Dear fellow Hanoverians:<\/p>\n
This just in from Sustainable Hanover!<\/p>\n
South Shore Renewable Energy Forum:
\nStart to plan a 100% renewable energy future!<\/p>\n
Monday, April 30<\/p>\n
North River Community Church, 334 Old Oak Street, Pembroke<\/p>\n
Sponsored by Sustainable South Shore and 350 Mass South Shore
\nCo-Sponsored by South Shore Action, Sneakers Laced Up, Hingham League of
\nWomen Voters, Sierra Club, Pilgrim Watch, Fore River Residents Against the
\nCompressor Station (FRRACS)
\nCommunities: Braintree, Carver, Cohasset, Duxbury, Hanover, Hanson,
\nHingham, Hull, Kingston, Milton, Marshfield, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth,
\nQuincy, Rockland, Scituate, Weymouth <\/p>\n
6 p.m.\tPot luck refreshments\u2014Bring your favorite organic food to share
\n\tTable displays\u2014Community organizations, clean energy businesses<\/p>\n
7 p.m.\tIntroductions\u2014Representatives and Senators, municipal officials
\nand staff, business people, institution representatives, activists and
\ncommunity groups, students<\/p>\n
7:10 \t How to build consensus to adopt a 100% Renewable Energy Plan \u201330
\nminutes
\nMark Sandeen, Sustainable Lexington mark.sandeen@sustainablelexington.org
\nGoal: Learn how to enlist a working group of people from the major parts of
\nyour community to meet together to launch a campaign to adopt a plan to
\nachieve 100% renewable energy.
\nMark will cover:
\n1.\tSteps that Lexington is using to gain widespread community support
\n2.\tLexington\u2019s strategies for achieving net zero emissions energy
\nMark\u2019s comment: \u201cWe haven\u2019t adopted 100% clean energy plan \u2013 yet.
\nTown Meeting and Board of Selectmen have unanimously approved the funds to
\ndevelop that plan (three times now\u2026 Phase III was approved earlier this
\nweek). But the plan is still under development. Cambridge is a couple years
\nahead of us.\u201d <\/p>\n
Renewable energy for electricity
\n1.\tGreen community choice aggregation\u2014How to make affordable renewable
\nenergy for electricity available in your community\u201420 minutes
\nCarol Oldham, Mass Climate Action Network executive director
\ncarololdham@massclimateaction.net <\/p>\n
2.\tRenewable energy resources for municipal light companies\u2014How Hingham
\nMunicipal Light Company is providing affordable clean energy–10 minutes
\nJohn Stoddard, Hingham Light Board member and electrician
\nstoddardsox@comcast.net <\/p>\n
8:10\tTime for communities to ask questions and meet together to plan next
\nsteps<\/p>\n
9 p.m.\tAdjourn<\/p>\n
More info: Judeth Van Hamm, Sustainable South Shore & 350 Mass South Shore,
\none@hullportside.net 781-925-5665 or Rick Bureau at rbureau31@hotmail.com .<\/p>\n
For “Around Town on the Web”,
\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n
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