Wayne DeAngelo (LD14)
10:30am – State Senator Troy Singleton (LD7)
10:40am – Assembly Representative Roy Freiman (LD16)
11:00am – Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (LD6)
11:20am – State Senator Bob Smith (LD17)
11:40am – Assembly Representative Vince Mazzeo (LD2)
12:00pm – Assembly Representative John Armato (LD2)
12:20pm – Caren Fitzpatrick, Atlantic County Commissioner
12:40pm – Assembly Representative Andrew Zwicker (LD16)
1:00pm – Assembly Representative Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (LD15)
1:20pm – Senator Stephen Sweeney, Assembly Adam Taliaferro (LD3)
1:40pm – Assembly Representative Gary Schaer (LD36)
2:00pm – State Senator Richard Codey (LD27)
2:20pm – Assembly Representative Gabriela Mosquera (LD4)
2:40pm – Assembly Speaker Pro Temp Gordon Johnson (LD37)
3:00pm – Assembly Representative Dan Benson (LD14)
3:20pm – Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (LD37)
3:40pm – Assembly Representative Shanique Speight (LD29)
Final Words @ 4:00pm With Our Esteemed Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver

NJ: Robbinsville High School Green Team
2021-04-08 14:30 - 15:30
Maya van Rossum joins NJ Green Amendment Leader, Ava Blando, and the Robbinsville High School Green Team for a presentation and discussion on the NJ Green Amendment and how NJ Youth can help drive the movement forward.
Tuesday, April 8, 2:30-3:30pm EDT
This event is not open to the public.

Here's the Story: The Green Amendment, Part Two Screening and Discussion
2021-04-13 19:00 - 20:00
States across the nation are stepping up to protect our rights to a clean and healthy environment for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or even generation! New York’s Legislature is the first to pass a modern-day Green Amendment, which will now be placed on the ballot in November 2021 for New Yorkers to decide. Will New Jersey be next?
Join us on Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00pm EDT for a film screening of Part 2 of PBS’s Here’s The Story: The Green Amendment, which uses New Jersey as a case study to demonstrate the transformational environmental justice benefits that a Green Amendment could have for impacted communities.
The half hour film will be followed by a live discussion with Founder and Executive Director of South Ward Environmental Alliance, Kim Gaddy and Founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, Maya van Rossum. Featured interviews include NJ Governor Phil Murphy, Former PA Senator Franklin Kury, Dr. Anthony R. Ingraffea, Octavia Sutphin, Mayor Gusciora, and more!
Register in advance: http://bit.ly/GreenAmendmentFilmScreening2021

NJ Clean Water Action's 35th Annual Conference: A Healthy Environment Is A Human Right
2021-04-21 19:00 - 20:00
A Healthy Environment Is A Human Right – Wednesday, April 21, 7:00pm
In this workshop, learn about New Jersey’s movement for a constitutional Green Amendment protecting our environmental rights to clean air and water, a stable climate, and a healthy environment as an inalienable human right for all people and future generations.
Moderator: Kim Gaddy, Environmental Justice Director, Clean Water Action

Speakers:
Maya K. van Rossum, Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Founder of Green Amendments For The Generations
Ashley Park, Youth Leader for the NJ Green Amendment

Register for the conference here!

Maryland: Should A Sustainable Environment be our Legal Right?
2021-04-21 19:30 - 20:30
Join Us April 21 at 7:30pm: Should A Sustainable Environment be our Legal Right?
Hear Rabbi Nina Cardin discuss Shmita and her campaign to make a healthy environment a legal right in Maryland, as already exists in Pennsylvania.A member from the GAFTG Team will also be presenting.

This event is closed to the public.

NJSSC's Art Show for the Green Amendment
2021-04-22 19:00 - 20:00
Join the New Jersey Student Sustainability Coalition for their Art Show for the Green Amendment on Earth Day, April 22 at 7:00pm EDT.
The Art Show represents a mixture of several art forms, including singing & songwriting, slam-poetry, visual art, short storytelling, and piano composition. Throughout the show, various speakers will give information about the Green Amendment, including how to support it in New Jersey. All of the art is related to the Green Amendment and protecting the environment.
The concert will be live-streamed on NJSSC’s Youtube account. There is no sign-up, but you can subscribe to their Youtube channel ahead of time.

How Can the Environmental Rights Amendment Save a Fractured State?
2021-04-22 19:00 - 20:00
Join the Sustainability Now Podcast for a special film screening and Q&A on Earth Day, April 22 at 7:00pm EDT. Hosts Scott Bille and Mira Rubin will host two special guests to help us celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment – the amendment that inspired the national Green Amendment Movement.
Mark Lichty will share his short film Fractured State that shines a light on the damage being done by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania.
Maya van Rossum will talk about how she led the charge to breathe new life into Pennsylvania’s long ignored environmental rights amendment in 2013, and how she’s using it as a model to push for constitutional protections in states around the country as a means to protect the people’s right to pure water, clean air, and a healthy environment.
Register here!
Thursday, April 22, 7:00pm EDT

NJSSC: An Intergenerational Storytelling Workshop for a Green Amendment
2021-04-24 12:00 - 13:30
Join NJSSC’s Green Amendment team this upcoming Earth Week to celebrate both our planet and the Green Amendment. The Green Amendment includes both present and future generations in its text, and environmental issues are of the utmost concern to today’s youth. However, we are not the first ones on the stage here! So, following the Amendment’s lead, join us for an intergenerational dialogue and storytelling session on the Green Amendment. We’ll do a brief training on storytelling, then split into breakout rooms with members representing as many different generations as possible where you will tell your own story about why you care about the Green Amendment. Our goal is to foster a safe space for sharing and hearing stories and for communicating between generations.
Sign up at tiny.cc/GA_workshop for the event on April 24, 12 PM! You can learn more about our student campaign at tiny.cc/GA_facts.

Environmental Justice Team, Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, NJ
2021-04-28 19:00 - 20:00
Environmental Justice Team of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, NJ is hosting GAFTG Founder Maya van Rossum for a presentation and Q&A on April 28th at 7:00pm EDT.

Zoom info to join:
https://zoom.us/j/94982151804?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 949 8215 1804
Passcode: [REDACTED]

The Green Amendment: Protecting & Defending PA Against Extraction & Pollution
2021-05-13 18:30 - 20:00
In the decades long fight for a cleaner environment, we’ve been fighting a losing battle. The sad truth is, our laws are designed to accommodate pollution rather than prevent it. People feel powerless when it comes to preserving the quality of their water, air, public parks, and special natural spaces.
The solution, argues Delaware Riverkeeper Maya K. van Rossum, is to bypass the laws and turn to the ultimate authority: our state and federal constitutions. In 2013, van Rossum and her team won a watershed legal victory that not only protected Pennsylvania communities from ruthless frackers, but affirmed the constitutional right of people in the state to a clean and healthy environment. Following this victory, van Rossum inaugurated the Green Amendment movement, dedicated to empowering every American community to mobilize for constitutional change to secure real protection for our environment.
Join the Plastic Reduction Committee of Weavers Way Co-Op on May 13 at 6:30pm EDT for a presentation on the Green Amendment from Maya van Rossum and a Q&A focused on how Pennsylvania’s Green Amendment can help battle destructive industries, plastic, and pollution.
Register in advance here!

Article 1, Section 27 50th Anniversary - Interview with Chief Justice Castille
2021-05-18 19:00 - 20:30
On the 50th anniversary of Article 1, Section 27, Pennsylvania’s Green Amendment, join us for a special screening of an unreleased interview between former PA Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille and Maya van Rossum, Founder of Green Amendments for the Generations and the Delaware Riverkeeper.

Chief Justice Castille wrote the opinion on the Act 13 case, also known as Robinson Township v Commonwealth, the breathed new life into Article 1, Section 27.

May 18, 7:00pm – 8:30pm EDT
Register here.

Sponsored by the Better Path Coalition, Green Amendments For The Generations, and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network.

Better Path Presents Maya van Rossum on the Green Amendment
2021-05-19 19:00 - 20:00
Beeter Path Presents Maya van Rossum, Founder of Green Amendments For The Generations and the Delaware Riverkeeper. More details to come!
May 19, 7:oopm EDT
Register in advance here.

Oregon Environmental Rights Day To Engage
2024-09-24 08:00 - 17:00
Everyone needs clean air, clean water, and a stable climate to survive and thrive. OCERA is a nonpartisan, grassroots effort dedicated to securing this fundamental right in the Oregon Constitution.
Tuesday, September 24th, OCERA is organizing an in-person opportunity to learn more and engage with legislators who need to hear your voice. While allowing virtual participation for some legislator meetings, OCERA’s goal is to bring as many people as possible to the State Capitol to share the reasons why they care about protecting everyone’s rights to a healthy environment by passing a referral for a constitutional amendment.
The agenda will include a briefing covering the purpose of the amendment, major talking points and Frequently Asked Questions first thing in the morning. Meetings will be scheduled with legislators and there may be opportunity to attend hearings in select committees.
All from Oregon are welcome to join. Please register here.
