Cambridge Energy Alliance Updates
Meghan Shaw
Hello friends of Cambridge Energy Alliance!
Fall is here and
cooler weather means keeping your home warm without dipping into your
holiday budget. The best way to get started with energy efficiency is
to sign up for a free home energy audit available for homeowners, renters and landlords. There are also free business energy audits, so let you favorite business know how they can go green.
Events
coming up include a Barnraising this weekend on Saturday, October 15th, the Cambridge Energy Alliance Community Book Club on Tuesday, October 25th, and a weatherization fair at Tags Hardware on Saturday, November 5th. Check out the CEA Calendar for details and more events every week.
We hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Meghan Shaw
Outreach Director
Cambridge Energy Alliance
Events
Spontaneous Celebrations Barnraising
Volunteer Oppotunity
Saturday, October 15th
11:00 am - 4:00pm
Spontaneous Celebrations
12 Eliot Street
Jamaica Plain, Boston
The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard is hosting a sustainability service project with HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) and Cambridge Energy Alliance to help the non-profit Spontaneous Celebrations update their historic building and facilities so that they are more energy efficient.
Spontaneous Celebrations is a community cultural center in Jamaica Plain that unites and empowers people for positive change through the arts and produces seasonal celebrations for Jamaica Plain and Roxbury residents. Energy efficiency measures will help them shift funds from building costs to community outreach and events.
Please wear casual clothing and comfortable shoes. Lunch will be provided. Spread the word on Facebook and twitter!
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Cambridge Energy Alliance Book Club
"Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard"
Tuesday, October 25th
7:00 - 8:30pm
Main Library, Lecture Hall
449 Broadway
Join Cambridge Energy Alliance Community Book Club. Next month we will be reading: Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
"Change is hard." "People hate change." Those were two of the most common quotes the authors heard when studying change.
If people hate change, they have a funny way of showing it. Every iPhone sold serves as counter-evidence. So does every text message sent, every corporate merger finalized, every aluminum can recycled.
By studying people trying to make difficult changes and succeeding, Switch uncovers striking similarities in the strategies they used. They seemed to share a similar game plan.Switch makes that game plan available to everyone, in hopes of helping people make the hard changes in life a little bit easier.
Our discussion will touch on making change in various areas from personal changes like weight loss to political changes like addressing global warming. Of course, we'll also talk about community change like increasing our city's energy efficiency.
Read the book in advance and join the discussion or come to just share your thoughts on change.
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Tags Hardware Weatherization Fair
Green Products, Raffle, and Speakers
Saturday, November 5th
11:00am - 4:00pm
Tags Hardware Store, Porter Square
29 White Street
Stop by Tags Hardware store on Saturday as they unveil their over 60,000 sustainable products, win energy efficiency kits and hear expert speakers take your questions about solar, energy efficiency and green renovations.
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News
Cambridge
Cambridge and Waste Reduction
Cambridge has joined a national waste reduction movement to reduce the distribution of unwanted mail and phone books. Cambridge is collaborating with the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) and Catalog Choice, to allow residents to stop delivery of unwanted phone books, catalogs, coupons, and credit card solicitations through an online registry at: https://cambridge.catalogchoice.org.
Since August 1st Cambridge residents have already prevented 18893 pounds of CO2. Join them and sign up today at https://cambridge.catalogchoice.org.
To take further action on unwanted phone books, view this 30-second video: http://www.youtube.com/user/ProductSteward. For more information on unwanted phone books, please visit: http://productstewardship.us/PBAction.
Rindge and Latin High School Ribbon Cutting is Green
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Ribbon Cutting on October 1 featured tours of the newly renovated facility and various programs to celebrate the rededication of this outstanding educational facility. The renovations' green features include high-efficiency lamps and fixtures and occupancy sensors, solar panels and more.
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Resources
• SIGN- UP for a Free Pilot Project: Track Your Home Heating
One hundred Cambridge homeowners have the opportunity to participate in a home heating pilot project with a MIT-based start-up. Monitor your fuel consumption, home furnace usage, and heating efficiency using an easy to install device that simply attaches to the home furnace with a magnet.
The web-connected device will produce a personal report that allows you to monitor fuel consumption so you can have a significant impact on your heating bills. The device installation takes 5 minutes and does not require professional assistance. All you need is a wi-fi router and a power outlet near your furnace.
The start-up is looking for trial users to help test this device and provide feedback, in order to improve their final product. If you would like to be one of the first 100 people to use this product for free, email to me...@yshape.com
• Interactive Home with DIY Energy Tips
Click on the outlined objects in the CEA model house image below to learn about energy efficiency improvements for your home. Tips are arranged from least expensive ($) to most expensive ($$$). Be sure to click on the “DIY” and “Info” links in each popup for more details about performing the improvements.
If you live or work in Cambridge and have questions related to the energy audit process, energy efficient home and business renovations, or changes you can make in your own life to save energy, you can contact the Cambridge Energy Advisor. Whether you have already had an audit or are considering how you should proceed, Cambridge Energy Alliance is eager to answer your questions and help you navigate the process.
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Jobs
Cambridge Energy Alliance Internship
Community Outreach Intern
CEA will be hiring a paid, part-time Community Outreach Intern
to assist in implementing our Community Energy Efficiency program.
Details will be posted soon. If you would like the job description sent
to you please email wo...@cambridgeenergyalliance.org.
Greenhouse Gas Management Institute
Program Associate
The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute is actively seeking a Program Associate to support various organizational activities and operations.
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Hello friends of the Cambridge Energy Alliance!
Fall is here and
cooler weather means keeping your home warm without dipping into your
holiday budget. The best way to get started with energy efficiency is
to sign up for a free home energy audit available for homeowners, renters and landlords. There are also free business energy audits, so let you favorite business know how they can go green.
Events
coming up include a Barnraising this weekend on Saturday, October 15th, the Cambridge Energy Alliance Community Book Club on Tuesday, October 25th, and a weatherization fair at Tags Hardware on Saturday, November 5th. Check out the CEA Calendar for details and more events every week.
We hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Meghan Shaw
Outreach Director
Cambridge Energy Alliance
Events
Spontaneous Celebrations Barnraising
Volunteer Opportunity
Saturday, October 15th
11:00 am - 4:00pm
Spontaneous Celebrations
12 Eliot Street
Jamaica Plain, Boston
The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard is hosting a sustainability service project with HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) and Cambridge Energy Alliance to help the non-profit Spontaneous Celebrations update their historic building and facilities so that they are more energy efficient.
Please wear casual clothing and comfortable shoes. Lunch will be provided. Spread the word on Facebook and twitter!
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Cambridge Energy Alliance Book Club
"Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard"
Tuesday, October 25th
7:00 - 8:30pm
Main Library, Lecture Hall
449 Broadway
Come to the Cambridge Energy Alliance Community Book Club. This month we will be reading: Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
"Change is hard." "People hate change." Those were two of the most common quotes the authors heard when studying change.
If people hate change, they have a funny way of showing it. Every iPhone sold serves as counter-evidence. So does every text message sent, every corporate merger finalized, every aluminum can recycled.
By studying people trying to make difficult changes and succeeding, Switch uncovers striking similarities in the strategies they used. They seemed to share a similar game plan.Switch makes that game plan available to everyone, in hopes of helping people make the hard changes in life a little bit easier.
Our discussion will touch on making change in various areas from personal changes like weight loss to political changes like addressing global warming. Of course, we'll also talk about community change like increasing our city's energy efficiency.
Read the book in advance and join the discussion or come to just share your thoughts on change. Spread the word on Facebook and twitter!
----------
Tags Hardware Weatherization Fair
Green Products, Raffle, and Speakers
Saturday, November 5th
11:00am - 4:00pm
Tags Hardware Store, Porter Square
29 White Street
Stop
by Tags Hardware store on Saturday as they unveil their over 60,000
sustainable products, win energy efficiency kits and hear expert
speakers take your questions about solar, energy efficiency and green
renovations. More details posted to the CEA Calendar soon!
---------------------------------
Resources
• SIGN- UP for a Free Pilot Project: Track Your Home Heating
One hundred Cambridge homeowners have the opportunity to participate in a home heating pilot project with a MIT-based start-up. Monitor your fuel consumption, home furnace usage, and heating efficiency using an easy to install device that simply attaches to the home furnace with a magnet.
The web-connected device will produce a personal report that allows you to monitor fuel consumption and so you can have a significant impact on your heating bills. The device installation is takes 5 minutes and does not require professional assistance. All you need is a wi-fi router and a power outlet near your furnace.
The start-up is looking for trial users to help test this device and provide feedback, in order to improve their final product. If you would like to be one of the first 100 people to use this product for free, email to me...@yshape.com
Click on the outlined objects in the house to learn about energy efficiency improvements for your home. Tips are arranged from least expensive ($) to most expensive ($$$). Be sure to click on the “DIY” and “Info” links in each popup for more details about performing the improvements.
If you live or work in Cambridge and have questions related to the energy assessment/audit process, energy efficient home and business renovations, or changes you can make in your own life to save energy, you can contact the Cambridge Energy Advisor. Whether you have already had an assessment/audit or are considering how you should proceed, Cambridge Energy Alliance is eager to answer your questions and help you navigate the process.
---------------------------------
News
Cambridge
Cambridge and Waste Reduction
Cambridge has joined a national waste reduction movement to reduce the distribution of unwanted mail and phone books. Cambridge is collaborating with the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) and Catalog Choice, to allow residents to stop delivery of unwanted phone books, catalogs, coupons, and credit card solicitations through an online registry at: https://cambridge.catalogchoice.org.
Since August 1st Cambridge residents have already prevented 18893 pounds of CO2. Join them and sign up today at https://cambridge.catalogchoice.org.
To take further action on unwanted phone books, view this 30-second video: http://www.youtube.com/user/ProductSteward. For more information on unwanted phone books, please visit: http://productstewardship.us/PBAction.
Rindge and Latin High School Ribbon Cutting is Green
The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Ribbon Cutting on October 1 featured tours of the newly renovated facility and various programs to celebrate the rededication of this outstanding educational facility. The renovations' green features include high-efficiency lamps and fixtures, occupancy sensors, solar panels, and more.
----------
Jobs
Cambridge Energy Alliance Internship
Community Outreach Intern
CEA will be hiring a paid, part-time Community Outreach Intern
to assist in implementing our Community Energy Efficiency program.
Details will be posted soon. If you would like the job description sent
to you please email wo...@cambridgeenergyalliance.org.
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Please forward to pass this along to anyone you know who may be interested in attending our events or volunteering to help their community become more sustainable.
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