Current and past Events
Current Events
First Saturday of the Month
9am Morning Coffee at
Cozy Coffee & Bistro 514 N Barker Rd, Spokane Valley, WA 99016
Past Events
December 7, 2024
Great to see you again Tom. The core team was together again Kent, You and I. Thanks for the treat for the holidays. I'm looking forward to hear about your Christmas Present for yourself, a Scout Motors reservation.
Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year
See you all Next Year.
Jorgen
November 5, 2024
Great showing: Lynn, Toni, Kent, Del, Dan and Shenandoah wonderful to see you all. Dan described climate opportunity at City of Liberty Lake: "City seeking applicants for Climate Policy Advisory Team" the position does require to be resident of City of Liberty Lake. Maybe Otis Orchards is close enough to be considered. I'll reach out to Kara Odegard and Tom Sahlberg for advise. We missed you Tom B. I did get word from Tom and Carmela they plan on attending our December 7th meeting, looking forward to it.
Jorgen
October 5, 2024
Lynn, Toni and Kent great to see you. At least the flies were dealt with this time. See you all next month.
Jorgen
September 7, 2024
Lynn and Toni great to see you. You sure have gone electric, solar power, heat pump hot water, heat pump space heating, electric car and electric garden tools. Way to go.
Two things I like to point out coming up in September:
Avista, has a hearing coming up September 19 concerning rate changes, significant changes, check your last bill, it include detail information on how to participate.
National Drive Electric Week
Tenth Annual NDEW Inland NW EV Event
Liberty Lake, WA
Sep 28, 2024
Jorgen
Coffee at Cozy Coffee August 3, 2024
Happy Birthday Kent. Del, Kent and I celebrated his big day. Beside the political spectrum conversation, (Interestingly Matt Shea was at the next table with a friend, we did not engage with him), we got into conversation about heat pumps. Both Del and Kent are looking to upgrade aging heat systems. I recommended to contact Small Planet Supply (360) 866-8779 and North West Renewables 509 732 9255. They will be able to submit a bit on a modern heat pump system. What I find interesting is the SpacPak system, it is designed to fit older homes. The system will provide space heating, cooling and domestics hot water heating all in one unit.
On a second note, Del mentioned his Borrowed Time written under the alias Salty Moses, has been played by a number of radio stations throughout the country. ArtistFirst World Radio out of Ohio wrote "Perhaps you would like to do a 1-hour Live Promotional Featured Music Special. You send us your music in advance, and we interview you by phone. Over 9,000 artists have already been showcased. Our Music Specials now average over 98,000 listeners per show! The Live show is also recorded and posted for free downloading. And we do it all for whatever spare change the artist cares to throw our way! (we call it a donation)" This could be interesting, let's see where it can end up, with the music artist, on our e-mail list, our opportunity for making a difference is much higher. Let's stay in touch on this one. Thanks for coming guys, great to see you, see you next time.
Jorgen
Coffee at Cozy Coffee July 6, 2024
Michael A. Schmidt joined us, he is going to see if a show and tell tour can be arranged with CarbonQuest 3010 1st St, Spokane Valley, WA 99216. Stay tuned on that one. Michael has reached out to Bernadine Banks and it was recommended for Michael to have a conversation with Carmela Conroy as well.
It is clear for everybody we must vote for democracy, however we did not get a clear picture if that ill be the case on the federal level. Maybe that can be clarified.
Coffee at Cozy Coffee June 1, 2024
Del, reported on his quest for wind power on his property in Fairfield WA I pointed out the NREL wind data can be very helpful to develop power potentials for the location. Cordelio Power is the "DEVELOPING AND OPERATING RENEWABLE POWER FACILITIES" it will be interesting to see how this project develop.
Continue writhing letters to the Spokesman supporting No-2117
Coffee at Cozy Coffee May 4, 2024
Write Letters to the Spokesman concerning No-2117 Reference Material: The Cascadia Advocate, By Ellen Dennis, By Lu Hill, Washington Policy Center and By John Stang
Coffee at Cozy Coffee April 6, 2024
Thanks for coming guys, Great discussion, replacing the Snake Rivers dams capacity of 1000MW will take 100 or so offshore wind turbines placed in the pacific. Keep up the good work.
Coffee at Cozy Coffee March 2, 2024
Quite Jetlagged from trip to Denmark, high point of the trip was seeing the Electric Ferry Ellen. With that in Mind we must vote No to Initiative 2117, Those funds will go to electrify our ferries here in Washington.
Coffee at Cozy Coffee February 3, 2024
Delbert, Tom, Kent and myself (Jorgen) thanks for coming, great conversation.
I invited Jim Simon to this group, he is hosting Spokane Green Drinks. Next drink is on February 15th 5 to 6:30pm, go if you can. (Coincide with Badminton night I can't go)
Del, presented his letter to the Spokesman, sorry the picture came out a bit large on this website. Thanks for doing this work.
Coffee at Cozy Coffee January 6, 2024
Delbert, Tom, Kent and myself (Jorgen) thanks for coming, great conversation and Happy New Year.
Tesla Battery Retention/Performance.
Kent contacted Petra Hoy they are working on setting up town hall meetings with candidates running against CMR.
Current list of candidate's information:
Ann Marie Danimus (D), Anthony Jensen(R no info), Carmela Conroy (D) and Dr Bernadine Bank (D not registered)
Questions: As a representative for Washington's 5th congressional district
Where do you stand on removing the dams on the snake, from both prospective of, saving the salmon and climate change ? See leaked document.
How do you see Eastern Washington attract industries boosting clean energy technology? See Moses Lake news.
How do you feel about a price on carbon? See How cap and trade works
What one question on the topic of climate change would you ask of CMR? See EPA's Frequently asked questions.
What question's do you expect to answer the most from Washington's 5th congressional district? (Eastern Washington)
Coffee at Cozy Coffee December 2 2023
Delbert, Tom, Kent and myself (Jorgen) thanks for coming despite the snow.
Actions:
Kent will contact Petra Hoy to work on setting up town hall meetings with candidates running against CMR.
Questions: As a representative for Washington's 5th congressional district
Where do you stand on removing the dams on the snake, from both prospective of, saving the salmon and climate change ? See leaked document.
How do you see Eastern Washington attract industries boosting clean energy technology? See Moses Lake news.
How do you feel about a price on carbon? See How cap and trade works
What one question on the topic of climate change would you ask of CMR? See EPA's Frequently asked questions.
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Coffee at Cozy Coffee November 4 2023
Delbert, Tom, Kent and Carmela thanks for coming, that was a great time.
Coffee at Cozy Coffee October 7 2023
Delbert and Tom, thanks for coming. Our topics, Tesla price drop, upcoming Cybertruck and Delbert's restoration project.
Our next meeting November 4th, lets meet at 9am to accommodate Tom.
Tom and Bill still need to test drive EV's and report back their experiences. Delbert will report on his restoration project , and Tom will bring "Clean New World" hats to share.
Coffee at Cozy Coffee August 5 2023
Topic about "History of Tesla" and how a lot of people will not buy Tesla because of Elon Musk's personality is and issue, why then shop at, Home Depot Bernie Marcus, Amazon Jeff Bezos, and even use Microsoft's products Bill Gates is not perfect either. It was pointed out the Model Y is listed for $40,240.00 after Federal tax credit.
Coffee at Cozy Coffee July 1 2023
We have a large lot. Has been all grass. We pulled out about 50% if the grass and replaced it with drought tolerant plants, small trees, and rock. We figure it will cut our water bill roughly in half. Tom
Coffee at Cozy Coffee May 6 2023
Coffee at Cozy Coffee April 1 2023
John A. Finch Arboretum Saturday October 22 from 11:00 to 14:00
Stop by our booth from 9am to 1pm at the Liberty Lake Farmers Market (see below). We look forward to sharing information on climate change and clean energy. See you there!
Kent and Tom manning the A Clean New World Tent while Jorgen is out proseltyzing!
Tom with a solar concept house. It was an attention grabber!
Henning, Brian
Hi Jorgen,
I’m not sure you saw our news, but recently the Gonzaga Climate Center and our partners received a small NOAA grant to conduct a campaign to map urban heat islands in the City of Spokane. You can learn more about the program at www.gonzaga.edu/BeatTheHeat.
As it explains there and on the volunteer sign up page, the event will be one day this summer in July or August. It will involve volunteers driving vehicles with temperature and humidity sensors mounted on their window. They will drive routes across the city in the early morning, afternoon, and evening.
My colleague, Karli Honebein, copied here, is our Program Coordinator and is helping organize the effort. We are in the initial planning stages and things will quickly be ramping up. We had a couple of ideas to run by you.
If you have a way of inviting EV car enthusiasts to volunteer to help do the mapping, that would be ideal. We’d love this to be as carbon neutral as possible. The volunteer form is online and, if it would help, we’d be happy to provide a draft email you could send out to your networks.
We anticipate getting some good media coverage during this event, in part because Kris Crocker from KXLY is one of our partners. (Here you can see some of the coverage we received during the launch of the project.) Also, we will have 30-80 volunteers who will be helping with the campaign. It seems like it could be a great opportunity to host a small EV car demo opportunity parallel to the mapping campaign itself. We are expecting to have a spot on Gonzaga’s campus (probably in front of College Hall where there are EV chargers). Would you have interest in helping organize such an event?
Hope this finds you well.
Brian
BRIAN G. HENNING, Ph.D. (he/him)
Gonzaga University
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Environmental Studies
Founder & Director, Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment
Founder & Executive Editor, Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead
Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone Ave, Spokane, 99258; Robinson House 202; 509.313.5885
Upcoming Events:
May 5th & 6th – Spokanopy Tree Plantings – In West Central and Northeast Spokane – Hosted by The Lands Council and the City
May 6th – The River as a Muse – LR Montgomery Art for First Friday
May 12th – Bringing Salmon Home to the Spokane River: Film and Q&A hosted by the Spokane Riverkeeper
May 14th – Catalyst for Cool – 350 Spokane’s annual fundraiser
May 16th – Spokane Climate Project Documentary Film Showing – hosted by GU Climate Center
May 20th – Celtic Music Traditions – Traditional Celtic Music from the brother of our very own Ted Hensold – See attached flyer
