March 2009 Neighborhood Weatherization Party
Gay Head Garden Day
Sunday, April 10, 10am – 3pm
Meet at 14 Gay Head Street, Jamaica Plain
Help Gay Head neighbors install gardens and do yard work, and learn what a Green Block is all about! You can also join us just for the potluck lunch at 12:30pm. Rain date: Saturday, April 16.
Recent Events
Think Global, Act Local: a Community Climate Roundtable
Thursday, March 24, 6pm-8:00pm, Beacon Hill
Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, 1st floor
All politics are local but many problems are global. How do neighborhood-based groups form effective partnerships with larger organizations to bring the global issues home and amplify grassroots voices? Join BostonCAN and representatives from other sustainability organizations as we discuss stories of successful collaboration between community-based organizations and national groups that highlight best practices.
• Stopping coal power in eastern Mass: Cindy Luppi from Clean Water Action
• Improving mass transit in Dorchester: Mela Bush from Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
Snacks provided. Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by Boston Climate Action Network and Suffolk University’s Sustainability Committee and The Moakley Institute.
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Neighborhood Weatherization Skill-share
Sunday, March 13, 10 am – 3 pm, Dorchester
41 Brent St., (2 blocks from Codman Square)
The federal government hasn’t cut carbon yet, so let’s take direct action to prove it can be done!
The state’s energy efficiency programs don’t go far enough, so let’s show what savings are possible when air sealing is made a priority.
Join a Codman Square neighborhood weatherization skill-share to take a practical step toward reducing Boston’s carbon footprint and learn skills you can apply to your own home.
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Jamaica Plain Home Energy Fair
Talk with experts on weatherization, insulation and air sealing, and available rebates. Learn how you can create green blocks and work together as a community to live more sustainably. And most importantly, eat FREE PIZZA!
10:30am – 1:00pm at Bella Luna Restaurant
The Brewery Complex, 284 Amory Street
Many prizes have been donated for residents who have made their homes more energy efficient or want to! To be in the running for these prizes you need to register for the event and provide a small amount of energy use data.
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Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 7 pm in Jamaica Plain
Gay Head Street
Want to make your home a green home and your block a green block? Find out how at this Low Carbon Living Group intro session.
This meeting is part of a neighborhood effort in JP to get at least 25% of JP residents and businesses to reduce their carbon footprint by 25% within the next 3 years. A Low Carbon Living Group is one way for us to achieve that goal by working together to measure our carbon footprints, set goals for reducing our energy use, and develop personal action plans to make it happen.
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Monday, Oct. 25 at 7 pm in Jamaica Plain
Sheridan Street
Want to make your home a green home and your block a green block? Find out how at this Low Carbon Living Group intro session.
This meeting is part of a neighborhood effort in JP to get at least 25% of JP residents and businesses to reduce their carbon footprint by 25% within the next 3 years. A Low Carbon Living Group is one way for us to achieve that goal by working together to measure our carbon footprints, set goals for reducing our energy use, and develop personal action plans to make it happen.
Cool JP Carbon Footprint Weigh-in
Sunday, June 20, noon to 5 pm in Jamaica Plain
Southwest Corridor Park at Stony Brook T station
Bring your heat and electric bills to the Green Roots Festival and get an instant snapshot of how efficient your home is in comparison to the average home in JP, in Mass, and nationally. BostonCAN Home Energy Coaches will be able to explain what goes into the snapshot and help you understand how to lower your bills and shrink your carbon footprint. Learn about rebates and incentives for deep energy retrofits and how conservation lays the foundation for stopping global warming.
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Sedgwick Area Green Block Low Carbon Living intro session
Thursday, May 13 at 6 pm in Jamaica Plain
Sedgwick Library on Centre at Sedgwick.
Want to make your home a green home and your block a green block? Find out how at this Low Carbon Living Group intro session.
This meeting is part of a neighborhood effort in JP to get at least 25% of JP residents and businesses to reduce their carbon footprint by 25% within the next 3 years. A Low Carbon Living Group is one way for us to achieve that goal by working together to measure our carbon footprints, set goals for reducing our energy use, and develop personal action plans to make it happen.
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Cool JP Carbon Footprint Weigh-in
Saturday, May 1, noon to 5 pm in Jamaica Plain
Southwest Corridor Park at Stony Brook T station
Bring your heat and electric bills to Wake Up the Earth and get an instant snapshot of how efficient your home is in comparison to the average home in JP, in Mass, and nationally. BostonCAN Home Energy Coaches will be able to explain what goes into the snapshot and help you understand how to lower your bills and shrink your carbon footprint. Learn about rebates and incentives for deep energy retrofits and how conservation lays the foundation for stopping global warming.
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Smart Energy Party
Thurs., March 4 at 7 pm in Jamaica Plain
5 –10 minute walk from Jackson Sq. and Centre St.
Tenants can shrink their electric bills! Homeowners can plan for more efficient water heating systems!
Neighbors will talk about the rebates and incentives that they’re getting for insulation and new windows and how it all connects to reducing our carbon footprints and stopping global warming.
This event will kickoff a Low Carbon Living action series, hosted at the same house every Thursday in March.
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Low Carbon Living group
Monday, Jan. 11 & 25 at 6:30 PM in Jamaica Plain
5 –10 minute walk from Jackson Sq. and Centre St.
Join a Low Carbon Living group for a series of four meetings focused on measuring and reducing your “carbon footprint.” Use the Low Carbon Diet workbook to learn tips and tricks for saving money while you help save the world. See the power of your actions at home magnified as you connect with others doing the same in Boston and elsewhere. And if you’ve already done what you can at home to conserve energy and reduce your “carbon footprint,” learn how to teach your family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors how to save energy too.
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Vigil for Survival
Friday, Dec. 11, 6pm to 7:30pm, downtown Boston
Cardinal Cushing Park (corner of Cambridge and New Chardon Streets, Bowdoin T stop).
350 Boston’s Candlelight Vigil for Survival outside Sen. Kerry’s office will show solidarity with the communities and nations under threat as a result of climate change right now and demonstrate political support for a just and effective international climate treaty and U.S. climate legislation that gets us back to 350ppm as urgently as possible.
Info: mass350@gmail.com
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Global Warming Cafe
Saturday, Dec. 5, 2:30 pm in Jamaica Plain
85 Seaverns Ave.
You can make smart choices about your energy use, save money and lower your “carbon footprint.” And guess what…it’s easier when we do it together!
A Global Warming Café is a combination of engaging discussion groups and community-building with tasty snacks and mingling time! You will leave the event motivated and equipped with the tools you need to take action.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible. Sponsored by Boston Climate Action Network.
Mission Hill Energy Fair
Saturday, October 24, 10am – 2pm, Mission Hill School
67 Alleghany St., near Roxbury Crossing t-station
Ride the Green Wave with ACORN and BostonCAN as we present our next community Energy Fair! The Mission Hill Energy Fair will feature music, food, vendor and organizational displays, workshops on how to save money by conserving energy, and speakers calling for government and corporate action for energy efficiency and global warming. Free, accessible and open to the public.
In recognition of the International Day of Climate Action organized by 350.org, the Fair will be followed by a Stop Asthma – Stop Global Warming Ride by bike and the Orange Line to the Boston Under Water Festival at Christopher Columbus Park near Haymarket Station.
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Boston Under Water Festival
Saturday, October 24, 3 – 5:30 pm, with crowd photo at 3:50pm
Christopher Columbus Park, Boston, near Aquarium T-station.
A regional tongue-in-cheek creative event with positive attention-getting and imagination-catching activities. The focus will be on the iconic image of sea level rise to draw attention to the threat of global climate change. October 24 is the International Day of Climate Action for citizens to show their support for a strong climate treaty to be agreed at the UN negotiations in Copenhagen in December. To apply pressure for world’s leaders, hundreds of rallies, demonstrations and other events are being planned at some of the Earth’s most iconic places.
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Low Carbon Living groups
Monday, October 26 at 6:30 PM in Dorchester
Cleveland Community Center, 11 Charles St., Fields Corner.
Saturday, October 31 at 10:30 AM in Roxbury
Twelfth Baptist Church, 160 Warren Street, near Dudley Square
Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 PM in Mattapan
Church of the Holy Spirit, 525 River St., Mattapan Square
Join a Low Carbon Living group for a series of four meetings focused on measuring and reducing your “carbon footprint.” Use the Low Carbon Diet workbook to learn tips and tricks for saving money while you help save the world. See the power of your actions at home magnified as you connect with others doing the same in Boston and elsewhere. And if you’ve already done what you can at home to conserve energy and reduce your “carbon footprint,” learn how to teach your family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors how to save energy too.
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Climate Action Conference
Sunday, November 15
9 am to 5 pm
MIT’s Stata Center, Cambridge.
The power to improve our planet is in your hands: come learn how you can make the difference in our battle against Climate Change. Keynote presenter: Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
More info: http://massclimateaction.net/conference/2009-conference.html
