Category: Renewables

  • Sudbury Earth Day 2024 – 4/20 at Town Center

    Sudbury Earth Day 2024 – 4/20 at Town Center

    Event Details Event Start: Saturday, April 20, 2024 (10:00 am) Event End: Saturday, April 20, 2024 (2:00 pm) (Expected) Location: Town Hall Department: Town Manager Notes: Saturday, April 20 at Town Center (322 Concord Rd) from 10AM – 2PM. Come and learn what YOU can do to help protect our planet! Download: Download this event to…

  • 5 tips for reducing plastic waste at your Fourth of July barbecue

    5 tips for reducing plastic waste at your Fourth of July barbecue

    A message from our friends at MassPIRG (https://masspirg.org) : Who doesn’t love a good Fourth of July barbecue? Hamburgers on the grill, watching the fireworks display, and at the end of the night … cleaning up lots and lots of plastic waste? Here are five tips for how to cut back on plastic at your…

  • Composting 101 – 5/25 at Goodnow Library

    Composting 101 – 5/25 at Goodnow Library

    THURSDAY, MAY 257:00—8:00 PM Community Room Goodnow Library 21 Concord Rd, Sudbury, MA, 01776 Join us on Thursday, May 25, at 7PM for an IN-PERSON program, “Composting 101”! Did you know you can recycle all your kitchen scraps and yard waste, and turn it into beneficial food for your plants? Yep. Kate Donovan, owner of…

  • Rain Barrels Available, Deadline is April 10.

    Rain Barrels Available, Deadline is April 10.

    Sustainable Sudbury is teaming with Great American Rain Barrel and the Water District to provide rain barrels for sale to Sudbury residents and residents of nearby towns. Record Flooding and Drought — Weather Whiplash Events During the summer of 2022, all New England was experiencing drought conditions for the first time in more than seven…

  • 2022 Town Forum: Climate Change & Sustainability

    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…

  • Weston is offering Rain Barrels at a discount

    Weston is offering Rain Barrels at a discount

    Capture Rain Water for Use in Your Yard – Order Discounted Rain Barrels by May 26th! The Town of Weston is participating in the Great American Rain Barrel program and is offering Sudbury residents the opportunity to purchase a rain barrel at a discounted price of $79.00. The Town of Sudbury is not directly participating…

  • Quebec Bans new or replacement fossil fuel heating systems

    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…

  • Local Firm AMBRI builds Energy Storage using Molten Metal! Liquid Metal Battery Explained

    Local Firm AMBRI builds Energy Storage using  Molten Metal! Liquid Metal Battery Explained
  • This Is NOT A Drill

    This Is NOT A Drill

    Climate Emergency ReportFebruary 2021 How Communities Are UsingClimate Emergency Declarations to Make Big New Moves toDecarbonize Locally The Covid emergency arrived in the midst of an even more perilous emergency: the climate emergency, which more than 1,750 communities across the globe have acknowledged with official declarations… This report presents the five big strategies of 15…

  • Reusable Bags Allowed Again

    Reusable Bags Allowed Again

    NEWS RELEASE Contact Janet Domenitz, PUBLIC HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS APPLAUD GOV. BAKER’S DECISION TO RESCIND EMERGENCY ORDER ON PLASTIC BAGS For Immediate Release SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2020 Public health, environmental groups applaud Gov. Baker’s decision to rescind emergency order on plastic bags BOSTON — According to the Commonwealth of MA COVID-19 website, as of July…