Earth Day 2014 - The City of Cambridge and Sustainability


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Moon and Back

Earth Day – April 22nd, 2014

Sustainability in Cambridge – a Conversation

As part of the Cambridge Science festival, Join the City of Cambridge and our partners in the Community Compact for a Sustainable Future as we answer your questions about sustainability initiatives in Cambridge.

When: Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 3:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.
Where: CIC, One Broadway, Venture Café, 5th Floor, Cambridge MA 02142

Why are we hosting this? There are so many organizations in Cambridge working on the topic of sustainability that it is sometimes hard to keep track of! We are hoping to bring together a broad group of people who live, work and play in Cambridge to learn all about these initiatives. Of course we’d love for people to become involved after they learn about these interesting programs, but there is no mandatory action to take afterwards – unless you want to! Our primary goal is to raise awareness of what is going on.

Event Schedule

What Will We Talk About?

  1. Water Use
  2. Building Energy Use
  3. Waste Reduction
  4. Energy Use Reduction/ Solar
  5. Net Zero Taskforce
  6. Climate Change Vulnerability
  7. EcoDistricts
  8. PTDM/CitySmart
  9. Transit
  10. Hubway
  11. Public Schools
  12. Employee Initiatives

What Do Participants Need to Do?

Come to the CIC on Earth Day, bring an inquisitive mind and a desire to learn about the programming going on within Cambridge, and get ready to learn. We’d also like you to bring any other ideas about sustainability programming we can and should be doing within our community to put on the Community Ideas Board. We will take these back with us and figure out how/when to incorporate into our programming.

Save That Banana Peel and Eat Your Veggies

From 6:00 P. M. to 8:00 P. M., at the CIC, learn your options to compost food scraps, and ways to reduce food waste. Cambridge's Recycling Director, Ms. Randi Mail will review best practices for outdoor composting, indoor composting with worms, and options for drop-off and bicycle pickup. Recycling food scraps and making soil is extremely rewarding, benefits your garden and house plants and helps to curb climate change! Reducing food waste is also incredibly important considering that Americans waste more than 40% of the food we produce for consumption. That comes at an annual cost of more than $100 billion. For more info on composting, click here. To RSVP for this workshop email recycle@cambridgema.gov.

What Else?

Directly following this event, grab the train to Venture Café’s Sustainability unConference at District Hall in Boston! Keep the sustainability conversation going.