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Open Zoom Sessions on Article 58 “Climate Emergency Declaration”: April 25 & 27
The Sustainable Sudbury Climate Emergency Declaration working group will hold two open Zoom information sessions about Town Meeting article 58 “Climate Emergency Declaration.” Information about Article 58 can be found on our webpage: SustainableSudbury.org/climate-emergency/. Do you have questions about Article 58 or Town Meeting? Join us for a Q&A session by zoom: Monday April 25…
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Quebec Bans new or replacement fossil fuel heating systems
As of 2023, new or replacement heating systems powered by fossil fuels banned As of Dec. 31, oil-powered heating is banned in all new construction projects across Quebec, part of the province’s push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In two years, Quebec will go a step further by making it illegal to replace existing oil furnaces with any sort…
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The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Leaf Blowers
… into the midst of all this beauty, the kind of beauty that makes despair seem like only a figment of the midnight imagination, the monsters arrive. They come in a deafening, surging swarm, blasting from lawn to lawn and filling the air with the stench of gasoline and death. I would call them mechanical…
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The Health Effects of Gas Stove Pollution
BROUGHT TO YOU BY MOTHERS OUT FRONT, ACTON CHAPTERDATE: October 27, 2021TIME: 7:00pm – 8:30pm ETLOCATION: Zoom, Acton, MassachusettsCONTACT: • Gas stoves and ranges have been heavily marketed by the fossil fuel industry, and many consumers hold onto the notion that “cooking with gas” is superior. But did you know that gas flames emit toxic pollutants indoors? Learn more here.…
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We Got a Climate Bill for Massachusetts – Now What? A Conversation with State Sen. Mike Barrett and Prof. Nathan Phillips
We Got a Climate Bill for Massachusetts – Now What?A Conversation with State Sen. Mike Barrett and Prof. Nathan PhillipsThursday, Oct. 21, 7-8:30pm Almost 7 months ago, Governor Baker signed into law Senate Bill 9 (after vetoing it twice), An Act Creating a Next Generation Roadmap for MA Climate Policy. At the signing, he said, “Climate change…
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Mass. Towns Seek Permission To Lead On Emission Cuts
https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/07/27/massachusetts-towns-fossil-fuel-bans Officials in a handful of Massachusetts communities think they’ve cooked up a worthwhile strategy for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and want the state’s permission to try it out. “Let us be your test kitchen,” Arlington Town Manager Adam Chapdelaine told lawmakers Tuesday. “Let Arlington, let Lexington, Brookline and Acton, others that are pursuing this…
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Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer
From: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer … Foote’s experiments in the 1850s demonstrated the ability of atmospheric water vapor and carbon dioxide to affect solar heating, foreshadowing John Tyndall’s later experiments that described the workings of Earth’s greenhouse effect. Despite her remarkable insight into the influence that higher carbon dioxide levels in the past would have had on Earth’s…
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Why is the sky so hazy? Smoke from wildfires in the west
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/20/metro/why-is-sky-so-hazy-blame-wildfires-west/ Smoky skies are settling in over New England this week because of distant wildfires burning across Canada and the western part of the United States. One of those — the Bootleg Fire — has been burning for two weeks in southwestern Oregon and has consumed more than 364,000 acres, according to Oregon fire officials. It’s…
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Net zero pledges don’t just help corporate brands. They boost stocks
From msn.com/en-us/money/companies/net-zero-pledges-dont-just-help-corporate-brands-they-boost-stocks/ar-BB1fWxAs Net zero pledges have become all the rage in Corporate America. Big banks, steel companies and even (mostly European) oil companies are pledging to wipe out their carbon emissions over time. Cynics may see these environmental announcements as mere marketing ploys designed to win brownie points from climate-nervous consumers. But there may be another force at…
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This Is NOT A Drill
Climate Emergency ReportFebruary 2021 How Communities Are UsingClimate Emergency Declarations to Make Big New Moves toDecarbonize Locally The Covid emergency arrived in the midst of an even more perilous emergency: the climate emergency, which more than 1,750 communities across the globe have acknowledged with official declarations… This report presents the five big strategies of 15…
