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Get $125 for recycling your old fridge or freezer
From MassSave: “Limited-time offer! Get $125 for recycling your old fridge or freezer.Schedule a no-cost pickup from the Sponsors of Mass Save® by October 31.Looking to get rid of an inefficient, working fridge or freezer? We’ll pick it up at no cost, recycle it, and pay you $125 for helping us reduce landfill and energy…
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SVT Climate Change Speaker Series
To help members and friends respond to the threats of climate change, SVT has launched a three-part Climate Change Speaker Series. All three sessions will be presented over Zoom. Save the dates! Nov. 8, 7:00 p.m.A Changing Climate: Addressing the CrisisSVT Executive Director Lisa Vernegaard will describe the crisis and explain how SVT and other…
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Your Voice Matters in Selecting Our New Town Manager:
Help ensure that our next Town Manager is committed to sustainability and climate action. Please participate. Here are the ways: fill out a short survey, attend a community meeting via Zoom, and/or write directly to the select board. You can complete a short survey by Thursday, September 8. Sustainability issues are offered as one of…
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Town of Wayland to Implement a Climate Action Mobilization Plan
Sudbury’s Article 58 Climate Emergency Declaration, passed at spring town meeting, calls for the creation and implementation of a Climate Mobilization Action Plan for our town. WAYLAND — The Town of Wayland is pleased to announce that it will implement a Climate Action Mobilization Plan (CAMP) following approval from the Select Board. (PDF link.) On…
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2022 Town Forum: Climate Change & Sustainability
As the town’s first step in enacting Article 58, Climate Emergency Declaration, Select Board member Janie Dretler is organizing this public town forum, with some help from Sustainable Sudbury’s Climate Action group. We urge everyone who can to attend, to show their support and learn what Sudbury is doing and plans to do — 7/14…
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Vermont is Leading the Way in the Renewable Energy Transition
Excerpts from powermag.com/vermont-and-iso-new-england-provide-an-interesting-renewable-energy-transition-case-study/ submitted by Bob M. About 80% of Vermont’s power comes from renewable energy. Almost no fossil-fueled plants operate in the state, other than a handful of peaker units, many of which are on the short-list for closure. Distributed Energy Proliferates … The reason is that rooftop solar has become widespread in the…
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SUCCESS! Climate Emergency Declared at Town Meeting!
Article 58, “Climate Emergency Declaration” passed last night as the final article of the 2022 Sudbury Town Meeting. This was the culmination of more than a year of hard work and hard struggle by Sustainable Sudbury’s CED team: Alex Vai, Debbie Wolozin, Leslie Lowe, Marie Royea, Melissa Gough, Bruce Porter and Tom Yelton. Thank you…
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LWV Climate Emergency Forum on Article 58, See it Now
Declaring a climate emergency in Sudbury and taking steps to address it, including hiring a sustainability director, will be up for a vote at Sudbury Annual Town Meeting in May. A virtual public form on Town Meeting Article 58 “Why Declare a Climate Emergency in Sudbury?” was held April 4, sponsored by Sustainable Sudbury and…
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Public Forum April 4 on Climate Emergency Warrant Article
Declaring a climate emergency in Sudbury and taking steps to address it, including hiring a sustainability director, will be up for a vote at Sudbury Annual Town Meeting in May. Learn more about the warrant article, filed by citizens petition, at a virtual public forum, “Why Declare a Climate Emergency in Sudbury?” Monday, April 4,…
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Panel will develop Needham’s climate action plan
By John Laidler Globe Correspondent,Updated March 22, 2022, 6:36 p.m. … The nine-member panel, which held its first meeting March 21, is responsible for developing a plan focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building climate resiliency in Needham. … “Climate change is one of the most urgent issues we face globally, and we have a responsibility to…
