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Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives Chosen as a Top Select Board Goal
Dear Select Board, On behalf of the Climate Emergency Group, Thank You. For your hard work, sincere deliberations, time given, and choices of worthy goals for 2021/22. It is SO heartening to see that Sustainability made it into your top 5 choices. And it’s also heartening to see the other priorities as well: Advancing the…
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“Many Massachusetts cities and towns have hired sustainability managers to lead their efforts against climate change.”
Local governments staff up, team up to confront climate change [If you think this is a good idea for Sudbury too, please read and sign our letter to the Select Board] Excerpts from 12/7/21 article on WGBH.org: Many Massachusetts cities and towns have hired sustainability managers to lead their efforts against climate change. Within their…
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Get $30 for your old dehumidifier 12/4 At Curtis + $30 rebate on a new one!
Dehumidifier Turn-In Events Get $30 for turning in your old, working dehumidifier! Do you have an old, working dehumidifier that you’d like to upgrade or clean out? Recycle it with the Sponsors of Mass Save® and you can receive a $30 rebate! Most towns charge residents to recycle their appliances. With this limited-time offer, if you…
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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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HOW MUCH DOES FOOD CONTRIBUTE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
Food adds more than a third of global greenhouse gas yearly emissions, and most of that from animal products, according to this new study from the University of Illinois: The comprehensive study examined the four major subsectors for plant- and animal-based food emissions associated with food production processes, including land-use change, farmland management activities, raising livestock and…
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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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Local Firm AMBRI builds Energy Storage using Molten Metal! Liquid Metal Battery Explained
