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Webinar: Transform Your Lawn to Save Our Ecosystem
MARCH 21, 7 P.M.Transform Your Lawn to Save Our EcosystemTurf grass lawn covers more of the U.S. than any other irrigated crop. Lawns are resource-heavy, requiring mowing, irrigation, fertilizer, and pesticides to thrive. Learn why you should transition your lawn using beautiful and environmentally friendly plants. Incorporating native plants in lawns and gardens helps to…
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Renewable You for 2024: Clean Energy Upgrades for Your New Year’s Resolutions
As the confetti from New Year’s Eve celebrations settles, it is only fitting that we prepare our 2024 New Year’s Resolutions. Our resolutions are often about a change we wish to see in ourselves, but what about making them around the change we wish to see in our homes and our world? Here’s how making…
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Induction cooking – no more gas! October 25th 2023, 7:29 pm-8:30 pm
If you cook with gas, you may not be aware of the drawbacks… and the alternative! Gas stoves likely make the air in your kitchen more polluted than recommended outdoor clean air quality standards. Burning gas releases nitrogen dioxide, small particulate matter, and carbon monoxide, all components of air pollution. Cooking on a gas stove…
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Sudbury and Wayland Recycling and Energy Drive
On Saturday, April 29, 10AM to 2PM bring your unwanted appliances, furniture, electronic and clothing to the Recycling and Energy Drive. Have an old dehumidifier? Drop it off for free and receive $30. Where: the Curtis Middle School parking areas, 22 Pratts Mill Road, Sudbury. Cost: $20 fee per car Habitat for Humanity, Black Earth…
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Good News! Sudbury Hires a Sustainability Coordinator
After a long and careful search, the Town of Sudbury has hired a Sustainability Coordinator, as requested in Warrant Article 58 (The Climate Emergency Declaration) at the May 2022 town meeting. Article 58 was researched, created and submitted by Sustainable Sudbury. Dani Marini started March 28, 2023 and will report to Sandra Duran, Sudbury’s Combined…
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Exxon scientists in the 1970s accurately predicted climate change
“Analysis of internal climate projections shows Exxon scientists knew the harm of burning fossil fuels, while firm’s executives played down the risk.” Scientists working for Exxon between 1977 and 2003 accurately forecasted the rate at which global average temperatures would rise as a result of carbon emissions, correctly predicted that human-caused global warming would first…
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Scientists Claim Carbon Capture Is Viable & Fossil Fuel Producers Should Pay The Costs
A new research study led by the University of Oxford suggests that climate change could be constrained by the implementation of policies that ensure fossil fuel producers pay for carbon capture or clean-up. The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, argues that carbon capture and storage is an affordable way of ‘stopping fossil fuels from…
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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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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…
