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Welcome to our annual WEALTH Days of Advocacy and Education! Join organizations, advocates, and legislators from across Kansas to connect on Water, Energy, Air, Land, Transportation, and Health (WEALTH). This is a unique opportunity for Kansans to connect with each other and take action on environmental and climate issues.  We invite you all to join these important dialogues.

WEALTH Days 2021 Legislative Action Alert

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Thursday, March 18 • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Connect with leading Kansas WEALTH organizations in an inspiring, forward looking, big thinking snapshot of what could happen in Kansas if everything went our way.  What are the biggest, boundless opportunities to build resilience for all?  Tune in to find out!
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Moderators
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Brandi Nelson

Climate + Energy Project Board Member, National Records Center (Government Information Specialist)
Brandi Nelson is committed to positive social change through policy, education, leadership development, and community engagement. Brandi has pursued these goals in a variety of ways: through small business startups, nonprofits, and local, state, and federal government agencies. Brandi... Read More →

Speakers
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Dorothy Barnett

Executive Director, Climate + Energy Project
As Executive Director of the Climate + Energy Project, Dorothy Barnett is leading the effort to address the Heartland’s energy future. Grounded in an approach based on common ground solutions, Barnett has been successful in convening diverse voices in a conservative region of the... Read More →
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Zack Pistora

Kansas Lobbyist for Sierra Club, Board member for KNRC and KRC, Kansas Sierra Club, Kansas Natural Resource Council, Kansas Rural Center
Zack is in his 10th year as the State Lobbyist for the Kansas Chapter of Sierra Club, and has served as a board member for the Kansas Natural Resource Council and the Kansas Rural Center for half a decade. His training is in political science, leadership, and women's studies from... Read More →
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Dawn Buehler

Kansas Riverkeeper & Executive Director, Friends of the Kaw
Dawn Buehler is the Kansas Riverkeeper® & Executive Director of Friends of the Kaw.  She can be reach at riverkeeper@kansasriver.org.  In addition to managing the daily activities of FOK, she monitors, responds and mediates suspected pollution incidents to Kansas River; facilitates... Read More →
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Tami Alexander

Sr. Program Coordinator & Central Kansas Clean Cities Coordinator, Metropolitan Energy Center
Tami joined Metropolitan Energy Center in August 2017 to support the ethanol and biodiesel projects in Kansas. In January 2018, she became the Program Coordinator for the Central Kansas Clean Cities Coalition, managing event coordination, outreach, customer relationship management... Read More →
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Rabbi Moti Rieber

Executive Director, Kansas Interfaith Action
Rabbi Moti Rieber has served as Executive Director of Kansas Interfaith Action and its predecessor organization, Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, since March 2011. A native of New Jersey, he has lived in Kansas since 2007. He is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College... Read More →
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Beto Lugo Martinez

Executive Director, CleanAirNow!
Beto Lugo-Martinez is a community organizer and executive director of the frontline, environmental justice organization, CleanAirNow in Kansas City. Through grassroots organizing he leads an equitable conversation working toward a fossil fuel free future by identifying zero emissions... Read More →

Sponsors
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Climate + Energy Project

Climate + Energy Project
The Climate + Energy Project (CEP) builds resilience in Kansas through equitable clean energy solutions and climate action.The Climate & Energy Project:connects people, organizations, and ideas,presents science-based facts,facilitates critical thinking and community engagement, and co-creates... Read More →
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Friends of the Kaw

Friends of the Kaw
Friends of the Kaw (FOK) serves the Kansas River, known locally as the Kaw. The Kansas River is the largest prairie-based river system in the world. The river originates at the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican Rivers and runs 173 miles to meet the Missouri River at Kaw Point... Read More →
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Kansas Chapter of Sierra Club

Kansas Chapter of Sierra Club
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and To use all lawful means to... Read More →
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Kansas Interfaith Action

Kansas Interfaith Action
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Kansas Natural Resource Council

Kansas Natural Resource Council
The Kansas Natural Resource Council promotes environmentally responsible practices and sustainable natural resource policies to ensure the quality and abundance of these resources for future generations.
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Kansas Rural Center

Kansas Rural Center
The Kansas Rural Center (KRC) is a private non-profit research, education and advocacy organization with deep roots in Kansas agriculture, communities, and grassroots organizing. Begun in 1979 to address the loss of family farms, concentration of land and natural resources into fewer... Read More →

Thursday March 18, 2021 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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