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SUMMARY:Protecting Your Legacy Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:Your land provides tremendous benefit to you and the public. This free webinar series will help landowners decide the future of their land and take steps to formalize a conservation-based estate plan to achieve their personal and financial goals. This year’s webinar series will also include a webinar focused on the children of landowners.\n\nThe webinar series is divided into four topics:\n\nWebinar 1: Getting Started with Conservation-based Estate Planning (January 13\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Paul Catanzaro\, University of Massachusetts) \nWebinar 2: Passing on Your Land Using a Will or Trust (January 27\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Attorney Peter Ziomek) \nWebinar 3: Permanent Land Conservation Tools (February 10\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Olivia Lukacic\, The Trustees of Reservations) \nWebinar 4: Inheriting Land (February 24\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Paul Catanzaro\, University of Massachusetts and Christa Collins\, Land Protection Specialist) \nRegistrants will receive a Zoom link upon registration\, and a reminder the week of the webinar.  \nRegister Here \n\nDATE: Tuesdays\, January 13 and 27\, February 10 and 24 \nTIME: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM \nLOCATION: Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/event/protecting-your-legacy-webinar-series/2026-01-13/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Land Protection,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T190000
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SUMMARY:Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America
DESCRIPTION:Author Sharon Udasin will discuss her new book\, “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America.” Learn how PFAS — a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of — poisoned the entire country. Based on original\, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters’ own files\, Poisoning the Well traces an ugly history of corporate greed and devastation of human lives. Udasin is an environment reporter who has been delving into water contamination and conservation issues for fifteen years. She was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder and has reported for numerous outlets\, most recently covering U.S. West climate issues for “The Hill” from 2021-2025. She co-authored “Poisoning the Well” with Rachel Frazin.\n\nRECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here \nDATE: Wednesday\, January 14 \nTIME: 7:00 PM \nLOCATION: Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/event/poisoning-the-well-how-forever-chemicals-contaminated-america/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pollutants,Talks,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260605T080257
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SUMMARY:Policy & Power: New Nuclear in Massachusetts?
DESCRIPTION:A Sierra Club conversation with the Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs \nJoin Massachusetts Sierra Club leaders in conversation with Melissa Lavinson\, Executive Director of the Office of Energy Transformation\, and Weezie Nuara\, Deputy Secretary for Federal & Regional Energy Affairs. Dialogue will focus on Gov. Healey’s proposed legislation to expand nuclear power’s contribution to the Commonwealth’s energy supply portfolio while eliminating the requirement for a statewide referendum on any new nuclear plant sited in Massachusetts. \nSubmit questions in advance of this webinar: https://forms.gle/Ycb2QUTMcCN2s51e8 \nRegister Here \nDATE: Thursday\, January 15 \nTIME: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM \nLOCATION: Online
URL:https://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/event/policy-power-new-nuclear-in-massachusetts/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Energy,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T080257
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SUMMARY:Improving Habitat Through Invasives Management
DESCRIPTION:Learn about our most common invasive plants and how to manage them by prioritizing your goals. Discuss the need to pick your battles and focus on what is achievable. \nThis event is open to the public but is specifically designed for professionals who manage invasives on large properties\, public areas\, conservation lands\, etc. There will be a home gardener version of this presentation on Feb. 24th at 7pm. See here for details. \nKristin O’Brien\, Conservation Restriction Manager\, joined Sudbury Valley Trustees (SVT) in 2017. She manages ~3\,650 acres of protected lands across 106 conservation restrictions\, creates invasive plant management plans\, and oversees SuAsCo CISMA’s Weed Warrior program. Kristin is also the coordinator for the CISMA\, which works with local partners to increase invasive plant management efforts in the MetroWest area. Kristin has a BS in Biology: Ecology and Evolution from Hofstra University and an MS in Biology: Habitat Management from Eastern Washington University. \nThis will be recorded and available after the event. \n\n\nRegister for this presentation\n\nDATE: Wednesday\, January 21 \nTIME: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM \nLOCATION: Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/event/improving-habitat-through-invasives-management/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Invasive Species,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T183000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T174842Z
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SUMMARY:Protecting Your Legacy Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:Your land provides tremendous benefit to you and the public. This free webinar series will help landowners decide the future of their land and take steps to formalize a conservation-based estate plan to achieve their personal and financial goals. This year’s webinar series will also include a webinar focused on the children of landowners.\n\nThe webinar series is divided into four topics:\n\nWebinar 1: Getting Started with Conservation-based Estate Planning (January 13\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Paul Catanzaro\, University of Massachusetts) \nWebinar 2: Passing on Your Land Using a Will or Trust (January 27\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Attorney Peter Ziomek) \nWebinar 3: Permanent Land Conservation Tools (February 10\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Olivia Lukacic\, The Trustees of Reservations) \nWebinar 4: Inheriting Land (February 24\, 6:30 – 8:00pm with Paul Catanzaro\, University of Massachusetts and Christa Collins\, Land Protection Specialist) \nRegistrants will receive a Zoom link upon registration\, and a reminder the week of the webinar.  \nRegister Here \n\nDATE: Tuesdays\, January 13 and 27\, February 10 and 24 \nTIME: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM \nLOCATION: Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/event/protecting-your-legacy-webinar-series/2026-01-27/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Land Protection,Webinars
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SUMMARY:What You Choose to Plant Can Help Massachusetts' Rare Bees . . . Or Not
DESCRIPTION:Native bees have a 150 million year history with blooming plants. Not unexpectedly it has gotten complex. Many bees are extremely picky about the flowers they gather pollen and nectar from. Explore this pickiness and also point out that many of the most uncommon bees are specialists and simply planting more of their pollen plants can be the type of conservation that each of us can do in our backyards. \nSam has coordinated the North American Breeding Bird Survey Program\, developed the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program\, the BioBlitz\, Cricket Crawl\, and FrogwatchUSA programs and worked on the design and evaluation of monitoring programs.  Currently he is developing an inventory and monitoring program for native bees\, online identification guides for North American bees at discoverlife.org\, and reviving the North American Bird Phenology Program. \nThis will be recorded. \n\n\nRegister for this presentation\n\nDATE: Tuesday\, January 27 \nTIME: 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM \nLOCATION: Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.thebeatnews.org/BeatTeam/event/what-you-choose-to-plant-can-help-massachusetts-rare-bees-or-not/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Entomology,Insects,Native Plants,Webinars
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