Climate Change Action Brookline is a very active group and their most recent effort is Climate Week. Starting tomorrow (Jan. 21), they will have over 40 events and activities taking place across their community over the coming week.
See their website for a full description (http://www.ClimateChangeActionBrookline.org/), but here is a partial list of activities (from WickedLocal, full link below):
Plan a family day at Larz Anderson Park on Saturday, Jan. 21. There will be ice skating, a free green transportation exhibit at the museum with electric cars, information about the town’s new charging stations, examples of transport bikes, a 1938 bicycle, information about bike lanes and the new Hubway bike sharing program, and free hot chocolate. Follow this up with story telling with the polar bear on the top of the hill and a view of the sun through a special telescope.
Walk. The streets will become a gallery. Take a walk down and around Harvard Street to view eco-art and consider how artists make the invisible visible helping us to see in new ways. You might want to attend the opening of artist Tim Gaudreau at the New England Institute of Art on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 2-5 p.m. Tim will display a room-size collage of everything he threw away in one year: Some 365 days of waste makes a visually stunning and thought provoking exhibit.
Eat. Don’t miss the fun of shopping at Brookline’s first Winter Market on Jan. 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Public Health Building near Town Hall. Bring the family. Meet farmers and local sellers of organic vegetables, cheese, mushrooms, oatcakes, ice cream, honey and more! There will be information about vegetarian diets and what’s new with school lunches. Sample delicious and healthy food. Come early and get a tour of the first green municipal building in Brookline. Stay for stories and displays in town hall.
Save. Across from the Winter Market in Town Hall, learn how to conserve energy in your home and save money too with Green Homes Brookline, a presentation on solar energy, and preventing heat loss with “The Ups and Downs of Windows”. You can recycle Styrofoam while you’re at it.
Walk. The streets will become a gallery. Take a walk down and around Harvard Street to view eco-art and consider how artists make the invisible visible helping us to see in new ways. You might want to attend the opening of artist Tim Gaudreau at the New England Institute of Art on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 2-5 p.m. Tim will display a room-size collage of everything he threw away in one year: Some 365 days of waste makes a visually stunning and thought provoking exhibit.
Eat. Don’t miss the fun of shopping at Brookline’s first Winter Market on Jan. 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Public Health Building near Town Hall. Bring the family. Meet farmers and local sellers of organic vegetables, cheese, mushrooms, oatcakes, ice cream, honey and more! There will be information about vegetarian diets and what’s new with school lunches. Sample delicious and healthy food. Come early and get a tour of the first green municipal building in Brookline. Stay for stories and displays in town hall.
Save. Across from the Winter Market in Town Hall, learn how to conserve energy in your home and save money too with Green Homes Brookline, a presentation on solar energy, and preventing heat loss with “The Ups and Downs of Windows”. You can recycle Styrofoam while you’re at it.
Read. Look for books on climate change at the town libraries. Don’t miss Frances Moore Lappé reading her new book, “Eco Mind: Changing the Way We Think To Create The World We Want,” on Thursday evening, Jan. 26, at the Brookline Booksmith.
Think. Hear an expert panel discuss how businesses are addressing climate change on Wednesday evening, Jan. 25, at Town Hall.
Dream about spring and the garden. Bountiful Brookline will give tips on gardening at the Winter Market. Take a composting class with horticulturist Robin Wilkerson at Brookline Adult and Community Education on Tuesday evening, Jan. 24.
See wildlife. Start looking for a 6-foot polar bear who will be taking part in the fun. Or take a walk along the Muddy River with Brookline’s tree expert and an ecologist on Sunday, Jan. 29.
Think. Hear an expert panel discuss how businesses are addressing climate change on Wednesday evening, Jan. 25, at Town Hall.
Dream about spring and the garden. Bountiful Brookline will give tips on gardening at the Winter Market. Take a composting class with horticulturist Robin Wilkerson at Brookline Adult and Community Education on Tuesday evening, Jan. 24.
See wildlife. Start looking for a 6-foot polar bear who will be taking part in the fun. Or take a walk along the Muddy River with Brookline’s tree expert and an ecologist on Sunday, Jan. 29.
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