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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 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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another successful styrofoam collection couldn’t happen….
Without everyone pitching in….thanks to all. Hope you’ll come again May 7 2022! Stay safe and well,Marie Royea
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Say So Long to Polystyrene Foodware, Sudbury!
Surfrider.org praises Sustainable Sudbury and the LS Environmental Club and Sustainable Sudbury/Surfrider member Alex Vai for getting the town to pass an article at the 2020 town meeting for a bylaw banning polystyrene products: The bylaw prohibits retail and food establishments from using, distributing, or selling disposable food service ware made using foam or solid…
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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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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
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Amherst eyes climate action plan
From the Daily Hampshire Gazette: AMHERST — A roadmap for achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in Amherst, through measures such as increasing renewable energy, promoting energy efficiency in buildings and reducing dependence on gas-powered vehicles, is in the hands of the Town Council. Councilors last week received what is known as the Climate…
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Salem, Beverly seek comment on climate action plan
From the Salem News: The cites of Beverly and Salem have released a draft of their plan to take on climate change and are asking the public to give their feedback. Called Resilient Together, the 100-page document lays out the two cities’ collective plan to address climate change, with a focus on reducing their greenhouse…
