First Parish in Concord

Green Sanctuary Group

Green Sanctuary and Other Events

Green Forum: Responding to Climate Change

Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Alcott School Auditorium, 93 Laurel St., Concord
Sponsored by League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle, Concord CAN, Carlisle Climate Action, Trustees of the Reservation
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The League of Women Voters will present a panel discussion with distinguished guests retired State Senator Pamela P. Resor, Chair of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources & Agriculture, and Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change; Peter Del Tredici, Ph.D., Lecturer, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Senior Research Scientist at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Brian Crounse, Chair of the Concord Comprehensive Sustainable energy Committee; and Andy Proulx, Profesional (LEED - AP) engineer, Owner, AGP Energy Solutions and Co-Founder, Energy Savvy Inc.

How to Reduce Your Home Energy Expenses

Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Concord-Carlisle High School
Sponsored by ConcordCAN, in cooperation with Audubon’s Drumlin Farm and Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education
Registration: Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education office at 978-318-1540 or www.ace.colonial.net
Suggested donation: $10

Andy Proulx and Mark Garvey, two highly respected home energy consultants, will lead a workshop at Concord-Carlisle High School that deals, at a very practical level, with how to make your home significantly more energy efficient and save on home heating costs. The discussion will cover such matters as home insulation; air flow through walls, floor, and ceilings; strategies for increasing your heating system’s effectiveness; decreasing electricity consumption; and alternative energy sources.

Andy and Mark are hands-on local experts in carrying out home energy audits and correcting the problems detected. Andy, a licensed mechanical engineer, has his own local business, called AGP Solutions. He has consulted in all phases of sustainable development from design and construction to energy rating. He is also a Facilitator of ConcordCAN and the Co-Founder of EnergySavvy Inc. His own home is a model of energy efficiency. Mark Garvey is the owner of AirSealing America, LLC, an Energy Star partner. He has previously served Concord as Co-Chair of the original Sustainable Energy Committee.

CarbonCALC Night

Wednesday, November 19, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Willard School
Sponsored by ConcordCAN, in cooperation with Audubon’s Drumlin Farm and Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education
Registration: Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education office at 978-318-1540 or www.ace.colonial.net
Suggested donation: $10

Andy Proulx and Bob Andrews will lead one in a series of workshops entitled CarbonCALC Nights. This is a broader interactive discussion of how we can all take stock of our personal and household patterns of energy consumption, and create action plans for reducing energy use and cost through lifestyle changes as well as changes in household energy systems. Participants will calculate their household and energy use; quantify their energy consumption; and develop a baseline against which changes in behavior and household energy systems can be evaluated. Both Andy and Bob are founding members of ConcordCAN and have participated in Low Carbon Diet groups where they have learned and practiced the skills they will teach in the workshop. Bob is a retired clinical psychologist, who lives in Concord and writes frequently about energy and environmental topics in the Concord Journal.

An Evening With Bill McKibben
November 21 at 7:30 pm at the Tri-Con Church

ConcordCAN invites you to a free “Evening with Bill McKibben” on November 21 at 7:30 pm at the Tri-Con Church. McKibben’s topic is “The Most Important Number in the World, Join the Fight Against Global Warming.” Discussion will follow Bill’s address; and refreshments and book buying opportunities will be provided in the Parish Hall.

Bill McKibben, who is one of America’s most distinguished and dynamic environmental writers and speakers, grew up in nearby Lexington, Massachusetts and has maintained strong roots in this area.

Bill was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper during his college years; and, immediately after college, became a staff writer with the New Yorker, writing much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. He remains a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000.

Bill McKibben’s first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages.

In books such as The End of Nature and Deep Economy McKibben communicates powerfully about how communities can address both climate change and the energy crisis, highlighting a compelling need for economic localization and the reduction of our community’s carbon footprints. His current project, “350.org”, focuses on the climate crisis. It aims to “redefine the possible and rally the world behind the solutions that science and justice demand.”

Bill McKibben is an activist as well as a thinker and writer. He expresses deep convictions about the importance of protecting and preserving the environment, and often has a spiritual bent to his writings. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. He can be counted on to point the way to significant actions our communities can take to ensure a better and more sustainable future for ourselves and our descendents.

This program is co-sponsored by ConcordCAN, the Alliance for Democracy, Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education, Concords Conserves, the Global warming Educational Network, Kerem Shalom, Massachusetts Climate Action Network, Musketaquid Arts and the Environment, the Green Sanctuary Committee of First Parish Church, Trinity-Congregational Church, and the Walden Woods Project.