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Upcoming Webinars
LOTS of good webinars coming up! WED FEB 23, MARCH 16, APRIL 20, MAY 18 7 PM Building Biodiversity Series Yard care techniques that foster a haven for native plants and animals. Green Newton.WED MARCH 2 7 PMSenator Barrett – What’s Happening on the Hill Part I (see above)THUR MARCH 3 12 PMHydrogen: Future of Clean Energy…
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Sen. Eldridge interviews Acton’s Sustainability Director, Andrea Becerra
https://youtu.be/CVPSbHCNuvI?t=44 Learn about what a Sustainability Director does in this interview. Acton passed their Climate Emergency Declaration and hired their Sustainability Director in 2020. Sudbury gets the chance to do that this year! See Climate Emergency for details and to show your support!
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With new Mass Save three-year plan, Massachusetts sharpens its best climate-fighting tool
From the Boston Globe: The new 343-page order dramatically expands incentives to decarbonize homes. Yet some fear its fine print could undermine its broad strokes. … On Monday, the Department of Public Utilities approved a major rewriting of the state plan that provides energy efficiency incentives to consumers. Unlike previous versions of the Mass Save plan, the new…
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Blame Warming Atlantic for the ‘Snow Bomb’ Roaring Toward Us
Winter storms in the Northeast U.S. are getting boost from warming oceans From Bloomberg:
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Snowfall Prediction for Tomorrow
Winter Storm Warning Dave Epstein says: “This is perhaps the highest snowfall potential totals map I have ever made. Banding most likely over southeastern MA, but could occur anywhere in the highest zone. Most of this falls from 7 am to 7pm Saturday, final flakes around midnight. #WeatherWisdom“ National Weather Service Warning: URGENT – WINTER…
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‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science
From salemnews.com … Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play astronomers who make a literally Earth-shattering discovery and then try to persuade the president to take action to save humanity. It’s a satire that explores how individuals, scientists, the media and politicians respond when faced with scientific facts that are uncomfortable, threatening and inconvenient. The movie…
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ZOOM MEETING: Heating and Cooling with Electric Heat Pumps
Sponsored by Energize Wayland. Date January 11th 2022, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Venue on zoom, Wayland, Massachusetts Electrifying your home’s heating and cooling system with a heat pump is one of the most effective ways to make your home more comfortable and reduce your overall carbon footprint. Learn about cold-climate air-source heat pumps, geothermal systems and heat pump water…
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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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In a record-breaking year of weather, signs of a changed world
Boston Globe: 2021 was, for many people, the year in which climate change jumped from the part of our brains reserved for future-think — for worries not yet realized — and landed squarely in the now. It was the year that extreme heat rolled into wildfires into poor air quality into endless downpours and flash…
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Sen. Eldridge Holds a Community Climate Summit
On December 7, 2021, Sudbury’s state senator Jamie Eldridge held a public Zoom meeting to describe the Next Generation Climate Roadmap Act and other existing sources of funding for climate action and listed many actions that local towns have so far undertaken. The slide presentation was followed by community Q&A. Click here for the slides:…
