Sustainable Arlington

Arlington Vision 2020 Committee/Mass. Climate Action Network (MCAN) Chapter

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Upcoming SA Meetings

15 Aug 2017
07:30PM - 09:00PM
SUSTAINABLE ARLINGTON, August meeting, open to all
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Daily monitoring of over 20 web sites and 3 e-mail feeds to aggregate news stories on climate change.  Many of these web sites are themselves aggregations, so most climate change news stories appear here promptly and without repetition.  No more than 7 items per day are posted. Prepared by a member of Sustainable Arlington and the Climate Change Team at First Parish UU of Arlington.

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Welcome to Sustainable Arlington

Sustainable Arlington acts on a local level to promote climate stabilization and other important environmental goals.  We are a Town of Arlington Vision 2020 Environment Committee and a chapter of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network.

Do you have ideas for ways that Arlington can reduce home and Town energy consumption, speed up the switch to renewables, and manage our environmental resources more sustainably? If you do, please come to one of our monthly meetings listed on this website.

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Arlington's renewable energy access program (CCA) starts August 1

Affordable Renewable Energy is Coming to Arlington

Can't put solar panels on your roof?  Wish you could still find a way tap into renewable energy?  You can with Community Choice Aggregation -- Arlington's new, town-wide electric service program, starting August 1.  

Find out more at these Town Hall events:

  • Tuesday, June 13, 7:30-9 pm with Sustainable Arlington and Mothers Out Front plus reps from the Town Manager's Energy Working Group
  • Wed., June 14, 8-9 pm with Adam Chapdelaine,Town Manager;  Adam Chapdelaine, John O'Rourke, Good Energy, LP; and Tom Michelman, Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC.
  • Read more at:  https://arlingtoncca.com/about/

 

Paul Hawken's new book Drawdown

Drawdown ...

"the moment we start to reduce atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases."(1)  

(1) Sami Grover, 5.2.17., https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/beer-recycled-bread-coming-soon-usa.html  

Author, Paul Hawken, presents 100 approaches to fighting climate change and ranks their impact on achieving drawdown. Food waste is the 3rd most important climate change driver according to Hawken.

Read more: Paul Hawken's new book Drawdown

EARTH DAY: April 22, 2017

Boston March for Science*

https://www.marchforscienceboston.com/day-of

April 22, 2017 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m

The Rally will take place on the Boston Common. Please see online event map for specific locations of the stage, booths, kids' corner, sensory break tents, and other information.

1-2pm: Music on the main stage.
2-4pm: Main rally with speakers and music at the main stage.

*due to anticipated crowd size, event will be stationary on the Boston Common with multiple areas and activities.

Washington, D.C. MARCH FOR SCIENCE 

live coverage begins 10 am, ET

http://www.earthday.org/

 

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Latest Events

29 Jun 2017
06:30PM - 07:30PM
[Live webinsar] Twenty Great Natives for Butterflies
12 Jul 2017
07:00PM - 08:30PM
[free] Urban Gardening Series: Nibbling on Nature in the City
21 Jul 2017
01:00PM - 02:00PM
[Live Webinar] Green Garden Infrastructure [for the home gardner]
25 Jul 2017
01:00PM - 05:00PM
[panel] Alternatives to Traditional Lawns