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Announcing ‘Big Roof Solar: Cape Ann’ for Non-profits

Announcing ‘Big Roof Solar: Cape Ann’ for Non-profits

Join us for a Free workshop to discuss financing options available to add Solar Power to your roof. Great ownership and no-cost leasing options are available now. It’s a good time to go solar! 

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Electric Bus Presentation, 3.22.19, 10am–noon

Electric Bus Presentation, 3.22.19, 10am–noon

Join MASSPIRG, Proterra, and Cape Ann Transportation Authority for an Electric Bus Presentation at the Cape Ann Transportation Authority on Pond Road in Gloucester.

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Sustainability Fair Keynote Speaker Announced.

Sustainability Fair Keynote Speaker Announced.

This year's keynote speaker will be Nathaniel Stinnett. His Presentation is entitled, “Getting Environmentalists To Vote.”

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2018 Sustainability Fair

2018 Sustainability Fair

Save the Date! 9.29.18: TownGreen 2025, a program of the Gloucester Meeting House Foundation, presents its third Cape Ann Sustainability Fair on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at O’Maley Innovation Middle School, located at 32 Cherry Street in Gloucester, MA, from 10 AM to 4 PM.

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GDT Column: TownGreen|2025 calls for a zero carbon future

GDT Column: TownGreen|2025 calls for a zero carbon future

The bills for the damage caused by climate change are arriving now for all of us to see. The costs are no longer theoretical. Costs and damage due to climate change will only get worse in the foreseeable future unless we undertake major actions in our community, our state, our nation and across the world.

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Sea Level Rise/Storm Surge Presentation

GHS Ecology and Environmental Science Students PRESENTED AN INFORMATIVE  THREE PART PROGRAM ON “Areas Vulnerable to Storm Surges and Sea Level Rise IN Gloucester. Presented by Rachel M. Rex, M. Ed, Gloucester High School Science Department, Gloucester MA.

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Historic Preservation & Architectural Sustainability

Historic Preservation & Architectural Sustainability

Multiple presentations and discussions by experts about how to combine high sustainability standards like LEED with historically-informed building conservation practices and simple Yankee thrift for civic buildings and homes. Hosted in partnership with Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation, an initiative to minimize Gloucester’s carbon footprint in a decade.

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Sustainabilty Fair, 2017!

Sustainabilty Fair, 2017!

We are having a Clean Energy and Sustainability Fair "Get Your Green On" for the families and residents of Cape Ann. The fair will take place on April 29, 2017 at the O’Maley Innovation Middle School in Gloucester, MA. Learn more!

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GDT Column: Drive green — the price is right

GDT Column: Drive green — the price is right

TownGreen2025, following our mission to help reduce the carbon footprint of Cape Ann, is excited to support this group-purchasing electric vehicle program, the first to be held here in the Northeast. Electric vehicles can go farther on a full charge than the average car drives in a day, and now the price is right with Mass Energy’s Drive Green program.

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Letter: There is hope on climate change

Letter: There is hope on climate change

…We have demonstrated through extensive research and measurements the power of our scientifically planted tropical forests to absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. So much, in fact, that our tropical forest plantations are sucking up at least 10 times more carbon dioxide, on a per-hectare basis, than the aggregate of all of the world’s tropical forests.…

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