Past Events

Click on the quick links below to learn more about a few of our Past PECA Events:

  • Click Here for Past Climate Movies

  • Invest-Divest - Eric Jorgensen - February 1, 2026

  • Micro-Plastics and our Health - Ginny Kesler-Day - January 4, 2026

  • Click Here for Events from 2025:

    • Adventures with Ranger Rose - Rosanne McHenry

    • Eat Well - Janeane Martin & Mary Barker

    • What WE Can Do - Linda Franklin

    • Simple But Not Easy: Becoming Climate Literate - Jim Thompson

    • Sustainability & Briar Patch - David Benson

    • Happy Earth Month - Joan Griffin

    • Methane Busters - Dr. Ken Moore

    • This is Your Brain on Climate Change - Dr. Ken Moore

    • Safer Places to Live with Climate Change - Dr. Ken Moore

  • Click Here for Events from 2024

    • The Auburn Sustainability Committee - Glen Kramer

    • Home Electrification:What is it? Why Do it? How can I get help paying for it? - Dinyah Rein

    • Placer Plug-In Day

    • Beavers and Climate Resilience: Bring Back the Beaver Campaign - Kate Lundquist

    • EVs // High Tech

    • Finding Hope in a Time of Climate Change - Allen Edwards

    • EV Extravaganza 2024

    • Wildfire & Forest Resilience in California - Jessica Morse

    • Solving the Wildfire Threat- Ken Moore

  • Click Here for Events from 2023

    • EV Extravaganza 2023

    • Firescaping Presentation - Kevin Marini

    • What You Do With Your Money Matters - Dr. Barb Munn

INvest-Divest: My Carbon Footprint is My Money

On February 1, 2026 PECA Presents invited Eric Jorgensen to speak about his investigations into the climate-friendly choices available to us as we use and save our money climate-friendly. Eric is a retired an environmental educator from UC Davis Cooperative Extension. His volunteer retirement activities have included Bear Yuba Land Trust lands monitoring, Sierra Streams Institute water quality monitoring, home advisor for the Fire Safe Council, and education and policy advocacy with Nevada County Climate Action Now.

The recording of his presentation should be available by mid February (Barb is going out of town, but will get right on that when she returns).

links to the urls mentioned in the presentation:

Finance

Electrify Your Home

Electrify Your Transportation

World Carbon and Energy Data

Microplastics and our health

On January 4, 2026, PECA kicked off the new year with a presentation about the health hazards related to plastics from Ginny Kesler-Day, a Registered Dietitian and retired Nutrition Professor. Ginny recently completed a course about this topic and told us how researchers have identified an astounding 16,325 chemicals in plastic, and less than 1% of those chemicals are NOT hazardous.  What could possibly go wrong??

Here are the direct links to websites mentioned toward the end of this presentation:

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