Dear fellow Hanoverians:
This just in from Sustainable Hanover!
South Shore Renewable Energy Forum:
Start to plan a 100% renewable energy future!
Monday, April 30
North River Community Church, 334 Old Oak Street, Pembroke
Sponsored by Sustainable South Shore and 350 Mass South Shore
Co-Sponsored by South Shore Action, Sneakers Laced Up, Hingham League of
Women Voters, Sierra Club, Pilgrim Watch, Fore River Residents Against the
Compressor Station (FRRACS)
Communities: Braintree, Carver, Cohasset, Duxbury, Hanover, Hanson,
Hingham, Hull, Kingston, Milton, Marshfield, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth,
Quincy, Rockland, Scituate, Weymouth
6 p.m. Pot luck refreshments—Bring your favorite organic food to share
Table displays—Community organizations, clean energy businesses
7 p.m. Introductions—Representatives and Senators, municipal officials
and staff, business people, institution representatives, activists and
community groups, students
7:10 How to build consensus to adopt a 100% Renewable Energy Plan –30
minutes
Mark Sandeen, Sustainable Lexington mark.sandeen@sustainablelexington.org
Goal: Learn how to enlist a working group of people from the major parts of
your community to meet together to launch a campaign to adopt a plan to
achieve 100% renewable energy.
Mark will cover:
1. Steps that Lexington is using to gain widespread community support
2. Lexington’s strategies for achieving net zero emissions energy
Mark’s comment: “We haven’t adopted 100% clean energy plan – yet.
Town Meeting and Board of Selectmen have unanimously approved the funds to
develop that plan (three times now… Phase III was approved earlier this
week). But the plan is still under development. Cambridge is a couple years
ahead of us.”
Renewable energy for electricity
1. Green community choice aggregation—How to make affordable renewable
energy for electricity available in your community—20 minutes
Carol Oldham, Mass Climate Action Network executive director
carololdham@massclimateaction.net
2. Renewable energy resources for municipal light companies—How Hingham
Municipal Light Company is providing affordable clean energy–10 minutes
John Stoddard, Hingham Light Board member and electrician
stoddardsox@comcast.net
8:10 Time for communities to ask questions and meet together to plan next
steps
9 p.m. Adjourn
More info: Judeth Van Hamm, Sustainable South Shore & 350 Mass South Shore,
one@hullportside.net 781-925-5665 or Rick Bureau at rbureau31@hotmail.com .
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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