Our House Is On Fire! Climate change is an emergency. Let’s act like it. Let’s mobilize.
Article 58 the Climate Emergency Declaration passed! This is just the beginning. We now all need to keep the pressure on so that we get an experienced, qualified and effective Sustainability Director and create an effective Climate Action Plan.
- The CED One Pager – pdf hand out.
- Watch the LWV Climate Emergency Forum Here – Sudbury TV video
- Climate Emergency Declaration Article in the Town Meeting Warrant – Article 58 text
- Accelerating Sudbury’s Climate Mobilization – Slides for presentation to Sudbury Select Board Meeting on 3/22/2022
Resources
- This Is NOT A Drill
- Headline statements from IPCC 6th Assessment Report 2021
- Mass. 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap
- Climate mobilization Policy Guide
- Climate mobilization Tool Kit
- Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance
- Many Massachusetts cities and towns have hired sustainability managers to lead their efforts against climate change
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Sudbury Earth Day – Fair and Cleanup Day 4/22/23
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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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Sudbury Town Manager Search: How to Get Involved
Sudbury is hiring a new Town Manager! The Town Manager serves as the Town’s Chief Executive and has significant influence in every department, project, and activity of our Town government. There are opportunities coming up for residents to share their thoughts and influence the hiring process. Please consider making your voice heard on this critical leadership…
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Get $125 for recycling your old fridge or freezer
From MassSave: “Limited-time offer! Get $125 for recycling your old fridge or freezer.Schedule a no-cost pickup from the Sponsors of Mass Save® by October 31.Looking to get rid of an inefficient, working fridge or freezer? We’ll pick it up at no cost, recycle it, and pay you $125 for helping us reduce landfill and energy…
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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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Your Voice Matters in Selecting Our New Town Manager:
Help ensure that our next Town Manager is committed to sustainability and climate action. Please participate. Here are the ways: fill out a short survey, attend a community meeting via Zoom, and/or write directly to the select board. You can complete a short survey by Thursday, September 8. Sustainability issues are offered as one of…
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Town of Wayland to Implement a Climate Action Mobilization Plan
Sudbury’s Article 58 Climate Emergency Declaration, passed at spring town meeting, calls for the creation and implementation of a Climate Mobilization Action Plan for our town. WAYLAND — The Town of Wayland is pleased to announce that it will implement a Climate Action Mobilization Plan (CAMP) following approval from the Select Board. (PDF link.) On…
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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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Pollen & Climate Change
Climate change to make pollen season nastier – The Boston Globe Climate change has already made allergy season longer and pollen counts higher, but the worst for sufferers may be yet to come. Climate scientists at the University of Michigan looked at 15 plant pollens in the United States and used computer simulations to calculate…
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SUCCESS! Climate Emergency Declared at Town Meeting!
Article 58, “Climate Emergency Declaration” passed last night as the final article of the 2022 Sudbury Town Meeting. This was the culmination of more than a year of hard work and hard struggle by Sustainable Sudbury’s CED team: Alex Vai, Debbie Wolozin, Leslie Lowe, Marie Royea, Melissa Gough, Bruce Porter and Tom Yelton. Thank you…