Sustainable Arlington

A multi-town volunteer group supporting native pollinator habitat,  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MysticCharlesPollinators

Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/mysticcharlespollinators/

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Meets monthly:  2nd Tuesday, 7:30 - 9 pm online

Nature's Best Hope (2019) by Douglas Tallamy.  A wonderful book at any time but especially so in light of the coronavirus pandemic.  Doug Tallamy, Univ. of Del. professor and naturalist, shows clearly and simply what each of us can do to support our native native pollinators and birds in our own back yards and parks.  Let's get started! 

Click "download" to see the beautiful cover of this book.

“How Gas Leaks Affect Our Trees: The science, the signs, and what we can do," 5-28-2020 Webinar. Expert panel moderated by Arlington Town Manager Adam Chapdelaine.

Webinar recording:

additional resources: https://wellesleyma.gov/1522/Gas-Leaks-And-Trees.  

Arlington Community Choice Aggregation Relaunches as Arlington Community Electricity (ACE)

New name and logo kick off ambitious campaign for clean energy!

09/21/2020 

Final document expected in early 2021.

Much-admired author Doug Tallamy shows how everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity and why it matters so much.

Established by the Arlington Select Board to guide the Town in reaching its Net Zero by 2050 goal. Agendas, minutes

The Earth is warming the Earth. In this series of five short films, learn why natural warming loops have scientists alarmed—and why we have less time than we think.

Antioch University New England, Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience.

Recordings of recent webinars, e.g.:

"Race and the Environmental Movement: History and Legacies," June 4, 2020

"Racial Diversity in the U.S. Climate Movement," March 17, 2020

The simulation, developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, and MIT Sloan, runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is available online, offers an intuitive interface, has been carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate and energy models.

See resources, blog posts.

“This Is Inequity at the Boiling Point”

By Somini Sengupta, Aug. 7, 2020, New York Times

2020 | Brady Seals, Andee Krasner

Health Effects from Gas Stove Pollution Rocky Mountain Institute, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mothers Out… Read More

Building Electrification, Buildings

A non-profit that has been making energy more affordable and environmentally sustainable since 1982. A trusted voice for both consumers and the environment on local, state, regional and national energy issues. Programs for households and businesses.  Green Energy Consumers Alliance is a partner in Arlington's community-based, bulk purchase program called Community Choice Aggregation (arlingtoncca.com)  More details at 

Cambridge-based nonprofit. Work includes: interactive gas leaks mapping; geothermal micro districts; transition off fossil fuels

To achieve long-term emission reduction goals within the Commonwealth, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs is undertaking a planning process to identify cost-effective and equitable strategies to ensure Massachusetts reduces greenhouse gas emissions by at least 85% by 2050 and achieves net-zero emissions. See also: Interim Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2030

Local clean energy projects and policies are key to get us to 100% renewable energy. That's why MCAN, in conjunction with our Mass Power Forward colleagues, has put together the Local Clean Energy Toolkit. 

MCAN was founded in 2000 to fight the climate crisis one town at a time, with the help of its local chapters across the state, including Sustainable Arlington. MCAN also works closely with other environmental and community-focused organizations on solutions to the climate crisis.

"While flowering plants provide pollinators with foods, insects also require suitable shelter for nesting and overwintering."  Meticulous fall clean-ups leave the garden neat as a pin and remove the critical winter protection our native pollinators need.  https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/18-014.pdf

Protecting our native pollinators through the power of citizen science.