Sunday, 4/26/09, 12:30 PM, Gathering for 350 photo in Concord

ConcordCAN is very excited to announce that we will be creating our HUGE 350 in Heywood Meadow! It's a perfect location. We also are thrilled that Musketaquid has offered to bring some EarthDay puppets and we are working on getting food and music!

We are planning a fun and meaningful 350 Action!!Spread the Word!

Sunday, April 26th, 12:30 pm
Heywood Meadow, Heywood Street, Concord

There is no parking anywhere around the Meadow. Please plan to park in town and walk over.

Join with ConcordCAN to promote 350.org by forming the biggest 350 ever! We'll gather together to form the number 350 in Heywood Meadow then photograph it from a 40' high truck bucket!

Bring your kids, family, friends and anyone interested in helping spread the word that we are standing up together to demand an effective response to the Climate Change crisis. Help our leaders focus on the right target, or all their work will go for nothing.

For more information about 350 actions worldwide, go to 350.org.

Maynard Energy and Sustainability Fair, March 7, 12 - 4 PM

Maynard Energy and Sustainability Fair

Lots of interesting topics, starting with a MetroWest Energy and Climate Roundtable Discussion with all the area MCAN groups at noon.

March 7th ~ 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Fowler Middle School
3 Tiger Drive, Maynard
For more information, see http://www.maynardcan.org/

Bolton Local - Friday Night Films, March 6 and April 17

The Bolton Local green group is showing these films on the following Friday nights:
March 6 at 7 PM: Real Dirt on Farmer John
April 17 at 7 PM: The Future of Food

Location:
The First Parish Church of Bolton
673 Main Street (Rt. 117)
Bolton, MA

White church at the top of the hill in Bolton center, next to the Town Hall. Parking is available behind the church. Activities center is at the entrance around back.

Coal Rally

On Sunday, March 1st, Secure Green Future will hold 3 separate rallies outside of Massachusetts coal plants, standing with others across the nation to ask that our state and nation end the deadly use of coal and start building the secure green future.

For more information than what is shown below, visit www.securegreenfuture.org/stopcoal, or contact Eli Beckerman at 617-821-1453 or eli@securegreenfuture.org.

Mount Tom Plant
Holyoke
Sunday, March 1st, 1 p.m.
200 Northampton Street
Holyoke, MA
Meeting place:
TBA
Contact:
Peter - (413)549-9933
holyoke@securegreenfuture.org

Salem Harbor Station
Salem
Sunday, March 1st, NOON
24 Fort Avenue
Salem, MA
Meeting place:
Sidewalk in front of the
power plant.
Contact:
HealthLink - (781) 598-1115
salem@securegreenfuture.org

NRG & Brayton Point Plants
Somerset
Sunday, March 1st, 1 p.m.
Brightman Street Bridge
Somerset, MA
Meeting Place & Parking:
100 Slades Ferry Avenue,
Somerset, MA
Contact:
David - (774) 451-7681
somerset@securegreenfuture.org

Hudson Light & Power installs 2.2kW Solar Array

Yes, you read that right!

Our local municipal utility, Hudson Light & Power has installed a 2,280 Watt rated grid-tied photovoltaic array on the roof of the Cherry Street power plant. With assistance from local resource altE Store, HLP installed the rooftop array using a ballast mount on the flat roof of the Cherry Street plant last fall. The system took first light in mid-November and has been pumping Watt-hours into the local utility grid since then. It will generate approximately 2,500 kilowatt-hours of energy annually.

The PV array consists of 12 Evergreen Solar 190W Spruce series modules. Evergreen, based here in Massachusetts, produces modules using their proprietary string ribbon technology which realizes lower embodied energy per module. If HLP had been a residential customer in a publicly-owned utility district (e.g., NSTAR), they could have applied for rebates from Commonwealth Solar, the state's solar renewables rebate fund, part of Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. By using Evergreen modules, their rebate would have included a premium of (currently) $0.25 per Watt. The HLP system also includes a Solectria inverter (below), another made-in-Massachusetts component, which would further increase the rebate amount.



Eric Pedersen and James Cormican (below, from left) of Hudson online renewable energy retailer, wholesaler, and educator, altE, provided sales quotes, technical design and installation assistance and sold HLP some of the components for the system.



This PV system is the second grid-tied solar electric array in Hudson, though the first to be sanctioned and approved for operation. The first system, located on the Hudson Mill Building, the headquarters for altE, is a smaller, 600W array that saw first light after its installation by altE in May of 2007. Its official inauguration has been mired in red tape with the owners of the Mill Building but is expected to be turned on soon.

Jan. 31, 7:30 PM, Arlington - People, Peace, & the Planet

Come to an evening of music, poetry and community-building for People, Peace, and the Planet.

January 31, 7:30 PM at Arlington Senior Center
27 Maple St., corner of Academy & Maple Sts., behind Arlington Town Hall,
Arlington, MA

(Suggested donation $10.00)

Coffeehouse with musicians Jill Stein, Ken Selcer and Friends; Arlington High School students band Rage and Satisfaction; poet Dorian Brooks; local folksinger Chris Nauman and storyteller George Capaccio to benefit the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities/Secure Green Future Initiative and Arlington/Lexington United for Justice with Peace.

The Department of Defense is the biggest drain on our discretionary federal budget, and the single biggest purchaser of oil in the world. That's why wars for oil, the economic crisis, and climate crisis all go hand in hand. We can – and must – stop them all. Come help build a unified movement for a peaceful, just, green future.

Come celebrate a better way forward for People, Peace and the Planet!

Parking Available and Wheelchair Accessible
Please bring your own mug if you can!
For more information, contact Eli at eli@masschc.org, or 617-821-1453.Or see www.arlingtonujp.org , www.securegreenfuture.org , www.masschc.org.

Sudbury EDC Global Warming Cafe - Thursday, 1/29 at 7:15 PM

A Global Warming Café is a 2 hour participatory workshop that is designed to engage participants in a heartfelt conversation about global warming, and then invites them to take personal action to reduce their carbon footprint. It's time for change!

Introductory presentation, including recent scientific data, images and statistics, by Donna Kramer Merritt (trained by Al Gore)

RSVP: Don't miss this special event. Seating is limited, so please be sure to register online and get more info at sudburyedc.org.

To be held at the Sudbury Senior Center, 40 Fairbank Road, Sudbury.