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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ZOOM MEETING: Heating and Cooling with Electric Heat Pumps
Sponsored by Energize Wayland. Date January 11th 2022, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Venue on zoom, Wayland, Massachusetts Electrifying your home’s heating and cooling system with a heat pump is one of the most effective ways to make your home more comfortable and reduce your overall carbon footprint. Learn about cold-climate air-source heat pumps, geothermal systems and heat pump water…
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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…
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In a record-breaking year of weather, signs of a changed world
Boston Globe: 2021 was, for many people, the year in which climate change jumped from the part of our brains reserved for future-think — for worries not yet realized — and landed squarely in the now. It was the year that extreme heat rolled into wildfires into poor air quality into endless downpours and flash…
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Sen. Eldridge Holds a Community Climate Summit
On December 7, 2021, Sudbury’s state senator Jamie Eldridge held a public Zoom meeting to describe the Next Generation Climate Roadmap Act and other existing sources of funding for climate action and listed many actions that local towns have so far undertaken. The slide presentation was followed by community Q&A. Click here for the slides:…
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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…