2025 PECA Events

Click on the quick links below to learn more about a few of our PECA events from 2025:

Adventures with Ranger Rose

On December 7, 2025 Rosanne McHenry plied us with humor, tales of adventure, great stories, and real life experiences of park ranger! Rosanne is an award-winning author, and has worked in a dozen different national and California state parks, and has written two books about her experiences. Through her story-telling, you will discover what it is like to be an outdoor adventurer, camper, and park ranger. Click on the video below for this presentation.

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Eat Well! Reducing food waste in Placer County

On November 2, 2025, Placer County representatives, Janeane Martin and Mary Barker spoke to us about a new Placer County program that works to solve both food waste and food insecurity. Eat Well is a virtual food pantry, a mobile app that connects businesses with unsold food directly to community members in need.  Food waste significantly contributes to climate change by generating methane in our landfills. So the Eat Well app, fights both food insecurity and climate change with the Eat Well app! Click on the video below for this presentation.

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What We Can do: Individual Actions

On October 5, Linda Franklin, Co-Founder of Placer Earth Care Action, talked about what we can easily do ourselves to reduce carbon emissions.  What we eat, wear, buy, waste, use, and do with our personal resources CAN make a difference. If you are interested in empowering yourself to make climate-friendly decisions, take a look at this presentation!

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Simple But Not Easy: Becoming Climate Literate

On June 1, 2025, Jim Thompson, Founder and CEO of This! Is What We Did, asked “What will you tell your grandchildren when they ask what you did to avert the climate crisis?” For many, climate change can seem over-whelming due to the enormity of the crisis. But this is often the result of our inability to see clearly and act decisively, particularly given the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to create doubt. Jim’s presentation will explain the concept of “climate change literacy,” and how it can help us see the climate emergency clearly and understand the kinds of action that can make a difference in meeting the challenge of the greatest threat in the history of humanity.

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Sustainability and Briar Patch

On May 4, 2025, PECA Presents heard about Briar Patch Food Co-op’s commitment to sustainability and locally grown organic fruits and vegetables from its Senior Produce Manager, David Benson. Did you know that collaborative partnerships between Briar Patch and local farms ensures access to fresh, local, organic food in our area? In the realm of sustainability, Briar Patch is working to achieve carbon neutrality, using renewable energy, and reducing food waste, plastic packaging and HFC in refrigeration. The store’s sustainability goals include achieving 100% renewable energy and 100% of food waste diverted from landfills.

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Happy Earth MOnth!

Read Your Way Through the 30 Days of April with Joan Griffin

On April 6th, 2025 PECA celebrated the riches of our precious Earth with Joan Griffin, OLLI Instructor and author of The Force of Nature.  Joan is a true believer in the power of stories to inform, entertain, and inspire us to explore and preserve the beautiful, yet fragile, world that we live in.

Click here for Joan’s carefully curated list of Earth-centered books, and be inspired to read them through her presentation (see below for the recording).

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Methane Busters

More than 3.7 million oil and gas wells dot the United States, spewing 8.2 million metric tons of methane and other pollutants every year, according to the EPA; and that is just one source of human-caused methane. In this presentation you’ll learn about methane busters such as the oil companies that found that they can make even more money by capturing and selling their leaking methane. The Well Done Foundation, another methane buster, is capping leaking orphan oil wells. There are also methane busters who have created a vaccine for cow burps, and others who are developing a natural methane program to produce hydrogen.

On March 2, 2025 Dr. Kenneth Moore, Board member of Placer Earth Care Action, brought us this presentation about creative initiatives to address the continuing threat posed by methane pollution! See below for a recording of this presentation.

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This is YOur Brain on Climate Change

The recent fires in Los Angeles are among the costliest disasters in American history. Aside from the extensive property loss, there was also a cost to human health. Recent research is finding that heat and smoke from climate change not only affects our lungs, hearts and immune systems, but also our brains' health and, thereby, our moods and behavior. Approximately half of adults agree that climate change is already affecting Americans’ mental health (48%) and are anxious about its impact on future generations (51%).

On February 2, 2025 Dr. Kenneth Moore, Board member of Placer Earth Care Action, brought us a presentation related to the research findings of Clayton Page Aldern in his important book "The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate changes our Brains". See below for a recording of this presentation.

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Where are the Safer Places to Live in a Time of Climate Change?

On January 5, 2025 Dr. Kenneth Moore, Board member of Placer Earth Care Action, brought us a timely presentation on living with Climate Change. The recent hurricane season severely impacted places that were thought to be relatively safe. This begs the question: Is there any place in America where we can completely avoid the devastation brought about by a changing climate - are some areas safer than others?  This presentation assesses the threats brought on by climate change. Perhaps Placer County is one of the better places to live - watch the recording below and find out!

PECA Presents - January 5, 2025

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