Brookline MA "Climate Week" Remaining Events

Another phenomenal aspect about Brookline MA is the Climate Change Action Brookline Committee or more commonly referred to as the CCABwhich is a committee that is changing the way we live and work through environmental awareness and action with Brookline MA schools, businesses, town government, public policy, residences, transportation food and partners.

The Mission for the Climate Change Action Brookline: CCAB

- Engage 85% of Brookline households in carbon reduction by Dec. 31, 2012
- Achieve a 25% average carbon dioxide reduction for participating households
- Create a program that can be replicated by cities and towns throughout the U.S.

In addition, the committee has been hosting a number of very interesting events over the past week. Here are the remaining events for today and later this week:

Brookline MA Climate Week Remaining Events

January 30

Climate Week Brookline: Hope Beneath Our Feet, Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
1 PM
Brookline BookSmith
279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
617-566-6660
events@brooklinebooksmith.com
www.brooklinebooksmith.com

Climate Week connects people to ways they can create a better, greener future by taking action at home and work.

Hope Beneath our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World is a wonderful new anthology of 53 essays by leading environmental activists and writers, talking from the heart about what they are doing, thinking and feeling that gives them hope and inspiration. Authors include Alice Walker, Michael Pollan, Derrick Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Howard Zinn, Diane Ackerman, Bill McKibben, Frances Moore Lappe, Vandana Shiva, among others. Editor Martin Keogh, and local contributing author and activist Vivienne Simon, will discuss the book and lead a conversation based on it. http://shiftmakers.com/hope-beneath-our-feet/

January 30

Climate Week Information Session: Going Solar on Aspinwall Hill
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Brookline Center
41 Garrison Road, Brookline, MA
aspinwallhill@gmail.com
www.ahna.us

AHNA Annual Meeting features Going Solar on Aspinwall Hill

The Aspinwall Hill Neighborhood Association will hold its annual meeting on Sunday, January 30, from 4-6 p.m. at The Brookline Center, 41 Garrison Rd. In addition to the business meeting and election of officers, we will have a panel discussion featuring representatives from Green Guild, Sunbug, Alteris Renewables and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center along with Brookline homeowners who have installed solar. Learn about the costs, benefits, financial supports and feasibility of going solar for individual homeowners, multi-families and larger buildings. Light refreshments will be served. AHNA is a Brookline 2010 Climate Action Partner: please bring your own cup, sign up for an AHNA eco-team, and bring paper shopping bags for our reusables drive for Brookline Recreation kids crafts programs. The AHNA covers the area bordered by Beacon St., Washington St., Greenough St., the D-line tracks and Regent Circle. All are welcome. Visit us at www.ahna.us. Questions? Write aspinwallhill@gmail.com

UPCOMING RESCHEDULED EVENTS:

Climate Week Brookline, Making Sustainable Choices for Green and Healthy Living canceled due to winter storm. Rescheduled for Thurs. Feb. 3
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Brookline Adult Education Location, Brookline, MA 02446
(617 ) 730-2700
bacep@brookline.k12.ma.us
www.BrooklineAdultEd.org

Join Jess Lerner of Green on The Inside for up to the minute ideas for greening your life.

Do you hope to find the right "green" products but are not sure how to choose? If you are looking to live more sustainably, reduce your impact by choosing green, healthy materials, or just want pointers on where to start, this class is for you.

Go to www.brooklineadulted.org for course details and class registration.

ANOTHER RESCHEDULED EVENT: Originally scheduled on Jan 27th from 7 pm - 9 pm: NEW DATE TBA

Brookline Climate Week; Brookline Greenway Presentation and Charette canceled due to winter storm. Check CCAB events calendar for reschedule date: http://www.climatechangeactionbrookline.org/calendar.php

7pm - 9pm
Devotion School Library
345 Harvard Street, Brookline , MA 02446
bac@brooklinebikes.org
www.brooklinema.gov

Join the Brookline Bicycle Advisory Committee for a presentation and charette on creating a greenway network for Brookline. The evening will feature an overview of the Committee's green routes plan, a presentation by Northeastern University civil engineering students of a 2009 design to create a greenway along Lee and Clyde Streets, and an interactive discussion by Northeastern representatives and community residents on a conceptual design for a greenway along Newton and Hammond Streets.

NOTE: All of this info and MUCH MORE can be found at: http://www.climatechangeactionbrookline.org