Imagine. Imagine that parents stood outside all of our schools every day at drop-off and pick-up and smoked more than 700 PACKS of cigarettes which our kids walked through. Imagine that you were one of the neighbors if that happened. In my podcast last week, with Safe Routes to School members Gi Yoon Huang and Erika Roberts, we talked about how that is the same effect as all the cars produce when they idle outside our schools. Idling is not only against the law, its bad for the kids (irrespective of the law). You can tune in to listen to Erika and Gi at:
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These 11 EU states already meet their 2020 renewable energy targets
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Setting goals for the use of renewable energy makes a lot of sense. But what happens to those targets when overall energy consumption goes up?Sustainable Belmont meets tonight! - mailchi.mp/a51fa55d0ebf/sustainable-belmont-meets-tonight
Sustainable Belmont meets tonight!
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"...we rarely will we see any mention of soil in an economics context, either in a professional paper, a textbook, or news report. They may report sales, profits, and jobs created by agribusiness corporations that profit from practices that turn Earth’s living soils into dead dirt. But by ignoring life, they ignore the foundation of our well-being.
Real Wealth Resides Under Our Feet
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Soil, not money, is the source of wealth, and our economic system needs to reflect that.Zip Zap! On Tues, Apr 30th come find out what you and your electric company can do to combat climate change. Join us at 730pm at First Church in Belmont (UU) at 404 Concord Avenue to hear from Christopher Roy, General Manager of Belmont Light.
These 8 innovations could help us dramatically reduce our fossil fuel use
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From cutting the cost of renewable energy, to speeding up the electrification of home heating systems, McKinsey has identified eight ways to significantly decrease our reliance on fossil fuels by 2050...