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Wellesley students - get creative for sustaiability!

1/31/2019

The Sustainability Challenge

Author Kelly Caiazzo

Submit your project promoting a local resource, policy or behavior change that makes Wellesley greener. These can be in the form of an advertisement, op-ed or essay, video commercial, infographic, poem, music or another form of audio/visual artwork. Convince your audience that it’s a great way for them to help the environment!

Something You CAN Do About Plastic – Call Your Rep!

1/31/2019

Call your Representative

A message from Mass Green Network to Massachusetts legislator have only two more days to co-sponsor the statewide bag bill. Please consider calling your Representative right now asking them to sign on as a co-sponsor of an Act Reducing Plastic Bag Pollution (HD.134).

To find your Representative, click here.

Four years ago there were only seven municipalities in the State with a local bag laws. Today there are over 90, including Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Framingham, and Burlington. More than 1 in 3 Massachusetts residents lives in a city or town with a bag law. And more are coming: Worcester, Springfield, and Pittsfield are among the cities working on ordinances right now. The people of Massachusetts will value legislative leadership on this issue.

In the market for a new oven? Taste the future...

1/31/2019

Sustainable Wellesy Chef

Earlier this month a full house gathered for the Sustainable Wellesley's Taste the Future event at Jarvis Appliances where we sampled delicious food and clean wine, watched cooking demos on an induction stove, and learned more about the ways to move off of dangerous gas appliances.

Huge thanks to Wellesley Public Media for covering the event. For those that missed it or want to learn more watch it here

January 30th, 2019

1/30/2019

Join us!

March 5th Wellesley heads to the polls to elect candidates to variety of important Town Board Positions including:

Moderator
Selectmen
Assessors
Public Works
Health
Housing Authority
Wellesley Free Library
Recreation
Schools
Natural Resources
Planning
Town Meeting Members

Want to know if they share your values? Hear from them at SUSTAINABLE WELLESLEY’S 2019 Evening With the Candidates & Community Dinner.
Sunday, February 10th
5.30-7.30pm
161 Oakland St
In artist loft above garage

RSVP here before February 5th.

HUNNEWELL FEASIBILITY STUDY PUBLIC FORUM – Jan. 29 7- 9 PM

1/15/2019

Hunnewell Elementary School

HUNNEWELL FEASIBILITY STUDY PUBLIC FORUM #2
Tuesday January 29, 2019 from 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Hunnewell School Gymnasium

The School Building Committee invites you to join the community for an update on the feasibility study including progress on educational programming, site exploration, sustainability goals and swing space. Hear the study architects present concept design options for a new or rebuilt school. Break into small groups to ask questions, discuss and provide feedback on the short list of options tentatively selected for detailed study. Learn about the next steps in the process and opportunities for further input. For more information:
Go to wellesleyma.gov/1162/Hunnewell-School-Feasibility-Study
View Tentative Short List of Concept Design Options
Email us at [email protected]

Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Make REAL Change?

1/15/2019

Be the change you want to see in the world

Then SAVE THESE DATES and fulfill your inner activist:1). 350 Mass is hosting a webinar “On the Road to a MA Green New Deal” on Thursday, Jan 17 from 7-8:30 pm. 350 Mass will discuss the current narrative, goals, and ways to take action within this framework. See the Zoom meeting link here._________________________________________________________2). Head to the Statehouse on January 24th at 10.30 am to meet up with residents from every part of our state to meet with Representatives and Senators to fight for clean energy and environmental justice. Topics include:– Environmental justice legislation to protect low income and communities of color from bearing the brunt of health impacts of pollution and vulnerability to climate change.– 100% Renewable Energy Justice to envision a clean, healthy society without carbon pollution and plan to make it reality by 2050 at the latest.-Carbon pricing to invest in our future today.RSVP and tentative schedule are here_________________________________________________________3). Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) is hosting another one of their popular seminars for people who live in Massachusetts towns which have their own electric company (called Muni’s or MLP’s), like Wellesley. On Saturday, January 26th from 10-3 they will be discussing “Electrification” of the heating, cooling and transportation sectors in Muni towns. This is a very hot topic for Muni towns right now.

Learn more or sign up here and contact [email protected] for carpool info.

Starting Down the Road to a Massachusetts Green New Deal: Organizing Legislative Efforts

1/14/2019

Mobilizing for a liveable climate

How will you participate in our civilization’s need to address climate change? Folks will be discussing our legislative goals for a Massachusetts Green New Deal. Help win the passage of bills on 100% renewable energy by 2050, equitable carbon pricing and environmental justice in the next legislative session.

Join in on Thursday, February 7, at Peace Lutheran Church 107 Concord Road, Wayland, MA at 7:00pm.

Is There A Better Way to Recycle? Learn More Jan 31 at 7pm at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills

12/26/2018

Waste reduction efforts should be our number one priority, re-using is number two, and recycling is the third option — so lets get it right!

Wellesley’s Recycling and Disposal Facility (RDF) was part of a story last Friday on Public Radio International’s The World. You can listen to it here and learn how contaminated recycling compromises the ability to efficiently and cost-effectively sort materials into bales of marketable recyclable materials. This is especially true since China changed its policy, disrupting the global marketplace for mixed paper and mixed plastics. This story will encourage you to rethink recycling. When cardboard, cans and bottles are treated like real commodities, and not just trash, it can be worth some real money.

Dr. Regina LaRocque joins Sustainable Wellesley's Team

12/3/2018

Dr Regina LaRocque

Sustainable Wellesley is pleased to announce that Dr. Regina LaRocque will be joining the Leadership Team. Dr. LaRocque, MD MPH, is on staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has been working in the field of infectious disease for 15 years and has seen first hand the connection between climate change, respiratory problems and the spread of infectious diseases around the globe.

Planning an Event?

10/8/2018

Smart Event Guide

No matter if it is big or small; for fun, work, or school, Wellesley Green Schools has you covered with this updated Smart Event Guide 2018. Save time, money and resources. Check it out, and share it; you will be glad you did.

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Wellesley students - get creative for sustaiability!

Something You CAN Do About Plastic – Call Your Rep!

In the market for a new oven? Taste the future...

January 30th, 2019

HUNNEWELL FEASIBILITY STUDY PUBLIC FORUM – Jan. 29 7- 9 PM

Is Your New Year’s Resolution to Make REAL Change?

Starting Down the Road to a Massachusetts Green New Deal: Organizing Legislative Efforts

Is There A Better Way to Recycle? Learn More Jan 31 at 7pm at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills

Dr. Regina LaRocque joins Sustainable Wellesley's Team

Planning an Event?

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