Past Events
Click on the quick links below to learn more about a few of our Past PECA Events:
Micro-Plastics and our Health - Ginny Kesler-Day - January 4, 2026
Click Here for Events from 2025:
Adventures with Ranger Rose - Rosanne McHenry
Eat Well - Janeane Martin & Mary Barker
What WE Can Do - Linda Franklin
Simple But Not Easy: Becoming Climate Literate - Jim Thompson
Sustainability & Briar Patch - David Benson
Happy Earth Month - Joan Griffin
Methane Busters - Dr. Ken Moore
This is Your Brain on Climate Change - Dr. Ken Moore
Safer Places to Live with Climate Change - Dr. Ken Moore
Click Here for Events from 2024
The Auburn Sustainability Committee - Glen Kramer
Home Electrification:What is it? Why Do it? How can I get help paying for it? - Dinyah Rein
Placer Plug-In Day
Beavers and Climate Resilience: Bring Back the Beaver Campaign - Kate Lundquist
EVs // High Tech
Finding Hope in a Time of Climate Change - Allen Edwards
EV Extravaganza 2024
Wildfire & Forest Resilience in California - Jessica Morse
Solving the Wildfire Threat- Ken Moore
Click Here for Events from 2023
EV Extravaganza 2023
Firescaping Presentation - Kevin Marini
What You Do With Your Money Matters - Dr. Barb Munn
Microplastics and our health
On January 4, 2026, PECA kicked off the new year with a presentation about the health hazards related to plastics from Ginny Kesler-Day, a Registered Dietitian and retired Nutrition Professor. Ginny recently completed a course about this topic and told us how researchers have identified an astounding 16,325 chemicals in plastic, and less than 1% of those chemicals are NOT hazardous. What could possibly go wrong??
Here are the direct links to websites mentioned toward the end of this presentation:
Beyond Plastics: beyondplastics.org
Environmental Working Group: ewg.org
Toxic Free Future: toxicfreefuture.org
IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network): ipen.org
Plastic Pollution Coalition: plasticpollutioncoalition.org
