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Jesse Gorden
Nov 4, 2010, 6:54:57 PM11/4/10
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Dear friends of CEA,
In this updates email we have a news story to point out and a resource to reveal, in addition to the usual posting of upcoming Cambridge events!
A recent news article in the Cambridge Chronicle detailed great news about Cambridge's school and city buildings. Recently, around $1.1 million including federal stimulus grants and NSTAR rebates was put into energy efficiency improvements for 13 of these buildings, including lighting improvements as well as replacement of inefficient condensing boilers at some locations. "Altogether, these projects are expected to save 760,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 20,000 therms of natural gas per year. This will prevent 500 tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere each year, and is enough energy to light 65 homes for a year." See http://t.co/Z1FrIvh for the full article.
We would like to introduce to you a national green energy microfunding site that has recently been established, and introduced to us via Chuck Lewin, Executive Director of New Generation Energy. "[This] online site from New Generation Energy lists efficiency and renewable energy projects at US-based nonprofits; lets users support projects with the greatest energy savings and CO2 reductions." Please see the attached press release for more information! http://www.newgenerationenergy.org/list-projects
Events coming up include a HEET weatherization barn-raising on November 6th, a get-together to discuss ways to avoid despair over climate change on November 7th, a workshop in which to learn how to better communicate and persuade climate change skeptics, at Harvard on November 10th, and another film showing (the fifth in the series) on November 10th. Additionally, we are working with the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association to coordinate the next CFL exchange canvass for Saturday, December 4th- so keep your eyes out for updates on volunteering opportunities as the details grow clearer!
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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Update: In case you missed it
Out of the Cambridge Climate Emergency Forum came three work groups: One to work on projects surrounding youth and weatherization work, one to work on the side of advocacy for the cause, and one to work on signs to raise awareness. To get connected to one of these groups, please contact Steve Wineman at swin...@gis.net
Fifth screening in an Environmental Film series:
“The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
WHEN: November 10, 2010, beginning at 6:30pm
WHERE: Ballroom, Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
"When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens."
More info available at http://www.powerofcommunity.org
*A FREE event, with light refreshments provided*
Co‐sponsored by the Cambridge Renewable Energy Action Team (CREATe), the Cambridge Energy
Alliance (CEA), and the Office of the Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis.
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Mid-Cambridge CFL Exchange Canvass 12/4
You made our 10/10/10 CFL exchange so successful (501 donated!) that a new event was proposed almost immediately by the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. These events are only as successful as they are because of you, the volunteers, so please save the date!
Saturday, December 4th
More details will be forthcoming.
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We appreciate the time you took out of your day to read about our upcoming events-Thank you, sincerely.
Please feel free to share these with anyone you think might like to participate.
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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
In this updates email we have a news story to point out and a resource to reveal, in addition to the usual posting of upcoming Cambridge events!
A recent news article in the Cambridge Chronicle detailed great news about Cambridge's school and city buildings. Recently, around $1.1 million including federal stimulus grants and NSTAR rebates was put into energy efficiency improvements for 13 of these buildings, including lighting improvements as well as replacement of inefficient condensing boilers at some locations. "Altogether, these projects are expected to save 760,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 20,000 therms of natural gas per year. This will prevent 500 tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere each year, and is enough energy to light 65 homes for a year." See http://t.co/Z1FrIvh for the full article.
We would like to introduce to you a national green energy microfunding site that has recently been established, and introduced to us via Chuck Lewin, Executive Director of New Generation Energy. "[This] online site from New Generation Energy lists efficiency and renewable energy projects at US-based nonprofits; lets users support projects with the greatest energy savings and CO2 reductions." Please see the attached press release for more information! http://www.newgenerationenergy.org/list-projects
Events coming up include a HEET weatherization barn-raising on November 6th, a get-together to discuss ways to avoid despair over climate change on November 7th, a workshop in which to learn how to better communicate and persuade climate change skeptics, at Harvard on November 10th, and another film showing (the fifth in the series) on November 10th. Additionally, we are working with the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association to coordinate the next CFL exchange canvass for Saturday, December 4th- so keep your eyes out for updates on volunteering opportunities as the details grow clearer!
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
Update: In case you missed it
Out of the Cambridge Climate Emergency Forum came three work groups: One to work on projects surrounding youth and weatherization work, one to work on the side of advocacy for the cause, and one to work on signs to raise awareness. To get connected to one of these groups, please contact Steve Wineman at swin...@gis.net
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Weatherization Barn-raising
WHEN: November 6 from 12:30 to 5 p.m.
WHERE: 27 Avon Hill Street, Cambridge
**This is only a reminder for those who have already signed up to attend, we have reached our limit on volunteer sign-ups for this event. Please keep your eyes out for another Cambridge barn-raising coming up soon. Because of the enthusiasm for this event, there will also be a small-scale CFL exchange canvass based at the home on this day, with some of the volunteers who have already signed up.
If you can't wait to get weatherizing, there will be a barn-raising in Quincy on November 7th; please see www.heetma.com for more information.
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Get-together to Address the Personal Component of Environmental Issues
WHEN: November 7, 2010, 2:45pm-5:00pm
Being Persuasive about Climate Change
(Skills for Thanksgiving Dinner)
WHEN: Nov 10th, 5:45pm to 7:30pm*
WHERE: Harvard Square, Harvard--> Emerson Hall room 101 (adjacent to Widener Library in Harvard Yard).
WHAT: A workshop with several experts to learn how to better talk to and persuade critics of climate change's legitimacy. Description below.
Just in time for family discussions at Thanksgiving dinner: Learn how to be persuasive with climate change skeptics, rather than growing flustered and upset. Todd Feinburg, a WRKO talk-show host and a genuine skeptic, will be there to explain as clearly as possible why he is skeptical and to answer your questions. Dan Chavas, an MIT graduate student, will discuss the science involved. Larry Suskind, a co-founder of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, creator of the Consensus Building Institute, and a climate change-specialized expert on finding consensus (including extensive authorship) will try to convince the skeptic. It will all round up with you trying out your new skills on the skeptic to practice for Thanksgiving dinner with your less liberal relatives.
Cosponsored by HEET, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Greenport, and Harvard's Environmental Action Committee.
*Please note that we have moved the start time back 15 minutes to allow for those coming straight from work to attend.
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Weatherization Barn-raising
WHEN: November 6 from 12:30 to 5 p.m.
WHERE: 27 Avon Hill Street, Cambridge
**This is only a reminder for those who have already signed up to attend, we have reached our limit on volunteer sign-ups for this event. Please keep your eyes out for another Cambridge barn-raising coming up soon. Because of the enthusiasm for this event, there will also be a small-scale CFL exchange canvass based at the home on this day, with some of the volunteers who have already signed up.
If you can't wait to get weatherizing, there will be a barn-raising in Quincy on November 7th; please see www.heetma.com for more information.
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Get-together to Address the Personal Component of Environmental Issues
WHEN: November 7, 2010, 2:45pm-5:00pm
WHERE: Cambridge Cohousing - 175 Richdale Avenue
You are invited to a get-together on Sunday, November 7, for people concerned about climate change, environmental issues, and our reactions to these issues. We will explore ways to prevent being bogged down by feelings of despair and helplessness through the power of group support.
You are invited to a get-together on Sunday, November 7, for people concerned about climate change, environmental issues, and our reactions to these issues. We will explore ways to prevent being bogged down by feelings of despair and helplessness through the power of group support.
- This event is open to all.
- Refreshments provided
- On-street parking should be available (no parking pass needed)
Some powerful tools have been honed over the past thirty years to help deal with the issues we’ll bring up, based on the work of Joanna Macy, Fran Peavey and others. Activists from around the country have taken these tools, adapted, and refined them. On November 7, come meet some local people who have been offering workshops and an on-going group curriculum. We will talk about how we might use these tools in the Cambridge area. We would like to provide ways to make it easier for us to listen to each other, to take in and express our deep concerns and in so doing release positive energy for action
If you’re interested, curious, or just in need of a morale booster shot, please join us on November 7!
For more information, check out www.earth-circles.org, www.joannamacy.org, and www.interhelpnetwork.org (or call Rosalie Anders)
Please RSVP to Abigail....@gmail.com
----Being Persuasive about Climate Change
(Skills for Thanksgiving Dinner)
WHEN: Nov 10th, 5:45pm to 7:30pm*
WHERE: Harvard Square, Harvard--> Emerson Hall room 101 (adjacent to Widener Library in Harvard Yard).
WHAT: A workshop with several experts to learn how to better talk to and persuade critics of climate change's legitimacy. Description below.
Just in time for family discussions at Thanksgiving dinner: Learn how to be persuasive with climate change skeptics, rather than growing flustered and upset. Todd Feinburg, a WRKO talk-show host and a genuine skeptic, will be there to explain as clearly as possible why he is skeptical and to answer your questions. Dan Chavas, an MIT graduate student, will discuss the science involved. Larry Suskind, a co-founder of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, creator of the Consensus Building Institute, and a climate change-specialized expert on finding consensus (including extensive authorship) will try to convince the skeptic. It will all round up with you trying out your new skills on the skeptic to practice for Thanksgiving dinner with your less liberal relatives.
Cosponsored by HEET, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Greenport, and Harvard's Environmental Action Committee.
*Please note that we have moved the start time back 15 minutes to allow for those coming straight from work to attend.
----
Fifth screening in an Environmental Film series:
“The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
WHEN: November 10, 2010, beginning at 6:30pm
WHERE: Ballroom, Citywide Senior Center, 806 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
"When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens."
More info available at http://www.powerofcommunity.org
*A FREE event, with light refreshments provided*
---
Mid-Cambridge CFL Exchange Canvass 12/4
You made our 10/10/10 CFL exchange so successful (501 donated!) that a new event was proposed almost immediately by the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. These events are only as successful as they are because of you, the volunteers, so please save the date!
Saturday, December 4th
More details will be forthcoming.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
We appreciate the time you took out of your day to read about our upcoming events-Thank you, sincerely.
Please feel free to share these with anyone you think might like to participate.
Jesse Gorden
CEA Outreach Coordinator
617-491-0488 ext.124
Cambridge Energy Alliance: Save Money. Save the Planet.
1385 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
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