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Links to Related Sites
| Concord | Town of Concord,
Massachusetts
web site
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| Light Plant | Concord Municipal
Light
Plant is now exploring the level of interest of our electricity
customers
in energy generated from renewable sources (green
power).
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| MCAN | Massachusetts
Climate
Action Network (MCAN) is composed of local and statewide groups that
have
joined together in a cooperative effort to halt the threat of global
climate
change.
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| Social Action Council | The purpose of the
Social
Action Council (SAC) at First Parish in Concord is to help members put
their
faith into action, to foster community both in First Parish and in the
world,
and to make grants to organizations which actively work towards the
principle
of a world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all. Green
Team
Concord is one of the many projects that SAC supports.
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| REUSIT | REUSIT (Rescue the
Environment
and Us from being Smothered In Trash) is Concord's recycling committee.
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| CREW | Citizens Research
and
Environmental Watch (CREW) is an all-volunteer, grass roots
organization
working for a complete cleanup of the toxic, radioactively-contaminated
Nuclear
Metals/Starmet Corporation property in Concord.
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| ICLEI | ICLEI (The
International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) is the international
environmental
agency for local governments. Its mission is to build and serve a
worldwide
movement of local governments to achieve tangible improvements in
global
environmental and sustainable development conditions through cumulative
local
actions.
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| NERA |
The
New
England Regional Assessment (NERA) of potential climate change impacts
on
the New England Region. |
| LEED | The LEED
(Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System™ is a
building
rating system based on existing proven technology. It evaluates
environmental
performance from a "whole building" perspective over a building's life
cycle,
providing a definitive standard for what constitutes a "green
building".
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| Ecowaters Projects |
Ecowaters Projects
(formerly Center for
Ecological
Pollution Prevention) in West Concord provides information about
ecological
wastewater management solutions, including wastewater recycling and
alternative
wastewater systems. The web site features books and dates of tours of
ecological
wastewater systems, including one in Concord. They also provide some
information
about biodiesel, a fuel option made of vegetable oil, available in
Boston
and easy to use in diesel vehicles without modifications.
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| SSNE | Sustainable Step
New
England (SSNE) is group of committed people who were inspired by the
potential
power of The Natural Step as a tool to advance sustainability in New
England.
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| Sage Farm | One of our members,
David Bearg, has a wonderful web site about his green home in Concord,
Massachusetts,
which uses solar energy for heat, light, growing plants, and generating
electricity.
Take the self-guided tour to view airlocks, a greenhouse, a sun porch,
a
sun room, a solar-heated woodworking shop, a solar-powered waterfall,
and
a solar-heated cabin.
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