Is your town a solar permitting leader or laggard? Help Third Act find out – from the comfort of home!
About this event
Join one of our weekly hands-on Work Party Zoom calls, and learn how you can help Third Act crowd-source research to improve solar permitting rules for towns and cities across America!
This new tool will support grassroots local action to educate local decision-makers about Smart, Simple Solar standards… helping homeowners, solar companies, and municipal staff all save time and money while keeping the clean energy transformation on track… without waiting for change from federal government.
Come try out our research tool while being supported in community! There will be time to ask questions, check in about roadblocks, and learn from peer volunteers. In real-time, we’ll go ahead and start internet research, make phone calls, and take notes about our own towns and cities, to subsequently submit to a crowd-sourced Third Act research form.
If you’ve done a postcarding or Letter to the Editor Work Party with Third Act, you’ll recognize this approach. We have a good time together, and it feels good to take action in solidarity with peers around the country.
Nancy LaPlaca
Nancy has worked in and around politics and public policy for most of her life, with the last 20 years deep in the trenches of electricity. She started this path in 2006, successfully challenging the permit for a so-called “clean” coal plant with carbon sequestration. Nancy worked for two congresspersons, a number of state agencies and state courts, served as a policy advisor to a public utilities commissioner, and worked with many environmental and solar advocates to help end the reign of dirty fossil fuels and usher in the new solar era. Nancy has a law degree and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and is honored to work with the Third Act team to help elders understand the value of clean energy and take action to make it happen.
Jeremy Friedman
Jeremy is Campaign Strategist for Third Act. Previous roles include founding NYU’s Office of Sustainability; establishing the Central Brooklyn Community Solar Campaign; and co-founding a grassroots criminal justice reform Political Action Committee which elected anti-carceral DAs. Jeremy has worked hands-on as a massage therapist for as many years as they’ve been a community organizer, and has led workshops from Taipei to Black Rock City. A common thread throughout is the conviction that change is inevitable, generative, and always unfolding at the personal, relational scale of our physical bodies.
