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Jesse Gorden
Nov 23, 2010, 4:03:09 PM11/23/10
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Dear CEA friends,
In this email we have a few news stories to point out, an exciting, long-coming announcement, a few updates to share, and a couple of resources to reveal in addition to the usual posting of upcoming Cambridge events!
National news- Vice President Joe Biden has teamed with the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu to announce the launch of the Home Energy Score pilot
program. This pilot program will include
building scoring, comparisons to regional neighbors, as well as
cost-effective suggestions for energy efficiency improvements. Please
read the full
story here. In addition, on November 12th the DOE announced
a new committee to advise Secretary Chu on the matter of energy
efficiency, titled the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Advisory
Committee. Members of this committee include two representatives from MIT as well as the Massachusetts DOE's commissioner, Philip Giudice.
Cambridge News- The news that the regular annual parking fee in Cambridge will be raised from $8 to $20 next year and to $25 in 2012 has been circulating for a short while. What you may not know is that in addition to these increases aiming to be an incentive for drivers to favor more enviro-friendly means of travel, the new funds collected will be used in Cambridge's continued efforts to become a more sustainable community.
CEA Partners News- Some great news for independent businesses in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston: The Sustainable Business Leader Program (SBLP) has been able to lower the fee for business participation significantly, due to the 2010 Community Climate Action and Air Quality Grant. "SBLP is one of the most comprehensive and fastest-growing programs in the nation designed specifically to “green” locally-owned businesses and to reduce their carbon emissions." Right now is a fantastic time for you to take advantage of lower costs and work with this organization to achieve a higher level of sustainability for your business.
For more local and national sustainability and energy-related news, I encourage you to visit our blog. If you already follow our blog casually, I would suggest following us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/CambEnergy so that each time we post an update you can be the first to know!
Now, for the announcement we have waited several weeks to make! Many of the community members reading this knew personally CEA's previous Outreach Director, Lilah Glick. We would like to introduce you to her wonderful successor, who many of you have now met at community meetings or events, and whom we have had the pleasure of working with for the last several weeks. Meghan Shaw comes to CEA with a fresh outlook and much skill and experience to aid in making CEA the best community resource that it can be. We are very excited to have Ms. Shaw on board, and encourage all of you to read more about her on our website at http://cambridgeenergyalliance.org/about/team/staff
It's the time of year when things begin to slow down a bit as we begin to gather with family and friends, but Cambridge has still got events for you to look forward to!
Events coming up include a CFL exchange canvass in Mid-Cambridge on Saturday, December 4th, November's Walk/Ride day on this Friday, November 26th, and a re-grouping of the Cambridge Climate Emergency Forum on the evening of Tuesday November 30th.
Please take a moment to view the event descriptions below, and consider joining us for one or more of them!
Best Wishes,
Jesse Gorden
Cambridge Energy Alliance
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Co-sponsored by the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association, the Home Energy Efficiency Team, Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG), and the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA). The Cambridge Energy Alliance will be providing the free CFL bulbs.
*Please see the attached
flier for this event, and feel free to take liberties in posting them on
appropriate bulletin boards in your area.
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November's Walk/Ride Day
Make Black Friday green when you choose sustainable transportation on November 26th, Walk/Ride Day. The Green Streets Initiative's Walk/Ride Day program invites us all as individuals and in our schools, workplaces, and communities to celebrate and promote walking, biking, and public transportation on the last Friday of every month by "Wearing Green and Going Green."
This Friday, they will kick off the Cambridge and Somerville Best Shoveled Block contests! This contest is cosponsored by the Cambridge and Somerville Post Offices, the Green Streets Initiative, and Shape Up Somerville. Cambridge Post Master Kathy Lydon will be leaving Central Square at 10:30am on 11/26 to walk to Union Square where the contests will be kicked off outside the Somerville Post Office.
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Cambridge Climate Emergency Forum
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 7:00pm
Location: Windsor Community Health Center, 2nd floor conference room-- 119 Windsor Street, Cambridge
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Being Persuasive about Climate Change (skills for Thanksgiving dinner)
For those who weren't able to make it to this HEET/CEA event with Larry Susskind from the Consensus Institute, you may read the notes here. The event was video-recorded as well, and HEET will try to post this footage soon.
Power of Community
The first showing of Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
was a successful event- the post-film discussion transcended borders in
a way that the most significant conversations often do. Because of the wonderful reception to the film, we aim to have another showing in the near future.
Keep your eyes out for a new announcement if you were unable to attend
the first showing. Please feel free to email and let us know if this is a
film you haven't been able to see yet but would like to catch (we've
heard this from many folks already)!
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Jesse Gorden
CEA Outreach Coordinator
617-491-0488 ext.124
Cambridge Energy Alliance: Save Money. Save the Planet.
1385 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
http://www.cambridgeenergyalliance.org | http://www.energytwodotzero.org | http://www.twitter.com/cambenergy
In this email we have a few news stories to point out, an exciting, long-coming announcement, a few updates to share, and a couple of resources to reveal in addition to the usual posting of upcoming Cambridge events!
Cambridge News- The news that the regular annual parking fee in Cambridge will be raised from $8 to $20 next year and to $25 in 2012 has been circulating for a short while. What you may not know is that in addition to these increases aiming to be an incentive for drivers to favor more enviro-friendly means of travel, the new funds collected will be used in Cambridge's continued efforts to become a more sustainable community.
CEA Partners News- Some great news for independent businesses in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston: The Sustainable Business Leader Program (SBLP) has been able to lower the fee for business participation significantly, due to the 2010 Community Climate Action and Air Quality Grant. "SBLP is one of the most comprehensive and fastest-growing programs in the nation designed specifically to “green” locally-owned businesses and to reduce their carbon emissions." Right now is a fantastic time for you to take advantage of lower costs and work with this organization to achieve a higher level of sustainability for your business.
For more local and national sustainability and energy-related news, I encourage you to visit our blog. If you already follow our blog casually, I would suggest following us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/CambEnergy so that each time we post an update you can be the first to know!
Now, for the announcement we have waited several weeks to make! Many of the community members reading this knew personally CEA's previous Outreach Director, Lilah Glick. We would like to introduce you to her wonderful successor, who many of you have now met at community meetings or events, and whom we have had the pleasure of working with for the last several weeks. Meghan Shaw comes to CEA with a fresh outlook and much skill and experience to aid in making CEA the best community resource that it can be. We are very excited to have Ms. Shaw on board, and encourage all of you to read more about her on our website at http://cambridgeenergyalliance.org/about/team/staff
It's the time of year when things begin to slow down a bit as we begin to gather with family and friends, but Cambridge has still got events for you to look forward to!
Events coming up include a CFL exchange canvass in Mid-Cambridge on Saturday, December 4th, November's Walk/Ride day on this Friday, November 26th, and a re-grouping of the Cambridge Climate Emergency Forum on the evening of Tuesday November 30th.
Please take a moment to view the event descriptions below, and consider joining us for one or more of them!
Best Wishes,
Jesse Gorden
Cambridge Energy Alliance
12/4 Mid-Cambridge CFL Exchange Canvass*
WHEN: December 4, 2010, 1- 5:30pm
WHERE: Meet at the Link room in Youville House, 1575 Cambridge Street, Cambridge (map)
We will be cutting carbon by replacing incandescent lightbulbs with Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs, saving over 70% on electricity usage and fossil fuel burned. Arrive & train from 12-1 and distribute CFLs to the neighborhood from 1 to 3:30, Light refreshments and music afterward!
Please sign up for this event! In recent months our CFL exchanges have been wildly successful, so we encourage you to come out and become a part of this story.
You can direct friends to the link above, or to http://www.heetMA.com to sign up to help.WHEN: December 4, 2010, 1- 5:30pm
WHERE: Meet at the Link room in Youville House, 1575 Cambridge Street, Cambridge (map)
We will be cutting carbon by replacing incandescent lightbulbs with Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs, saving over 70% on electricity usage and fossil fuel burned. Arrive & train from 12-1 and distribute CFLs to the neighborhood from 1 to 3:30, Light refreshments and music afterward!
Please sign up for this event! In recent months our CFL exchanges have been wildly successful, so we encourage you to come out and become a part of this story.
Co-sponsored by the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association, the Home Energy Efficiency Team, Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG), and the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA). The Cambridge Energy Alliance will be providing the free CFL bulbs.
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November's Walk/Ride Day
Make Black Friday green when you choose sustainable transportation on November 26th, Walk/Ride Day. The Green Streets Initiative's Walk/Ride Day program invites us all as individuals and in our schools, workplaces, and communities to celebrate and promote walking, biking, and public transportation on the last Friday of every month by "Wearing Green and Going Green."
This Friday, they will kick off the Cambridge and Somerville Best Shoveled Block contests! This contest is cosponsored by the Cambridge and Somerville Post Offices, the Green Streets Initiative, and Shape Up Somerville. Cambridge Post Master Kathy Lydon will be leaving Central Square at 10:30am on 11/26 to walk to Union Square where the contests will be kicked off outside the Somerville Post Office.
Local businesses offer you discounts and incentives
for your participation! Sign in, share your story and get more
information at www.gogreenstreets.org.
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Cambridge Climate Emergency Forum
Continuing the conversation about next steps in Cambridge
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 7:00pm
The four working groups formed at the forum on October 26th will report:
1. Goal
Development
2. Signs
and Posters
3. Advocacy (weatherization, commercial recycling, utilities, etc.)
4. Weatherization /youth projects
Discussion of movement
building strategy will continue. New ideas and participants welcome.
RSVP: cambridge.cli...@gmail.com. Inquiries: 617-864-0506
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Updates: In case you missed it
Weatherization Barnraising
So
many volunteers signed up for the November 6th HEET barnraising that
CEA performed an impromptu CFL exchange canvass in that area.There's a
much bigger CFL event for you to attend on Dec 4th (see description
above).Weatherization Barnraising
Being Persuasive about Climate Change (skills for Thanksgiving dinner)
For those who weren't able to make it to this HEET/CEA event with Larry Susskind from the Consensus Institute, you may read the notes here. The event was video-recorded as well, and HEET will try to post this footage soon.
Power of Community
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Resources
Energy efficient lighting Apps for smart phones.
Light Bulb Finder App – A new app for Android smart phones that helps select appropriate energy efficient lighting. The iPhone ap is coming.
Communities of Faith, Houses of Worship!
Take the Noah Challenge- http://www.mipandl.org/
We recently discovered a great rallying point for communities of faith
to take action as environmental stewards: Massachusetts Interfaith
Power & Light (MIP&L) has dared community members to take the Noah Challenge,
comparing the actions that Noah took to the comparatively easy energy
efficiency ones that can be taken today. MIP&L shares success
stories, and supplies other resources as well- all in the name of
protecting Creation. Resources
Energy efficient lighting Apps for smart phones.
Light Bulb Finder App – A new app for Android smart phones that helps select appropriate energy efficient lighting. The iPhone ap is coming.
Communities of Faith, Houses of Worship!
Take the Noah Challenge- http://www.mipandl.org/
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Please feel free 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.
--
Jesse Gorden
CEA Outreach Coordinator
617-491-0488 ext.124
Cambridge Energy Alliance: Save Money. Save the Planet.
1385 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
http://www.cambridgeenergyalliance.org | http://www.energytwodotzero.org | http://www.twitter.com/cambenergy
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