City, state and federal funding and programs are available now to make the energy system cleaner and more reliable: to improve our health, reduce the emissions that cause climate change and save us money.  But where is the funding and support for CUNY and Central Brooklyn?! 

The buildings at BC, like so much of CUNY, are several decades old and waste money and energy.  Indeed, they are so bad that the Governor has ordered the NY Power Authority to help create a plan to "decarbonize" them. But the surrounding electric grid also needs drastic improvements: residents of Flatbush and Central Brooklyn disproportionately suffer from power outages even as energy bills keep rising.  Indeed, two local elected officials have proposed a bill that would fund a study to create a microgrid at BC that would help the surrounding neighborhoods and grid. More NY state officials and programs must step up here as well. Brooklyn College and Flatbush deserve better!  

Join us for a panel conversation and series of presentations with an amazing and diverse array of people working to make this happen from elected officials and state representatives to BC students, faculty and staff, to community leaders and renewable energy advocates. 

Presenters include Prof. Michael Menser (Brooklyn College), Rona Taylor (Executive Director of the Central and South East Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (CXSE BK), Deborah Alves, (BC alumna), local elected officials, faculty, student and staff representatives from BC and CUNY, and Public Power NY.